A1121 Learning psychology (0/2): This course aims to introduce educational learning theories such as behaviorism, social-cognitivism, and constructivism. Students will learn about the pedagogical application based on these learning theories in Western and Easter countries.
D0012 Social Science Research Method (2/0): This course introduces undergraduate students to the fundamentals of social science research, including research design, qualitative and quantitative methods, data collection and analysis, and research ethics.
D0150 Educational Leadership and Administration (2/0): This course aims to help students get familiar with theories and current issues related to the field of educational leadership and administration. Students will be able to have the reflective skills and attitudes required to solve practical problems for educational organizations.
D0706 Introduction to Education and Futures Design (2/0): Education plays not only an important role to shape the character of individuals. During times of rapid change and uncertainty, it would be a major instrument for social change. With the tools of foresight education, this course intends to give all class participants a deeper understanding of the core curriculum/skills framework of the Department of Education and Futures Design. It includes futures literacy, design thinking as well as skills for leadership, instructional design and social design. The aim of this course is to help students learn how to innovate long-term solutions.
D0707 Introduction to Education Sciences (2/0): This course introduces the basic concepts of education. In the class, students learn to think critically regarding fulfilling individuals’ potential and embodying social justice.
D0708 Statistics for Social Science (0/2): This course introduces the concepts and operations of important statistical methods for Social Science. Students are expected to understand these methods and apply them in the data analysis of needs assessment and market survey.
D0709 Educational design foresight projects (0/4): This course aims to develop students’ problem awareness and problem-solving ability to deal with the social and industrial problems and trends in the 21st century. The course activities include seminars, workshops, and project presentations.
D0710 Educational design foresight practice (0/2): This course aims to lead the students to observe and analyze the main and emergent issues, and then to establish their practical ability through developing problematic, fieldwork, sympathy, plan, and project presentation. The course activities include seminars, workshops, and project presentations.
D0856 Learning Design (2/0): This course aims to cultivate students' learning design abilities in analysis, design, development, and evaluation through learning design methods and practice. Learning design can be used to design and evaluate learning activities, textbooks or materials, digital materials, website resources, children's books, etc.
D0844 D0845 Education Foresight Project: Event Planning (I) (II) (4/4): The goal of the course is to design an activity proposal related to an educational issue through a collaborative group learning approach. The explore site will be located first on the school campus or educational organization, and then further investigation will be expanded to include the community area of the selected school/educational organization. The course is designed, from defining problems to developing project proposals, to integrate theoretical and practical experience that students have learned and lead students to explore social, cultural, economic, and industrial structural phenomena and trends related to education and learning. The course also develops students’ ability to communicate with others and work in teams. Learning activities include lectures, seminars, surveys, interviews, group discussions, activity planning, and presentation of reports.
D0716 Theories and Methods of Futures Research (2/0): The course focuses on how to create the future. Design implications in created preferred futures are explored. What is the difference between the good and the prefect society? How can one ensure that one’s political and social design is robust and does not close the future.
D0717 Program Management and Evaluation (2/0): The course aims to explore related theories of program management and evaluation, applied examples, and practical operations in society. The content
includes knowledge skills from program planning to implementation and from implementation to evaluation to support a sustainable development mechanism. The course requirements are realized, participation, teamwork, implementation, and application.
D0846 D0847 Education Foresight Project: Curation Project (I) (II) (4/4): This course is a junior capstone project. The purpose of the course is to develop students' real-world insight and problem-solving skills. Students will choose a problem area of interest, observe and analyze it, and solve it through learning design or social design. In the first semester, students will develop a research topic, problem analysis, fieldwork, literature research, data collection, proposal writing, and program design. In the second semester, the process of project production is prototyping, testing and revision, and finally the final project curation.
D0720 Social Design (0/2): This course focuses on understanding the concepts, methods, and examples of social design. Students will learn how to discover problems, define problems, research problems, and solve problems.
D0721 Practices in Businesses and Social Organizations (2/0): This course is a mandatory course for the senior students at the department of Education and Futures Design. As an internship program, this course aims to empower the students to make them more familiar with the job market and to gather experience to prepare their own work career.
D0750 Design on Sustainability (2/0): This course is to introduce the origin and development of the discourse of sustainable development. The major goals are to lead students to understand the true meaning of sustainability, recognizing the basic and alternative elements of sustainability, then able to apply all elementary principles to real life domains.
D0751 Philosophy of Education and Social Thoughts (2/0): The content of this course is to lead students to understand various educational philosophies and social thoughts that affect current and future learning and educational development, and to establish the mental habits of students to understand and connect philosophy and social thoughts in life, and lay the foundation for future education and future thinking. The foundation of practice, reflection, and action.
D0853 Theory And Practice of Design Thinking (2/0): Design thinking is not a theory or fantasy, but a method for changing the world through practice. By learning empathy, conducting field research, user interviews, prototyping, and iterative testing, innovative ideas can truly come to life, allowing students to experience solving real-world problems through design.
D0753 Professional English for Design Communication (2/0): This course is designed to introduce you to effective writing for careers in design. It will focus on strategies for researching and writing correspondence and reports. Emphasis is on understanding and responding to a variety of communication tasks with a strong purpose, clear organization, and a professional style.
D0754 Computer-aided Design for Visual Communication(2/0)：This course focuses on the application of computer-aided design (CAD) tools for visual communication. Students are expected to be able to use graphic design software to present their ideas and concepts through visual materials. Through selected case studies, this course aims to equip students with the ability to transform textual knowledge into visual representations.
D0755 Analysis and Application on Trend Issues (2/0): The teaching goal of this course is to assist students in insight, thinking and analysis of various future trends, and through design -thinking workshops to allow students to design different aspects of Taiwan's future and their own future. The course focuses on trend-oriented discussion and analysis of trend topics including technology, society, economy, politics, education, work, marriage and family. Teach students from trend insight, trend analysis, trend design and application, and help students lay a foundation for future trend analysis and application skills in academic and practical aspects.
D0791 Visual Design and Aesthetics (2/0): Visuals have always occupied a dominant position among all kinds of human perceptual activities, constituting both rich perceptions and thoughts, and therefore the visual culture and aesthetic corresponding to visual design have become more and more critical. This course will first explore visual design's cognitive, communicative, and cultural connotations by using visual experiences/objects of daily life, and further lead students to understand the practices of visual design in order to train visual communication and expression skills.
D0792 Design and Application of Digital Instruction (2/0): This course focuses on the design and development of online courses. Students will identify the key elements and principles to integrate technology into online courses and traditional classrooms. A variety of learning technologies will be introduced to students. Students will be use the technologies to design online courses comprising support synchronous and asynchronous learning as their final learning outcomes.
D0796 Script Design and Video Production (2/0): This course is to help students get the knowledge for video production and script design. In addition to acquiring the theory and skills of film and television production, students will also be able to match them with practice, adding a lot of practical experience.
D0715 Program Planning and Development (0/2): The course provides students with an understanding of the purpose, type, and value of program planning, and the knowledge and skills needed to address for program development, design, implementation, and evaluation in a wide range of topics. Through hands-on program design, this course will help students to enhance their understanding of social change in human behavior/service and social adaptation/adjustment. This course will be of professional benefit to students pursuing careers in human services, education, community development, and non-governmental organizations.
D0712 Theory and Practice of Content Curation (0/2): The main axis of the course is curatorial practice, from the history of contemporary curatorial and content design in different fields, including planning, writing, visual narrative, use of display media and display space design, etc. This course combined with the study of urban art and culture festivals and visits to professional cultural institutions and exhibitions to lead students to develop practical training.
D0793 Communication and Storytelling (0/2): Storytelling connects the audience's life experience, resonates and moves them, and thus makes communication more powerful. This course aims to study the concepts and principles of communication and storytelling, and provides three aspects of observation and hands-on learning to cultivate students' skills, including: (1) conveying ideas and exerting influence through personal storytelling; (2) Expanding marketing and profits through storytelling of selected local products or brands; (3) Using digital narrative tools and techniques to further present local products, brands or issues in digital videos, to create value and interests for the locality or to speak for the locality.
D0794 Experiential Education and Innovation (0/2): This course intends to explore main theories and practices for seminar on global alternative and experimental education as applied to schools. Literatures and cases will be analyzed and discussions will focus on their methods, strategies, and efforts for learning practices.
D0817 Learning Environment and Teaching Design (2/0): The course firstly to explore the nature of cognition and learning and their relationship with the environment. Secondly, the cognition and learning
design in the embedded environment in various learning institutions are analyzed. Finally, the concepts and practices of teaching design using the learning environment are explored. Students are required to make a learning design plan to summarize and apply what they have learned in this course.
D0819 Corporate Social Responsibility (2/0): Through this course, we hope to cultivate business leaders and practitioners with corporate ethics and social responsibility thinking. Learning about corporate social responsibility and ethics helps students master sustainable and ethical thinking for decision-making analysis when facing various corporate decisions in the future, thereby strengthening corporate risk management and enhancing long-term competitiveness. Enterprises attach great importance to ethics and sustainable development, and can integrate economic, social, and environmental aspects through the business model to achieve business sustainability, create a better business environment for the society, and enhance national competitiveness.
D0816 Service Design and Management (0/2): This course will be divided into upper and lower modules, with design thinking running through "service design" and "service management". First of all, the first module helps students to understand the essence of service, and to think about problems with the first diamond of design thinking. The second module cuts in from the perspective of "service implementation", designs a set of actionable micro-services in a practical way, and exercises the tools of design thinking.
D0818 Lectures on Social Innovation and Future Enterprise (0/2): This course focuses on the angles of history, politics, economy and society, and explores the past, now, and the future of the major issues for the Enterprise.
D0xxx The Management of Educational Industry (2/0): This course is to give students overview of the educational Industry through the introduction and discussion of the operation and development of various cultural and educational institutions, organizations, foundations and associations. By contacting and interacting with the core figures of the educational industry, students could link some possibilities to enter the industry or start a business in the future.
D0854 Design on the Future Longevity (0/2): This course uses futurology-related theories and analytical tools such as design thinking to guide students to observe and analyze important issues under the aging trend of the population structure. And to examine and design the feasible proposals for elderly society participation in The New Map of Life from a forward-looking perspective. The teaching scope of the courses includes: longevity trends, senior learning, age-diverse society, the age of no retirement and other issues. This course will enhance students' grasp of the development of the aging society, the trend of the aging industry, and the ability to communicate and collaborate.
D0xxx Big Data Analysis and Application (0/2): This course introduces the concepts, theories, methods and applications of big data analysis for needs assessment and market survey. The big data analysis methods introduced in this course include: decision tree, association rule, naive Bayes classification, neural network, data mining, etc.
D0xxx Technology and Our Futures (0/2): The course provides you with an understanding of the impacts and implications of technology on the society from a futures studies perspective. The class introduces key futures concepts as methods/tools to explore alternative futures and to study the images of the future. The objective of this course is to have students apply futures tools and methodologies to understand, challenge and develop images of the technology that are more sustainable, equitable, fair & just for the society.
E2617 Field Work Methods (2/0): This course deals with anthropological filed methods. Anthropological fieldwork was and is a major way for anthropologists to collect data from their research filed. But today, Anthropological skills and perspectives are of use in many professional contexts, including for the use of instructional designers and social designers. This course, therefore, introduce methods of observation, interviews and other anthropological techniques for fieldwork. The participants can through training to obtain systematical knowledge on getting access to a field, selecting effective ways to get qualitative data as well as writing a comprehensive in-depth report.
T0070 Sociology (0/2): This course is designed to develop student's global sociological imagination. One of the characteristics of this society is that popular explanations for human behavior hinge on psychological or economic logic and causality. A sociological imagination, in contrast, relies upon explanations of human behavior based on situation, context, social structure and socialization. The introduction to sociology includes debunking of popular myths about our culture, history, and the structure and organization of the world economy, politics, and society.
D0851 Design of Educational Program (2/0): This course introduces the purposes, types, and value of educational program design, and develops students’ core competencies in planning, designing, implementing, and evaluating programs.
D0855 Curriculum Design and Development (0/2): The Curriculum Design and Development course provides students with an understanding of the purpose, types, and value of lesson plan and learning activities. Through lectures, case studies, group project work, and guest lectures, students will acquire knowledge and skills in program planning, development, implement, and evaluation in different fields and topics.
D0852 Educational Organization and Administration (2/0): This course aims to help students be familiar with theories and current issues related to the field of educational organization and administration. Students will be able to develop reflective sills and attitudes required to solve practical problems for educational organizations.
D0848 Education Foresight Project: Practice (2/0): This course primarily provides a framework for students to reflect on and plan their future careers, and to integrate their thoughts and learnings from internships into project outcomes for public presentation.