Current Status

Six Departments and One Graduate Institute

The College offers undergraduate and graduate (M.A.) programs in English, German, French, Spanish, and Japanese. A B.A. program in Italian is also available. The Graduate Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies offers a Ph.D. program in Comparative Literature, M.A. program in Linguistics, and M.A. programs for full time students and working professionals in Translation and Interpretation Studies.


Affiliate Programs

  • Program in Diplomacy and International Affairs
  • Program in International Medical Translation
  • Program inf Western Classical and Medieval Culture
  • English Elite Program
  • Program in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language
  • Program in Financial, Economic and Legal Translation

Centers

The College is also home to the Foreign Language Teaching Resource Center and the Center for Japan Studies.

Faculty and Student Body

The College has 86 full-time faculty members, 113 part-time instructors and 2715 students.

Brief History of College of Foreign Languages and Literatures

1963 Department of Foreign Languages established for undergraduate programs in English and German
1964

BA programs in French and Spanish opened

1966 CFL Theatre established
1968

English, German, French and Spanish divisions became independent departments

1969

Taiwan’s first Graduate Institute of Linguistics and the Department of Oriental Languages established

1972

Application for the establishment of the College of Foreign Languages submitted to the Ministry of Education by the departments of English, German, French, Spanish, Oriental Languages and the Graduate Institute of Linguistics

1975

Taiwan’s first Graduate Institute of German Language and Literature founded

1976 Graduate Institute of English Language and Literature established
1980 The Ministry of Education approved the founding of Taiwan’s first College of Foreign Languages
1982

Taiwan’s first Graduate Institute of Spanish Language and Literature established

1984

The Department of Oriental Languages renamed the Department of Japanese Language and Literature; Graduate Institute of French Language and Literature established

1988

Taiwan’s first Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation Studies founded

1993 Graduate Institute of Japanese Language and Literature founded
1994

Taiwan’s first Graduate Institute of Comparative Literature offering PhD program established

1995 The Ministry of Education approved the establishment of Taiwan’s first Department of Italian Language and Literature; students enrolled the following year (1996)
2002 Program of Western Classical and Medieval Culture created
2003 Program in Diplomacy and Program in Translation founded
2005

The Department of German Language renamed the Department of German Language and Literature

2008 English Elite Program established
2009 Program in Diplomacy renamed Program in Diplomacy and International Affairs; Program in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language established; Program in Financial, Economic and Legal Translation established
2010

Graduate Institute of Linguistics, Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation Studies and Graduate Institute of Comparative Literature integrated into the Graduate Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies

2012 Center for Japan Studies established
2014 Program in International Medical Translation established