Characterized by both tradition and innovation, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) has long been recognized as one of Taiwan’s elite institutions of higher education. Founded in 1922, NTNU was formerly an institution dedicated to teacher education. The university later evolved into a comprehensive university that provides students and scholars with opportunities to study and conduct research in a wide range of fields. Throughout its long history, NTNU has always been committed to academic excellence and this is reflected in the many influential educators and researchers that have studied at NTNU over the years.
NTNU’s mission to nurture individuals who are critical thinkers and who are prepared to meet the challenges of an ever-changing world has attracted thousands of talented students and scholars from Taiwan and abroad. With three campuses in Taipei City and New Taipei City, NTNU offers 67 academic subjects in nine degree-granting colleges. These include the College of Education, College of Liberal Arts, College of Science, College of Technology and Engineering, College of International Studies and Social Sciences, College of Sports and Recreation, College of Arts, College of Music, College of Management, and College of Industry Academia Innovation. The internationally renowned Mandarin Training Center is also located at NTNU. Each year approximately 1,800 students from over 70 countries take part in language courses offered by the Mandarin Training Center.
Characterized by both tradition and innovation, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) has long been recognized as one of Taiwan’s elite institutions of higher education. Founded in 1922, NTNU was formerly an institution dedicated to teacher education. The university later evolved into a comprehensive university that provides students and scholars with opportunities to study and conduct research in a wide range of fields. Throughout its long history, NTNU has always been committed to academic excellence and this is reflected in the many influential educators and researchers that have studied at NTNU over the years.
NTNU’s mission to nurture individuals who are critical thinkers and who are prepared to meet the challenges of an ever-changing world has attracted thousands of talented students and scholars from Taiwan and abroad. With three campuses in Taipei City and New Taipei City, NTNU offers 67 academic subjects in nine degree-granting colleges. These include the College of Education, College of Liberal Arts, College of Science, College of Technology and Engineering, College of International Studies and Social Sciences, College of Sports and Recreation, College of Arts, College of Music, College of Management, and College of Industry Academia Innovation. The internationally renowned Mandarin Training Center is also located at NTNU. Each year approximately 1,800 students from over 70 countries take part in language courses offered by the Mandarin Training Center.
Academic: GPA of 3.0 or above on their studies to date
English Language:
– IELTS: 6.5 (no subscores below 6.5)
– TOEFL iBT: 80 (no subscores below 20)
– Duolingo English Test: 120 (minimum score Literacy 120 | Production 120 | Comprehension 120 | Conversation 120)
09 September 2024 – 22 December 2024
Available Courses
This course provides an introductory survey of the Western classical music. The focus of this course is the development of aural skills that lead to an understanding and appreciation of music. Through lectures and live performances, we will listen to and explore some of the most important and influential repertoires and genres of music. The course will place a high degree of emphasis on listening, and there will be one comprehensive listening examination as a part of the final exam. Group study and oral presentation is also required.
A music appreciation course focused on issues of relationship between music, movement, and imagery. Creativity will be the spindle of this course to discuss and describe free opinions. The main course objectives will be: 1. Cultivating the music appreciation habits; 2. Exploring the music associated with creativity and humanities; 3. Promote the professional music knowledge and skills.
The class is devoted to the study and appreciation of literature written by and films directed by or about Asian Americans. Moreover, students will familiarize themselves with terms in Asian American literature and history. By the end of the semester, students are expected to write and speak with insight about key issues in Asian American literature and films.
The course surveys feminist theories and movements from the second to the fourth wave, discusses correlating literature written by women and men, and develops students’ analytical skills. The discussion will encompass the movements, key terms, and relevant theories. Transnational comparisons and global connections are encouraged, while students make their own predictions about the future of feminism.
The course focuses on the analyzing and planning of business when going international. We will examine how to analyze and decide the proper ways to go into foreign markets. Then, the strategies to open up the market will be discussed. This course hopes to facilitate students to get more related skills needed for doing international business rather than just theory learning.
SDGs (2015-2030) is an important topic of contemporary global environmental value. This initiative not only promotes to deepen the cognition of the relationship between human society and the natural environment, but also pays more attention to the practice of social life and how social innovation and technological civilization specifically respond to the pursuit of a sustainable global environment. The SDG goal is to create the social power to reverse the current situation of human environmental pressure since the Industrial Revolution. Thus, an in-depth understanding of SDGs will benefit students in various fields and disciplines to think about the meaning of SDGs in their implication for their life and career, and to develop opportunities to trans-disciplinarily complement their educational training.
This is an introductory course on the history and culture of Southeast Asia. The aim of the course is to expand students’ understanding of pre-modern Southeast Asia and its culture. By the end of the course, students should have constructed a general understanding of Southeast Asia, be aware of the major similarities and differences among Southeast Asian countries, and have a better grasp of the varied and rich cultures of Southeast Asia.
Through a series of data analytics real life applications, the course aims to equip students with the ability to collect, cleanse, analyze, and present data in an effective manner, which is important as the Big Data Era has come to be. The course covers control flow, common data structures, string processing, file processing, functional programing, data visualization, web scraping, and data analysis.
Because of the development of music-related AI area and multidisciplinary trends in science and music, the skills of digital music and audio synthesis are gradually needed by industries. The knowledge of digital music involves three areas: music, electrical engineering, and computer science; thus, it is not easy for beginners to understand. In this course, the teacher will teach students the way to program and design digital music. Students will learn related programming languages, including chucK (for sound synthesis), Python (for editing and analyzing MIDI data), and Scratch (for auditory-visual interactive projects).
This course introduces the use of health data from wearable devices and patient data from electronic health records (EHR) to explore the potential of data driven personal health management and study the role of data in biomedical research and healthcare systems. The course also covers the very basics of database management, and the extract, transform, load (ETL) techniques. Students without programming concepts are advised to take Computational Thinking and Programming prior to enrolling.
This course covers a wide range of topics on everyday astronomy in our life as well as the latest discoveries and understanding of the universe, including features in the night sky, navigation and timekeeping by astronomical methods, basic observation techniques, nature and evolution of planets, stars, galaxies, and the universe as a whole, and finally searching for habitable zones and life in the universe.
The purposes of this course are to introduce environmental problems including climate change & warming problem and pollutions in Taiwan, to enphasize the concepts of environmental ethics & sustainable development ,and to provide the correct related knowlege & skills for the students, even to hope the students having better haviours for protecting environment. Also, the purpose of this course hopes to promote the students to positively inflence their future studnets
Searching for the life in the Universe and investigating the conditions about existence of the life in the Universe is one of the most fundamental and outstanding astronomical questions human can ask. Those questions will not only broaden our knowledge about extraterrestrial world, but more importantly, our knowledge about ourselves.
This course responds to the UN initiative of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to introduce the development & rational of SDGs, reflect the core values of SDGs – Social Justice, Peace, Partnership & Sustainable Development, and help students acquire skills and take actions to fulfil the ideas of SDGs in campus.
This class is a general introduction to the Bible and its significance to human living. Besides a brief survey of the contents of the Scriptures, this course emphasizes the biblical teaching about proper human living through reading, analyzing and studying various texts of narratives, moral teachings, philosophical arguments, biographical examples in the Bibles. In each class section, the students would be required to discuss certain questions related to the lesson lectured by the instructor. In the end of the semester, the students will be grouped in teams to make reports on the assigned topics of biblical figures, such as Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, Solomon, Paul, Peter’ Ketc., sharing their findings about the meaning of life in their readings of the texts of the Bible.
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to something of the range of Shakespeare’s drama and to provide students with concepts and vocabulary that may enhance their intellectual appreciation and enjoyment of his plays. All students will have to read at least two Shakespeare plays in their entirety as preparation for the midterm and final exams. These two plays are The Merchant of Venice and Hamlet. In addition, students will be encouraged to read two other plays by Shakespeare—As You Like It and Othello—especially if they are asked to make a presentation on one of the latter.
This course is part of international course conducted by NTNU and Kansai University, Japan. Students will collaborate with Japanese students throughout the semester to conduct three topic activities, group discussion, final presentations.
Environmental Science is a new field of scientific study for the 21st century. It is the combination of traditional natural sciences such as, geology, climatology, astronomy, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, biology, ecology, and engineering. Recent advances and evolutions in science and technology has expanded our knowledge of the earth and the universe. Compared to other natural sciences, environmental science requires lateral linkage among human rights, social equality, economy, technology development and politic decision making. This course emphasize on introducing the basic knowledge regarding to four major topics of: energy, water, food, and biodiversity. Students need to discuss and formulate possible working solutions for these four major topics satisfying issues such as: human rights, social equality, economy, technology development and politic decision making.