College of Arts aims to cultivate outstanding talents in art creation, craft design, music performance, music theory education, and technology and art. Besides having both art appreciation and creation, students have both ability and social responsibilities as well. We hope to become Taiwan’s “art leader” and “art cross-disciplinary worker” in the future.
Our Goals：
1. Promote Liberal Arts Education
2. Cultivate top talents in art
3. Development of cross-disciplinary integration of technology and art
4. Promote industry-university cooperation
5. Promote international exchanges
College Structure :
Students and Faculties :
Departments
Department of Arts and Design (website)
Our department is equipped with multiple expertise, although the teaching process may be strict at times, the learning environment is open and free. Students have received international and domestic awards and are valued by the art community. Our students are often the recipient of many competitions, this includes the National Art Awards, the Taipei Art Awards, the Kaohsiung Award, the Hsinchu Art Award, and the Nanying Award. Besides, International and domestic exchange exhibitions are actively held. Visiting art events abroad has also expanded our students’ perspective and established new visions. In recent years, the number of graduate students has increased greatly, the number of applications and onsite registrations reached the highest rate compared to other universities in Taiwan. We are also very eager to contribute new possibilities towards the development and requirements of the four education fields in the modern era.
Department of Music (website)
Our department was established by professor YANG Zhao-Zhen, a domestically well-known tenor and educator. For many years, the Department of Music has been dedicated to pursuing professional excellence in the field of music, aside from our rich, diverse, and innovative curriculum design, we also emphasize the importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration to cultivate aesthetics appreciation, which can expand the stage of the student’s musical art performances. From a global perspective, our department actively engages in international academic exchange, such as inviting world-renowned musicians to our department to perform and instruct, providing international exchange opportunities, etc. All this effort is to promote our students’ professional skills to a global and modern artistic standard.
Interdisciplinary Program of Technology and Art(IPTA) (website)
The Interdisciplinary Program of Technology and Art began to enroll new students in 2018. Revolving around techno art, its curriculum mapping covers introductory courses on techno art, advanced courses, thematic creation, and graduation projects. Students can choose a specialized field and receive a B.A.S. degree (Bachelor of Science and Art) upon graduation, or attend second professional specialty training and pursue the second degree. Characterized by its transdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary nature, the program’s curriculum is intended to incubate the vanguard of techno art in Taiwan and make the university a pioneer in transdisciplinary art and increase its visibility in the international art scene.
The program also supports the university’s International Intercollegiate Master/ Doctoral Program (Techno Art Division). In addition to domestic students, it has attracted many foreign students, overseas Chinese students, and students from China, Hong Kong, and Macau. Setting great store by students’ knowledge of theory and their skills and abilities in developing their own works independently, its curriculum enables students to take part in international exhibitions, reconciles theory and practice, and prioritizes students’ creative autonomy.
Graduate Institute of Art and Technology (website)
In a world where visual, sound, text, image, multimedia, network platforms, and other media converge and develop in the world led by digital technology. Under the trend of the industry, the Graduate Institute of Art and Technology of National Tsing Hua University will encourage students to study cross-fields of art and technology, and the spirit of bold cross-disciplinary clashes, not only breakthroughs and innovations in theory but also encourages “learning by doing”. Specifically, the establishment of this institute in addition to the talents who want to cultivate, have the critical thinking, creative ability, scientific and technological innovation of the humanities and the arts, creativity, and solid practical skills it also possesses humanities and art cultivation and a broad vision and can integrate what has been learned and applied to the generations of cross-fields that integrate contemporary disciplines, most important contribution to society.
The purpose of the “Spring of Tsinghua” scholarship is to attract and win academic and artistic gifted students to choose NTHU as their first choice through the award of scholarships. At the same time, it promotes the establishment of the Spring Foundation concept: cultivating outstanding artistic talents. We provide 30 thousand dollars each semester as long as their grades meet our standard. In 2021, we’ve subsidy 29 students for this scholarship.
Through the “Spring of Tsinghua” scholarship, we encourage and attract top students in the field of art to study at NTHU of College of Arts, so that outstanding artistic talents will be planted in Tsinghua, and the spring of art will come to Tsinghua.
Besides the “Spring of Tsinghua” scholarship provided by the College of Art, NTHU also provided many scholarships for foreign students.
Please visit the website: https://reurl.cc/eEjEg7
On November 13, 2019, the Spring Foundation founded by Hou-Wang Shu-Chao donated NT$100 million to NTHU to establish the Tsinghua Spring Development Fund for Art Education, which includes provisions for hiring first-class teachers, providing awards to outstanding students, and organizing various art exhibitions and events.
NTHU president Ho-Cheng, Hong thanked Mrs. Hou-Wang for sowing the beautiful spring seeds of art in the hearts of NTHU faculty members and students. Over the course of ten consecutive years, the Fund will provide NT$10 million annually to the College of Arts. Each year the Fund will sponsor 15 lectures by scholars and experts on such topics as art, crafts, digital aesthetics, interactive art, computer music, kinetic art, virtual reality, computer animation, and experimental imagery. The lecture series will constitute part of a course compulsory for all new students of the College of Art. The Fund will also be used to provide scholarships covering tuition and fees for four years to two outstanding freshmen each year in three programs: Undergraduate Program of the College of Arts, the Department of Music, and the Department of Arts and Design. Moreover, the Fund will also be used to appoint 2 to 3 well-known local and foreign artists to work and teach at NTHU every year. So far we’ve invited at least 10 artists to interact with students.
It is our primary concern as a university to achieve the sustainability of human society. Our mission is to cultivate talents for future generations. The purposes of education are to develop cultural heritage and create a meaningful life. Thus, the universities need to be active problem-solvers for the world and sustain generations despite different disciplines and departments in the university. To respond to the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs), we have identified knowledge across different disciplines and started integrating humanity and technology via interdisciplinary research and teaching activities. We aim to bring students’ learning and self-fulfillment to engage the pursuit of SDGs, which fulfills our motto, “self-discipline and social commitment ”. We have marched for cross-disciplinary collaboration on our campus, and now let’s move forward together to the SDGs.
Please visit the website: https://sdgs.nthu.edu.tw/college/CARS
Address: No. 521, Nanda Rd., East Dist., Hsinchu City 30014, Taiwan (College of Arts, 3rd Floor, Administration Building, Nanda Campus, National Tsing Hua University)
Tel: +886-35715131 #78801 or 78810
Fax: +886-35619170
Email: coa@my.nthu.edu.tw
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