COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

Introduction

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Dean: Chien, Fan-z

Brief History

The College consists of three departments (Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry) and one Graduate Institute (Life Sciences). It has been established since 1958, and is one of the oldest colleges in this University and also among the private universities in Taiwan. The Departments of Chemistry and Mathematics were established in 1958. The Department of Physics and the Graduate Institute of Life Sciences begin in 1963 and 2003, respectively. The requirements of active teaching and research have become the tradition of the college, and number of faculty members and students are growing steadily through the years. As of the year 2006, the college has 79 full-time faculty members, which includes 42 full-professors, 22 associate professors and 15 assistant professors. Among them, over 95% of the faculty members hold Ph.D. degrees, domestically or abroad. This college offers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Science. Currently the total student body comprises 1,680 undergraduates and 230 graduate students (among them 64 are in the Ph.D. program).

In addition to the College curricula, our faculty devote themselves to the University core courses design and teaching, which includes Natural Science, Three Scientific Revolution and Space Universe, The Impact of Science Revolution toward 21st Century, etc. Moreover, both the Mathematics and Physics Departments set up official consulting centers for high school science teaching consultations under the support of Ministry of Education since 2000. The College emphasizes interdisciplinary fundamental basic and applied science programs; therefore, photo-electronics, material, biochemistry, and life science are the main focus for both teaching and research.

All the three departments fulfilled a pioneer “Self-evaluation” program to justify their future prospects in 1999 and have been reviewed in 2003. All the teaching staffs devote their efforts on the policy of “Activating the Department,” which reform the curricular programs as well as the course contents for the undergraduate students in order to meet the challenges of modern society. The reforming actions have been taken continuously since 2000. The Department of Chemistry has two sections: Chemistry and Biochemistry Section and Material Chemistry Section; Department of Physics has established a Photo-electronics Curricular Program for pure and applied physics since 2002. Department of Mathematics has a Data Science and Mathematical Statistics Section and pure mathematics since 2004. These programs have been followed up by a continuous monitoring mechanism since then. A new Graduate Institute of Life Sciences has been established since 2004, with 36 students in the M.S. program.

In order to integrate material and bio-technology research within the University, two additional research-oriented centers are organized, which are Nano-technologyCenter and LifeScienceDevelopmentCenter, both established in 2003. These Centers have been offered a special funding by the University to set up core research facility platform that serves the research needs.

Motto and Goals

1. Teaching:
   Implementing “Activating the Department” university policy to train high technology personnel with a broad view to meet future job market needs.
2. Research:
   Integrating research resources and fulfill team research area of material science and bio-technology.
3. Service:
   Integration of a research team with diversified research, providing technical consultations to governmental agents and private enterprises for future interests collaboration in research.

Future Development

1. Recruiting both teaching and research oriented faculty members for replacement.
2. Continuing the Department Activating Policy for sustainable development.
3. Creating an attractive learning and research environment.
4. Promoting an academic exchange scheme for a broad view.
5. Strengthening technical services through the collaborative research projects.
6. Cooperating with Alumni Association for providing students with future job opportunities.

Course Descriptions

Undergraduate Courses

A0452 Introduction to Japanese The program begins with knowing the alphabets. By providing basic level vocabulary this course helps students to apply Japanese to their everyday lives. Interactive
activities are also designed to motivate beginners.

F0568 Advanced English Reading and Writing The purpose of this course attempts to build students' reading strategies and enrich their vocabulary for helping them read the academic texts smoothly. The techniques of organizing the ideas and writing an essay in English are also introduced in this course. The goal of this course is to facilitate students to perform well on the iBT TOEFL and IELTS tests.

F0591 Japanese Reading and Composition This course includes the beginning and intermediate levels of reading and writing in Japanese. In reading articles, students can develop more vocabulary and grammar proficiency. Moreover, application of grammar in writing short essays can be a good way of practice.