Plans and Developments for the Office of Academic Affairs.pptVIP

The fifth curriculum revision, commenced in 2002, took Harvard University four years to complete. The critical changes include: (1)decrease the number of obligatory courses and offer more elective courses, adding to the opportunity of cross-discipline learning；(2) to increase obligatory international programs, which allow its students to become global citizens instead of narrowly Americans. Core and Quality Designs in Liberal Education: based on holistic education, the University should reconsider and redesign the core-curriculum to increase credits of a single subject instead of offering a number of fragmented and shallow courses. Module and In-depth Design of Liberal Education：Drawing from the design of liberal education in other renowned universities, NCTU should redesign its curriculum and promote in-depth learning in the following disciplines: basic competence, humanities and arts, social science, science and technology, world civilizations and cultures. Liberal Education * To promote the readjustment of the contents and time slots of obligatory courses in each college, allowing for a more flexible schedule that permits students to sigh up for more elective courses. To encourage faculty members or to invite established scholars to edit teaching materials that suit the features NCTU’s liberal education. To cooperate with other universities in Taiwan and develop in-depth teaching materials for all schools to share. Liberal Education * To build a learning environment friendly to language learners. To implement small-group education. To recruit teachers specializing in language teaching. To organize workshops on English teaching, inviting international lecturers to provide trainings and course designs in English writing. To offer all-English TOFEL/GRE preparatory courses. Language Education * To Define Indicators and Expected Values of Academic Affairs Number, growth and nationality of international students (based on the last five years) Majors of internat