Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures

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Overview
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) boasts outstanding performance in the fields of science, technology, and management. In recognition of the important role of liberal arts in the development of technology and the essential role of language in the flow of information, the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (NYCU FL) was established in August 1994. As the first and only department in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences with an undergraduate program, we aim to contribute to the broad mission of the university to enhance the integration of technology and humanities through teaching and research.

Graduate Program
The Graduate Institute of Cultural Studies and Linguistics was launched in 2000 with two areas of concentration: Literature and Linguistics. Our graduate program offers in-depth coursework and academic research opportunities that build on the foundational training in linguistics and literature analyses offered in undergraduate programs. Our overarching goals are to continue to nurture students’ critical reasoning and linguistic competence beyond the undergraduate level and to empower future professionals to contribute to their chosen fields of expertise.
By bringing together theory and practice, The Graduate Institute of Linguistics places special emphasis on cultivating the critical thinking skills and analytic tools necessary for linguistic research. Our fields of research span an extensive range of subareas in linguistics including phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, and language acquisition. In addition, we pursue interdisciplinary research at the interfaces between phonetics and phonology and syntax and semantics.
The Graduate Institute of Literature originally focused on cultural studies with an emphasis on the interdisciplinary and creative nature of humanities research. In recent years, the research interests of the Institute have broadened to include literary criticism and film studies, as well as their interfaces with literary works, visual texts, and diverse cultural phenomena.

Websitehttps://fl.nycu.edu.tw/en/