College Introduction
The College of Applied Arts and Sciences🔗 emphasize both humanities and technology, balancing professional expertise with general education. Showcasing a diverse approach that integrates “innovation, aesthetics, technology, and practice.” Cultivating core competencies in “fundamental creative skills,” “humanities and aesthetic appreciation,” “information technology application,” and “local engagement and practice.”
The program is designed with the primary goal of cultivating biotechnology professionals specializing in practical technologies within the biotech industry chain. By integrating experienced faculty with industry backgrounds, the program emphasizes hands-on biotechnology education and industry-oriented research, including areas such as biological detection technology, biopharmaceutical development, natural medicine and health food development, food processing technology, biomaterials development, bioenergy production, drug residue detection, and pathogen detection.
Given the broad scope of the digital content industry, the Department of Multimedia Design has established three major development directions as the foundation for its distinctive features and future plans. These directions aim to achieve the goals of talent cultivation and industry-academia collaboration. The three key focus areas are: “Digital Audio-Visual Design,” “Digital Game Design,” and “Digital Value-Added Design.”
Based on the Department of Applied Foreign Languages’ educational objectives, the following development plans have been outlined: Cultivating Foreign Language Professionals, Enhancing Teaching and Research Quality, Providing Professional Classrooms and Facilities, Designing Modular Professional Courses, Expanding Short-Term Overseas Exchange Programs, and Fostering Altruism and Social Responsibility.
The Department of Leisure and Recreation centers on leisure industry development trends, integrating community development, leisure environment planning, and leisure activity services to cultivate professionals with expertise in planning, development, maintenance, and management. As Taiwan’s economy grows and living standards rise, the demand for high-quality, eco-friendly leisure experiences continues to increase, driving the expansion of the recreation, tourism, and leisure industries.
National Formosa University, located in Yunlin County, a major agricultural hub in Taiwan, offers students easy access to agricultural life. The university actively integrates teaching and research with regional industries, promoting human resource development to address challenges such as an aging and insufficient rural workforce. This fosters competitive local agricultural advantages. In response to Taiwan’s challenges of a decreasing and aging agricultural population, the university has established an agricultural talent cultivation system, utilizing a mentor-mentee model to train young people willing to engage in agriculture and develop the skills necessary for management, processing, marketing, and innovation. The educational goals include: cultivating professional agricultural managers with expertise in digital transformation and smart agriculture, enhancing agricultural competitiveness, encouraging social responsibility by connecting agriculture values with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and fostering resilient agricultural knowledge to address issues like food security, net-zero carbon emissions, and environmental sustainability.
