Mission
In alignment with the global developmental trends delineated by the United Nations’ ‘Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’ and ‘Interdisciplinary Integration,’ the Department of Architecture, in collaboration with associated departments within the School of Design, envisages the establishment of two academic programmes: ‘Cultural Heritage Preservation’ and ‘Sustainable Environmental Construction.’ This initiative aspires to augment the horizontal ‘integration’ within professional development courses. The Program offers an opportunity to extend the growth of professional architecture development and bolsters vertical integration of professional development courses that we have implemented to reach the goal of creating consistency between professional architecture education and academic research.
Education is not merely the pathway to explore knowledge and skills but is a process of forming character and searching for personal life meaning.This is why CYCU’s education mission is to implement balanced “holistic education” with the goal of creating harmony between God, Man, Mater andSelf. Hopes are to cultivate young people with a sense of care for organization, dedication towards the collective and responsibility towards society; providing them with ethical qualities that correspond with outstanding academic professionalism and their own style of service in leadership and insight so that in thought and deed they will demonstrate a far reaching international field of vision.
University education development objectives and policy:
Holistic
Education of Socially Holistic People
Global
Raise International Talent
Professional
Foster Workplace Professionals
Guided by overarching concepts pertaining to architecture we take concerted action towards the common pursuit of the educational goals that are derived from the educational mission, philosophy and stated purpose of the Department and Faculty. With the three dimensions of “magnanimity (holistic), breadth (global) and depth (professional)”, we have actively developed a learning environment and curriculum for professional development, designed to lead students to a position where they may face competition and trends of globalization. Also, throughout the course of study, students will learn to develop their own unique character and professional skills.
We maintain that the basic abilities, professional skills and other professional characteristics that international professional talent should possess are:
01 / Sound Professional Attitudes
cultivated humanities and professional ethics, with service and teamwork sentiments
02 / Broad Professional Knowledge
Compatible with life care and cultural heritage, with broad vision and an international perspective
03 / Superb Professional Skills
innovative thinking and the ability to integrate, with expertise and practical skills
Each person is endowed differently, with distinct character, abilities and environmental influences; therefore success is achieved when a person brings his or her individual potential to the fore. We focus our attention on the spirit of a student’s self-learning, personal development and autonomy; cultivating the virtues of responsibility, discipline and cooperation in people who possess the ability to respond to a new society with an ambition to create a new generation. We lead students to use objective, respective and tolerant attitudes in pursuing life and wisdom; cultivating an understanding and care for society and the environment, while integrating the four major aspects of God, Man, Mater and Self to attain “professional and general knowledge” and a balance between “body, mind and soul”. This is done in order to achieve the goal of holistic education, with hopes that students will become learned professionals with cultural heritage, technical knowledge and professionalism. In professional education we are guided by “the human need for the environment, the influence of behavior in culture and exceeding tendency of the heart for perfection”; and through the course of professional architecture study, we emphasize the professional development of people-oriented attitudes and individual character, with a focus on skills in creativity, thought, expression, personal development and autonomy.
