Brief Introduction
The College of Design of NTUA was officially founded as our school system was reformed on the 1st of August 2001. From then on, The College of Design has become one of the five official colleges of NTUA. The first dean was Professor Chen-Chou Liou (劉鎮洲), the second one was Professor Tien-Tseng Yeh Liu (葉劉天增), the third one was Dr. Rung-Tai Lin(林榮泰), the fourth one was Professor Hsing-Jung Hsu (許杏蓉), the fifth one was Dr. Shih-Kai Chung (鐘世凱) and Professor C. Jay Shih (石昌杰). Currently, the new dean is Dr. Ming-Chuan Fu (傅銘傳).
At present, our college includes three departments for both undergraduate and graduate programs, which are the Department of Visual Communication Design, the Department of Crafts and Design, and the Department of Multimedia and Animation Arts, and a Graduate School of Creative Industrial Design which offers doctoral degree program.
Our college is the only one among universities of arts in Taiwan combining the practice-model and the research-model features with a complete educational system for arts and design.
The academic excellence of our college has attracted some of the best teachers and students around the world to learn and research together. Additionally, we strive to connect and reinforce the exchanges between academic, research, industrial fields as well as policies, accumulating the accomplishment of teaching and research of a variety of disciplines, such as fine arts, design, science, management, information technology, etc. Thus, our college has gained a solid foundation for interdisciplinary and integrative studies.
Our college keeps the principles that teaching and researching should be regarded as equally important and that we should help students develop their virtue in order to cohere to our university’s motto “Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.” With our long traditions and professions in the fine arts field, keeping the concept of “humanity-centeredness for the base, humanities for the body of concept, and creativity for the application of expressions,” we aim to train our students to become professional designers who possess humanity, sense, and sensibility.
Basic Literacy of students
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Deep literacy of humanity and aesthetics
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Macro international horizon of arts and design
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Heritage of diversified arts fields
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Excellent abilities of integrating arts and design
Core abilities of students
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Interpretation of arts and humanism concern
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Efficient communication and international concern
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Interdisciplinary cooperation and critical thinking ability
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Logical thinking and creative expression
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Design practice and aesthetic exploration
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Integration of creativity and technological application