In accordance with MCU General Provisions for Study, undergraduate students need to pass Service Learning, English Proficiency, Information Technology Proficiency, Chinese Proficiency, Sports Capacity, and Professional Core Competency requirements to be eligible for graduation.

Requirements are as follows: a. Pass Seminar on [Graduation Project] Thesis Design or Graduation Project Design report evaluation, or having been honored with an award in a domestic or overseas professional competition; b. Pass Seminar on [Graduation Project] Thesis Design or Graduation Project Design and participate in on-campus graduation exhibition or publish in graduation monograph; c. Intern in relevant professional marketplace for at least four weeks or 150 hours and pass the employer’s evaluation; d. Must complete the Department Enforcement Rules for Internship prior to graduation.

Undergraduate 

• be able to appreciate social and humanistic concerns with aesthetic perspective
• be strong in design thinking and use of multi-media
• be capable of basic professional skills: math, science and construction technologies
• be able to conduct a project well
• be able to conduct a project well
• be capable of independent work and teamwork
• possess knowledge in interdisciplinary fields of architecture
• possess professional ethics and ability for life-long learning
• be capable of exploring local issues and global vision of architecture

Graduate 

• be able to conduct professional research on practical operations (firm foundation)
• be familiar with the disclosures and implementation of planning and design (thorough specialization)
• be able to facilitate problem identification, discuss, criticize, analysis, annotation of research, and writing up of results (research design and practice) and investigate, analyze, plan and carry out spatial projects (project implementation)
• be capable of precisely expressing concepts through oral presentations, drawings and words (effective expression)
• be able to communicate, coordinate and collaborate (collaboration)
• be able to analyze current public issues, understand the interactions and mutual influences between planning along with design and human beings, environment, society as well as the world. Furthermore, students should possess professional ethics (social responsibility and global vision)
• be capable of continuing learning, thinking and doing research (lifelong learning and research)

Educational Objectives 

  To cultivate outstanding professionals on the basis of “humanistic perspectives, architectural professional training, and global vision” to create a high quality living environment.

• Student Outcomes
  1. Able to appreciate social and humanistic concerns with aesthetic perspective Strong in design thinking and use of multi-media
  2. Capable of basic professional skills: math, science and construction technologies
  3. Able to conduct a project well
  4. Capable of independent work and teamwork
  5. Possess knowledge in interdisciplinary fields of architecture
  6. Possess professional ethics and ability for life-long learning
  7. Capable of exploring local issues and global vision of architecture

In recent years, globalization has hugely impacted the professional fields related to space design, planning and management. Culturally, architecture and urban planning retains the interests of history and local cultures while pursuing continuous innovation. The rise of the information economy brings the development of large-scale urban areas. The management patterns in urban society are increasingly complicated. In addition, diverse civic values have appeared which prompt shared management patterns between government and community, as the new model of current urban planning. Influenced by contemporary thought, technological development and environment, architecture design is changing the development of space concepts, design techniques and the meaning of architecture. Meanwhile, global-scale social connection and interdependence, fragile environmental ecology and continuously changing types of disasters increase the importance of disaster management in metropolises.

Accordingly, Ming Chuan University has founded this program that invites those with passion for architecture research, urban design and planning, and disaster management to join in future architecture and urban homeland construction.

Masters’ students will:

1. be able to conduct professional research on practical operations (firm foundation)
2. be familiar with the disclosures and implementation of planning and design (thorough specialization)
3. be able to facilitate problem identification, discuss, criticize, analysis, annotation of research, and writing up of results (research design and practice) and investigate, analyze, plan and carry out spatial projects (project implementation)
4. be capable of precisely expressing concepts through oral presentations, drawings and words (effective expression)
5. be able to communicate, coordinate and collaborate (collaboration)
6. be able to analyze current public issues, understand the interactions and mutual influences between planning along with design and human beings, environment, society as well as the world. Furthermore, students should possess professional ethics (social responsibility and global vision)
7. be capable of continuing learning, thinking and doing research (lifelong learning and research)