Came up as a Facebook ad
The topics are ridiculous, none of the 5 professors for the one course look qualified to teach any of it, zero to do with lesdership.and management, 40% of the grade is attendance and participation
Way ahead of the curve with DEI though
What a joke
I get the impression most college classes in Taiwan is grades and participation.
Also college isn’t where you learn leadership, and if you don’t have it I don’t think it’s taught.
Besides University of Phoenix seems better qualified to teach business management and such, being a for profit university that actually knows how to run a business.
It’s just a continuing education course. The main point is that it is taught entirely in English. It appears to me to be a kind of pilot program for the NTU’s new School of Political Science and Economics. The School seems to be closely associated with President Tsai.
Not everything about it is mickey mouse. Nobel laureate Myron Scholes will speak there next week on “Uncertainty, Artificial Intelligence, and Financial Economics.”
Ah that thing! This seems to be the result of the long attempt to find some use for the now disused Xuzhou campus after the Faculties of Law and Social Science moved to the main campus in Gongguan. The uni has been proposing various English-taught, high tuition, no entrance exam programs to set up on that disused campus—and they kept getting shot down by the MOE as the proposed (and shot down) programs needed to have an extrance exam if they wished to enroll students from Taiwan—you can’t just sell degrees like that to rich kids.
If I understand this correctly, they seem to have been able to punch through the MOE resistance and they seem to be starting up. I’d be interested to know the tuition fees they intend to charge and how Taiwan students can gain admission. Did the MOE or did NTU cave in?
Guy
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臺大國際政經學院領導與管理學程碩士學分班 報名至2025/3/26(三)止
本學分班以全英語授課，著重於培養學員的跨文化領導與管理能力，結合新興經濟議題，從多元視角解析全球快速變遷中的挑戰與機遇，旨在為學員搭建全面的學習平台，不僅提升國際視野，並促進跨領域的知識整合。
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〈歷史的新／未來的興：娛樂經濟．新遊牧主義．DEI 領導力〉
Emerging Economies: Entertainment, Neo-nomadism, DEI-leadership
（一） 文化、娛樂與遊戲經濟，探索這些領域在全球市場中的潛力與發展趨勢。
(Module 1) Arts, Culture, Entertainment, and Gaming
（二） 人口遷徙與數位游牧，探討現代社會中人口流動性與遠距工作對經濟和組織帶來的深遠影響。
(Module 2) Digital Nomads, Transnational Migration
（三） 平等、多元與包容領導，培養學員在多元文化背景下推動團隊包容性和創新的能力。
(Module 3) DEI-Leadership, Intercultural Competence
Don’t tell DOGE! 
Guy
I wonder how many people will register, and how satisfied they will be
I would be interested to see how those professors handle this. Looks like 100% Taiwanese (hello diversity)
Maybe not the whole school, but that specific course looks pretty mousey…
The faculty all have PhDs from places like Harvard and the University of California. NTU faculty with academic backgrounds like this are usually (of course not always) perfectly capable of teaching in English. While I agree that Taiwan would benefit from more diverse faculty, foreigner academics are not as indispensible as they think they are. The students will likely be mostly Taiwanese, communication will not be an issue, and I expect everyone will stumble through it satisfactorily in another incremental step toward the goal of being able to offer more programs in English.
Look at home first eh.
The faculty are just importing ideas directly from a few select unis in the US with no relation to Taiwan or the socioeconomic situation here I guess.
DEI leadership in Taiwan , wtf does that even mean ? The Taiwan govt, laws, people and companies actively discriminate against and abuse foreign workers for profit .
What is DEI in Taiwan actually ?
In earlier proposed versions of this program (I am speaking of the one to be offered on the Xuzhou campus), I recall a proposed 50 / 50 split between Taiwan and international students. I am unsure if the version going forward will follow this proportion.
Guy
I communicate; you stay put in your factory dorm!
There, it’s now nicely localized!
Guy
Oh yeah you are bringing back bad memories, people locked up in their dorms and workplaces for years .
If they have 'intl students ’ it will just be a token bodies in seats exercise.
Not so fast. The demographic terrain has actually shifted. I don’t have the stats but I could PM you with more details if you like.
Guy
Surely behind!
This one is being offered through continuing education program on the main campus. Kind of a poor man’s version for those who want a little NTU luster. Means a lot in Taiwan at least to people personally.
While I am sure that foreign students could sign up, the way the key information is presented in Chinese makes me think the students will be Taiwanese.
This is a pre masters course why would an 'international student ’ do a pre masters course ?
In fact I barely understand the concept of a pre masters course given how easy it is to do a masters in Taiwan.
That’s kinda meaningless. I’d be willing to look at their first authored publications relevant to the course.
That’s good, and I noticed several language profs in there. NSYSU seems to have an awful reputation for the English quality of their profs.
But they are literally teaching about diversity here. That’s the D in DEI. Ever heard of the phrase “lead by example”? If they are already failing so hard on leadership and diversity in the promo materials, well, what a joke.
I’ve met a handful of foreign students who did English programs that were actually taught in Chinese. I would expect it is likely here. The NTU brand will get some Taiwanese to sign up for this for bragging rights and networking, in which case the course curriculum and instruction probably doesn’t matter
Hence 40% of the grade is “show up and don’t act like a brick”
Also, I don’t really see why we should object to this course. Some random Taipei residents might learn something about digital nomads (module 2) and ‘investigate how DEI takes various forms in global leadership and management’. Who knows. It might lead to some Gold Card holders getting hired at Taipei companies.
Note: DEI is not a bad word in Taiwan yet.
