Overview on Short-Term Academic Exchange Program

1. Goal

To enhance the sister-school relationship between Shih Hsin University and its sister
institutions, and to promote international academic exchange, the goal of this program
is to offer scholarship for selective students who are motivated to study Chinese
language and culture in an Asian university environment and to help bring American
language and culture experiences to Taiwan.

2. Benefits

• The exchange students will be provided 14,100 NTD (after taxes deducted)
per month.
• The exchange students will be able to take fundamental Chinese Language
courses and some other courses offered in English by various academic departments
at the SHU campus, and all the tuition and fees will be waived.
• The exchange students will be offered a standard dormitory room, free of charge.

3. Number of Scholarship Offered:  Number of scholarship is given according to available grant.

4. Period of Study

Spring Semester starts in late February and ends in late June 2010;
Fall Semester starts in mid-September 2010 and ends in mid-January 2011.

5. Qualification

Full-time undergraduate and graduate students, except for freshmen, with excellent
English speaking and writing proficiency and intercultural adaptability with a
recommendation letter from home university’s international office are qualified for the
selection. SHU reserves all rights to approve the grant of the scholarship.

6. Obligation

The exchange students are expected to work in the English Corner (an area for
promoting English speaking on the SHU campus), for conducting informal interactions
with SHU students, 20 hours may be spreading out five days of a week.

7. SHU Application Deadline

The application documents (including the letter of recommendation, autobiography
and vitae) for the Spring Semester applicants should be mailed to the SHU by
December 31, 2009.
The application documents for the Fall Semester applicants should be mailed to
the SHU by May 15, 2010.
＊The application deadline at student’s home institute may be earlier.

Guidelines for Application Download (PDF)
Application form Download (Zip - Word & PDF)

For further information
Please contact the International Program Office at your Institute, or the following:

Fairy Lee
Center for International Academic Exchange
Shih Hsin University
#1, Lane 17, Mu-Cha Rd, Sec. 1, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Tel: 886-2-2236-8225 ext.2323
Fax: 886-2-2236-0790
E-mail: enrich@cc.shu.edu.tw, c15@cc.shu.edu.tw