Features
Our department aims at the cultivation of talents in international business for enterprises with an emphasis both on related theory and practice. As the trends of globalization flourish, enterprises in Taiwan become more and more internationalized, which intensifies the demand for managers with international visions and abilities to communicate in foreign languages. With well-organized course plans, we focus on the inculcation of international business management on the part of theory; we also put much emphasis on the forming of professional accomplishments on the practical operation part. With the enhancement of supplementary courses related to foreign languages and information science, we hope to train our students into specialists in international business. Thus, the features and pedagogic ideas of our department are as follows:
(1) Three domains of fields: Course design following the demand from the industry and career plans of the students: Considering the demand of the industry and career plans of the students, we work out three domains of field in the course design, which are international economics & banking, international enterprises & marketing, and international trade & regulations. Besides, we also offer a series of related courses in foreign languages and e-commerce. In terms of language courses, apart from Commercial English, we also offer second foreign languages such as Commercial Japanese and Commercial Korean. By so doing, we hope to promote the competitiveness of our students in international competitions.
(2) Teaching faculty with international and diverse backgrounds: All of our teaching faculty members have diverse experience in international affairs. Under the guidance of such faculty with international and diverse backgrounds, our students can not only get professional knowledge but also expand their international talents and global visions.
(3) Enhancement of practical experience for the students: In order to prepare our students for the practical requirements of the industry, we offer a series of courses in practical operations, including e-commerce, internet marketing, international business in practice, application to international economic information, etc. Moreover, in order to reinforce the interactions and connections between the industry and our students, we constantly hold extra-curriculum activities, such as visiting customs, sea transportation companies, and logistics companies, etc. Besides, we also have externship and internship arrangements at related companies for students on summer vacations.
(4) Abundant and diverse accesses to foreign language learning: In addition to a series of commercial English and ESP courses, our department also offers commercial Japanese and commercial Korean. For the practical practice of foreign languages, students can go to the well-equipped and all-time-open Learning Center of the library, where they can utilize the rich online resources in English and Japanese periodicals, CDs and DVDs, as well as practice tests in GEPT, TOEFL, and TOEIC.
(5) Professional laboratory: In order to strengthen students’ study of international business both in theory and practice, we integrated the original three laboratories with one International Business Simulation Lab in 2006, which functions in the following ways:
1. Simulation of International Economics in former Communist countries: Oriented in Taiwan, our economic research extends to five major areas of the former Communist countries, which include Russia, Mainland China, east European Union countries, Eastern Europe, and the Commonwealth of the Independent States. With the establishment of a database and the analysis of econometric models, the research can further investigate the dynamic developments of economics in these five areas, which makes our lab a featured research headquarters all around Taiwan.
2. E-Commerce: Although the present teaching facility of e-commerce in our department can only manage a single website and its virtual business, we have already added modules of “Virtual Web Banking System,” “Virtual Domain name Registration System,” and “Teaching Faculty Management System.” With these modules, teachers may set up a complete and fully-functioned e-commerce teaching system.
3. Multimedia Professional Teaching: Equipped with “Public Broadcasting System,” our computer classroom is the best for courses such as Seminar, E-Commerce, Commercial Information, etc. Besides, the equipped IB-cat e-learning assistant system can also enable the classroom with functions of remote communications, Cat-messenger and independent database, which allow teachers to set up their individual testing banks and maintain online courses and digital content.