A. Undergraduate Courses
The courses offered by the department provide students with a solid grounding in economic theory and teach them how to apply economic rules to the cases in real life. Especially, the department focuses on the training of students for the ability of data processing with a computer.
1) Economic Theory and Application — Basic Approach
Principles of Economics, Intermediate Microeconomics, and Intermediate Macroeconomics are included.
2) Economic Theory and Application — Advance Approach
Public Sector Economics, International Finance, Theory of International Trade, Economic Development, Money and Banking, Monetary Theory and Policy, Urban Economics, Energy Economics, Resource Economics, Environmental Economics, Financial Economics, Industrial Organization and Game Theory, The Economics of Uncertainty and Information, and Topics of Microeconomics are included.
3) Data Processing and Analysis
Introduction to Information Science, Data Processing, The Application of Excel Statistical Tools, Statistics, Principles of Econometrics, and Applied Econometrics are included.
4) Mathematical Tools
Calculus, Introduction to Mathematical Economics, linear Programming, and Non-linear Programming are included.
5) Finance
Accounting, Financial Management, Investments, and Insurance are included.
6) Law
The Constitution of the Republic of China, Security and Exchange Law, and Fair Trade Law are included.
Except the courses mentioned above, the department offers students Appreciation of Literature and the Arts, Chinese Language, History Studies, Foreign Languages with Language Drills, Three Scientific Revolution and Universe with Space-Time, etc., in the core curriculum program. It also provides some elective courses with nine credits in three in five major categories, that is, International Cultures, Politics, Societies and Economics, Natural Sciences, Social Analysis, Futures Studies, and Moral Reasoning, according to student interests and needs to attain the triple-objective goal of globalization, information-oriented education, and future-oriented education set by Tamkang University.
Students are at present required to take a minimum of 128 credits in order to graduate. Among them there will be a minimum of 86 credits of required courses, along with a minimum of 22 elective credits of courses offered by the department. Except some very similar courses, the department recognizes all undergraduate courses offered by other departments at the university as elective credits.
B. Graduate Courses
The course program of the Graduate Institute of Applied Economics emphasizes basic economic theory and in-depth study of statistical and mathematical tools. The contents of courses also focus on exercises in person and interactions between teachers and students. The fields of all courses are as follows.
1) Basic Economic Theory
Microeconomic Theory and Macroeconomic Theory are included. These courses emphasize the training of basic economic theory and lay the theoretical foundation for relevant applications.
2) Quantitative Analysis
Econometrics I and Econometrics II are included. These courses teach students the essential concepts and methods of quantitative analysis, along with economic applications with statistical or econometric softwares.
3) Applied Economic Analysis
Applied Microeconomics, Applied Macroeconomics, and other elective courses such as The Economics of Uncertainty and Information, Applied Micro-econometrics, Economic Development and Income Distribution, Central Bank Policy, Industrial Organization in Theory and Application, Exchange Rate Determination and Financial Economic Analysis, International Trade and Regional Economic Integration, Applied Econometric Analysis, Energy Policy and Analysis, and Environmental Economic Analysis and Application are included. Besides the theoretical explanations in applied microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis, these courses also deal with the applications of economic rules to real world. Through applying the methods of econometrics, students will be familiar with the procedure of testing economic theories.
4) Seminar
The graduate institute offers students three semesters of required seminars to attain the teaching goal of the ability for analyzing economic problems. Seminar I principally leads the students into the fields they are interesting to study and trains them for the ability to observe economic environment. Seminar II and Seminar III invite scholars of all economic fields and specialists with practical experience to give lectures of specific economic topics. Through understanding how they to determine the goal of study, to choose the adequate approach, and to run the study work in reality, the students will set up the foundation of investigation and writing of their theses. The courses also require the students to present their work of study topics or theses periodically for wide and valuable discussing.
