About CDD

About CDD
In response to the needs of industry and the demand for top talents in digital design, the idea of founding a College of Digital Design (CDD) first took shape in 2002 and the college was finally established in 2005. The CDD was established by merging three existing departments and two graduate institutes, which were all originally affiliated to College of Business:these being the Department of Information and Communication (IC), the Department of Multimedia and Entertainment Science (MES), and the Department of Visual Communication Design(VC). In 2006, the Graduate Institute of Digital Content and Animation Design was founded and began recruiting. Additionally, in order to keep pace with the global needs and to assist in the development of the nation’s six major nascent industries, the Department of Creative Product Design was accorded department status by the Ministry and began recruting in 2010. This new department was tasked with cultivating professionals in product design. Currently, the CDD comprises the seven aforementioned academic units.
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　Objectives
To accommodate to the national policies if developmental and industrial demand, the College of Digital Design has set up the following future goals based on establishing quality and digital lives:

To be in line with the trend of digital life, the College of Digital Design works on integrating and nurturing students with leadership and specialties to provide the society with specialists for planning and designing a quality future digital design life.
To integrate all teachers in the College of Digital Design and provide value-added services of design on the strength of testing theories of research and development based on the practical design.
To enhance facilities and develop distinctive features of the College of Digital Design as well as highlight the all important concept of digital integration.
To strengthen international cooperation and participate in international activities for the purpose of obtaining a leading position in the field of digital design.

Maintaining well-equipped modern facilities, the College of Digital Design emphasizes digital innovation and development and endeavors to stimulate new thoughts for the professional field.
Putting equal emphasis on theory and practice, research and teaching, in order to cultivate in students design expertise balanced by having both theoretical and practical skills.
Encouraging cross-discipline collaboration within departments to develop an integrated platform of all kinds of digital multimedia.
Strengthen the connection among the Service and Research Center for Value-Added Design, the relevant authorities and the industry to create opportunities for collaboration among the industry, academia, and the government as well as to meet demands for local industrial development.

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Prospects
The College of Digital Design was established in 2005 due to the rapid growth of the Internet and digital technologies in the 21st century. We aim to cultivate a new era of designers, who have the ability to comprehend the new developments in digital content industries such as digital broadcasting, cultural aesthetics, the entertainment industry, information and communication design, and art design as well as e-learning. In addition, our curriculum has an interdisciplinary focus in which we train our students not only to have practical design abilities but also to be able to integrate their abilities to meet new challenges in the new digital era.

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History