1st Year Undergraduate

Objectives:

1. To learn acquire cognitive, critical, or speculative skills for insight into media nature.
2. To use, analyze, and evaluate media information in producing text, through processing clarification of value.
3. To convey the message and express the idea, achieving the purpose of communication.
4. To achieve effective integration of the learned concept to enhance the ability of using media, through the practice of classroom work.
5. To cultivate education and communication professionals who have characteristics of speculative analysis, teamwork cooperation, disadvantageous care, community service, respect for life, and lifelong learning.

Narrative ability is very important in writing or reporting, news or filming, and planning. The narrative is a form of storytelling that touches the hearts of both readers and viewers. Good stories must have a clear theme, logical content, interesting content, and sequential arrangement.  The objectives are:

1. To inspire narrative ability, by the process of introducing one’s own story at the beginning, followed by another’s story, then describe an event and criticize a work.
2. To enhance narrative ability that applies to the future course of “Text and Image Creation” in this Department.
3. To improve a systematic narrative expression for creative work, and also criticism or judgment of a video work applicable to telling a good story.
4. To promote the ability of creation and appreciation of text, audio, and video works, by teaching, discussion, observation, brainstorming, and practice.
5. To promote a certain degree of narrative aesthetic qualities in various works.

Objectives:

1. To cultivate the ability of cross-cutting cooperation and trust mechanisms; to organize a team work by training students to partner with peers and the community.
2. To experience the ethics and decision-making process of health communication context by applying the theories.
3. To encourage discussion for independently solving problems using Problem-Based Learning (PBL) .
4. To fulfill the health service spirit through health communication propagation of the health information.

Contents:

(1)   To systematically discuss the cultural, political and social contexts of health communication;
(2)   To analyze health promotion in daily-life, as well as public health advocacy events and information;
(3)   To write and experience the “community health plan for propagation”.

Objectives:

1. To understand relations and interactions among visual imagination, aesthetics, and society.
   To help students understand visual imagination, aesthetics and social relations, as well as the production of primary film and the use of communication.
2. To produce an elemental documental film and use it in communication.
3. To produce film by recording the selected main character or issue in a community / tribal-based area.
4. To emphasize the shooting process (interactive and ethical) and the shooting purpose.
5. To understand the video principle and enhance capabilities of basic video production of before system, shooting, post-production, and video publishing.

Objectives:

1. To cultivate writing ability in programming and inspire with creative thinking.
2. To introduce the concept, process, direction, and skills of program production.
3. To enhance creative ability.
4. To be proficient in various types of programming mode and their creative directions.
5. To develop the skill of making a brief report and its presentation so that creativity can be perfectly expressed in .
6. To integrate theory and practice, and then understand how creativity will be perfectly expressed through programming.

Objectives:

1. To build skills of basic interview and interpersonal communication across cross-cutting partners.
2. To cultivate ability to speculate and interpret the information.
3. To cultivate ability to write untainted news.
4. To cultivate ability to integrate information, image, and aesthetics.
5. To cultivate humanities by practicing the action of media ethical consciousness and reflection.

Contents:

The course covers three key points: concept/selection, interview skills, and writing. Trained basic literacy of thinking and expression can be used in the practice of reporting, the construction of basic knowledge and ability to write news reports.