COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
Introduction
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Dean: Chao, Ya-ly
Brief History
The College of Liberal Arts is the oldest academic division of Tamkang University. Founded in 1966 and expanded from the Department of Chinese, which was established in 1956, the College is currently composed of five departments, and one graduate institute: the Departments of Chinese, History, Information and Library Science, Mass Communication, Information and Communication, the Graduate Institute of Chinese Linguistics and Documentation. All of this is divided into two academic traditions: the Humanities and Social Sciences, which also constitute an academic environment blending Western scientific knowledge and Eastern philosophy.
Motto and Goals
Our five departments and one graduate institute happen to make up the dual core that combines the two academic traditions of the Humanities and Social Sciences for the Chinese Language-Based cultural creativity industry, i.e. accumulation, application and reproduction of Chinese culture. And this feature and vantage is concretely reflected in two Centers: the Center for China Studies and the Innovative Center for Industrial Academia Cooperation.
On the foundations of the Triple-Objective of the University (Globalization, Information-oriented Education, and Future-oriented Education), the significant motto and goals of the college evolve around the four core superiority: international China study, creative China study, digitization of China study, and cultural creative industry.
Future Development
"Oriental views, global vision, international connections and creativity innovation" are the unique positioning and the most significant direction and target for the future development of the College.
Therefore, in the aspect of instructional design, we emphasize not only full development of the students' in-depth understanding of their subject areas, but also ample enhancement of their powers of observation and practical intelligence in real social contexts. The two programs of "Cultural Knowledge Management" and "Communication and Creativity" offered by the College will provide our students with a wider scope and core capability, so they are able to enter into cultural creative industry.
As to academic research and innovation, we put emphasis on establishing collaboration and interaction between the Center for China Studies and the Innovative Center for Industrial Academia Cooperation to build up the four core superiority: international China study, creative China study, digitization of China study, and cultural creative industry. Moreover, by using Tamsui's innate image as a "mountain city, romantic river city, and harbor city," we are striving to make ourselves the "comprehensive educational center of northern Taiwan".
Course Descriptions
A1688 Introduction to Knowledge Organization and Management (2/0) This introductory course aims to expose students to a variety of issues of knowledge organization and management and to provide opportunities to learn and understand the steps of identifying, acquiring, codifying, sharing, and using knowledge. Core theories and best practices will be examined and studied as the basis of this course.
A1868 Publishing and Communication in the Book Trade (2/0) Publishing and the book trade in the 21st Century become one of the main models of information communication. Either commercial or non-commercial publishing activities have made the knowledge communication more visible and efficient than ever before. Those factors involved in the publishing do not work in isolation, especially in the era of the Internet. Exploring contemporary attitudes and innovations, we see the connections between these factors which are made as often as possible. In order to provide students a basic understanding on the development of publishing industry, our emphasis is on the publication as an integrated unit.
A2353 Creative Digital Genes (2/0) This course focuses on exploring diversities of creative thinking, elements of creativity and digital thinking by analyzing creative artworks to inspire students to probe their own creative digital genes.
A2416 Storytelling and Creativity (2/0) This course introduces all kinds of material about storytelling through appreciation and analysis, group discussion and interactive teaching activity to inspire student's capability of storytelling and flexibility of thinking.
A2419 Aesthetics of the Non-fictional Film (2/0) Based on the context of the development of documentary in film history, this class aims to learn how to tell stories, present ideas, and represent reality. It helps students get used to caring for people, events and issues around their living environment through the film discussion.
A2420 The History of Western Painting (2/0) The history of western painting is an informative course. But art critics usually make it complex, and its exquisite qualities always escape our casual appreciation. Through a precise observation of four hundreds pictures, this course helps students comprehend the historical background of those great arts.
A2421 Production of Digital Multi-Media (2/0) To help students understand how digital multimedia works in the cultural creativity industry, this course employs both theory and practice for novice learners. Adobe Photoshop and Flash are used as tools to present ideas by combining visual communication theories. Students are encouraged to convert into multimedia version based on their previous homework from other related classes. Throughout the thinking and production process, students are able to manage message by using digital multimedia.
A2450 The Culture of Jade and Life Value (2/0) This course particularly emphasizes on the study of original jades. Through this course, we not only cultivate the capacity of appreciating ancient jades, but also perceive the abstruse intension of jade culture. Finally, we could incorporate a more humanistic concern into our real living.
A2451 Seminar on Cultural and Creative Industry (2/0) This course integrates interdisciplinary knowledge of two programs: "Cultural Knowledge Management" and "Communication and Creativity" offered by the College. It is designed to include invited speeches from industry experts on special topics, along with the instructor's lectures on relevant theories of this course, and required group project activity on proposal planning. The students are expected to acquire professionalism involved in both the "humanities" and "communication and creativity" areas, and furthermore, to evaluate self-position in the field of cultural creativity industry.
A3381 Connoisseurship of Cultural Relics (2/0) This course aims at studying existing cultural relics, its production, evolution, verification and artistic value.
A1527 Marketing in Culture (0/2) The main purpose of this course is the introduction of the cultural consumption, the cultural marketing, and the related marketing issues in the culture-creativity industry. The students would learn how to integrate the marketing resources in the culture-creativity industry during the course conducted period. Meanwhile, the students would conduct the cultural marketing program designed to achieve the culture marketing strategic goal.
A1593 Sinology Culture and Originality (0/2) The major point of Sinology studies is Chinese culture in active and other diverse fields. Different from the studies of traditional Sinology, this course will manifest the marvelous originality and abundance in Chinese culture.
A1872 Project and Practice (0/2) This course discusses the process of building a website creatively. To achieve the course target, Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver are used as the practice tool to adapt with visual communication theory to convey your concept on the website. This course encourages students using their homework from other related courses as the website content and focusing on adapting the characteristics of digital media.
A2425 Life Aesthetics and Image Arts (0/2) This course is to provide training for the ability of appreciation of aesthetics and picturial art through examining the meaning of Chinese print picture and the life aesthetic feeling that derives from the picture and the value in the history of folk culture closely. This course puts emphasis on the industry of cultural intentions that the art of the picture produces further, for example, the industry of the caricature, fashion design industry, dress industry etc... Through the participation in class and after class activities, students should be able to discover the cultural intentions in the artistic picture database, make a remarkable change of life aesthetics, and strengthen the quality of life.
A2426 The Image of the Populace in Chinese Classical Novels (0/2) This course aims at the appreciation of novel culture assets of the upper reaches of the industry of cultural intentions. This course investigates the conditions and customs of common people in classical novels and life's attitude of traditional society. This course puts emphasis on the analysis of several texts selected from San Yan (三言) and Er Pai (二拍), collections of tales of Ming and Qing Dynasties through the analysis of social historical data and students' observation of ancient China. Mainly through lectures in class, this course helps students be able to know popular social history and culture history value of novel, understand traditional social difference.
A2427 Basic Editing & Writing Practicum (0/2) This course aims at providing students with a general understanding of how to plan and create communication works. Particular attention is given to capabilities of narration, skills of writing and esthetic sensibilities.
A3489 Digital Archives of the Arts and Literature (0/2) The objective of this course is to establish students' capability of digital archives of the arts and literature. We will introduce the processes and the techniques that is applied to digitizing and discuss the application of these digital content. Case studies are useful and practiced in this course.
A3492 Humanistic Science Resources Discovery (0/2) This course introduces fundamental concepts and skills of information literacy in humanistic science resources, for example, to determine the extent of information needed, to locate, access, evaluate and use information effectively, and to understand the economic, legal and social issues surrounding the use of information.
