Common Required Courses :
2023 Fall Semester and Spring Semester

Common Required Courses

2023 Fall Semester and Spring Semester

Passed by the 3rd Academic Affairs Meeting, Academic Year 2022, on Dec. 28, 2022



Required Credits Descriptions
Chinese 4 This is a 4-credit course, and is divided into Chinese 1 and Chinese 2 for students to complete in the freshman year.
Foreign Languages 10 The undergraduate students must complete 10 required credits of foreign language courses. English (I) & (II) for the total 4 credits: English (I) and (II) are 4 credit elementary courses for the freshmen who are grouped on English competence; to complete within two semesters.
  1. English thematic course for the total 5 credits: English thematic courses are 5-credit English courses; students are required to obtain 5 credits through 3 different thematic courses for graduation.
  2. Students who do not reach the 350-point threshold of TOEIC Mock Exam in the end of the freshman year must take “English Testing” (EL260) course. Students will fail the course if they do not score higher than 350 points in TOEIC Mock Exam by the end of the course, and must repeatedly take the course until they can score higher than 350 points.
  3. “English Testing” (EL360) for the total 1 credit: For the requirements of registering “English Testing”, please refer to "the Regulation for Registering English Test" announced and implemented by the College of General Education.
  4. Foreign students need approval by ILCC for taking 10 credits of Mandarin Chinese courses as alternative courses of English.
    5. The undergraduate foreign students must pass Mandarin Chinese (I) and (II) before taking Mandarin Chinese (III) and (IV). Students must pass Mandarin Chinese (III) and (IV) before taking Mandarin Chinese (V) and Chinese Proficiency Test (EL372)
A Guide to Classics 2 Students are required to take a 2-credit course “A Guide to Classics”。 English course “A Guide to Classics” is recommended for foreign students to take.
General Education Course 8 Comprises four categories：Humanities, Natural Science, Social Science and Life Science. Students are required to take a 2-credit course from each category to get 8 credits before graduation.
General Education Interdisciplinary Course 2 Students can select the 2 credits from a General Education Lecture course, Micro Credit courses, Self-Study courses, or Local-Multicultural courses. Only foreign students and undergraduates of International Programs in the Colleges of Engineering, Informatics, Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as Electrical and Communication Engineering are required to take a 2-credit course from the four categories according to each college’s policy before graduation.

Note:

  1. In accordance and integration with teaching content, all undergraduate students are assigned to complete the common compulsory courses, except the general courses, sophomore English, English Testing.
  2. Students of the Department of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics are required to take the general foreign language course according to the regulation of studying common compulsory courses of their department.
  3. Students of the International Program in Humanities and Social Sciences for Bachelor are required to take the general foreign language course according to the regulation of studying common compulsory courses of their department.
  4. The English thematic courses are designed to meet the students’ needs for their specialties, learning interests and English competence.  Please refer to ILCC English thematic courses list.
  5. The military education courses are no longer compulsory starting the 106 academic year. MT110, MT111, MT112, MT114 & MT115 are elective courses, which will not be accumulated to the graduation requirements, but they can be counted as taken credits for each semester.
  6. For the transferred students in the year of 105 and earlier who have not completed the credits transfer of military education, they are required to take “All-Out Defense Education and Researching of Military” for  passing the graduation threshold. The course, however, cannot be accumulated to  the graduation credits.