A symposium on promoting cross-disciplinary education was held at TNUA on October 24.
The “Ready to Cross” symposium was jointly organized by TNUA, Tatung University, Shih Hsin University, National Chengchi University and National Yang-Ming University.
It brought together almost 200 participants, including representatives from industries, academic circles, students and alumni from the five universities.
It was part of a series of seven symposiums sponsored by the Ministry of Education to explore the kinds of capabilities that the nation’s young people should possess in the face of a changing world, one of which is the capability of crossing over between different disciplines.
TNUA President Prof. Yang Chyi Wen noted that the fast changing international trends and constantly advancing networking technologies have created huge amounts of information and resulted in a new structure of knowledge characterized by rapid changes.
Many things are also being redefined, Prof. Yang pointed out. Nowadays, the value of the self is defined not in terms of “existence,” but in terms of “connectivity,” meaning it has expanded from a specific point where crisscrossing lines meet to an entire network of these lines.
Therefore, Prof. Yang continued, the young people of this new generation must learn to grasp the trends, preparing themselves for the future. They even have to be able to create the future, he added.
Prof. Chen Jwu-Ting from National Taiwan University’s Department of Chemistry also gave a keynote speech on the Ministry of Education’s Society-Human-Science (SHS) program that he is in charge of.
He said that the Internet and advancements in technologies have brought a drastic paradigm shift in education. Addressing such changes, the SHS program has been promoting Trans-Disciplinary Education (TDE) since 2011.