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院成立於民國44年，歷經50餘年的銳意發展，目前設有國文、英文、歷史、地理、臺文等5個學系、翻譯和臺灣史2個獨立所，以及全球華人寫作中心和國際臺灣學研究中心。除臺史所僅設碩士班，其餘6個系所均設有碩、博士班；目前專兼任教師近250人，學生約2500餘人。

本院早期以培養優秀中學國文、英文、歷史和地理教師為鵠的，臺灣中學語文和史地教育的實踐與成功，本院提供不可磨滅的貢獻。近年來，本院隨師範體系轉型而調整發展方向，除維持中學師資培育的優勢外，也積極朝理論研究和實務操作等面向前進。目前，本院各系所師培生的教師檢定通過率平均在95%以上；非師培生在文化、傳播、文學、應用史學及環境災害、地理資訊系統等領域發展，也已卓然有成。

本院各系所教師的研究能量極為豐富，參與國內外學術活動相當活躍。根據論文數量、引用次數等指標所作的學術力評比，本院居人文領域全國第2名。各系所之間，無論是教師的教學與研究，或學生的生活與學習，都能相輔相成、榮辱與共，彼此渾然一體，足堪「為師、為範」而無愧。

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    Narrating Sense, Ordering Nature: Darwin's Anthropological Vision
    (英語學系, 2012-09-??) Nihad M. Farooq
    In this essay, I argue that the recurring themes of perception and the place of the human in the scale of geological time came together for Charles Darwin first in an anthropological context aboard HMS Beagle in the 1830s. Though his primary interests in his early research years were geology and zoology, the foundational influence of the Beagle journey on his burgeoning theories of the human is not to be discounted. I contend that it was Darwin's few but important anthropological observations during this significant 1831-36 excursion, especially of the native inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, that left the most indelible impression on the young naturalist, and to which he would anxiously return in subsequent years. This is where he puzzled over the seemingly single-generation shift between the three pleasant, Anglicized Fuegians (who, after a three-year British sojourn, traveled back to Tierra del Fuego aboard the Beagle with him) and their "savage" brethren who greeted the ship on the shores of their native homeland. I begin my essay by tracing the foundational influence of language in shaping Darwin's re-vision of the human, as his prose often shifts between the perceptual immersion of the curious naturalist and the ordered prose of a calculating scientist. I then examine Darwin's actual experience with the Anglicized Fuegians, and his perplexity at their eventual "reversion." This is the moment, I argue, when Darwin's theory and gaze begin to focus on the human. Through his exposure to the Anglicized Fuegians and their unassimilated counterparts at home, coupled with the "new way of seeing" and writing that his landscape and experiences demanded, Darwin inaugurates a burgeoning concept of cultural relativity and cultural fluidity, one that eventually enables him-and paves the way for future scholars and practitioners-to link all humans "along the arc of culture."