National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) keeps up with trends in the podcast and announces today that a brand-new podcast channel NYCU PRESS Storytelling is launched, recording a series called “what you’ll learn in universities.” The podcast invites professors and students from NYCU, National Chengchi University (NCCU), and National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) to conversate on-air and share what knowledge to be expected in universities. With comprehensive discussion, the podcast tends to attract more young students to listen and help them evaluate whether they are suitable for each major.
According to NYCU, to get with the times of popular podcast trends and to resolve the doubts of parents and students who are distressed by choices of majors, NYCU Press recently records a series called “what you’ll learn in universities,” which has been planned, recorded, and aired for a year. Unlike traditional formats that share information from schools’ angles or students’ personal experiences, the podcast invites professors and students from various departments of NYCU, NCCU, and NTHU in every episode to conversate and share their knowledge.
According to NYCU, professors disclose tips for preparing application documents and precautions for admission interviews in the podcast. Also, professors recommend an introductory book to first-year students related to the major, hoping that students can thoroughly nourish their learning literacy in their spare time. Moreover, in the podcast, upper-level students share their experiences of admission application, the professional know-how they learn from the department, and their campus lives.
For example, in the episode Welcome to Much-Homework University! Lifestyle Sharing of Department of Electrons and Electrical Engineering from Admission to Graduation, Prof. Yu-Lun Huang from the Department of Electrons and Electrical Engineering, NYCU, conversates with Ya-Rou Hsu, a senior student, sharing the professional knowledge learned from the major and the potential academic development.
Prof. Yu-Lun Huang, as an admission examiner, discloses standards for selecting students. Huang says that one particular application document has left a deep impression by stating that the student is interested and fascinated by physics. The application document stands out from others, which mostly describe their family backgrounds in autobiographies. “Scores might not be the most important criterion for admission in this case because I can tell the student’s learning passion for the major,” said Huang.
In the episode, Everyone Majors in Computer Science Knows How to Fix Computer? In the Era of Everyone Knows Coding, Prof. Yong-Sheng Chen from the Department of Computer Science, NYCU, and Tzu-Chi Liu, a junior student and the President of the Student Association, share what knowledge to expect in the Department of Computer Science. According to Chen, there is an application document that successfully catches Chen’s eyes, where the student uses a clear layout and humorous tone in the document. Application documents can also leave a remarkable impression if high school students are highly interested in programming and actively attend competitions. However, learning is an endurance competition. Students with good math ability can further show their ambition in learning AI and computer science in their application documents.