Our Mission Statements:

"Offering quality education in foreign languages and humanities &

Grooming graduates for excellence in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication"

We are happy to announce the establishment of the College of Foreign Languages and Literature here at Providence University.  Providence University is the 9^th one among all institutes of higher education in Taiwan to have a college specifically devoted to the teaching and research of foreign languages and literature.  This college consists of the Department of English Language, Literature, and Linguistics (with M.A. program), the Department of Spanish Language and Literature (with M.A. program), the Department of Japanese, the Chinese Language Education Center, and the Foreign Language Center.

          The three foreign language departments at Providence University have been noted for their solid training of their students in their language skills and proficiency.  With more than two hundred students coming from over thirty countries around the world, the Chinese Language Education Center is one of the largest and best of Mandarin training centers for foreign students in the central part of Taiwan.  Established in August 2007, the Foreign Language Center aims to promote self-directed foreign language learning and to enhance students' foreign language abilities. 

          Meanwhile, the three language departments are also noted for their emphasis on the balanced development of the three basic tracks of language study, namely, language, literature, and language teaching.  The concept underlying this emphasis is that these tracks not only constitute the basic substance/tenets of language study (from acquisition to use) but they are also mutually reinforcing in the processes of teaching, learning, and doing research in linguistics (theoretical and applied) and literature.  We will move along this direction, maximizing the mutually reinforcing effects of these three tracks in our future development so as to help our students and staff to attain a level of excellence in their respective language study.