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Introduction

History

        
        This department was founded on August 1, 1989. The faculty were integrated from the "History and Geography Section of the Department of Social Sciences Education of Chiayi Normal College" and the "History and Geography Section of the Engineering Department of Chiayi Technical College". It is affiliated to the School of Humanities and Arts of our school. So far, it has Many historical and geographical professionals have been trained. In 1991, the department established a master's degree class in history and geography to improve research and teaching standards. In 1994, a special in-service master's degree class in history and geography was established to serve as a learning channel for social science teachers, teachers of history and geography, and the public in Chiayi area.

        The department was renamed as the "Department of Applied History" on August 1, 2020, becoming the first applied history department in the country. It is a department with history as its professional basis, supplemented by environmental and regional courses. The department will actively connect with the needs of contemporary society to effectively apply history majors and expertise in suitable work fields, integrate history into current life issues, strengthen function-oriented courses, combine cultural industries and community creation and development, and assist and improve students For future employment competitiveness, it is expected to cultivate historical application professionals, achieve the purpose of integrating learning and application, respond to social and cultural development, and meet the needs of students' future employment market.

Educational goals

        

        The educational goals of this department are: based on the history major, moving towards the application of history, and cultivating students with balanced knowledge of humanities and regional studies in order to integrate the development of cultural industries.

        History is the study of human past activities, and geographical space is the stage of human history. The importance of geographical factors in historical evolution has always been widely recognized by historians. Geography studies the relationship between human activities on the earth's surface and its environment. From the perspective of human-land interaction, the spatial scope of its research includes: the space that humans have set foot in in the past, which is related to the historical process; the space that humans have set foot in now, It is also related to the accumulation and influence of history; the space that humans will enter, this involves the accumulation of history and the foresight of historical experience. Therefore, the importance of historical factors in the geographical environment has always been widely recognized by geographers. It shows that the research fields of history and geography are deeply overlapping, and the research work is also deeply interactive.       

        This department takes practical history as the professional basis, supplements it with environment and region, carries out science and technology integration planning, and actively expands cultural education at the practical level. It is hoped that students can not only establish basic historical knowledge and understand the environment and region, but also The Thinking Center expands into practical areas and integrates historical research into current life issues.