About

The Department of Health Promotion and Health Education is under the College of Education and is one of the twenty-two departments at National Taiwan Normal University. In 1954, the Department of Physical Education of National Taiwan Normal University was renamed the Department of Physical and Health Education. Then, in 1957, the department separated physical education and health education into two separate tracks. In July 1959, the Department of Health Promotion and Health Education was officially established. Since its establishment, in addition to its continuous efforts to improve teaching equipment, faculty qualifications, and student quality, the department has been actively involved in all kinds of academic and research events. Due to the high demand for research experts, the Department expanded to establish a Graduate Institute of Health Education and started offering a master’s program in 1980. Then, in order to provide continuing education for teachers and strengthen their professional training, the Department began an evening class program (now this program is integrated into the Extension Division for In–Service and Continuing Education) in 1981. Furthermore, the Department started to offer a summer program for continuing education in 1982, and then launched an additional summer bachelor’s degree program in 1989. In 1993, the Department officially instituted its doctoral program. Since then, the Department of Health Promotion and Health Education has created a complete plan and comprehensive capacity for the education of health education professionals.