Educational Objectives

The Department's main goals are to train professional childcare staff and to improve the quality of childcare by focusing on early childhood.

Faculty

They are enthusiastic professors or specialists with PhD or Master degrees

Training & Teaching goals

Cultivate professional childcare and children industry staff having the abilities of life-care, curriculum-planing, teaching and humanistic care

• 0-2yrs. Nursery center  staff and baby-sitter
• 6-12yrs. After school childcare servicer
• 2-6yrs.Preschool educare giver
• Children Industry service staff
• After school childcare management and service staff

Employment Prospect

Graduates are qualified to be childcare workers or preschool teachers. They can take the National Childcare Examination or the Public Service Examination for professional childcare workers. Furthermore, graduates are well qualified to work at a nursery school. They can also work for cram schools, child-magazine publishers, child education foundations or institutions.

Advanced Study

Graduates can pursue further study in the field of childcare, child education, special education, child welfare, social worker, and child literature in graduate school.

Characteristics of Our Department

1.Emphasis is placed on the integration of theory and practice. A well-designed and well-equipped on-site experimental nursery will open in 2003.

2.To improve students' professional capabilities, the Department emphasizes on the early childcare issues and the teaching skills for preschoolers.