Undergraduate Program:

1.       Public affairs and management

2.       Introduction to cultural anthropology

3.       Research methods in social science

4.       Cultural heritage and culture policies

5.       Social work

6.       Local governance

7.       The program of Global and local affairs

8.       The program of Social development

9.       The program of Ethnicity and Culture

Master’s Program of Public Affairs:

1.       Seminar on social economic history on Taiwan

2.       Seminar on eastern Taiwan studies

3.       Globalization and localization

4.       Urban and regional development

5.       Humanistic discourses on region

6.       Local development and government

7.       Geographical information system

8.       Public policy: theories and practices

Master’s Program of Austronesian Studies:

1.       Social and cultural anthropology

2.       Qualitative research methods

3.       General introduction to world Austronesian cultures

4.       Ethnographies of Taiwanese Austronesian peoples

5.       Theories of social and culture

6.       Topics in regional ethnographies

7.       Research topics: material culture studies, art and anthropology, ritual and performance, anthropology and museum, anthropology of religion, kinship, gender and culture, indigenous peoples and modern states, visual anthropology etc..

Future development

1.       Train students to increase their cultural awareness, pay attention to local issues and develop comparative perspectives on public affairs.

2.       Cooperate with universities and research institutes abroad by establishing student exchange programs and overseas studies programs in order to deepen students’ understanding of different cultures.

3.       Establish a regional research center to promote regional studies and international academic exchanges, in addition to cultivate talents for regional studies.

4.       Mobilize domestic resources, expand international cooperation, and establish our department as a bastion for training people in Austronesian studies. 5.       Establish doctoral programs, achieve our missions of organizing a think tank for the peripheral, training local talents, and engaging in social practices.