{"id":1338,"date":"2017-07-06T14:29:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T06:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eng.commstudies.tcu.edu.tw\/?page_id=1338"},"modified":"2026-09-14T09:15:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T01:15:05","slug":"a-letter-from-the-chair","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commstudies-eng.tcu.edu.tw\/?page_id=1338","title":{"rendered":"Letter from the Chairperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1338\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1338-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-1338-0\" ><div id=\"pgc-1338-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-mobile-last\" ><div id=\"panel-1338-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the chairperson of the Department of Communication Studies, I warmly welcome you to become its member.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">University life will be a brand new experience for you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the years ahead, you will gain the basic and advanced body of knowledge and skills of communications, step-by-step, and develop your career planning from your courses of learning. You will develop a friendship circle through joining clubs and other activities. You will also see that some of your classmates come from different countries, with different living habits, beliefs, and values. This precious intercultural encounter may cause a culture shock to you. Don\u2019t worry. Open your mind and learn to bring up your anthropological sensibility for cultural differences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All in all, you will have a lot to take in, whether it\u2019s academics or daily life, but don\u2019t worry, because your professors, mentors, and classmates are all willing to help you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We are in eastern Taiwan, an area with various ethnic cultures. Taking this unique ethnical environment as our starting point, we created a curriculum that combines communications knowledge and community participation. Through community participation, you will learn to apply communication theories and techniques as well as develop a sense of social responsibility. Our philosophy for education is that social responsibility takes precedence over excellent skills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally, I wish you happy studies and a wonderful university life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Chairperson<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Department of International Digital Communication Studies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-1338-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the chairperson of the Depa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page_fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1338","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commstudies-eng.tcu.edu.tw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commstudies-eng.tcu.edu.tw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commstudies-eng.tcu.edu.tw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commstudies-eng.tcu.edu.tw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commstudies-eng.tcu.edu.tw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/commstudies-eng.tcu.edu.tw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2576,"href":"https:\/\/commstudies-eng.tcu.edu.tw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1338\/revisions\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commstudies-eng.tcu.edu.tw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}