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The amount of flexibility you have when choosing courses will depend on the program's Academic Guideline and Course Requirements. Read them all and and ensure you stay on track to complete your degree on time and with ease.

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This program requires a minimum of 27credits to graduate, including 15 credits of compulsory courses and 12 credits of electives. Here's a list of the program structure:

What you'll study

Code: IS__D0010

Credit: 3.0

Exploring Taiwan Indigenous Peoples’ contemporary issues through social, economic, political, educational, and social welfare perspectives. Understanding global indigenous issues through Taiwan's contemporary indigenous cultures and social conditions.
Code: IS__D1040

Credit: 3.0

The course provides diverse skills, values and knowledge from policy evaluation, social impact assessment, social research, to communication, and cross-cultural awareness. Students are also guided in developing a strong ethical compass to understand and respond to critical social issues. This course will empower you with practical and transferrable skills to address social issues.
Code: IS__@0030

Credit: 3.0

Code: IS__@0010

Credit: 3.0

Code: IS__@0020

Credit: 3.0
Code: IS__D1010

Credit: 3.0

This course aims to provide students with some basic and main topics on indigenous languages in general. We will focus on some aspects of indigenous language endangerment, language vitality, language documentation and language revitalization especially the three aspects of language planning including status planning, corpus planning and acquisition planning. By the end of the class, students are expected not only to know the specific topics covered in this course, but also to be able to apply what you have learned to specific endangered languages you care in mind.
Code: IS__@0040

Credit: 3.0

Code: IS__@0050

Credit: 3.0

Code: IS__@0060

Credit: 3.0

Code: IS__D1020

Credit: 3.0

Code: IS__@0070

Credit: 3.0

Code: IS__@0080

Credit: 3.0

Code: IS__@0090

Credit: 3.0

Code: IS__@0100

Credit: 3.0

Code: IS__D1050

Credit: 3.0

This course focuses on the indigenous peoples and cultures of Native North America. It addresses two basic questions: first, what does it mean to be Native American?, and who gets to decide? We will investigate the primary markers of Indian identity (biology, culture, and self-identification) as they apply to a sampling of three tribal groups: the Cherokees, the Lumbees, and the Pequots. Students will assess the roles that stereotypes, biological and cultural interaction with non-Indians, and urbanization have had on Indian identity, and appreciate the richness and complexity of Native American life as it was and continues to be lived in diverse ways and in different places in North America.

Code: IS__@0110

Credit: 3.0

Code: IS__D1060

Credit: 3.0

Depictions of Indigenous peoples have become increasingly common in Taiwanese popular films, tv shows, and other media. This course seeks to explore the story behind these on screen representations through history, ethnography, critical theory, and by watching and analyzing these works of popular culture directly. In doing so, the students will be introduced to the Indigenous Taiwanese history and culture, while also being taught how to interpret and understand each of these varied kinds of visual and textual materials. Most importantly, the class will tackle the question of historical memory and what such cultural texts say about the present moment.

Code: IS__D1030

Credit: 3.0

This course provides the opportunity for students to explore the impacts of tourism on indigenous peoples and the economic, social, cultural, environmental, and political motivations that encourage indigenous peoples to engage in tourism. It provides alternative insights into tourism as a social and cultural phenomenon by examining tourism from a different worldview. Themes of the tourist gaze, authenticity, identity, consumption, and pilgrimage will be considered throughout the semester. Students will be provided with opportunities to take a field trip and explore Taiwanese aboriginal arts, culture, events, and foods.

Credit Waiver

If you've taken a similar class before, you may be able to waive the credit for that class. Here's what you need to do:

Follow NDHU's Credit Waiver Policy for relevant matters.
You can take up to 6 credits of electives at the doctoral or master level in other departments at NDHU or at another university in Taiwan if the Program Affairs Committee approves. Courses offered by an in-service graduate program won't count as professional electives.
Download the recognition form from the NDHU credit waiver system.
Submit the form to the Program Office by following the academic calendar for each semester.

* Some policies may have different terminologies for referring to a credit waiver, but they all have the same meaning.