The institute is emphasized to provide high quality teaching program within the constraints of university's resources made available to it. Two-year postgraduate programme is primarily oriented to full-time professional needs. Its course structure is composed of four main bodies, including compulsory courses, core courses, domain courses and specialist theme courses. Their detailed information is highlighted as follows.
 Compulsory Courses |
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 Urban and Regional Planning Workshop (1), (2) |
6 Credits |
| Urban Studies |
4 Credits |
| Region Studies |
4 Credits |
| Core courses Choice of 4 courses |
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| Planning Theory and Institution |
2 Credits |
| Urban Planning and Management Laws |
2 Credits |
| Urban and Regional Analysis Methods |
2 Credits |
| Econometrics |
2 Credits |
| Mathematical Programming |
2 Credits |
| Fundamentals of GIS for Planners |
3 Credits |
| Qualitative Research for Social Sciences |
3 Credits |
| Domain coursesĦiChoice of
3 courses (including 2 courses of one module and 1 course of
other module Ħj |
|
 Globalization and Local Studies |
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| Industrial and Regional Development Study |
3 Credits |
| Local Economy and Urban Development Strategy |
3 Credits |
| Environmental Planning and Management |
|
| Environmental Planning |
3 Credits |
| Environmental System and Public Policy |
3 Credits |
| Land Use and Transportation |
|
| Empirical Analysis of Built Environment |
2 Credits |
| Land Use and Transportation |
3 Credits |
| City Culture |
|
| Modernity and Metropolis |
3 Credits |
| Spatial Structure of Taiwan City |
3 Credits |
| Specialist theme courses |
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| Planning in Cultural Environment |
3 Credits |
| Urban Social Structure |
2 Credits |
| Local Development and National Policy in China |
3 Credits |
| History of the City |
3 Credits |
| Typo-Morphology of the City |
3 Credits |
| Issues on Urban Design |
2 Credits |
| Issues on (post)Colonial City |
3 Credits |
| Seminar on Sustainable Land Use Planning |
2 Credits |
| Ecological Economics |
2 Credits |
| Regional Environmental Issues and System Analysis |
2 Credits |
| Introduction to Urban Engineering |
2 Credits |
| Urban and Human Ecology |
2 Credits |
| Thesis Writing and Research on the Political Economies of Urban and Regional Development |
2 Credits |
| Energy Analysis and Regional Development |
3 Credits |
| Location Theory |
2 Credits |
| Transportation Planning |
2 Credits |
| Project Evaluation |
3 Credits |
| Land Development Planning and Evaluation |
3 Credits |
| Urban Economics |
3 Credits |
| Regional Economics |
3 Credits |
| Software Applications for Quantitative Analysis |
2 Credits |
| Studies in Rural Planning |
2 Credits |
| Planning and Development Control |
3 Credits |
| National Land Planning |
3 Credits |
