Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures

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NYCU DFLL has made the integration of the humanities and technology the focus of our department in hopes that by combining the distinguished research and courses of the fields of information technology, sciences, and business management, we might develop an integrative teaching and research program. This is what makes our department one of a kind in the country and it allows our students to follow more diverse career paths after they graduate. The many different careers of our alumni are a testament to the distinguished course planning of our department. Distinguished features: 1. Three core areas-language skills, literature, linguistics (1) (2) Language skills are generally taught in the first two years and in the second and third year, we focus on developing professional knowledge and training our students to be proficient in independent research so that they have the ability to write innovative and analytical theses. Furthermore, to meet the demands of society, we provide our students with many courses that will equip our students with translation skills that include translation techniques, translation, translation criticism and theory. Our literature courses are diverse and we try to open our courses on canonical subjects so that they complement each other. Students will be taught basic canonical works, authors, periods, and concepts of Western literature. Our department also provides textual analysis as a major component of our cultural criticism courses. This allows students to learn and research on a variety of subjects such as gender and literature, literature and culture, film and literature, postmodernism, post-colonialism, etc. As for the linguistics courses, they provide students with the basic analytic skills so that the students can explore the construction and usage of language. Apart from basic linguistic courses (such as syntax, phonetics, phonology and semantics), we also offer courses in sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, speech and hearing science and so on. In the interest of diversifying student training, linguistics courses related to artificial intelligence will soon be added to the curriculum. 2. Encouraging students to take minor degrees to help with career planning To help our students with their career or advanced studies after graduation, we encourage and advise them to choose a field they are interested in pursuing to minor in. Students can choose to minor in education, business management, information technology or law and so on. Students are also encouraged to take elective courses or credit programs of other departments. 3. Diverse and flexible courses As part of the core curriculum, this department takes into account not only training in the fundamentals of language and literature but the cultivation of skills conducive to the development of professional literacy. In the classroom, the department focuses on inspiring teaching and encouraging students to learn on their own. In addition to c

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