Master’s Degree Programs Course Selection Regulations
Revised May., 2022
| Subject | Details |
| Withdrawal from Study if not Follow the Regulation | (Academic Regulations Article 55) Graduate students shall take at least one course (including thesis/dissertation, thesis/dissertation study), or shall be deemed withdrawal from study. |
| Advisor | The spouse, kindred within the 3rd tier under the civil law, or relatives from marriages to the graduate students shall not act as the academic advisor. Students must choose a thesis advisor before the end of the Add-or-Drop Selection, otherwise student cannot have thesis oral defense before the end of 4th semester. |
| Required Credit | Further to the master thesis, graduate students at the master’s level shall complete at least 24 course credits. |
| Course Selection Regulations | Students of master’s degree program should try as much as possible to take courses which are number coded 5; credits for undergraduate courses starting with a code number 4 can be accredited, but courses taken during the undergraduate program cannot be taken again. From academic year 2002, students for master’s degree programs can take 2-3 courses (maximum of 6 credits) starting with a code number 4. However, if students pursuit PhD degree directly, the already took courses starting with a code number 4 cannot be accredited. Course selection for graduate students should be chosen according to the nature of the thesis approved by their thesis advisors. For graduate students, the credit of “Technical and Scientific English Writing” courses starting with a code number 5 can be accredited into the required credits for graduation. However, selecting other language courses or non-technical courses shall not be accredited. On-job students in Master’s degree program may take a maximum of 6 credits per semester. This may go up to 7 credits when they take Seminar course, which is 1 credit. |
| Not Chemical Engineering Background | For those students whose majors are not Chemical Engineering should take Chemical Engineering Principles I and II. For relevant exemptions, please refer to the MS Academic Rules. For those students whose majors are not Chemical Engineering taking Chemical Engineering Principles I and II (6 credits) may be included in the required 24 credits. |
| Seminar | Students in Master program should take 3 credits of Seminar courses and these credits are included in the required 24 credits. Credit exemption: Foreign students can use English seminar (E 500100) to exempt seminar course in our department; native students are limited to one-time exemption. (105.10.17 Department Affairs Meeting) |
| Academic Research Ethics Education | Students that are enrolled in the graduate and doctorate programs starting from (including) the 2015 Fall semester must complete National Tsing Hua University Academic Research Ethics Education Course before the end of the first year of his/her enrollment. This course is a 0 credit, mandatory course. Each student that has taken this course must obtain at least a passing grade for the course’s test. The students that have not completed this course are not allowed to apply for their Oral Defense. |
| Interschool Course Selection | All compulsory courses offered by the Department must be taken in the Department (or other related departments in the University), and shall not be taken in other schools. Master’s or doctoral students taking courses in other colleges are limited to the following credits per semester: 6 credits. Students in the Department (including master’s and doctoral students) taking selective courses in other schools are limited to a total maximum of 1/3 (inclusive) the compulsory credits for graduation. Credits exceeding the limit will not be counted toward the Department’s compulsory credits for graduation. |
| Thesis Proposal | The oral test is scheduled by the advisor, and held once every semester. The oral test must be conducted before October 31 of the first semester, and before April 30 of the second semester (for spring semester enrollment/for those wishing to graduate in the next one and half years). Only Master’s degree student who have passed the master thesis proposal after six months can apply to take the master degree examination. |
| Master’s Degree Examination | Students that are enrolled after 2019 academic year (including) should prepare the Thesis Similarity Report for Master’s Degree Examination. Announcement from Division of Registration: http://learning.site.nthu.edu.tw/p/412-1319-7120.php?Lang=en |
| Others | Faculty’s meetings are usually on Monday afternoons; students may not reschedule courses to this day. |