The General Education Center makes an NTUT education a holistic one by providing courses in
humanism,social sciences,and natural sciences,which are further divided into six subcategories
of literature and arts,history and civilization,philosophy and virtue,democracy and law,
economics and management,and natural science and logic,Students are required to complete
at least one course in all six subcategories and one community service session to prepare them
to be professionals with a genuine concern for human society and for the natural world.The Center
also seeks to build up students' Chinese abilities and their connection with Chinese culture
through courses in Chinese classics.For international students,however,the training focus is
shifted to general Chinese communication abilities.
 
The Center also frequently hosts extracurricular activities such as student concerts , cultural
exhibitions , and seminars on films that seek to bring the perspective of the humanities and
cultural studies to our technology-based University . Another important role of the Center is to
be the history keeper of the University . Faculty members of the Center have been engaged in
research into the University's 100 years of history through publications,personal diaries,
photographs,and interviews with alumni.A book on the history of the University has also been
published by the Center in celebration ofthe University's centennial milestone.