Introduction of the Committee for General Education

一、 Current Situation

To realize the goal of holistic education for students, our school has founded an interdisciplinary Committee for General Education (hereinafter the Committee). The Committee is responsible for planning to cultivate students on multiple knowledge and basic subjects other than their professional training. To foster relating affairs, the Committee consists of three centers, respectively Center of General Education, Center of Language and Center of Art.

To maximize the influence of general education and make students aware of multiculturalism of Miaoli, the Committee is cooperating with our school’s “Miaoliology Research Center” to engage in the curriculum of “Learning Passport”. The outcomes are proved to be predominantly effective since functioning.

二、Visions & Skills

General Education in our school has two parts, “Basic Curricula” and “General Curricula”. The former includes National Languages, English, Physics, Mathematics, History, Democracy & Rule of Law, Information Technology Skills, Physical Education, Military Training, etc.; the latter embodies three categories, namely Arts, Social Science and Nature. Furthermore, the former emphasizes on knowledge that is indispensable in our daily life while the latter functions to adjust professional prejudice and therefore makes our life beautiful. College graduates will be elites of our society. It is important to educate them with the foundation of humanity and technology, which is of help in the pursuit of professional knowledge and in the formation of “holistic humans” with five virtues—morality, intellect, fitness, cooperation, and art. They will be perfectly fitted into the society, the country, and the world, and they will benefit greatly everywhere they go.

This vision is shown as the following graph:

三、Agenda & Priorities

(1) Pursuing top-notched basic education:

Regarding basic curricula as Language, Math and Science, our goal is to make improvement based upon students’ previous learning experience. Only by pursuing higher and deeper knowledge can students be connected to their specific professional field smoothly and mingle with international communities much more naturally. Otherwise, if your language proficiency and professional knowledge are barely enough to survive, others, only patiently standing with such stuttering expression, will be hardly able to communicate with you. Such level stays merely at high school, which is our first priority to adjust.

(2) Emphasizing general education in quality and quantity:

Our general education, as stated before, has three major fields. In each field we hire professors from our school to form a planning team to sketch and design relative curricula. We hope that through such learning, students are provided with knowledge both with quantity and quality, so the goal of holistic education can be achieved.

(3) Stressing out natural and plural learning passport:

The Committee connects Miaoli’s local assets of “Nature” and “Pluralism”, hoping that students will recognize Miaoli’s beauty, know more about Miaoli and then have “Attachments” to Miaoli. This is a form of “Do as Miaolians do” education, expecting to cultivate our students a sense of “getting fitted in everywhere” and “feeling content in everyplace”. We believe this will be a deeply influential mindset for some who will travel many places in the future.

(4) Above all curricula mentioned, we require our course instructors to promote our students’ willingness to learn actively and ability to think critically, both in course materials and teaching methods. Our students’ ability to make analogies and to practice by learning can thus be cultivated.