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Master's Program (English-taught) on Natural Resources and Environmental Studies

Master of Humanity and Environmental Science Program

Master's Program(English-taught) on Natural Resources and Environmental Studies

International Student Admissions

Required Documents / Application Procedure / Deadline

Application for International Students

Accept Fall semester applicants only.

Course Requirements of the International Graduate Program in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies (hereafter “the NRES international program”), National Dong Hwa University

1. All students must fulfill the following requirements for graduation:

Each student must complete at least 24 credit hours of all-English-taught courses at the graduate level, including 9 compulsory and 15 elective credit hours. The details of course registration are described in points 2 and 3.
Each student must complete a thesis and meet the requirements for thesis submission set by National Dong Hwa University.
Each student must hold an oral defense for the thesis in front of a thesis committee with at least three members.
The maximum number of credits excepting Chinese Language Courses for each semester is 12 credits.

2. Compulsory courses are described below:

Seminar coursesⅠ. Ⅱ and Ⅲ (one credit hour each ): Students should take seminar Ⅰ. Ⅱ and Ⅲ sequentially and are limited to one seminar course each semester.
Directed study I and II (one credit hour each): Students should take directed study I and II sequentially and are limited to one course of directed study each semester.
Thesis research I and II (two credit hours each): Students should take thesis research I and II sequentially and are limited to one thesis course each semester.
Credits for the above courses are earned only for courses in which a grade of B- or higher is received.

3. Students should satisfy the requirements for elective courses with the following regulations:

Students must earn 9 credit hours from the elective courses offered as core courses in the NRES international program.
Students may take graduate-level, English-taught courses offered within or outside the NRES international program to satisfy the six remaining elective credit hours. However, each student must obtain approval from his/her advisor and the chairperson of the department prior to the inclusion of courses provided outside the NRES international program as graduation requirement.
Credits for the above courses are earned only for courses in which a grade of B- or higher is received.

Master of Humanity and Environmental Science Program

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.