3rd Year Undergraduate

1. Nurture students’ ability to apply theories to practical operations.
2. Build up students’ fundamental knowledge and ability in interdisciplinary communications professionalism 
3. Encourage students with a “learn by doing” approach.
4. Broaden the vision of humanistic culture for students to realize “virtue and merit education” when it comes to caring for the underprivileged. 
5. Inspire students to plan for their career and life.  

1. Understand basic scientific knowledge about medicine and health information.
2. Analyze health and medicine information correctly as the basis for future reporting.
3. Produce accurate health and medicine data and information for reporting as training for narrative reporting on health issues.
4. Apply professional journalistic ethics and respect all living beings.

  Course summary: 

1. Guide students to apply what they have learned from courses in journalism, interview skills, news writing, public health issues, and epidemics studies, to medicine, public health and environmental protection areas. 
2. Cover three key areas: systematic medical information database, major health and medicine news and information reporting, basic sciences theories and scientific ethics.

1. Introduction to TV Engineering: Development history of the TV industry, and its relation to TV engineering, in regard to modern TV engineering.
2. TV Production Engineering: Equipment for producing news programs in pre- and post-production sessions. 
3. TV Broadcast Engineering: Introduction to the TV broadcast central control system and how to broadcast a program safely.
4. TV Signal Transmitting Engineering: Frequently used /recently used equipment.
5. TV and Multimedia Development: Development of the digital media and TV industries.  

1. This course is designed to improve students’ English listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills by introducing international news stories in English. Certain journalism vocabulary will be emphasized as well.
2. Reading and discussing will help students to overcome their fears of using English and to have a better understanding of international affairs. 
3. This course also employs the Moodle system to upload relevant English learning materials for students.

1. This course is designed to emphasize both design theory and hands-on creation/production.  However, students will need a solid foundation of design theory prior to their hands-on practice. 
2. Understanding/grasping the function and meanings of visual media, mediums and symbols in the field of communications development, students will be able to transform original data, information  or messages into meaningful and communicable visual motifs.

Focus on basic concept and practical project production for advertisement media.  It covers project planning in print media, Internet media, and commercial advertising media.  With case studies based on known theory, sharing fundamental understanding on media project planning is an effective way of learning the process of planning and executing media projects.

Focusing areas:

1. Understand the relationship between media and advertising, and gain insight into media planning.
2. Gain experience through hands-on project planning and execution process.
3. Nurture the ability of planning and managing related special media projects.

1. Introduction to organizational communication theories. 
2. Through case study and practical operation, students will simulate an organization’s environment, gaining knowledge of essential factors of organizational communication, in theory and in practice.   

1. This course, based on the PBL teaching model, helps students contemplate and understand the value of journalism in a democratic society, nurture ability to do in-depth reporting for community involvement and providing information for citizens’ policy making.
2. Teaching focuses on democracy and its relevant communication principles by emphasizing oral history, field work, and studying and reflecting on current events.  Issues-oriented, team learning, and multiple evaluation and assessment methods are used to build students’ ability to combine theory and practice, as well as a team effort to completing an in-depth report about nearby communities. 
3. All works from the class will be openly displayed and subsequently published. 

1. Through augmented reading of background information and multi-angle discussion, students will gain a insightful view of current health policy and its marco-trends.  Students will also raise their sensitivity level on public health issues and their critical thinking abilities.
2. Students will master their writing ability on health issues by publishing their works as columns.

1. Understand the importance and characteristics of lighting design on TV productions. 
2. Become familiar with the functions and techniques of lighting required for various types of TV programs.
3. Enable students to design effective lighting utilizing limited sources on location. 
4. Equip students with basic techniques to design effective lighting for meeting TV program requirements.

This course will enable students to have an overall view of screenplays – the definition of a screenplay, its essential elements, and how to write a screenplay. These are the three main objectives:

1. Students will understand the basic structure and elements of a screenplay.
2. Students will be able to research on their own and find suitable cases for analysis and report on them
3. Students are required to produce the major framework of a plot and detailed outlines of a screenplay.

By completing the above assignments in phases, students will progress from theory to practice to gain actual hands-on experience. Their understanding of theory can be applied to case studies and analysis, which inspires creativity that will be the basis for the detailed summary of a screenplay as the hand-in at the semester’s end.