Professional journalists have to include both journalism training and the ability to analyze news issues; also, in face of the ever and fast changing and diverse society and globalized environment, news workers should possess independent thinking, respect multicultural civic awareness, international outlook and professional knowledge.

We concentrate on the courses and research plans surrounding the integration of theory and practices, and the main practical concept of 'learning by doing'. We are greatly different from other journalism institutes in Taiwan, our goal is to cultivate advanced practical talents and enhance professionalism.

Although the scale of the institute is small, we vigorously integrate resources from within and outside of NTU. We allow our students to take classes outside of NTU, for we have signed a program with other schools to let students choose electives there; from NTU, we encourage our students to make good use of NTU's abundant academic resources and brilliant teachers. With the aid from NTU's scientific, engineering, medical, law, commercial and agricultural academic environment, to fulfill our utmost value on practical education.

At the same time, we actively search for widespread practitioners from newspapers, magazine, TV, and internet, accomplishing the employment of the remarkable tradition of "learning by doing".

In recent years, we have made efforts to develop international exchange, inviting oversea scholars to visit and holding workshops; we send our students abroad to take part in international exchange, also plan to take an extra step in creating closer partnerships with other international universities.

We continue to improve teaching, for example, most required courses have all changed to small class teaching. In line with the four main goals, we developed 5 extended elective courses, including theory/method, media citizenship, international outlook, field expertise, and professional practices. For years, we have changed in accordance with the transitions of news communication, continuously developed new professional courses, and extended theory and method courses and kept on collaborating with other related institutes and departments in NTU, expanded field expertise courses and introduced new courses that join journalism with other related areas.