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The Center for Arts and Humanities (CAH) at Taipei Medical University has been formally established in October, 2015 under the directorship of Professor Dominic Cheung (Chang Ts’o), an endowed chair professor at TMU and a senior faculty of the Dept. of Comparative Literature, and Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California in the US. CAH has already begun a series of pedagogical programs that include formal classes for regularly enrolled students, lectures, and book publications. These pedagogical aspects will expand and be integrated with various lines of research and faculty recruitment over the next several years.
Courses are taught in the Center under various guises of symposia, General Education classes, and professional short-term workshops. The main objective is to elevate arts and humanities in promoting a higher level of wholistic human life and to integrate the quality as well as the value of life into the field of medical sciences. Renowned scholars and artists in the various field of arts and humanities were invited to lecture to TMU faculties, researchers, students and outside guests on music, paintings, gastrology, gender studies, visual and material culture, natural sciences and botanical illustrations.
Introduction
The Center for Arts and Humanities (CAH) at Taipei Medical University has been formally established in October, 2015 under the directorship of Professor Dominic Cheung (Chang Ts’o), an endowed chair professor at TMU and a senior faculty of the Dept. of Comparative Literature, and Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California in the US. CAH has already begun a series of pedagogical programs that include formal classes for regularly enrolled students, lectures, and book publications. These pedagogical aspects will expand and be integrated with various lines of research and faculty recruitment over the next several years.
Courses are taught in the Center under various guises of symposia, General Education classes, and professional short-term workshops. The main objective is to elevate arts and humanities in promoting a higher level of wholistic human life and to integrate the quality as well as the value of life into the field of medical sciences. Renowned scholars and artists in the various field of arts and humanities were invited to lecture to TMU faculties, researchers, students and outside guests on music, paintings, gastrology, gender studies, visual and material culture, natural sciences and botanical illustrations.
