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History & Introduction
The Chinese Music Department
Established as “the Department of Chinese Music of National Taiwan School of Arts” in 1971, the Chinese Music Department of National Taiwan University of Arts，NTUA is set with three-year and five-year academic system and changed as institute in 1994. The previous three-year academic music department was changed as Chinese Music Department and daytime Chinese music department was set in July of 1997 after the approval of the Ministry of Education. Five-year academic system was stopped accordingly. Since changed its name as National Taiwan University of Arts，NTUA in 2001, it has successively set “advanced undergraduate class”, “two-year on-job class (stopped)”, “daytime postgraduate class” and “on-job postgraduate class” on the basis of “university department”, with a view to diversifying the learning ways of the students.
To carry forward the sprit of the traditional music teaching, the department has invested huge teaching capital to support the continual development of the traditional music department. The teaching content includes the performance and theory of Chinese music, including the forms of Chinese music, music varieties in Taiwan and Mainland as well as the introduction of the music worldwide; music basics training is conducted by referring to the music theory of the western world and the performance course and skill theory are complemented, hoping to obtain excellent performance system and tradition on the basis of stressing theory and skills.
To keep the same pace with the diversified systems of the university, the department inspects and gradually adjusts the course settings on each academic year. Currently, the teachers in different courses have realized digital teaching materials and place these materials on the network digital board of the campus to allow the students to learn before and after class, and get feedbacks from them after the semester is finished, for the purpose of teaching improvement, inspection and correction. The score early warning system of the midterm test of the school is actively coordinated to understand the learning situation of the students, give timely guidance to them and encourage the to make preparations for further education or employment.  |