Course Map

Undergraduate Curriculum

Undergraduate students in the department must complete 128 credits, including 30 credits from university common required courses. Required courses and credits of the department can be divided into three areas: language skills, literature, and linguistics/ applied linguistics. Starting in their sophomore year, students should choose (1) core courses (literature and/or linguistics/applied linguistics) and complete 21 required credits before graduation; and (2) a second foreign language (Japanese, German, French, or Spanish) and complete at least 12 credits of study in that language. In addition to fulfilling the department requirements for graduation, students can do cross-disciplinary studies by taking a certain number of elective courses from other departments such as Chinese and Literature Department, Economics Department, and independent programs such as Teacher Education Program, Program of Information and Communication Media. Students can also take some elective courses from other universities within the University System of Taiwan, which include National Chiao-Tung University, National Central University, and National Yang-Ming University.

Undergraduate Course Map

School-developed Required Courses (30 Credits)
English (8 Credits)	College Chinese (2 Credits)		General Courses (20 Credits)		Sport		Conduct
General Courses (20 Credits)
Required (8-12Credits; four primary domains) 　• Thinking, Civilization, and History 　• Life, Nature, and Technology 　• Art, Literature, and Creative Design 　• Civil Right, Society, and World				Elective (8-12 Credits; three primary domains) 　• Natural Science 　• Social Science 　• Humanities
Department Required Courses (46 Credits)
Freshman		Sophomore				Junior
English Listening and Speaking (I)(II)		Oral Training
Introduction to Western Literature (I)(II)		Reading and Writing (I)				Reading and Writing (II)
Introduction to Literature (I)(II)		Beginner Second Language (Japanese, French, German, Spanish or Korean)				Intermediate Second Language (Japanese, French, German, Spanish or Korean)
Introduction to Linguistics
Applied Linguistics
Core Courses (21 Credits)
Literature 　• English Literature before 1700 　• Eighteenth-Century Literature 　• Romantic Literature 　• Victorian Literature 　• British Literature in the Twentieth-Century 　• American Literature before 1865 　• American Literature after 1865 　• Contemporary Literature 　• Novel 　• Poetry 　• Drama 　• Shakespeare 　• Literary Theory				Linguistics 　• Semantics 　• Phonetics 　• Syntax 　• Phonology 　• Introduction to Psycholinguistics 　• Introduction to Sociolinguistics 　• Introduction to Foreign Language Teaching and Learning 　• Second Language Acquisition
Elective Course (Courses with an ID starting with FL; 10 Credits)
Literature 　• Studies in U. S. Proletarian Literature 　• The English Bible and Literature 　• Scott Fitzgerald's Short Stories 　• Survey of Greek Literature 　• Post-modern Novels 　• Fin de Siecle: decadence and sexual anarchy 　• Dystopian Literature 　• Technology and Humanities 　• Graphic Literature 　• etc.				Linguistics 　• Language and Culture 　• Language and the Brain 　• Child Language Acquisition 　• Sentence Processing Experiments 　• World Englishes 　• Computer Assisted Instruction 　• Language and Statistics in R 　• etc.
Language Skill 　• English Reading and Discussion 　• Intermediate English Listening 　• Advanced English Listening 　• English Pronunciation 　• Bilingual Web Design 　• &etc.				English for Specific Purpose and Second Language 　• Oral Interpretation 　• English-Chinese Translation Practice 　• Business English Conversation 　• Business English Writing 　• Journalistic English 　• Advanced Japanese/French/German/Spanish/Korean 　• etc.
Other Electives (21 Credits)
Students can take professional courses offered by DFLL or other departments.