The Department offers bachelor, master and doctoral degrees. 

More than 90 percent of the faculty holds doctoral degrees, of whom ten are currently working on research projects sponsored either by the National Science Council or the Ministry of Education, with topics ranging from Chaucer to Joyce, psychoanalysis to postcolonialism, semantics to syntax.  In the past ten years the Department has also hosted the "Third International Comparative Literature Conference," organized the "International Conference on Modern Literature and Theory Revisited", and a number of regional conferences on the teaching and reading of English and American literature.

The Department Facilities include four audio-visual multiple-media language laboratories, a student lounge, and one reading room equipped with a small library.  The Department consistently sponsors students’ short-play competition, annual drama performances, writing and speech contests, and poetry recitations, all of which are required to be performed in English.  Students are also encouraged to participate in intercollegiate contests and events.

The bachelor degree curriculum covers foreign languages (English, Japanese, French, German, Spanish and Russian), literature, translation and linguistics.  Courses in literature include English and American literature, European Literature, comparative literature, cultural studies and literary criticism.  Courses in linguistics range from linguistics 101 to phonology, phonetics, syntax, computational linguistics and language teaching.  Drama, Poetry, and Fiction are also featured in the list of electives.

The graduate institute of the Department is the first graduate institute of its field in the universities in southern Taiwan to offer master and doctoral degrees.  The Masters program offers two tracks of study for students interested either in literary studies or applied linguistics.  “Bibliography and Research Methods,” and “Literary Theory” are two mandatory courses for students in the literature track, whereas students in the applied linguistics track are required to take “Introduction to Applied Linguistics,” and “Research Design in Applied Linguistics.”  All masters program students need to complete a minimum of 12 courses amounting to 34 units, meet second language requirements, and conclude with a thesis before graduation. 

Ever since its inception in 1994, the doctoral program has steadily grown to an enrollment of twenty four, all of whom were admitted after a highly competitive and demanding entrance qualifications process.  The doctoral program provides rigorous training to future academic scholars with the analytic acumen and intellectual maturity to conduct independent research and it also initiates students to the art of teaching by allowing them to teach undergraduate level English.