Course Features
Course Features
Undergraduate Program
Beginning from 2018, we have 39 undergraduate students enroll in our department each year. The course framework is designed according to the musical instrument that is taught, and we also carry out training for all types of ensemble and band. These efforts are to help students acquire the ability to listen and communicate as a music professional. Our key program, not only emphasize on the cultivation of theory and history, but also stage performances, teaching methodologies, and practice. In recent years, we have also increased courses regarding the music industry and industrial collaborations, such as Theories of Music Therapy, Innovation and Operation for Music Industry, Interdisciplinary Performing Technique, Devised Theatre, Music and Drama Theatre, Introduction to Film Music, The Application of Pop music, etc. Our courses are designed to expand student’s field of interests and their ability to compete.
Graduate Program
Beginning from 2017, we have 21 graduate students enroll in our department each year. We divide these student into various discipline, such as music engineering, commercial music, Taiwan music, piano, vocal, string music, wind music, theory and composition. All disciplines have mutual compulsory courses, and each discipline has their own core and elective courses. Moreover, cross-disciplinary ciruculum design is also one of our unique learning features. Specialized courses are planned according to the student’s major, so aside from their advanced academic and performance learning, our students will cultivate abilities regarding music and technology, as well as combining different fields of expertise. We anticipate our graduate students to acquire the ability to listen, communicate, and research as a music professional.
Our department has currently established courses that connects our students to the market and daily life, for example, we have help build the Taoyuan, Hsinchu and Miaoli medical cooperation system for our Theories of Music Therapy course; we have also the Practical Piano Teaching and Career Management course that collaborates with music education institutes and elementary schools in the Hsinchu area to teach and train children to play the piano; as for the Music and Drama Theatre courses, we have cooperated with directors, stage lighting technicians, fashion designers, etc. In the near future, we will focus on the science and engineering resources at Tsing Hua University as our base and develop experimental courses that integrates music and technology, hopefully this will bring unique features into the field of music. Our department will continue to organize performances and lectures for the “Art engaging in community, music engaging in our daily lives” project. We anticipate to employ the foundation of Tsing Hua and inject resources that can enhance international exchange, such as inviting more artists to do artist-in-resident projects, increase the number of international exchange students, and develop more international industry-academia collaboration opportunities. These efforts and made to expand the international platforms as much as possible for our teachers and students.