Current Status

College Overview

College Overview The College of Foreign Languages and Literatures (CFLL) currently comprises six departments and one undergraduate program: English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, and the Bachelor's Program in International Communication and Technology Innovation (ICTI). Except for the Italian Department and the ICTI program, all departments offer Master's degrees. The Graduate Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies oversees the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature and Cross-Cultural Studies, as well as Master's programs in Linguistics, Translation Studies, and a Professional Master's Program in Translation Studies. The college also houses the Center for Japanese and East Asian Studies.

Faculty & Student Body:

  • Faculty: 70 full-time, 7 project-based, and 84 adjunct teachers.

  • Students: A total of 2,686 students (1,808 Undergraduate, 229 Master's, 35 Professional Master's, 39 Doctoral, and 575 Continuing Education students).

Interdisciplinary Programs: The college offers 6 credit programs and 3 micro-programs, ranging from International Creative Culture and Business Communication to Medical Translation and Diplomatic and International Affairs. It also publishes the annual Fu Jen Journal of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

Strategic Initiatives

In recent years, the college has focused on four key pillars:

1. Educational Technology: Innovating pedagogy through multimedia, distance and flipped-classroom teaching; using mobile phones, tablets, and project-based learning to promote mobile and self-directed learning, strengthening teacher–student interaction and student autonomy.

2. Practical & Hands-on Learning: * Programming:

  • Programming: Since 2020, "App Inventor 2 Mobile App Development" has been a required freshman general-education course, leading into the upper-level course "Programming and Game Applications."

  • Social Engagement:Internships: Departments offer industry internships (Japanese), self-directed learning internships (English/Spanish), seminar and internship courses (ICTI), service-learning and industry internships (Spanish), corporate ESG practicum (French), professional internships (Cross-Cultural Studies/Japanese/Medical Translation programs), and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language materials-design and teaching-practicum courses (Cross-Cultural Studies), integrating industry-academia collaboration, Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, and service learning.

3. Cross-Cultural × Interdisciplinary Learning — "Cross-cultural communication" is defined as the college's core professional competency, with "communication" broadly encompassing (cross-)language, media, and programming languages. Building on a strong cultural foundation, students are encouraged to pursue interdisciplinary learning, with interdisciplinary elective credits built into the curriculum to support a "second specialty."

4. Social Responsibility, Connecting with Rural Elementary Schools and Northern Taiwan High Schools — The college has extended its cross-cultural communication teaching to high schools in Taipei and New Taipei City, offering Advanced Placement (AP) second-foreign-language courses and the elective course "World Cinema and Global Literacy." Each year, faculty, students, and alumni teach at more than 30 high schools. The college also integrates professional training with service learning: faculty lead students in service at Xinzhuang Guotai Elementary School, or connect remotely with Hualien Taiping Elementary School.

A Brief History

Year Milestone
1925

Fu Jen Catholic University (FJCU) founded in Beijing by the American Benedictine Order.
1961 FJCU officially re-established in Taiwan.
1963 Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures established under the College of Liberal Arts, with English and German sections.
1964 French and Spanish sections added.
1966 Li-Tu Theatre founded.
1968 English, German, French, and Spanish sections elevated to four independent departments.
1969 Established the first Graduate School of Western Languages (MA) in Taiwan and the Department of Oriental Languages; a night-division English Department was also newly established.
1980 The first College of Foreign Languages and Literatures in Taiwan officially approved.
1988 Established the first Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation Studies in Taiwan.
1994 Established the first Ph.D. program in Comparative Literature in Taiwan.
1995 Established the first Department of Italian Language and Culture in Taiwan.
2010 Linguistics, Translation, and Comparative Literature institutes merged into the Graduate Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies.
2012 Center for Japanese Studies established.
2014 International Medical Translation Program established.
2019 International Creative Culture and Business Communication Program established.
2024 Bachelor's Program in International Communication and Technology Innovation (ICTI) launched.
2025 Established Micro-programs in International Communication & Social Practice and Intercultural Digital Marketing & Data Analysis.

 

 

 

 

2025 The Practical Professional English Digital Micro-Learning Program (Undergraduate) and the International Cultural and Creative and Business Communication Credit Program (Master's) have been discontinued.