National Chiayi University

I. Educational goals and distinguishing features of development:

To match the specialty of the department and the demand of the country, the Doctoral program we provide is mainly focused on the practical applications of theories—matching up    track of industries, coping with the trend of time and further transforming and developing current technologies and product, or event the inexpensive products to high added value, high economical value products via high technologies. The inducting priority of developing areas are the followings:

1. Research and development of foods being able to prevent chronic diseases.

2. Basic research of functional/healthy foods and the identification and isolation of their functional components.

3. research and development for the scale-up technologies of chronic diseases preventing and healthy foods.

II. Curriculum goals:

1.  Foster executive personnel with independent thinking and research capability who can promote the industries once involved as well as own competitive strength of globalization.

2.  Possess the excellent capabilities of analysis and providence planning to serve as public officer to guide government administration.

III. Index of basic capabilities:

1.  Possess the theories and applications of Food Science as well as professional technologies/knowledge.

2.  Possess the capability of searching, integrating, analyzing, verifying and inducting data/information.

3.  Be capable of executing practical design food processing projects, planning and operating knowledge/know-how related real situation.

4.  Integrate and apply the knowledge of Food Science; possess the capabilities of structuring independent thinking, finding, mediating and various trouble-shooting.

5.  Able to handle cross-disciplinary team projects with trained communication/expression and self-management capabilities. 

6.  Able to conduct academic interchange internationally and life-time learning, view the current issue internally, be attentive to humanism and infuse to profession area. 

7.  Able to take leadership, administrate, plan, and join team works and practice life-time learning. 

8.  Upright moral character and behavior, sturdy personality, serve zealously and value professional ethics and social responsibilities. 

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