(Guidelines for General Education Curriculum)

NOTE: This General Education curriculum guide is intended for students who began attending NCYU in the 2018-2019 academic year or later. Students who began attending NCYU before Fall 2018 will follow the former regulations. 

A Bachelor’s degree requires a minimum of 30 credit hours for the General Education curriculum, with 10 credit hours for compulsory courses (basic literacy curriculum) and 20 credit hours for selected courses (liberal education curriculum).

Compulsory courses (basic literacy curriculum), 10 credit hours：

(1) Chinese for 4 credit hours

(2) English for 4 credit hours

(3) Fundamentals of Programming for 2 credit hours

(4) Physical Education for 8 hours without credit (Students must take at least 4 semesters of PE courses, 2 courses for compulsory and 2 courses for 

selections. For selections, the same type of PE courses cannot be taken for credit repeatedly every semester.)

(5) Campus service-learning (within the Freshman Year)

Selected courses (liberal education curriculum), 20 credit hours:

a. Students are required to take at least one course (2 credit hours) in at least three fields. There are six fields of general education curriculums, including the field of civic literacy and social care, the field of history, culture and art cultivation, the field of life exploration and environmental care, the field of self-development, communication and interaction, the field of physical science and applied life science, the field of language application and communication practice. Students may choose to take the remaining credits from any of the 6 fields.

b. Credit cannot be given for courses with the same name more than once. Also, general education courses that fall within a student's major course of study may not be count as credit for the general education curriculum.