Specialized, core, and general education courses are the three main curricular patterns of the University. Each department designs its specialized courses on the basis of its own features and goals, laying an equal emphasis upon both the theoretical and practical aspects of training. The core courses include literature, foreign languages, history, information and physical education, all of which are aimed at developing students’ abilities in the humanities, historical knowledge, language skills, and the use of modern technology. The general education courses integrate the humanities, social studies, and natural sciences, with nine main areas of studies ranging from Chinese and Western Thought and Scientific Development, Introduction to Chinese and Western Art, Environment and Ecology, Social Religion and Ethics, International Economics and Business Administration, Introduction to Chinese Literature, Introduction to European and American Literature, Social Problems and Adaptation, and Scientific Development and Scientists. All these courses aim at cultivating students’ abilities in creative thinking, analysis, synthesis, and solution of problems. 　　　　　　 ▲top


Modernizing Facilities and Promoting Instructional Quality

Computerization is one of the university’s developmental goals. An integration of information, correspondence, and visual conferencing helps teachers and students to upgrade the quality of the computerized environment, computerized instruction and research, and computerized services. A campus Internet is available to help facilitate administrative procedures and enhance administrative efficiency. Also provided are such services as Internet communication among teachers and students, online course selection, student surveys, and e-mail. The instructional facilities include multi-language, digital, video, visual and other multi-media components to meet the ever-changing instructional and research demands, to promote the overall demands for promoting modernization, and to upgrade competition in the university.　　　　　　　▲top

Developing Distance Education and Sharing State-of-the Art Educational Resources

In accordance with the Ministry of Education’s policies of “implementing lifelong learning and building a learning society” and “balancing the gap in resources between the public and private universities,” CCU has integrated mass communication technology and the Internet to put into practice distance learning. The high quality and progressiveness of distance education result in the sharing of educational resources. The University has hosted such online courses as “Taiwanese Local Drama” and “The Lasting National Land Development,” as well as received such online courses as “Hygiene and Health” offered by the National Taiwan University, “Controlling the Computer System” by Fu-jen Catholic University, and “ISO International Standardization Organization” by the Ta-hwa College of Technology. These courses have received favorable responses from students.　　　　　　▲top

Building Instruction-Aided System and Increasing Teacher-Student Interaction

The university does its best to build a learning-assisted system to increase interaction between teachers and students and to promote instructional quality. Professionals are employed to develop multi-media materials and distance curriculum. Book-on-demand and video-on-demand services are provided. Course descriptions, syllabi, and class schedules on the Internet are also provided. The curricular data are periodically updated on the Internet and materials files are uploaded. Related Websites are recommended and curriculum-related information is made public on the Internet. Students can surf the Net to obtain whatever necessary information that might facilitate learning and help them receive various data for reference. They can exchange ideas and discuss their ideas with both teachers and peers. Moreover, they learn to manage their time and map out their own plans for learning. The Internet provides the mechanism for immediate consultation, problem solving and learning interaction.　　　　　　▲top

Encouraging Multiple Majors to Meet the Demands of Society

Through the guidance of advisors, the University encourages students to take minors and double majors. Based on students’ specialization, interests and career plans, advisors guide students in taking related courses, minors or second majors, hoping that in doing so it can give them a competitive edge in landing a job of their choice. There are 12 colleges from which students can select aided by their aptitude and interests.　　　　　　▲top　　

Enhancing International Academic Exchanges and Globalization

CCU aims at international academic exchanges with a view to promoting domestic academic quality and cultural exchanges. Students are encouraged to develop their foreign language skills as a vehicle towards broadening their knowledge, cultivating a broader worldview, and becoming abreast of international affairs. The university has established sister relationships with 87 universities from seventeen countries (including the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Russia, Ukraine, Mongolia, Liberia, Austria, Finland, Bulgaria, Dominican Republic, and Holland). No other universities in Taiwan have such extensive sister-university relationships. As an encouragement to actively participate in international academic activities, the university has implemented the “study-abroad system,” which allows our students to pay reasonably-priced tuition abroad, have credits of successfully completed courses taken transferred back to CCU, experience living overseas, and broaden their view of life and the world.　　　　　　▲top

Implementing Student Surveys to Promote Instruction

CCU has set into place the student-survey policy to offer teachers feedback as a way to better their instructional skills. The four main categories of the instructional survey include teaching devotion, pedagogical approach, curricular content, and instructional results. The survey results are offered to teachers at the end of each semester for their reference.　　　　　　▲top

Combining Theoretical Instruction with Practical Application

Many governmental departments have entrusted our university to plan and implement numerous training courses and cooperative projects with a view to meeting rising social needs. The learning-and-production cooperative projects have been widely extended to encourage teachers and students in their research and to combine and coordinate school and social resources. A Center for Creativity and Cultivation is available as an aid to developing skills and technical abilities in media- and communication-related enterprises as a vehicle to better meet the future demands of knowledge-based businesses.　　　　　　▲top

Upgrading Research Quality and Participating in International Conferences

The university has taken several measures to award teachers as an encouragement to help upgrade their research skills in their specialized discipline, to tap into new knowledge, and to promote international cultural exchanges. That CCU stresses academic research is evidenced by the fact that all full-time teachers are required to submit a research paper or results of a research in the form of a book, an exhibition and an art performance. In doing research projects and/or in guiding students in research, teachers are expected to put into use practical research skills and lay down the foundation of academic theories.　　　　　　▲top