Recently, the government of Taiwan is promoting its policy of healthy exercise hoping to encourage all citizens to work out regularly and foster more athletes. Based on the idea of “an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure”, healthy exercise has become an important trend. Also, realizing the fact that mental health is related to regular exercise and higher quality of life, Taiwanese citizens are more willing to invest time and money in healthy exercise. Moreover, because of the policy of the 2-day weekend and the growing income, healthy exercise and recreation business is blooming in Taiwan. The department’s goal is to meet the society’s needs by developing more professionals in the field of recreation design and individual healthy exercise plan. As such, the department borrows the idea from the American sports education about integrating sports, health, and leisure in the curriculum design. Our major target is to help our students become professionals in these three areas: sports coaches, physical fitness coaches, and leisure designers.

1. Developing professional coaches.
   
2. Developing professional designers of sports and recreation.
   
3. Helping students to get the license of recreation and tourism.
   
4. Cooperating with related recreation companies, providing intern opportunity, and developing professionals for higher quality of recreation business design.
   

Short term goal:

1. Provide practical, professional, and career oriented courses.
2. Hardware improvement in the department including upgrading classrooms, gymnasium, teaching equipment.
3. Help students to get a niche in job market.

Mid-term goal:

Since our school is a career oriented school, the administration will cooperate with sport companies, provide more intern opportunities for students, and build partnership with recreation business in order to combine theory and practice.

Long-term goal: (After achieving the short-term and mid-term goals)

1. Establish graduate school for the department, focus on academic studies, improve the sport curriculum design, and develop more theories and designs.
2. Establish our own recreation center in order to provide more and more intern opportunities to students, and eventually contribute our effort to our society.