College of Social Sciences
社會科學院
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About the NTU College of Social Sciences (COSS)
Brief History
This historical development of the NTU College of Social Sciences (COSS) is itself an abbreviated history of the research in the social sciences in Taiwan. After the Second World War, the Imperial University was renamed as the National Taiwan University. The former College of Liberal Arts and Political Science was separated into the Colleges of Liberal Arts and College of Law. The College of Law at that time comprised the Department of Law, Political Science, Economics, and Management. After the establishment of the College of Management in 1987 and the College of Law in 1999, the College of Social Sciences was formally incepted in 1999 and developed in to its current structure. Mirroring these organizational changes, our campus was also originally situated in the Hsu-Chow Road campus and finally relocated back to NTU’s main campus and into the new award-winning building in 2014. With the completion of the relocation and new College building, all the COSS departments, graduate institutes, and research centers are now adjacent to each other, allowing stronger partnership and synergy within COSS and with other NTU Colleges.
Research Strengths
Today, we have four departments, three graduate institutes, and six research centers. We are home to more than 250full-time and adjunct faculty members, and nearly 3,000 students both at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels. Together we strive to create an environment that encourages the flourishing of intelligent ideas, independent scholarship, and academic freedom. We are committed to delivering high-quality research that is relevant to social science debates in Taiwan and that explores innovative perspectives of thinking about and benefitting human societies. We pride ourselves in having many faculty members, students, and alumni who have exerted great impact both in the academic and non-academic contexts. Over the years, COSS has also accumulated a rich body of empirical data and produced a large volume of research with important theoretical and real-world implications.
Understanding that our current organization cannot simply cover all the different fields of modern social science research, we make every effort to forge interdisciplinary connections to law, medicine, engineering, the arts and the humanities. Our faculty members are also important contributors to NTU’s General and Liberal Education courses, through which students can learn beyond the boundaries of their respective degree programs. Collaborations are not only established across NTU colleges, but with leading research institutions both domestic and abroad. Through multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research centers, study groups and partnerships, we are able to push new frontiers and contribute to emerging fields such as neuroeconomics, STS, and East Asia studies. Our six research centers is another example of our commitment to integrate and elevate studies across a broad sweep of social science disciplines. COSS faculty members have published an impressive volume of high-quality academic research papers, books, and the like. These works respond to current and emerging local and global challenges. To further advance leaning, knowledge, and research, NTU’s College of Social Sciences also publishes numerous peer-reviewed academic journals: four international journals include the Pacific Economic Review (PER), Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics (APJAE), Asian Ethnicity, and East Asian Science, Technology, and Society: an International Journal; and four TSSCI journals include the Taiwanese Journal of Political Science, Taiwan Economic Review, Taiwanese Sociology, and NTU Social Work Review. We work hard to ensure the success of these journals, which are all accessible worldwide in print and online.
Long-term Objectives
NTU’s COSS has built an international reputation and in the future we hope to lead the University’s ambitions to delivering research excellence and becoming a leading academic institution in Asia.