Tunghai University
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Motto | 求眞 篤信 力行 (Truth, Faith, and Deeds) |
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Established | 1955 |
Type | Private |
President | Haydn Chen |
Location | Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China |
Campus | Suburban, |
Mascot | None |
Website | www.thu.edu.tw |
Tunghai University (zh-tw: 東海大學, Pe̍h-oē-jī: Tang-hái-täi-hãk), or THU, is a Christian, privately founded university that located in Taichung, Taiwan. Tunghai University is famous for its educational history in Taiwan, the humanities, and the Luce Memorial Chapel (designed by noted architect I. M. Pei). Besides, there is a Tunghai farm in the campus.
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[edit] History
[edit] List of Presidents
- Beauson Tseng, 1953-1958
- Teh-Yao Wu, 1958-1972
- Ming-Shan Hsieh, 1972-1978
- Ko-Wang Mei, 1978-1992
- Ta-Nien Ruan, 1992-1995
- Kang-Pei Wang, 1995-2004
- Haydn Chen, 2004-present
[edit] Organization
Tunghai University is organized into 6 colleges which contain 33 academic departments.
- Agriculture College: Animal Science, Food Science, Landscape Architecture, Hospitality Management
- Arts College: Chinese Literature, Fine Arts, Foreign Languages, History, Japanese, Music, Philosophy
- Engineering College: Architecture, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Design, Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information
- Management College: Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, Information Management, International Business, Statistics
- Science College: Life Science, Chemistry, Computer Science, Environmental Science, Mathematics, Physics
- Social Science College: Economics, Law, Political Science, Public Administration, Social Work, Sociology
[edit] Library
The library of THU is located at the end of the Campus Mall.
Tunghai's library, with 600,000 volumes, 6,515 corrent serials, 21,523 electronic serials, nonprint formats, and rare books.(Library of THU, Trad. Chinese)
[edit] Student life
The Wei-Mei Climbing Wall completed in 2004, in memory of Wei-Mei Lin, who was the leader of Mountaing Climbing Club, died in mountain accident in 2001. She devoted herself to establish a climbing wall for students at Tunghai University. It is 12 meters high and 9 meters wide.
According to the policy of THU, all freshmen should lodge in dormitories for a year. After one year, students must move out to other lodgings in the areas around THU.
Students of THU usually go to the Tunghai villa, which is located in the west of THU campus, to have food and shopping. Other places near campus they would go for amusement are Tunghai Art Street, Taichung Metropolitan Park and Feng Chia Night Market.
[edit] Student societies
THU has more than one hundred student societies and many of those societies are still active.
See also: Student Societies of Tunghai University.
After first year, moving out of the dormitories is OPTIONAL not MANDATORY.
Actually the reverse is closer to the truth: freshmen must live in the dorms in their first year only, but there are exceptions to this rule.
[edit] See also
Education in the Republic of China
[edit] External links
- Tunghai University, English is selectable
- Tunghai University Library, English is selectable
- Association Of Christian Universities and Colleges in Asia, ACUCA
- United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
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