Bachelor Program in International Service Industry Management

Bachelor’s Degree

Department Introduction

Characteristics:

1. Train students to become cross-disciplinary professionals:

cultivate interests, exercise their own expertise, and combine professional diversity.

2.Emphasize characteristic skills:

focus on secondary language proficiency, humanistic etiquette, and media information competencies.

3.Prepare students’ employability skills:

engaging with international service industry stakeholders throughout the program.

4. Shorten the gap between theory and practice:

one year-long work placement gives students a real-world experience and prepares them for their future careers.

 

We work with Tzu Chi affiliates worldwide to provide students with abundant learning resources.

We collaborate with numerous departments and programs and offer two cross-disciplinary programs, namely an International Service Management Program and an NGO & Long-term Care Management Program. 

We aim to keep pace with rapid changes worldwide, assist students in shortening the gap between learning and application, and better prepare them for the workplace or to pursue advanced studies.

The University has collaborated with educational institutions worldwide in numerous programs. Students may choose a dual degree program or pursue an MBA program.

The program combines theory and practice to offer a variety of professional courses that meet the students’ needs in career choices.

Future Career

This program equips students with rich professional knowledge and application capabilities, good ethics, and the willingness to serve others.

The program adopts a diverse modular curriculum to enhance students’ professional skills and knowledge in the service industry and prepare them for their needs and career development. In addition, Tzu Chi Foundation, provides its global resources to assist the University in carrying out teaching, research, and services. The program wishes students to extend their humanistic culture in serving​​ related service industries.

Students’ career choices include serving institutions related to science and technology, finance and insurance, information and communication, or lodging and catering. Moreover, they may consider the institutions associated with healthcare, social work services, wholesale and retail enterprises, arts, entertainment, and leisure services. They can also choose industries related to online e-commerce service, transportation, warehousing, educational services, real estate and residential services, logistics service, etc.

Language of Instruction

English

Documents to Be Submitted

  • High school diploma
  • High school transcript (including ranking or ranking percentages within class or year group)
  • Autobiography in Chinese or English (covering student background, study plan, future plan, and personal photos)
  • Reasons for choosing this program, in Chinese or English, and within one page
  • Recommendation letter(s) 6.Other documents pertinent to the application
  • Other documents pertinent to the application
  • English proficiency test results:
    ․Level B1 of the Common European Framework of
    Reference for Language (CEFR);
    ․Score 42 of TOEFL iBT;
    ․Score 460 of TOEFL ITP; or
    ․IELTS 4

Evaluation Criteria

Document review by the Admissions Committee

Remarks

Website:http://bmsieng.tcu.edu.tw/

國際暨跨領域學院

International College

學生餐廳 / 每天
Student Cafeteria / Day

生活費 / 每月
Living Cost / Month

宿舍費 / 每學期
Dormitory / Semester

$44,125~$46,831

$65(校本部 Main Campus)


$91(人社院校區 Jieren Campus)

$5,000~$10,000

$8,200

Course Name

Category

Units

Core Ability

Economics

 

3

 

Required

Management

Compulsory Core Course

3

Management

 

3

 

 

Business English 1: Elementary

Featured Elective – Languages

2

 

Beginner Chinese (I) (Foreign Student)

 

3

 

Elective

(General Knowledge) Active Ageing and Long-term Care (2)

NGO & Long-term Care Management Group

2

 

 

Overview of Geriatric Medicine

2

 

Course Name

Category

Units

Core Ability

Human Resource Management

 

3

 

Required

Accounting

Compulsory Core Course

3

 

Service Management

 

3

 

Introduction to Hospitality & Tourism

International Service Management Group

3

 

Elective

Business English 2: Pre-Intermediate

Featured Elective – Languages

2

 

 

 Beginner Chinese (II) (Foreign Student)

 

3

Course Name

Category

Units

Core Ability

Required

Statistics

Compulsory Core Course

3

 

Business English 3: Intermediate

Featured Elective – Languages

2

 Elementary Chinese(I) (Foreign Student)

 

3

 

Business Office Software Applications

Featured Elective – Media & IT

2

 

Elective

Planning and Management of Meetings, Expositions, Events, and Conventions (MEEC)

 

3

 

Food and Beverage Management

International Service Management Group

3

 

 

International Tourism and Lodging Management

 

3

 

(Public Health)Health Risk Management of Seniors

 

2

 

(Social Work) Social Work for the Aged and Long-term Care

NGO & Long-term Care Management Group

2

 

 

(Social Work) Social Work Management

 

2

 

Programming for Business Computing, International Trade

 

2

Course Name

Category

Units

Core Ability

Required

Research Methodology

Compulsory Core Course

3

 

Organizational Behavior

Co-Electives

3

 

New Media Marketing

Featured Elective – Media & IT

2

 

Elective

Business English 4: Upper-Intermediate

Featured Elective – Languages

2

 

Elementary Chinese (II) (Foreign Student)

 

3

 

 

Consumer Behavior

International Service Management Group

3

 

 

Entrepreneurial Management

 

3

Course Name

Category

Units

Core Ability

Required

 CSR & Business Ethics

Compulsory Core Course

3

 

Strategic leadership

International Service Management Group

3

Customer relationship management

 Co-Electives

3

 

Research on Special Topic (Capstone project I)

 

1

 

(Public Health) Long-Term Care Policy

 

2

 

(Public Health) Health Care Service Institutes Managemen

NGO & Long-term Care Management Group

2

 

Elective

(Public Health) Health Care Service Institutes Managemen

 

2

 

Market Survey and Analysis

 

2

 

 

Brand Management and Affairs

Featured Elective – Media & IT

2

 

 

Information and media applications in industry

 

1

 

Intermediate Chinese (foreign student)

Featured Elective – Languages

2

Course Name

Category

Units

Core Ability

Required

Capstone Project II

Compulsory Core Course

1

 

Service Industry Administration and Practices

International Service Management Group

3

Elective

 Applied Cost Control in Services

 Co-Electives

3

 

Enterprise Resource Planning

Featured Elective –Media & IT

3

 

 

Advanced Chinese (foreign student)

Featured Elective – Languages

2

Course Name

Category

Units

Core Ability

Required

Internship

Compulsory Internship

18

 

Course Name

Category

Units

Core Ability

Flower Arrangement

 

2

 

 

Tea Ceremony

 

2

International Etiquette and Humanistic Aestheticism

 

2

 

Elective

 Disaster Management and Relief Volunteer Training

Featured Elective – Humanities and Etiquette Studies

2

 

 Theory and Practice of Volunteering

 

2

 

 

 Hospice and End-of-Life Concerns

 

2

 

 

Fundamental Buddhism and Meditation Practices

 

2

Course Name

Category

Units

Core Ability

Chinese reading and writing

 

2

 

 

Basic English

 

2

Education for life

School Core Curriculum

2

 

 

Tzu Chi humanities and service learning

 

2

 

Web visual design and programming

 

2

 

Required

General Elective Courses

Subjects: Interdisciplinary Humanistic Thinking, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Aesthetics and Environment, Social Participation, Comprehensive Electives

18

 

 

Physical Education

Physical activity and Health (2 credits required), One optional PE course (1 credit elective)

3

 

 

foreign language courses

Compulsory 2 foreign language course credits

2