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Department of Music

Introduction

  • Department of Music (DM) is the former Department of Music Education, established in August 1st, 1998.  When the DM became affiliated with the College of Humanities on August 1st, 2006, it renamed as the Department of Music.
  • The Department of Music is consisting of 119 students.
  • The Department drew a Master degree program up in 2010, and submitted to the Ministry of Education to certify.

Mission

  • The Department of Music provides a high level of instruction in music performance and education for our students, and therefore the students can achieve their careers as the professional musician, or music educators. For that purpose, the Department of Music will ask all students to have the following three qualities:

(1) To have professional art performing ability.
(2) To have correct music pedagogy theories and literacy.
(3) Developing healthy personality and art humanities.

Features

  • For implementing teaching education, the Department strengthens the following activities:

(1) To strengthen the professional capacity of music, the Department holds the series of concerts and lectures every semester. 
(2) Implement aesthetic teaching. Starting from the beauty of music, combining art education and drama teaching education, and strengthening the cultivation of aesthetic experience and develop a high level of musicality.
(3) DM emphasize on practical teaching to make theory and teaching practice to meet together, and implementing a variety of teaching theory, and emphasizing the validity, reliability, and practicality of teaching. 
(4) Combine with the indigenous music center to collect and adapt the information, and promoting aboriginal music.
(5) Strengthen and promote the professional performances with the Practice and Consulting Division, alumni association and promote through the various channels.

Curriculum

  • The courses fall into two categories, core courses on Performance Techniques and Musical Theories, and group courses on alternative subjects in order to cultivate professional scholarship in academic research and performance.
  • The course structure of DM is divided into four categories, including 28 credits of "general education", 6 credits of "college co-elective courses ", and at least 74 credits for "Department of specialized courses, " (56 credits of required course, 10-16 credits of elective group and 8 credits co-elective are inclusive.) and 20 credits for” Cross departments’ elective courses". The total of four years of course study of is not less than 128 credits.
  • To develop students’ skills in balancing a broad range of music professionals, the department not only offers the prescribed courses, but also provides the "digital convergence applications of Aboriginal Music Program.” Students can select these courses according to their professional trends, skills and personal interests. Students who choose the “educational programs” can’t be given the program proof until their get 30 designate credits or more. If students can’t finish the 30 designate credits or fail to follow the specified subjects, their credits can only be registered as elective credits. "Program" credits are also capable of the “Elective Courses of Cross Departments " credits. If students who study two “Program" at the same time, then they must take 148 credits before graduating.
  • Moreover, the department provides the elective courses of the second major. Only with the professors’ agreement can students study the courses, and if necessary, students must have the examination. The courses are with the school year as a unit. If students who quit the course during the semester or fail the exam two times, he will be rejected take the course again. While passing the exam, the department will give the credits. However, in order not to affect the goals of Holistic Education, the credits will not allow to be included to the total 128 credits of graduate.
  • The department held the competition of concerto and chamber music; every semester, the department also has master lecture courses and music activities.

Future

  • Cultivating performing talents.
  • Cultivating specialists on music and curriculum and teaching theory.
  • Cultivating the primary and secondary teachers of art and humanities.
  • Developing the ethnomusicology research potential, based on the specific humanistic surrounding of eastern Taiwan and the Austronesia studying sources in school.
  • Providing on-the-job elementary and secondary school teachers in eastern Taiwan a good environment for further studying.
 
 

 

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