Topic 3: Awards for National Language Proficiency Certification

  • When the instructor applies for teaching hour reduction, is there a restriction on the total number of teaching hours?

    According to Paragraph 3 of Article 3 of the "Teaching Hours Guidelines": Full-time instructors who have taken on reduced teaching hours are still required to teach at least 2 hours each semester and at least 9 hours per academic year. Those who have taken on reduced teaching hours for administrative duties are still required to teach at least 3 hours per academic year. The statement "still required to teach at least 9 hours per academic year" does not include time served as an adviser, tutor or service-learning courses.

  • What are the guidelines for Education course enrollment?

    1. Only students who are qualified for the Education course track may enroll in Education courses. Authorization codes cannot override these restrictions. For more information, please contact the "School of Teacher Education."
    2. During Stage 1 course selection, students may rank courses in order of preference, and the system will randomly assign students to each course.
    3. Education courses are not open to inter-university elective students.

  • If a student changes his/her supervisor during the semester, how should the hours be calculated?

    If a student changes his/her supervisor before the course addition/cancellation deadline, the original thesis supervisor may not redeem the number of teaching hours for that student; if a student changes his/her supervisor after the course addition/cancellation deadline, the number of teaching hours of the original thesis supervisor are not affected, the new thesis supervisor can start calculating teaching hours from the following semester.

  • How does the course distribution system work?

    1. General distribution: Students with a higher completion rate of the previous semester’s end-of-course evaluation surveys will receive priority. If completion rates are the same, seniors will be prioritized. (Note: Cross program courses that are jointly offered do not have priority ranking for seniors. For example, for jointly offered master’s courses and jointly offered master’s and doctoral courses, students are placed in the order of their response rate in the course opinion surveys)
    Notice:
     • “Fourth-year students” include those in their fourth year or beyond.
     •  The “completion rate of course evaluations” is calculated as (number of completed surveys ÷ number of enrolled courses) × 100%. For example, if a student enrolled in 10 courses and completed 9 evaluations by the deadline, the completion rate is 90%. (Withdrawn and excused courses are automatically counted as completed.) 
    2. Priority for professional courses: Priority is given to students in the major. For courses restricted to a certain group (e.g., department students or minors), the priority order is as follows:
    Department students → Double majors (including interdisciplinary bachelor’s program students) → Publicly funded teacher education students → Department minors → Interdisciplinary program students → Preparatory students → Students from other departments.  
    3. General Education distribution principles:
    (1) The placement order follows the same general distribution rules.
    (2) In the first semester, 15% of the quota in each General Education course is reserved for new students.
    (3) During Stage 1 course selection, students may list up to 10 General Education course preferences. During Stages 1 and 2, if a student has already reached the maximum credits in a GE field (including the current semester), that field will no longer be distributed to the student; however, they may still add such courses during the add/drop period.
    (4) Credit limits: Students admitted before the 2019 academic year may take up to 6 credits per GE domain. Students admitted in 2020 or later may take up to 8 credits per domain in Liberal Arts and a maximum of 10 credits in the domain of Interdisciplinary Exploration.
    4. Courses in the NTU System:
    (1) “NTU System courses” refers to inter-university courses offered by National Taiwan University and National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.
    (2) Placement in NTU System General Education courses (those marked “Gen. Edu.” in the Req./Sel. column) follows the same rules as NTNU’s General Education distribution. Courses marked “Sel.” are electives only and will not be recognized as General Education courses. The system does not reserve General Education quotas for new students.
    (3) If demand exceeds quota, students are placed in the following order: Double majors in the department of the NTU System school → Minors in the department of the NTU System school → Regular students.
    5. For details, please refer to the “Notes for Course Selection.” 

  • When a department or instructor supervises a student thesis, should the "teaching hours" system or the "directed study and independent study courses" system be implemented?

    The department or instructor supervising a student thesis should select one from the "teaching hours" system or the "directed study and independent study courses" system for implementation.

  • If a student under thesis supervision takes a leave of absence for the current semester, can the instructor still log the number of hours spent on that particular student for the current semester?

    If the student applied for taking a leave of absence before the course addition/cancellation period of the current semester, the instructor may not redeem the hours with respect to that student; if the student applied for taking a leave of absence after the course addition/cancellation period, it does not affect the original number of hours which can be redeemed by the instructor.

  • Can supervision hours provided to a student from another department be redeemed?

    Yes, the hours can be redeemed.

  • Can thesis supervision for continuing education students be counted as teaching hours?

    Teaching hours for continuing education classes cannot be included as a part of the instructor's basic teaching hours; therefore thesis supervision for continuing education students cannot be calculated as teaching hours.

  • If an instructor has taken a leave of absence in the previous semester, how are teaching hours for the next semester calculated?

    According to Paragraph 2 of Article 3 of the "Teaching Hours Guidelines": Instructors may reduce their average teaching hours by up to four hours in one semester and make up to the yearly average in the following semester, provided that such arrangements do not affect the teaching of the curriculum. Instructors who have taken reduced teaching hours must still teach an average of at least two credits (hours) each semester.

  •  I am a sophomore (or above), why I am unable to enroll courses during the first phase of course enrollment?

    If students who did not pass half of the courses that they took in the last semester, students are required to fill out a “course selection record form” obtaining the approval from their advisers and then submit the form to the Office of Academic Affairs (academic counseling forms can be obtained from each department after the beginning of the semester). Once students who did not submit the course selection record form to the office of academic affairs, the authority of the first phase of enrollment to the student will be limited.