Introduction Our department has geographic professional curriculums that belong to Teaching Staff Incubation Division, Program of Environmental Monitoring and Disaster Mitigation that are well operated and in good interaction with international society, Program of Regional and Recreation Planning and Program of Spatial Information. In teaching aspect, many advanced research results have been included as teaching materials to cover all kinds of geographic concepts and technologies; generally, the students graduated from this department will have very complete geographic knowledge and will have the capability to use all kinds of geographic concepts and skills to do research, teaching or other professional jobs. In addition, this department has an evaluation system from the student to reflect teacher’s teaching status right away, and teachers can improve their teaching way or content based on this. Research Fields The development goal of this department is to incubate professional human resource for geographic research and for geographic teaching staff in high schools, to train environmental monitoring and prevent disaster, to perform territory planning and to study the GIS design and application as well as to incubate professional human resources in tourism and recreation theory and practice. |
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Courses Students paying for their own tuition must complete at least 128 units. The units should include: a. Undergraduate
Other information This department has very frequent academic activities. Starting from 1997, it held ”Taiwan’s geography academic forum” each year; it also encouraged aggressively teachers and graduate students to go abroad to attend international academic meeting, to lecture and to attend research activities, etc.; it recruited aggressively internationally recognized scholars to visit this department and to make a speech.
Teachers There are 26 full-time teachers in our department, including 10 professors, 13 associate professors, 3 assistant professors. |
Professors
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| Yat-Man Yau | Ph.D.,National Taiwan Normal University, ROC |
1. Climatology 2. Environmental Education 3. Quantitative Geography 4. Environmental Science 5. China Geography |
1. Climatology 2. China Climate 3. Taiwan Climate 4. Geographic Statistic 5. Quantitative Geography 6. Eco-geology 7. Environmental Protection Education 8. General Geography 9. China Geography |
| Kuo-Chuan Chen | Ph. D.,National Taiwan Normal University, ROC |
1. Regional Geography 2. Geographical Education 3. Economic Geography |
1. Regional Geography 2. Economic Geography 3. Teaching Methods in Geography 4. Geography Teaching Practices 5. Research in Regional Geography |
| Chao-Yang Pan | Ph. D.,National Taiwan Normal University, ROC |
1. Thought of Geographical Environmental 2. Regional Study About Thought 3. Cultural Geography 4. Geography of Religion 5. Taiwan Geography |
1. Taiwan Geography 2. Cultural Geography 3. Geographic Thought 4. Theory of Space 5. Geography of Religion |
| Shew-Jiuan Blanka Su | Ph.D.,Louisiana State University |
1. Development Geography 2. Urban Geography 3. Economic Geography 4. Demand Analysis |
1. Space and Society 2. Development Geography 3. Glocalization and Geography 4. Studies on Urban Geography 5. Special Issues on Taiwan’s Geographical Studies |
| Su-Hsin Lee | Ph. D., Pennsylvania State University, USA |
1. Environment planning 2. Landscape Architecture 3. Tourism Geography 4. Culture Landscape 5. Gender & Geography 6.Environment and Behavior studies |
1. Site Planning 2. National Park and World Heritage 3. Urban Design and Urban Regeneration 4. Recreational Resource Management 5. Resources and Regional Planning 6. Environmental Planning and Management 7. Studies in Tourism and Recreation Geography |
| Chung-ling Ouyang | Ph.D.,National Taiwan Normal University, ROC |
1. Medical Geography 2. Geographical Education 3. Asia-Pacific Geography 4. Behavior Geography |
1. Asia/Pacific Geography 2. Special Topics in Population Geography 3. Geographical Education Theories & Practices 4. Behavior Geography 5. Medical Geography 6. Course Design in Geography Teaching |
| Shyue-Cherng Liaw | Ph.D.,Colorado State University, USA |
1. Hydrology 2. Ecology 3. Physical Geography 4. Environmental Conservation |
1. Natural Resources Conservation 2. America Geography 3. Studies in Taiwan’s Physical Geography 4. Environmental Conservation Education 5. Studies in Hydrology 6. Landscape Ecology |
| Hsueh-Mei Lin | Ph.D.,National Taiwan Normal University, ROC |
1. Physical Geography 2. Geomorphology 3. China Geography |
1. Geomorphology 2. Coastal Analysis 3. Natural Disasters 4. Chinese Geomorphology 5. Perspectives in Contemporary China 6. Special Topics in Earth Science 7. Landscape Investigation & Planning |
| Nae-Wen Kuo | Ph. D., National Taiwan University, ROC | 1. Environmental Planning and Management 2. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA, SEA, HIA) 3. Industrial Ecology (MFA, LCA) 4. Sustainable Tourism Management 5. Ecotourism |
1. Environmental Impact Assessment 2. Applied Ecology 3. Environmental Geography 4. Environmental Planning 5. Ecotourism 6.Sustainable Tourism Management 7. Ecological Engineering |
| Sheng-Chin Lin | Ph.D.,National Taiwan Normal University, ROC |
1. Settlement Geography 2. Taiwan Geography 3. Hometown Education 4. Historical Geography |
1. China Geography 2. Hometown Education 3. Rural Geography 4. Taiwan Geography 5. Settlement Geography 6. Cultural Geography 7. Historical Geography 8. Geography of China 9. Special Topics in Human Geography of Taiwan 10. Studies in Taiwan Human Geography |
Associate Professors
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| Hsueh-Cheng Chou | Ph. D.,State University of New York at Buffalo, USA |
1. Geographic Information Systems 2. Market Geography 3. Computer-aided Instruction |
1. Special Topics in Economic Geography 2. GIS Introduction & Analysis 3. Computer Network Applied in Geography 4. Marketing Geography 5. Market-location Analysis |
| Kuo-Chen Chang | Ph.D.,University of Minnesota, USA |
1. GIS Theories & Applied GIS 2. Remote Sensing 3. Database & Digital Photo Processing 4. Decision-Making Methods 5. Human Intelligent and the Expert System 6. Spatial Modeling & Analysis 7. Urban & Regional Planning 8. Computer-aided Cartography |
1. Remote Sensing 2. Applied GIS 3. Satellite Image Analysis 4. Geographic Statistics 5. Urban GIS 6. Decision-making in Geography 7. Digital Terrain Analysis 8. Digital Image Processing 9. Aerial Photo Interpretation |
| Su-Min Shen | Ph.D.,University College, Univ. of London, UK |
1. Geomorphology 2. Coastal Environments 3. Natural Hazards 4. Sediments Transportation 5. Geography Education 6. Environmental Problems In Developing Countries |
1. Geomorphology 2. Geomorphology in Taiwan 3. Literature Reviews in Geography 4. Research Methods in Physical Geography 5. Fieldwork in Geography 6. Asia/Pacific Geography |
| Jinn-Shii Wu | Ph.D.,National Taiwan Normal University, ROC |
1. Taiwan Geography 2. Hometown Geographical Education 3. Teaching Methods in Geography 4. Geography Teaching Practices |
1. Taiwan Geography 2. Hometown Geographical Education 3. Teaching Methods in Geography 4. Geography Teaching Practices |
| Che-Ming Chen | Ph.D.,Univ. of Utah, USA |
1. Remote Sensing 2. GIS 3. Multimedia-aided in Geography Teaching Methods 4. Field Spectra of Urban Surface Materials |
1. Spatial Analysis 2. Geographic Data Processing 3. Map Interpretation 4. Quantitative Geography 5. Hyper spectral Remote Sensing 6. Computer-aided Instruction in Geographical Education |
| Ming-Huey Wang | Ph.D.,National Taiwan Normal University, ROC |
1. Social Geography 2. Ethon-development of Tsou - a Taiwan Aborigines |
1. Social Geography 2. Community Planning 3. Ethno-development of Taiwan Aborigines 4. World Geography |
| Yen-Tsao Wei | Ph.D.,National Taiwan Normal University, ROC |
1. Fieldwork in Geography 2. Hydrology 3. Soil & Water Conservation 4. Hometown Education |
1. Fieldwork in Geography 2. Hydrology 3. Soil & Water Conservation 4. Hometown Education |
| Chang Chun Chia | Ph.D.,Universite de paris-sorbonne，ParisⅣ |
1. Europe geography 2. Taiwan geography 3. World geography 4. Economic geography 5. Gobalization theory |
1. Europe geography 2. Taiwan geography 3. World geography 4. Economic geography 5. Gobalization theory |
| Hung-Jen Tan | Ph. D.,The University of Sheffield, England |
1. Political Geography 2. Community Development 3. Urban Planning 4. Public Participation |
1. Political Geography 2. Geographic Methodology 3. Special Topics in Cultural Geography 4. Literature Reviews in Geography 5. Theories in Economic Development |
| Cheng-Chong Wu | Ph. D.,London School of Economics and Political Science ( LSE) |
1. Urban, Gender & Cultural Studies 2.Geography of Everyday Life 3. Planning for Livelihood Studies |
1. Studies in Taiwan Human Geography 2. Researches in Human Geography |
| Wen-Cheng Wang | PhD, University of Manchester, School of Planning and Landscape, UK | 1. Economic Geography 2. Industrial Geography 3. Planning |
1. Regional economic development 2. Industrial Geography |
| Shu-Ping WENG | Ph. D. Iowa State University, USA | 1. world Climatology 2. asian Climatology 3. climate changing 4. global climate changing 5. Oceanography |
1. world Climatology 2. asian Climatology 3. climate changing 4. global climate changing 5. Oceanography |
| Chih-wen Hung | Ph.D. University of California, Los Angles, USA | Climate, Asian-Australian Monsoon, ITCZ, History of Meteorology, History of Railways, Geography of Transportation | 1. Applied Climatology 2. Climatology of Taiwan 3. Railway and Tourism Environmental Risk Management |
Assistant Professors
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| Tsung-Yi Lin | Ph.D.,Duke University,USA |
1.Geomorphology 2.Coastal Geology 3.Oceanography 4.Sedimentology |
1. Geomorphology 2. Sedimentology 3. Fluvial/Coastal Geography 4. Engineering Geomorphology 5. Environmental Geography |
| Jia-En Sheu | PhD, University of Aberdeen, UK | 1.Biogeography 2. Environmental Science 3.Environmental Science |
1.Biogeography 2.Environmental Ecology 3.Geographic Information Systems 4.Natural Conservation |
| Sendo Wang |
Ph.D., Department of Geomatics, National Cheng Kung University |
1.3D Cyber City Modeling 2.Photogrammetry 3.Remote Sensing 4.Geographic Information Science 5. Digital Cartography |
1. Elementary Surveying 2. Field Surveying Practice 3. Geographic Information System 4. Geographic Information Technology 5. Aerial Photogrammetry 6. 3D Cyber City Modeling |
No. 162, East Hoping Road, Section 1, Taipei 10610, Taiwan, R.O.C.
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