International Student Admissions

Required Documents / Application Procedure / Deadline 

Application for International Students

Accept Fall semester applicants only.

International Students / Office of International Affairs

Mission :

Globalization of economy, culture, and society has modified Earth’s  life-support systems. Deterioration in ecosystem services, the benefits that society receives from the ecosystems, is so drastic that cross-disciplinary collaboration is required to address many pressing environmental problems. A new program at NDHU has been proposed at NDHU to promote “Integrative Sciences”- a new approach to ecological studies that seeks to combine insights, perspectives, and methods from the conventional sciences with those of indigenous ecological knowledge (IEK). The program offers a graduate curriculum for training students in both conventional scientific and indigenous traditional natural resource-use management methods and concepts and foster the development of understanding amongst scholars and practitioners of the applied sciences, the social sciences, and IEK.  It will cultivate an  attitude of respect towards the rest of the natural world and responsibility for the ecological, social and cultural consequences of its ongoingdegradation.

Graduate Degree Program:

The aim of the graduate curriculum offered by the Institute for the Study of Humanity in Nature and defined through active collaboration between the College of Environmental Studies and the College of Indigenous Studies is to provide an understanding ofenvironment/society integration and interaction from both indigenous and conventional scientific points of view.  The program will provide a solid grounding in the comparative strengths and potential synergies of indigenous and conventionally scientific ways of knowing.  It will provide Taiwanese and international students with the requisite skills, and help to develop the attitudes , that will enable them to participate in the effective co-management of natural resources among indigenous peoples, local communities andthe state.

Course Requirement:

Minimal Total Credits：25 credits

Required Courses：16 credits

Elective Courses：9 credits

 Required Courses

* Seminar (two credit hours each): Students should take seminar twice and are limited to one seminar course each semester.

   ** Independent Study (two credit hours each): Students should take Independent Study three times and are limited to one course ofIndependent study each semester.

  Elective Courses 

                                                Faculty

For further information

please  contact Prof. Jolan Hsieh (jolan@mail.ndhu.edu.tw)or Li-Li Lee (lily@mail.ndhu.edu.tw)

No. 1, Sec. 2, Da Hsueh Rd., Shoufeng, Hualien 97401,Taiwan, R.O.C.

Phone : +886-3-8635801, FAX: +886-3-8633260