Department of Public and Cultural Affairs:

1.    Train students to care for the cultures of different ethnic groups and help them develop the ability to participate in public affairs and analyze policies.

2.    Integrate local resources to train students to care for the environment and address social issues.

3.    Develop students’ awareness of cultural policies and the ability to participate in cultural affairs.

Master’s Program of Public Affairs:

1.    Discuss the development of different regions and their social and historical context in order to examine the position of eastern Taiwan in national policy and economic development.

2.    Participate in the formulation and implementation of regional policies and understanding Taiwan’s regional policies, regional development and the world we inhabit in a global and local context in an attempt to build a intersubjective discourse.

3.    Reflect on and criticize the core-oriented political and economic discourse on space from Taitung’s peripheral experience and design multi-dimensional regional policies and development models, in order to better understand and interpret Taitung’s position in regional development, development strategies, and historical background.

Master’s Program of Austronesian Studies

1.  Integrate comparative perspectives and historical contexts of Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and Oceania from the view of anthropology in order to master the holistic framework and basic knowledge in the study of Austronesian societies and cultures.

2.  Center on ethnographies and social-cultural theories, the curriculum design stresses regional comparisons and historical perspectives, connects archaeology and linguistics, and combines global, historical, regional, and local perspectives and concerns.

3.  Train talents to conduct research, teaching and social services related to Austronesian societies and cultures, in addition to explore the social and cultural phenomenon of Austronesian peoples in Taiwan and their challenges from a broader viewpoint and multicultural thinking.