Mission of National Cheng Kung University

• Our educational goals are pursuit of academic excellence, cultivation of talents with professional and leadership skills, moral sense and humanistic concerns, creativity and international vision, as they should care for the community and contribute to the nation and the benefit of mankind.

Principle Literacy & Competence of National Cheng Kung University

To cultivate our students with the following fundamental literacy and core competencies:

1. Principle Literacy
   • Humanistic concerns
   • Civic Concerns
   • Social Concern
   • Global Vision
2. Competence
   • Professional and Interdisciplinary Abilities
   • Critical Thinking Abilities
   • Language Proficiency and Communication Abilities
   • Innovative and Leadership Abilities

Both Principle Literacy and Competence can be achieved not only by the arrangement of departments and General Course, but also by other hidden curriculum and various campus cultures.

Creating beneficial learning environment to develop student’s Principle Literacy and Competence and forming NCKU campus culture can achieve the cultivation of Principle Literacy and Competence.

College Goal

• A. Following the university's educational goals, the College of Sciences set our educational goals as follows. Our students should possess not only professional knowledge, but also humanity appreciation. In addition, they should have global perspectives, creativity, cross-field learning ability, social concern, and leadership.

College Principle Literacy and Competence

To cultivate our students with the following fundamental literacy and core competencies:

1. Principle Literacy
   • To appreciate the humanities
   • Cultivating talent with global perspectives
   • To express social concern
   • Civic literacy
2. Competence
   • Application of natural scientific knowledge thinking to analyze and solve problems
   • Ability to plan and perform scientific experiments, to analyze and explain experimental results, and to make innovations
   • Foreign language proficiency
   • Leadership ability to achieve effective communication and cooperation
   • Professional knowledge and cross-domain ability

Department Goal for Undergraduate Stdents

• To cultivate talents with humanistic and scientific literacy as well as rigorous mathematical expertise.

Basic Literacy and Core Abilities of the Department’s Undergraduate Program

• Ability to grasp concepts of continuity and limits
• Ability to perform numerical and symbolic computations
• Ability to visualize shapes and spatial relationships
• Ability to use computers for mathematical computations
• Ability to apply probability and stochastic theory
• Ability to handle and analyze large datasets
• Ability to work with discrete mathematics
• Ability to conduct independent research
• Ability to use computers effectively

Department Goal for Gradute Stdents

• To cultivate professional researchers in mathematics and applied mathematics.

Basic Literacy and Core Abilities of the Department’s Graduate Program

• Ability to understand concepts of continuity and limits
  
• Ability to perform numerical and symbolic computations
• Ability to visualize shapes and spatial relationships
• Ability to use computers for mathematical computations
• Ability to apply probability and stochastic theory
• Ability to handle and analyze large datasets
• Ability to work with discrete mathematics
• Ability to conduct independent research and write academic papers
• Ability to use computers effectively