With very few exceptions, almost all of the departments have undergraduate programs, master programs as well as doctoral programs. Based on the educational goals enshrined within each department, these departments share the following three goals:

1. to train students to teach in secondary schools,

2. to enable students to manage educational administration work, and
3. to instruct students to conduct research in education.

The Department was founded in 1955. Beginning from their sophomore year, undergraduate students should take one of the three sub-fields: social work, library and information science, and journalism. Each of the fields emphasizes on the study of the theoretical and practical studies of social work integrated into in communities, library use and library management methods, and news reporting, editing and media management.

The major objectives of the graduate program are to prepare professionals, project designers, and administrative personnel in the field of adult and continuing education. The research activities of the department focus on four fields: distance education, gender education, community education, and cultural studies.

The undergraduate program aims at training secondary school teachers in one of the following fields: civic and moral education, the Three Principles of the People, scouting education, social science and student affairs. The curriculum emphasizes on ethics, moral education, social studies, scouting and leisure education and student affairs.

The Department was established in 1946 as one of the first academic Departments of the University, and its graduate program started in 1954.

In view of Taiwanese multi-cultural environment and the ideals to reach excellence in education, the department has developed a curriculum that emphasizes on the integration of educational theories and practice, the incorporation of educational principles and methods, and the cultivation of professional dispositions.

The graduate students are encouraged to undertake systematic studies in Chinese and Western philosophies of education with their practical applications, educational psychology, educational sociology, educational administration, and history of education.

The Department was established in 1957, and began its master program in 1979 and doctoral program in 1987. With the purpose of training our students to be school counselors, the Department offers courses and conducts research programs related to educational psychology, guidance, testing and measurement; provides services for individuals and organizations that need assistance in guidance and counseling; offers in-service training programs in counseling for elementary and secondary school teachers; and supervises guidance and counseling programs in educational and industrial organizations nationwide.

Courses offered by the Department include theory and application of educational psychology, counseling, testing, measurement and statistics.

school health education, public health education, and health education curriculum. Various research projects on topics of health education curriculum and school health are carried out cooperatively with institutions concerned.

The master and doctoral programs were established in 1980 and 1993 respectively, for the following goals:

　1. to prepare health education teachers for universities and colleges,

　2. to train professional health education researchers, and

　3. to train public health education administrators.

The Department has four curricular foci, which are interrelated elements for the well-being of an individual and his/her family. The four curricula include home economics education, family and young children, foods and nutrition, and textiles and clothing. Because the goal of the curricula is to set for practicum, a restaurant, a household, a preschool center, handicrafts workshops, nutrition laboratories, and cooperative secondary schools are established facilities where students apply their classroom learning.

Both undergraduate and graduate programs are offered.

The Department was established in 1985, with the master program started in 1991, and the Ph.D. program in 1997.

The undergraduate program is computer science oriented. Undergraduate students who are interested in becoming secondary school teachers can take teacher qualification courses in the university.

The graduate (the master and the doctoral ) program has two concentrations. One is computer science, focusing research on image processing, algorithms, computer vision, and parallel processing. The other is computer science education, focusing research on the teaching and learning of computer knowledge and skills. Research in computer-assisted learning/teaching is also one of the concentrations.

The Department was established in 1946, with the purpose of training physical educators, sport administrators, coaches, and exercise science researchers. The undergraduate program offers B. Ed. degree in Physical Education, which emphasizes on both fundamental and practical training in the field of exercise and sport. Students enrolled in the M. Ed. program or the Ph.D. program select one of the following programs as their specialization.

1. Sport Science: the study of kinesiological variables that contribute to human and athletic optimal performance.

2. Sport Pedagogy: the study of critical variables influencing effective instruction in physical education.

3. Humanity and Liberal Arts in Physical Activity: the study of the organization, management, philosophy, and social dynamics in physical activity.

The original Department of Special Education was established as a graduate institute in 1986. The undergraduate program started in 1989 and doctoral program in 1992. The primary goals of the Department include training teachers of special education, conducting academic research, and providing community services.

The undergraduate program aims at training special education professionals. Five sub-fields are included in the undergraduate program: education for mild handicap, severe handicap, hearing impairment, visual impairment, and giftedness. The master program is designed to prepare special education instructors, and the doctoral program mainly trains college instructors, special education administrators, and academic researchers.

The main goal of our graduate programs is to prepare professionals and teachers of "The Thoughts of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen" in colleges and universities. Graduate programs have master and doctoral programs. The doctoral program was established in 1989.

　Graduate Institute of Mass Communication

Due to its being newly established at our University, the Institute tries very hard to integrate several disciplines as its future academic domain. The Marketing Communication will be the focus and covers social marketing, political marketing and media marketing. Besides, to train journalist of various professional fields for graduate students on the campus are still one of the basic purposes of the Institute.