History
The predecessor of our department was the Physics program in the department of physics and chemistry, National Taiwan Normal College, founded in 1946. We branched out in 1962, established physics master program in 1974 and Ph.D. program in 1991. For a long time, it has been our duty to train secondary school physics teachers in Taiwan, while we were not forgetting to pursue innovation and improvement in the research. To date, we have produced an Academician of Academia Sinica and close to a hundred of researchers of Academia Sinica and professors of universities. Not to mention, we have also produced many of the high-tech specialists in all kinds of industry. After the secondary school teacher nurture law was amended in 1994, on the basis of what we have and with all our efforts, we have been promoting ourselves into an outstanding department emphasizing both basic research and applied science.
The focus of this department’s research includes: condensed-matter physics, surface science and nanotechnology, high-energy physics and string theory, biophysics and soft-matter physics, atomic, molecular, and optical physics, and science education. We have over thirty full-time professors and several part-time and adjunct professors. Our faculty members have hold about thirty research projects from National Science Council annually, and total grant funds are over forty million NT per year. Our research results are marvelous, publishing about 70 articles on the renowned SCI journals each year. In addition to basic researches, we have also promoted online education and digital science research to bolster the science education and learning systems.
In response to the changing times and the different needs and career plans of students, this department is constantly making adjustments to our courses. In addition to the upgrades in the core physics courses and secondary school teacher training program, we are emphasizing the career counseling and professional skills, adding more applied science courses such as the Electro-Optical program to foster semiconductor, modern optics, and photonics science and technology professionals. To enhance the research manpower and also help nurture academic and high-tech experts in Taiwan, through the pre-master degree program and the direct Ph.D. program, undergraduate students in this department have the opportunity to obtain the master degree in five years and the Ph.D. in seven years.
Curriculum
Minimum number of credits for graduation: 128
Minimum number of credits for graduation: 140 (for international students and those from Hong Kong and Macao who hold a school diploma and have qualifications equivalent to the second year of senior high school in Taiwan)
Compulsory subjects: 32 credits
Course type | Field/Subject | Credits | |
Basic courses | Chinese Reading and Thinking; Chinese Writing and Expression | 4 credits (compulsory) | |
English (I), (II), and (III) | 6 credits (compulsory) | ||
Physical education | At least 4 credits (compulsory; counted toward graduation credits) | ||
General education (at least 18 credits) | Arts and science | Humanities and arts | At least 2 credits |
Social sciences | At least 2 credits | ||
Natural sciences | At least 2 credits | ||
Logical computation | At least 2 credits | ||
Cross-domain exploration | Common courses | At least 4 credits | |
Cross-domain courses | |||
Introduction to the University | |||
Independent learning | Special projects | No more than 4 credits (elective) | |
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) (MOOCs, Coursera, Udacity, and edX at the university) | |||
Compulsory courses in the department (60 credits required)
General Physics A (I),General Physics A (II)、Experiments for General Physics (I)、Experiments for General Physics (II)、General Chemistry A (I)、General Chemistry A (II)、Experiments for General Chemistry (I)、Experiments for General Chemistry (II)、Calculus B (I)、Calculus B (II)、Computer Applications in Physics (I)、Mathematical Physics (I)、Mathematical Physics (II)、Thermophysics Mechanics (I)、Mechanics (II)、Electromagnetism (I)、Electromagnetism (II)、Experimental Physics (I)、Experimental Physics (II)、Experimental Physics (III)、Modern Physics (I)、Modern Physics (II)
Electives in the department (at least 15 credits)
Biophysics (I)- Introduction、Biophysics (II)- Structural Biophysics、Introduction to Surface Physics (I)、Introduction to Surface Physics (II)、Introduction to Semiconductor Physics (I)、Introduction to Semiconductor Physics (II)、Applied Optics、Introduction to Solid State Physics (I)、Introduction to Solid State Physics (II)、
Introduction to Soft Materials and Complex Fluids、The Physics and Applications of Soft Materials (I)、The Physics and Applications of Soft Materials (II)、Technology, Culture and Innovation、Scientific Computing、
Introduction to Novel Nano-Materials、Data Acquisition Techniques for Experimental Physics、Overseas Internship、Industrial Internship、Modern Advanced Materials and Optoelectronics (I)、Modern Advanced Materials and Optoelectronics (II)、Overview of the Photoelectric Industry 4.0、Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos、Solar Cells Principles and Practices、Special Topic on Nano Science and Surface Physics(I)、Special Topic on Nano Science and Surface Physics(II)、Special Topics in Computational Physics、
Exoplanets、Introduction to Magnetic Materials and Magnetism、Quantum Computation and Quantum Information、General Relativity (II)、Applications of Low-Temperature Physics and Novel Materials、Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology、Optics、History of Development in Physics、Mathematical Physics (III)、Mathematical Physics (IV)、Statistical Thermodynamics、Fluid Mechanics、Seminar、Introduction to Natural Science、Techniques in Experimental Physics (I)、Techniques in Experimental Physics (II)、Electronics (I)、Electronics (II)、Electronics Laboratory (I)、Electronics Laboratory (II)、Computational Physics (I)、Computational Physics (II)、Introduction to Elementary Particles (I)、Introduction to Elementary Particles (II)、Introduction to the Theory of Relativity、Introduction to Elementary Particles and Astrophysics、General Mathematical Physics (I)、General Mathematical Physics (II)、Introduction to Quantum Information (I)、Introduction to Quantum Information (II)、Physics Tournament and Presentation (I)、Physics Tournament and Presentation (II)、Inquiry and Practice in Natural Science、Research Internship、Optoelectronic Semiconductor、Silicon VLSI Technology- Fundamentals, Practice and Modeling、Teaching Physics with Magic Demonstrations、Exploration and Applications of Modern Physics (I)、Exploration and Applications of Modern Physics (II)、Microcontroller Application Practices、Electronics Practices、Fundamental Quantum Mechanics (I)、Fundamental Quantum Mechanics (II)、Introduction to Microcontroller and Science Inquiry、
Introduction to Opto-Electronic Engineering、Opto-Electronics、Physics Tournament and Presentation (I) (IB)、
Inquiry and Practice in Natural Science、Introductory Ordinary Differential Equations、Introductory Complex Analysis and Its Application in Math and Physics
Electives (21 credits)
Required：
Quantum Mechanics ：6
Statistical Mechanics (I) or Solid State Physics(I)：3
Classical Electromagnetism (I)：3
Seminar：3Elective：
At least three courses with the course codes PHC, PHD or PHM provided by the Department of Physics, excluding fundamental quantum mechanics.
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Master students should select their advisors before the beginning of the second semester of their first year.
Satisfying the requirements of required subjects and acquiring required credits within the prescribed period (1 to 4 years).
Students must acquire at least 24 credits to graduate.
Completion of an academic research ethics education course and passing a study-certified quiz.
Completing a Master’s thesis and passing an oral examination.
Required：
Quantum Mechanics：6
Classical Mechanics：3
Classical Electromagnetism：6
Statistical Mechanics：3
Seminar：3Elective：
At least 9 credits under the master’s or doctoral program of the department (with initials of PHC and PHD in the course code) related to the main field of the thesis and 3 credits in other fields. Joint bachelor–master program courses are excluded.
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Satisfying the requirements of required subjects and acquiring required credits within the prescribed period (2 to 7 years).
Doctoral students must acquire at least 18 course credits prior to graduation. These credits must be associated with courses provided to both graduate and doctoral students or solely to doctoral students. Graduate students who enroll directly in the doctoral program must acquire 30 credits (of which at least 18 must be associated with courses provided to both graduate and doctoral students or solely to doctoral students).
The PhD candidate qualification examination includes a written examination and midterm research assessment; related implementation regulations are separately stipulated.
At least one paper related to the doctoral thesis has been published or accepted by a SCI, SSCI, EI, TSSCI, and A&HCI journal while enrolled in National Taiwan Normal University (Please detail the publication process with the manuscript attached).
Serving as a teaching assistant in the department for at least one semester.
Completion of an academic research ethics education course and passing a study-certified quiz.
Completing a Doctoral’s thesis and passing an oral examination.
Location
National Taiwan Normal University ( Gongguan Campus )
Address：Department of Physics, 88, Sec.4, Ting-Chou Rd., Taipei 116, Taiwan
