INTRODUCTION OF THE DEPARTMENT

The Department of Fine Arts at Chinese Culture University was founded in 1963, and was one of the earliest and most famous art departments in Taiwan, along with the Department of Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University and the Department of Fine Arts at National Taiwan University of Arts. Founded in 1962. Chinese Culture University’s Art Department of the Graduate Institute of Fine Arts is the earliest art department to be founded and also the predecessor of our MA program. The Department of Fine Arts at Chinese Culture University has a long history and a great number of talented students who have achieved outstanding things in their artworks, in their pursuit of further education, and in their careers, earning the department great renown. The department has a five-year BA-plus-MA program to provide a channel for outstanding students to continue their studies in the department’s master’s program.

FEATURES OF TEACHING

The department has long upheld a liberal, open, diversified and practical mindset when it comes to education, and adhered to the concept of “balancing creativity and theory, and integrating modernity and application”. To facilitate our teaching philosophy and help students meet employment requirements, the department adopted a professional teaching approach with three pathways for design, Western painting, and Chinese painting and calligraphy. Through creation, exhibition, observation and discussion, our program effectively realizes the integration of theory and practice, tradition and modernity, and Chinese and Western art education.