The 111 academic year's joint orientation of law school master and doctoral students was a complete success, and the new form of discussion encouraged freshmen
At noon on September 15th, National Chengchi University Law School held a symposium for the freshmen of the 111th academic year of the Law Institute and the Law Department of the Master and Doctoral Programs at the Law School's Lecture on the Rule of Law. This year's seminar was held in the form of a symposium, emphasizing the academic and life challenges after becoming a postgraduate student. Teachers at the meeting expressed their welcome and reminded students to establish a complete postgraduate awareness and arrange time and study plans appropriately. The five teachers in the school communicated with the freshmen, and opened a new prelude to the students' master and doctoral careers.
Dean Cheng-Hsien Hsu encouraged new graduate students to cultivate the habit of discovering new knowledge and research, and to seize the precious and complete time before society to explore and study. Dean Xu recommended everyone to go to the free art space in the 15th staircase hall and read 200 extracurricular books before graduation. Through the story of the British writer Virginia Woolf, he encouraged freshmen to study happily and to be happy, and quoted a foreign judge to encourage everyone to study across fields, "Reading classic literature such as literature, history, and philosophy is no less than reading law. importance".
Director Hsiao-Tan Wang introduced the business promotion plan for the master and doctoral classes in detail, and hoped that law students could further improve their academic dialogue ability on the basis of a solid legal foundation in the course of their studies in the law school. Director Wang continuously said that during the research period, we must constantly practice thesis writing and achieve five core skills: first, the article must have claims and arguments; second, write arguments based on the types of questions such as comparison, explanation or evaluation; third, each section Each paragraph has more arguments than the preceding paragraph; fourth, the style of the writing plan; fifth, writing for the reader.
Prof. Sheng-Chieh Lee claimed the concept of research ethics, and emphasized that "writing the thesis" should not be just to cope with graduation, the quality of the thesis is related to the attitude students want to leave the campus with. Prof. Li hopes that the freshmen will work hard to write a thesis as well, solve legal problems well through research papers, write a thesis that is responsible and self-required for themselves, and become experts in the field of law.
In addition, Prof. Richard Li-Dar Wang also explained the way of writing and discussing dissertations that many master and doctoral students are troubled by. First, he explained the differences between law and different subjects through examples, and encouraged everyone to use a concise and precise way to discuss and persuade others. Professor Wang said that the new system from this year will implement thesis seminars. Through this format, students can practice expressing in the most persuasive and concise way through presentations and discussions.
Prof. Hung-En Liu introduced the cross-disciplinary integrated research center in the law school to the freshmen, and cited the popular COVID-19 issues in recent years to illustrate several important issues of medical ethics, and emphasized that due to the rapid social changes, many emerging issues cannot be Explored from the perspective of individual law subjects. This semester, the College of Law, National Chengchi University has newly established seven research centers across different legal subjects. By integrating knowledge from two or more fields of law, research and curriculum design are oriented to problem-solving.
In the end, the students from the College of Law also shared their campus life and course experience with the freshmen. The freshmen actively asked questions and communicated with the director and professors during the final Q & A session.
This year, the law school's master and doctoral students welcome new students, and they are well received in the form of joint discussions, and provide important resource introductions of the institute for freshmen. In response to the newly established graduation thesis seminar system for this year's master's class, the Institute of Law and Inter-Discipline has a new course of "Integrated Dissertation Logic and Writing among Legal Disciplines", so that students can at the same time have a solid foundation of legal discipline ability and cross-disciplinary dialogue and research writing. ability.
In response to the needs of the times, the teachers of the law school have devoted a lot of resources to the dialogue between law and cross-fields, as well as innovative curriculum planning. The event was a complete success, and the teachers also expected the new graduate students of the Law School to create a fulfilling and beautiful research career with their passion for legal knowledge.