• Creativity

Since 1960's Taiwan has already become a mature industrial society. In order to meet the urgent needs f clothing design market and management professionals, our school had established the five-year junior program of Clothing Design in 1964. The ultimate goal of setting up this Department is to cultivate clothing design and management professionals who have both capability of applying theories and possessing adequate training.

In the recent decade, the needs of clothing design and management market trend tend to be more multifaceted; therefore our Department has been always searching for breakouts by actively cooperating with clothing enterprises and has already obtained a great reputation in this fashion design field. In 1998, with the permission of Minster of Education, we have established two-year senior college and four-year university programs.

• Practicality

Four-Year University : Teaching goals focus on cultivating the professionals of clothing design, clothing cutting, display design, management and sales.

Junior College: Teaching goals focus on training the students to have practical skills of fashion design.

• Excellent Faculties

The Department faculties are the professionals who have received their degrees from the U.S.A, Japan , United Kingdom and France in the field of clothing design and management. In order to constantly improve the quality of fashion design education; there are supportive in-service programs and lots of various national and internationals conferences taking place every semester in our department.

• Internationalization

Many famous internationally well-known scholars of fashion design are invited to come over to our Department to have short-term teaching to provide us the latest fashion professional knowledge and skills. Meanwhile, our Department also offers the exchange programs for our students to go to our sister universities in the U.S.A. , Canada and Japan to have unique learning experiences.

• Wonderful Practical Training

Our Department also emphasizes on the importance of practical training. The following activities are the best examples.

• Students' Showrooms: Periodically students will have opportunities to demonstrate their learning and works in on-campus and off-campus showrooms.

• Students' fashion shows: Every school year students will have opportunities to attend on-campus and off-campus fashion shows to demonstrate their works.

• Cooperative Relationship with various enterprises: Students have adequate and skilled practical training in clothes factories, department stores and related governmental organizations to obtain the real workplace experiences by employing the ample human resources, equipments and financial resources that both the University and the cooperative enterprises offer. The practical training system has been well-established in order to offer our society the best and

qualified professionals.

• Mission

• To be the major clothes design center in southern Taiwan .

• To establish the graduate school.

• To publish an academic quarterly journal of clothes design.

• Superb Learning Environment

To compare with other similar departments in Taiwan , our Department is the only one that owns the whole six-story building to be the teaching center. This building is famous for the exhibition rooms of different cultural and style clothes, fashion design library, student showrooms, knitting design classroom, various fashion design special labs and computer rooms that provide a big variety of high-tech equipments.

• Bright Future Career

• further advanced education: students are able to enter national and international master programs of fashion design and management to receive their advanced degrees.

• future career: students are able to be fashion designers, exhibition designers, clothes stylists, clothes production management professionals and clothes salespersons based on their interests and expertise.

• Long-lasting Department Development

• Developing more regular factory visits and practical training.

• Holding more conferences and speeches for students by inviting national and international well-known clothes designers and management professionals to update students with the current trend of fashion design.