Aiming to enhance students’ fundamental academic skills, critical thinking abilities, concepts of democracy, background in liberal arts, and physical fitness on the basis of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, I-Shou’s General Education Center Curriculum includes the following features:
 

The General Education Center curriculum includes required core courses of Chinese, English, History and Culture, and Chinese Constitution and Law as well as elective courses of liberal arts, social  science, natural sciences and technology, and life sciences.

To expand students’ interdisciplinary and multicultural experience and practice the well-rounded education, the General Education Center, adopting a team-teaching and well-organized approach, invites known specialists from a wide variety of fields to give students inspiring lectures based on their specialties.

The speakers of the program of General Education Lectures are famous specialists or scholars with strong theoretical and industrial backgrounds.

A wide variety of contests are held not only to give students opportunities to practice what they have
learned from the courses offered by the center, but to examine the effect of the General Education
Curriculum for future improvement.

General Education Passport functions in three different areas. First, library education is to encourage
students to utilize library resources. Second, attending at least eight art events or speeches is to inspire students to appreciate and hopefully cultivate their cultural experience for a life of peace and beauty. Third, before the senior year, all students are required to read two books from the recommended list of Chinese, English, History and Culture, and Chinese Constitution and Law.

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That Streaming Video allows faculty and students to download and watch the courses of distant education and the events held on campus is not to replace traditional classroom teaching, but to improve students’ backgrounds in liberal arts and sciences via a more convenient and diverse learning environment.

To motivate and upgrade faculty’s work in research, the General Education Center publishes the Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, twice a year, and hosts an annual international conference.

To update teachers’ backgrounds in theory and practice, several workshops related to teaching and learning are held every semester.