文藻外語大學 | |
Motto | “Revere the Divine, Love the Human" |
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Type | Private |
Established | 1966 |
President | Shieu-Ming Chou, D.S.N. |
Academic staff
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304 (full time) |
Undergraduates | 9000 |
Postgraduates | 168 |
Location | Sanmin, Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
Campus | Suburban |
Affiliations | Roman Union of the Order of St. Ursula |
Website | wzu.edu.tw |
Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | 文藻外語大學 | ||||||
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Wénzǎo Wàiyǔ Dàxué |
The Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages (WZU; Chinese: 文藻外語大學) is the only university devoted to languages education in Taiwan. It awards A.A., B.A., B.B.A. degrees, and offers a master's degree program M.A., M.B.A., and M.F.A.. Students from abroad can get a visa to study Chinese in Taiwan at Wenzao, as it is one of the 45 Chinese Language Centers accredited by the Ministry of Education. It is a member of Association of Christian Universities and Colleges in Asia (ACUCA), Association of Southeast and East Asian Catholic Colleges and Universities (ASEACCU), The International Council of Saint Thomas Aquinas (ICUSTA), University Mobility of Asia and the Pacific (UMAP), International Association of University Presidents (IAUP).
Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, named after the first Chinese Bishop Lo Wenzao, was established in 1966 by the Ursulines of the Roman Union of the Order of St. Ursula as the Wen Tzao Ursuline Junior College of Modern Languages for Girls. The institution remained a female-only junior college until 1980. It became “Wen Tzao Ursuline College of Modern Languages" in 1999, and the only college in Taiwan dedicated to language education. It not only preserves the junior college program in English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese, but also provides two-year and four-year college programs, post-graduate study and extension education.