History

Department of International Trade (Department of International Business in 2006) at Chung Hua University was established in 1995. It belongs to the College of Management which was established in 1997. The first chairman of the Department was Professor Wu, Hon-Yu, followed by professor Lee, Yao-Hsien; Hsu, Tzu-Kuang; Chia, Chun-Wen. On August of 2007, Professor Lin, Kuo-Hsiung became the chairman of our department. Currently, our Department has 241 students, and 8 full-time teachers.

Goals

The goals of our department are to cultivate, train, and develop an international business people who have a global vision. We therefore focus on the two types of core knowledge: International Economics and Trade Practice and Cross Border E-Commerce Practice. Furthermore, our department has provided an intimate teacher-student interaction. Teachers not only counsel students about ordinary living, but also encourage students for cultivating and developing the skills of the international business. After students graduate form our department, they own positive, optimism and high-quality characters which are needed in our society.

Teaching Characteristics

1. E-Teaching: The department of International Business assists students to enhance the ability of searching for relevant information. Each course is equipped with electronic campus (CHU MOODLE) page teaching, innovation and education. Interactive Response System (IRS) involving in each course also make good interaction with Teacher-Student.

2. Good problem-base learning skill: To strengthen the ability of problem-base learning (PBL), we encourage students to participate Cross Border E-Commerce competition held by Alibaba and Taiwan-trade platform. Though discuss with foreign traders stimulating creativity and innovation as the students are tasked to present innovative solutions to the problems addressed during the competition. Most of the various tasks include designing and managing websites, content management skills, etc. Impact in the form of winning the competition gives the group an exciting opportunity to work as an apprenticeship for the organizing industry. 

3. Well Teacher-Student Interaction: The Department of emphasis on teacher professional care and balance, to provide students academic life, feelings of career planning and counseling related to consulting, get to know more about the needs of students so that students feel the warmth of home.