COLLEGE OF GLOBAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTt
Introduction
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Dean: Liou, Ay-hwa
Brief History
The College of Global Research and Development is unique in that the entire focus of the pedagogy is on the globalized future-oriented information society. We promise to make the college a perfect place for students to develop and enhance comprehensive knowledge and skills and for faculty to convene to impart their deep wisdom on various issues and topics. Students as candidates of future leadership need multidisciplinary interests, the willingness to adopt different ways of knowing, a global orientation, a tolerance for complexity and ambiguity; a long-term perspective, a view of the future as plural and alternative, rather than as singular predictive, and the ability to imagine a diversity of alternatives, in addition to just preferred futures. Envisioning the future means not only forecasting but also creating confidence in the ability to creatively adapt to new global challenges. By questioning the given problem-solving solution, alternative futures can be explored and the preferred has a greater probability of being realized.
Currently, the college consists of two departments: Department of Global Politics and Economics and Department of Multicultural and Linguistics studies. Both departments are pursuing educational excellence, providing practically oriented learning environment and committing to the goal of meeting the highest internationally recognized educational students. The campus employs state-of---the-art teaching tools and methods and strives to deliver excellent teaching through committed faculty, overseas exchange programs, field studies, and an open, responsive classroom environment. All courses in the specific major are offered in English and students will be well prepared before entering the new era of globalization characterized with drastic change, hyper development and highly interdependence.
Motto and Goals
Cultivating Future Leadership with Foresight, Ethics and Integrity.
Future Development
Asia is uniquely poised to take a leading place in global issues, so it is important to make educational endeavor in Taiwan. Asia is itself at a crossroad and has an exciting history ahead of it. Fence, The College of Global Research and Development would continue to establish its status as the center of Asia's global learning network. Two new departments, Department of Global Culture and Society Department of Science, Technology and Alternative Futures will commence from fall 2006.
The development approach has three strands:
- The pivotal role of science and technology---including genetics, artificial, intelligence, nanotech, brain science---in changing and speeding human evolution, even the possibility of the creation of new species, certainly causing us to rethink evolution, on bath the external and inner dimensions.
- The changing imagination of the global, from the conscious and collective unconscious and the transformative dimension of the global as myth.
- The global sphere addressed as a site of collective problem-solving through the emergence of a
global network of institutions focused on addressing such challenges as global disasters, global
governance, and destructive tribalism.
Understanding of the global study is thus seen with multiple lenses: evolutionary, strategically, mythological, and social-culture practice.
Course Descriptions
B0305 Principles of Economics (3) Individual economy includes price and theory of supply and demand, analysis of acts consumers, theories of production, structure of costs and markets, and supply and demand of production factors. Collective economy is the study of national income, unemployment, inflation and economic growth.
H0001 Envisioning the Future (2) The course focuses on how to create the future. Design implications in created preferred futures are explored. What is the difference between a good and a prefect society? How can one ensure that one's political and social design is robust and does not blast the future?
H0002 International Etiquette (2) This course teaches students knowledge concerning about how "Manners Makes Man and Woman" and how to dine, dress, and walk properly when interacting with people from a variety of cultural settings.
H0003 Global Technology Revolution (2) How will artificial intelligence change the way the law is conducted? What is the impact of issues such as globalization on the future of international law? What is the link between terrorism and world law? Can we keep up with changes in world economy and technology? Is a science court needed to address issues such as the rights of robots?
H0004 Exploring Local Community (2) This course focuses on discovering the beauty of I-Lan County. How hot springs make I-Lan County famous? What unique tradition/culture/celebration and core value that attracts tourists?
H0005 Oral Communication in English (2) This course is aimed to teach students to gain the skills of making effective speeches in English. Students will learn how to prepare a speech and how to perform it from this class. Every student has to practice giving speeches in this class.
H0006 General English Proficiency Test (2) GEPT is gradually becoming a required certificate for everyone in the new language learning era. The purpose of this course is threefold: becoming familiarized with the formats of GEPT at three levels, learning the difference between GEPT and TOEFL, and sharing some test taking and preparing strategies.
H0007 Chinese Language Expression (2) This course gives students an intensive training so that they can express their thoughts and ideas in an elegant, precise and systematic manner.
H0008 Chinese Writing (2) This course tries to improve students' writing ability and help them appreciate the value and beauty of language through practice.
H0009 Introduction to Information Science (2) This course introduces students with: (1) Introduction to information society; (2) networking operations and applications; (3) word processing; (4) hardware and software of computers; (5) applications of computer; (6) computer programming.
H0010 Data Processing (2) An introduction to how to use the computer to administrate, process and manage mass and complex data.
H0011 Theories of Globalization (3) This course examines the impact of globalization on regional development, including national level, Asia-Pacific areas, and the world. Globalization will be emphasized on the impact of multi-national enterprises, labor force migration, industrial clusters, capital interventions and technological innovations.
T1891 Introduction to Political Science (3) An introduction to fundamental concepts of politics, including the state, government and its power, political ideology, public opinion and election, political culture, party and interest group, and international politics.
