Department of Communication Studies

Bachelor’s Degree

Department Introduction

The department utilizes well-equipped media facilities as teaching resources:

We set up multimedia labs, production studios, and radio stations on campus to inspire students’ learning. 

Tzu Chi global affiliates provide our students with abundant learning resources:

Tzu Chi Foundation’s global affiliates in charity, medicine, education, and humanistic culture have helped the department develop many programs. Health communication combining communication, healthcare, and public health is one of them.

Local communities provide students with unique ways and opportunities for learning:

Eastern Taiwan is a multi-ethnicity region that enables students to learn things quite differently from traditional ways. One of the department’s missions is to care for the underprivileged. Through serving local communities, students enhance their professional skills and knowledge, which also helps them realize a media person’s role is to put social responsibility into action.

The unique training enriches students’ professional and humanistic skills:

The department collaborates with Tzu Chi affiliates, such as DaAi TV, Rhythm Magazine, Tzu Chi Radio, and the public relations departments of Tzu Chi Foundation and Tzu Chi Hospitals, to offer students clerkship and internship training.

Students attend to the needs of local communities and put their social responsibilities into action:

Faculty members participate in community services and provide service-learning courses. Moreover, they lead students to serve the communities and help community residents improve their communities. 

Faculty members, staff of the Counseling Center, and members of the Tzu-Cheng and Yi-Te Association work together to accompany our students and attend to their needs.

 

Future Career

The department has made great efforts to collect, integrate, and digest information to prepare our students, and it has employed numerous approaches to enhance students’ English skills.

Students have numerous career choices. In addition to becoming journalists or editors, or engaging in planning, production, photography, editing, and post-production related to radio or television media, they can choose planning, production, and marketing work in online media. In addition, they may serve as public relations staff in various institutions.

Language of Instruction

Chinese

Documents to Be Submitted

  • Chinese Proficiency Test results
  • Autobiography and study plan in Chinese or English
  • High school transcript
  • Other documents pertinent to the application
  • Chinese proficiency test results:
    ․Level A2 of the Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language
    (TOCFL);
    ․Level 4 of the Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK); or
    ․Level A2 of the Common European Framework of
    Reference for Language (CEFR).

Evaluation Criteria

Submitted information:100%

Remarks

Website:http://www.commstudies.tcu.edu.tw/

教育傳播學院

College of Education and Communication

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

$46,831~$54,230

$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

Psychology

 

2

 

Career exploration for communication studies

 

2

Sociology

 

2

 

 

Information Collection

 

3

Required

Principle of static images

 

3

 

 

Writing for the Media

 

3

 

Null

 

3

 

Communication and Society

 

3

 

Digital Media Design

Professional Module-Integrated Marketing

3

Elective

The art of narrative

 

2

 

Social psychology

Professional Elective

2

 

Fieldwork

 

2

Course Name

Category

Units

Core Ability

Required

Research Methods in Communication Studies

 

3

Theories of Communication

 

3

 

Designing Health Messages

 

3

Epidemiology and Communication

Health Communication

3

 

Introduction to Health Communication

 

3

News interviewing and writing

 

3

 

 

Broadcast News Program Production

Journalism and Communication

3

 

The Political Economy of Image

 

3

Elective

Documentary Film Production

 

3

 

Advertising

Integrated Marketing

2

New Media Marketing

 

2

 

Interpersonal Communication

 

3

 

Persuasion

 

2

 

News Editing

Professional Elective

2

 

Intercultural Communication

 

2

 

Oral Communication

 

2

Gender and Communication Studies

 

2

Course Name

Category

Units

Core Ability

Required

On-Campus Media Internships

 

2

Senior Project (I)

 

2

 

Sociology of Health and Illness

 

2

 

Medicine and Health news

Health Communication

3

Health Policy Analysis

 

3

 

Selected Readings in English news

 

2

 

TV news gathering and anchoring

Journalism and Communication

2

 

Elective

Commentary Writing

 

2

 

Darkroom Reporting and Photography

 

3

 

Social Marketing

 

2

 

Integrated Marketing Communication

Integrated Marketing

2

Marketing Community: A Practice of University Social Responsibility

 

3

English Communication

Professional Elective

2

 

 

Internship

 

2

Course Name

Category

Units

Core Ability

Required

Senior Project (II)

 

2

Communication Law and Ethics

 

2

 

Elective

Organizational Communication

Professional Elective

2

 

Internship

 

6