College of Foreign Languages

Introduction

The College of Foreign Languages (CFL), established in 1963, currently consists of six departments: English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and Italian; eight graduate schools: Linguistics, German, English, Spanish, French, Interpretation & Translation, Japanese, and the Doctoral Program of Comparative Literature, which is the first one of its kind in the country. The College also offers three interdisciplinary programs in Western Classical and Medieval Cultures, Diplomacy, and Translation Studies. The College affiliates include the Multimedia Center, the Language Laboratory, and the Monumenta Serica Sinological Research Center.

Doctorate
Master's
Bachelor's
In-Service Master Program

Department of English Language and Literature
Department of German Language and Literature
Department of French Language and Literature
Department of Spanish Language and Literature
Department of Japanese Language and Literature
Department of Italian Language and Literature
Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation Studies
Graduate Institute of Linguistics
Graduate Institute of Comparative Literature

Curriculum & Faculty

The CFL now has 72 full-time and 145 part-time faculty members; about 36 percent of them are foreign teachers. The College also invites renowned scholars as guest professors, and has established scholarly exchange programs with foreign universities and research institutes.

The curriculum of the College features a diversity of courses with an emphasis on students' language ability, computer-assisted and multimedia language courses, distance learning courses in collaboration with universities in the U.S., a student and scholar exchange program, integration of language with other fields of study, and programs in Western Classical and Medieval Cultures, Diplomacy, and Translation Studies.

Facilities

The important teaching facilities include:
cable TV network which can provide teaching materials for language and culture, broadcast important news and speeches in the designated channel, and implement satellite-based synchronous teaching,

Distance Learning classroom--the classroom facility permits bidirectional audio and video communications between the University and sites throughout the world, for point-to-point conferences. In addition to its use for classes, the facility can also be used for seminars, general meetings and conferences.

Recording Studio and soundproof recording booth used to make cassettes for lab use or for voiceover production,

Video Studio which is suitable for conference and distance learning class recording by providing analogue and digital video/audio recording and postproduction editing,

Teaching Material Room well-equipped with facilities available to instructors for production of instructional materials to be used in the laboratories or classrooms, and

Multimedia Studio which is used to produce audiovisual documents.

Academic Activities and Research

The College regularly organizes academic conferences and symposia and encourages faculty members to engage in joint research projects. In the past three years, over 150 research pro- jects were conducted, about 230 papers published, and about 260 conference papers and speeches given in conferences on literature, linguistics, pedagogy, translation and interpretation, religion, and drama.

Educational Goals and Mission

Strengthen the current curriculum and improve students' language abilities.

Encourage inter-departmental collaboration and joint research projects; promote the research spirit of seeking truth from facts; enhance cultural dialogues through comparative studies of languages and literature.

Train professional translators and interpreters who can communicate across linguistic and cultural barriers and contribute to intercultural communication and technology transfer.

Combine the study of foreign languages with the training of other disciplines so as to prepare students to enter and serve society in many different fields and occupations.

Facilitate inter-college and inter-university collaboration; offer distance learning courses in cooperation with foreign universities.

Career Opportunities

The College has eight graduate programs which offers its graduates opportunities for further studies.

The college graduates work and achieve excellence in a wide variety of fields such as diplomacy, education, communications, business, publishing, literature, translation, and computer science.

Each department has its alumni association to enable the alumni to maintain their contact with the department and to provide its graduates help in different fields of occupations.

The College trains many outstanding professionals and language specialists for society. The English and Japanese Departments are ranked as the favorites of the industry by 1111.com.tw - a career services website.