Director General Yvonne Hsiao participated in the ceremony in celebration of the Fifth Taiwan Studies Grant
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Director General Yvonne Hsiao of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Houston and Andrea Yang, Director of Education Division participated in the ceremony in celebration of the Fifth Taiwan Studies Grant¸ provided by Ministry of Education to the Department of Asian Studies, UT Austin .
In 2009, The University of Texas at Austin launched one of the first Taiwan Studies programs in the United States with the funding from Taiwan’s MOE. In 2021, the program was expanded with the Center for Taiwan Studies with a grant provided by Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Program has offered a total of 42 semester-long courses covering 24 different topics, and related academic support, giving more than 1,000 students opportunities to explore different aspects of Taiwan—including its literature, culture, history, political, and social phenomena—with an intensive, systematic, in-depth approach.
Hoping someday in the future, the knowledge the students have learned on campus will impact political, economic and, academic circles in Texas, and perhaps even the entire United States!!