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Fu Jen Catholic University established department of mass communication. The department had offered three concentrations of study: Journalism…

Advanced Journalistic English

Advanced Journalistic English

This course aims to help students develop skills in understanding and analyzing English news articles, and to express personal opinions on certain news topics in English. In addition, students will gain hands-on…

Theories of Mass Communication

Theories of Mass Communication

Media is a crucial mechanism in modern and postmodern society that not only leads structural transformation but also causes a number of problems. Divided into five sections based on the “SMCRA” model of communication…

Advanced News Reporting and Writing

Advanced News Reporting and Writing

This course focus on in-depth reporting, visualization & reviewing a subject or general feature to create an archive or special content for website more compressive, accessible, and well structured, such…

Sport and Media

Sport and Media

This course begins from the concepts of sport industry, making students understand not only the connotation of sport media but the marketing skills. Also, students will learn the knowledge and methods of sport news editing and reporting. Furthermore, students…

Research Methods in Communication

Research Methods in Communication

The purpose of this course aims to help students understand fundamental methods and steps to conduct media- and communication-related research projects. At the same time, students will be able to practice to…

Documentary and Narrative Storytelling

Documentary and Narrative Storytelling

This course aims to encourage students to learn by doing, both theoretically and practically. It is designed to make students know about various types and the development of documentary in depth. Besides learning “how to…

Digital Communication

Digital Communication

This course will introduce the technology application in news media, such as ideas organizing, learning and sharing. In addition, this course encourages students’ work publishing and developing projects which are going to change societies.

Audience Analysis and Media Criticism

Audience Analysis and Media Criticism

Every actor of modern society should be a reflective subject; every audience of mass media should be a critical subject. In this class, we will discuss topics including 1) the representation of social…

Interpersonal Communication

Interpersonal Communication

This course aims to familiarize students with the rationale for interpersonal communication by analyzing the sensational needs, orientation, contexts and barriers during the communication process.

Journalistic English

Journalistic English

This course aims to help students develop skills in reading, listening, and analyzing English news articles and to express personal opinions on certain news topics in English. Students are encouraged to look for the background information of…

General Semantics

General Semantics

After taking this course, students are empowered to verbalize the origin, representative scholars, main ideas and interdisciplinary applications of semantics.

Documentary Photography

Documentary Photography

This is an advanced photography course that aims to train students to plan and do a project individually. The focus of this course is to finish a visual in-depth report, and inculcates students the production concept called “a body of…

Photojournalism

Photojournalism

This course introduces learners the practical skills for photojournalism in aspects of newspaper, magazine and television. It includes the criteria of selecting appropriate photographs, the angles of taking a shot based on photojournalism, and the techniques in photographic laboratories.

Digital Images of Journalism

Digital Images of Journalism

Television journalism manly focuses on images while taking voice-overs and texts as a subsidiary, which is entirely different from print journalism. Therefore, the prior training for TV journalists is to understand images and video recording.

Radio News and Program Production

Radio News and Program Production

This course encompasses the ecology of radio news and the practical production. Through knowing about the development and discipline of radio news, students are able to cultivate and improve both their wiring and reporting skills for radio news.

Introduction to Criminal Law

Introduction to Criminal Law

The purpose of this course is to give students an opportunity to know about criminal law, the body of law that relates to crime, inclusive of general principles and kinds of offense.

Journalism

Journalism

Serving as an introduction for advanced courses, this class will focus on journalistic professionalism and practices of the news media. At the end of the semester, students will:

• Understand the history of journalistic practice;

Introduction to Public Relations

Introduction to Public Relations

This course gives learners a brief introduction to public relations, including the origin, basic elements, development and the current situation. From the angle of “management,” this course discusses theoretical…

Principles of Speech Communication

Principles of Speech Communication

This course will introduce basic concepts and principles of speech communication, including the communication process, the interaction between speakers and listeners, the verbal and non-verbal applications to speech communication, and skills and actual drills.

Professional Ethics of Communication

Professional Ethics of Communication

This course focus on the controversies in media ethics, especially the ever changing trends in mass communications, growing concerns about ethics, spectacular developments in the technology, and the…

History of Domestic Press

History of Domestic Press

The course will introduce the history of domestic press from the end of 19th century to analyze the influence and background of press industries and news issues.

Public Relations Strategy & Planning

Public Relations Strategy & Planning

This course combines public relation theories with practical skills, and it examines public relations strategies from formulation to execution, inclusive of data collection, SWOT analysis, public relations strategy formulation, execution and effect evaluation.

Economics

Economics

This course prides a format for students to know about general principles and practices on economics by explaining profound theories in simple language, including law of demand and supply, equilibrium analysis, price elasticity, effect and consumer choice, production cost, Keynesian model, monetary…

TV News Production

TV News Production

This course is a survey of practice in all phases of TV news production. After learning about the theories, students are able to experience the production process in person and undergo the potential problems by practices.

The Western History of Communication

The Western History of Communication

There are three faces which consisted of the Western modern hegemony and civilization. Firstly, it began with Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg on…

Seminar on European Studies

Seminar on European Studies
In this course, we will study the core concepts, processes, and issues of the European Union. Through lectures and discussions, this course will help students to think critically with an independent working mind and research capability. Comparative…

Digital Publishing and Design

Digital Publishing and Design

This course not only trains students to do composing for print media and to map layouts for visual design and textual design, but also makes learners understand the differences between computerized editing and traditional publishing.

Picture Editing

Picture Editing

This course aims to introduce principles and practices on picture editing, including consideration for photojournalism feeds and techniques. Students are able to make use of one single picture to create diverse meanings of contents and forms by different…

Principles and Production of Elec Media

Principles and Production of Elec Media

In this course, students will be expected to find a topic from the Internet and the media society to prepare an academic report. Then, transform the report into the script of a documentary film…

Media Marketing and Advertising Strategy

Media Marketing and Advertising Strategy

This course will introduce the concepts, tools and procedures of marketing management. We will then apply the framework to the media industry, assisting students in understanding how to run a…

News Reporting and Writing

News Reporting and Writing

The course is aiming at introducing the aspiration of news value, the different kinds of news sources and writing structure as well as the fundamental criteria of news gathering.

Principle and Practicum of Photography

Principle and Practicum of Photography

The purpose of this course is to strengthen students’ basic skill of photography. In the beginning of this course, students are going to gained more knowledge of the history of photography. Then…

Gender Roles and Communication

Gender Roles and Communication

This course will discuss how stereotypes of gender roles are developed through history and how such stereotypes affect our communication behavior. The developments of gender-roles stereotypes will be examined from…

Political Science

Political Science

Many ink has been split over the question of whether ,or in what sense ,the study politics is or is not truly a science. This course aims at some basic ideas and goals are to boost the freshmen and the senior students could get intellectual grasp of…

Media Workshop-Vita News

Media Workshop-Vita News

This course inquires students to run an internet experimental media called Vita.tw. In class, students are required to interview social innovation stories and edit news through online instrument.

Cultural Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology

This course will expose students to the disciplinary history, research topics and methods in field study of cultural anthropology. The study focus is originated from the cultures created by human beings and their relationships. The purpose of…

Introduction to Civil Law

Introduction to Civil Law

This course will focus on case studies and interpretation of the jurisprudence, inclusive of general principles of civil law, kinds of obligations, property, family and succession.

Media Literacy

Media Literacy

Media have play an inseparable role in our daily life. We learn to see the world through a variety of media, such as newspapers, TV programs, movies, internet, etc. Media influence how we view ourselves and the world, and how we perceive social, cultural…

Sociology

Sociology

Social phenomenon and events usually contain deep and structural implications. Sociology helps journalists develop the ability to think critically, to understand structural problems in modern and postmodern society, and to cultivate the essential quality of humanity. The course will:

Media Workshop-Xinzhuang Report

Media Workshop-Xinzhuang Report

Media workshop publishes a local newspaper “Xinzhuang Report” for probationary teaching. The core of this course is going to integrate and apply the skills of students’ learning from lower grade, such as news…

Psychology

Psychology

This course is designed to provide students with basic understanding of psychology. It aims to introduce several key themes of psychology, such as psychological basis, perception, learning psychology, development of body and mind, individual differences, motives and…

News Editing

News Editing

Students will learn the theory and practice of news editing, content curation which include media planning, information selection, guided reading, headline writing, newspaper and website design, image processing and connection sharing.

Editorial and Critical Writing

Editorial and Critical Writing
This course will interpret the writing methods of editorials and the knowledge and interest to write a news review in order to enhance the analyzing and reporting abilities of issues into a higher level.

Digital Convergence and Media Management

Digital Convergence and Media Management

This course will primarily discover the current trends of digital convergence and the connotation of media management. In this course, students will do case studies toward the development and…

Media marketing and advertising

Media marketing and advertising

This course will introduce the concepts, tools and procedures of marketing management. We will then apply the framework to the media industry, assisting students in understanding how to run a marketing project and in…

Communication Statistics

Communication Statistics

This course puts emphasis on how to apply statistics to communication studies. Students will undergo practical training by leaning the software, such as SPSS and SAS.

Internship

Internship

This course guides students into the media work institutions through having internship. Throughout this process, students can figure out problems in media industry and develop personal strengths and evaluate career path in the future.