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International Master Program in Teaching Chinese and Calligraphy

Brief Introduction & Special Development Features
The International Master’s Program in Teaching Chinese and Calligraphy (hereinafter referred to as “the Program”) is implemented by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences in order to recruit students from all over the world and to cultivate both domestic and overseas Chinese teaching professionals. The Program is highly concerned about “Teaching Practice” and “nation-based Variation”; hence, the teaching research is specifically designed for international students to meet their learning conditions and needs. In addition, the Program combines the theories related to Chinese calligraphy education and the conventional practice for Chinese calligraphy teaching in order to not only develop approaches for learning Chinese characters and aesthetics but also enhance the writing competence of international students in Chinese calligraphy. Having formed its faculty upon teachers from different Departments, even Colleges, with related and/or required specialties, established a multifaceted Chinese teaching and research system, and integrated the development of nation-based teaching, the Program focuses on both the analysis of regional variations, such as grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, pragmatics, cultures, etc. And the construction of comparison and contrast between Chinese and foreign languages in order to further design and develop Chinese courses, teaching approaches, and materials both corresponding nation-based variations and strengthening teaching pertinence. As far as the students are concerned, during the course of their studies, they will be led and guided to further engage themselves in exchanges with and visits to related departments and/or institutions abroad in order to expand their global vision by developing Chinese teaching specialties and publishing academic papers.

Specific Development Directions, Focuses, and Characteristics:
1. Deepening the nation-based teaching and research.
2. Developing the connection between Chinese teaching and technical application.
3. Enhancing the calligraphy teaching and the academic promotion of the traditional form of Chinese characters.
4. Cultivating outstanding Chinese and calligraphy teachers, and establishing the talent pool.
5. Promoting and facilitating the research on preschool Chinese teaching.
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