2022 Project Highlights - Chinese Culture University
Chinese Culture University (hereinafter referred to as “CCU”) has implemented four major programs, 12 strategies, and 55 action plans for the Higher Education SROUT Project. The highlights of the CCU project in 2022 are as follows:
- Hwa Kang Maker Center upholds the philosophy of "hands-on" and "problem-solving", inviting industry lecturers to give workshops and seminars to bring practical experience to campus. In addition, the Maker Center encourages the implementation of innovative ideas and provides facilities for students and faculty to try to develop new products with their professional knowledge and technology. In addition, hands-on workshops are offered for students and faculty to try out different creative product development ideas and practices from the topics offered. In the process of conducting 89 teaching workshops and creative lectures in the past year, feedback is collected from the participants and evaluating the feasibility of offering courses in the Maker Center based on the results of the market survey, and gradually adjusting the teaching contents and the aesthetics and sophistication of the products produced. In 2022, the workshops on product design and production are under two themes-- "professional creativity, innovation, and hands-on practice" and "delicate design," attracting 2,014 participants. The facility usage count reaches 3,765.
- CCU is committed to cultivating interdisciplinary talents by requiring students to complete 6 courses/12 credits of interdisciplinary specialization before graduation. The university also promotes micro-credit courses in all departments and offers professional VR modules, Smart-Life Internet of Things, 3D Printing, Metalworking, Ceramics, Printmaking, Digital Printing, and Supercritical and Hydrodynamic Essential Oil Extraction for all students and faculty. In addition, the colleges have set up related multidisciplinary courses. For example, the College of Arts offers courses or activities integrating humanities and science, and technology to foster interdisciplinary performance, including 7 interdisciplinary creativity courses, 33 art creation workshops/lectures, 6 art competitions, and 18 campus art performances. The College of Engineering offers courses in the fields of electrical engineering, machinery, chemical materials, information technology, and textiles, as well as 15 courses on smart factories. There are 552 participants, 470 of whom are students from other colleges (85.15%). The College of Law promotes an interdisciplinary training program for corporate legal professionals, offering 9 courses related to interdisciplinary areas. In addition, it cooperates with several law firms and companies to conduct summer and mid-term internship programs. It also organizes the 7th Conference on Corporate Innovation and Management Law, the 9th Hwa Kang Financial Law Conference, and conferences on Metaverse, contemporary financial law, international law, insurance law, etc.
- Strengthen self-accountability with a professional institutional management system and disclose university information and data.The Office of Institutional Research follows the decision of the Institutional Research Committee to give definitions to all data types and conduct analysis. The analysis report is based on the quantitative methodology and is made available on the website of the office and the institutional research platform.
(i) Research topic: Learning effectiveness of students in innovation and entrepreneurship courses.From the school year 2018 to 2020, the number of relevant courses offered increased from 46 to 159.Regarding learning styles, the analysis shows that students’learning attitudes and methods for selective courses are better than that for requirements and interdisciplinary courses. Overall, the learning styles among students are in balance. The result suggests CCU continue the innovation and entrepreneurship courses to teach students the required skills. It also suggests future studies on the correlation between learning effectiveness before and after taking the courses to further enhance their learning effectiveness.(ii) Research topic: Pretest and posttest performance of college students’ basic literacy.To ensure whole-person development, liberal education and international tests propose 10 core competencies students should have. This research uses CCU’s institutional data: the test results of the freshmen in the school year 2018, and the test results of the same student group in the school year 2020, to see students’ pretest and post-test performance.Overall, for the cognitive aspect, the test scores of 6 competencies drop, while those of 3 competencies (communication and cooperation, civil society, and career development) improve, and the score of innovative leadership is consistent.For the affective aspect, the test scores of the 3 competencies drop, while those of the 6 competencies (aesthetics, innovative leadership, civil society, humanistic literacy, lifelong learning, and scientific literacy) improve, and the score of information literacy is consistent. The result suggests that for the cognitive aspect, innovative leadership needs to be strengthened; for the affective aspect, information literacy needs to be improved. It helps students to improve their different competencies. (iii)Research topic: Basic literacy and career patch of college students. This study investigates the satisfaction of CCU graduates from four aspects: gender, program (college), employment status, and satisfaction with the program (college). The number of students with different employment statuses varies, so it is reasonable that the satisfaction of graduates of different programs and employment statuses is different.As to the graduates’ low satisfaction with the correlation between career path and major, the university can encourage students to take interdisciplinary courses to enhance their interdisciplinary skills and improve the correlation. - Incorporate faculty expertise into community building.The 8 colleges of CCU focus on community humanistic care, whether in the survey and planning of community data, strengthening the awareness of the community about the environment, caring for the elderly and children in the community, improving the foreign language ability of the community, and promoting the community through media production, etc., to bring CCU closer to the community, to unite CCU teachers and students and the community cohesion.USR Hub more than 10 departments in 5 colleges of CCU use "Yangmingshan Studies" as the main axis to create an impression of the humanities, arts and natural cultural landscape of Yangmingshan, combining practical work, internships, fieldwork, field visits, and data collection, etc. CCU also fulfills its responsibility to cultivate industrial talents for society and offers media literacy courses to enhance the independent thinking ability of junior and senior high school students and to put them into practice in life.(1) College of Liberal Arts - "Yangmingshan Studies": Humanities Study Project.The project enhances students’ understanding of the Yangmingshan area and deepens their relationship with local communities. The collaboration with the Yan Xishan House and the agreement signed with various museums in Yangmingshan demonstrate CCU has successfully promoted Yangmingshan Studies. (2) College of Arts - "Yangmingshan Studies":In 2022, CCU and the neighborhood’s business held the serial activities of “Yangmingshan: Fascinating Tonight.” With an outdoor concert and an exhibition combining light sculptures and digital arts, the activities illustrated Yangmingshan’s cultural and aesthetic landscapes. It also indirectly created a new value of the coexistence between the neighborhood residents/business and the environment. (3) Department of Landscape Architecture - "Yangmingshan Studies": Build a local network of sustainable environment and social practice. The project in 2022 certified 18 students to be wetland trainees. The knowledge, skills and technology of wetland conservation were passed on through “learning by doing” and group discussion. It also brought in fresh blood for wetland research and ignites students’ passion for wetland science.(4) Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering – Project of Human Resource Development for Ceramics Industry.Participants of the ceramics talent training activities include CCU students of science/technology and non-science/technology majors and high school students of the Stars Program. For the participants to have hands-on experience and shorten their adaption time in the industry, the participants join the team organizing the parent-child workshops in elementary schools. The arrangement reduces the gap between higher education and industry and achieves two goals - ceramics talent cultivation and promoting ceramics education in high schools.(5)Department of Mass Communication – Teacher Training and Curriculum Practice of Media Literacy Education.The Department held four media literacy camps for high schools in November and December. The camps served 112 high school students (204 attendances).
2022 Project Achievements
CCU proposes four plans with "Rooted in learning, diversity, and innovation, leading the future, and promoting unique features" as the main axis.
I. Implement teaching innovation and improve teaching quality
(1) Improve students’ learning outcomes
To enhance students' learning effectiveness, CCU conducted the Basic Literacy Test to measure students' performance in whole-person literacy, Rubrics as a tool to implement core competency questionnaires for graduates of various departments, and piloted the Appropriate Teaching and Learning Style Questionnaire designed by Richard M. Felder and Linda K. Silverman for teachers to use as a basis for adjusting teaching directions to enhance students' interest in learning and to elevate their learning outcomes. In line with the graduation process, CCU surveyed fresh graduates when they leave school. 3,766 valid questionnaires were collected this year.
(2) Strengthen students' professional and practical technical skills
In 2022, a total of 52 internship courses were offered, which integrated theory and practice through industry-based learning. In addition to career workshops and career seminars, the university held a series of 19 career seminars, including career planning, alumni experience sharing and industry trends, function and workplace education, and workplace visits. To provide students with a variety of development opportunities and industry-academia linkages, the "Non-Curriculum Internship" program was held with 540 students completing it. 14 hours of micro-credit internship was also offered. Following the common workplace skills valued by companies, 45 seminars on the eight common workplace functions were held, including communication and expression, interpersonal interaction, information technology, teamwork and work discipline, etc., which were highly beneficial to students.
(3) Develop key competencies for students
(i) Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The Hwa Kang Maker Center offers a series of lectures and hands-on workshops in a variety of categories, including 3D printing, VR virtual reality, and other technology courses, as well as workshops in leather creation, essential oil extraction, ceramics, printmaking, goldwork, creative fragrance soap, and textile weaving, etc., providing a platform for students and faculty to put their professional knowledge into practice to create finished products.
(ii) Logical Thinking: Depending on the application and needs of each discipline, CCU develops logical thinking and programming courses for different fields, divided into beginner and advanced courses. 76% of all undergraduate students took programming courses in 2022.
(iii) Chinese Reading and Writing: In the first semester of the school year 2022, 47% of the 43 classes were tested for their Chinese reading and writing skills. After the test, the content and methods of teaching freshman Chinese language were adjusted to improve students' reading and writing skills. The newly edited Chinese language curriculum is divided into four modules: Humanistic Ideas, Taste of Life, Caring for People, and Practical Writing. In addition, the Chinese section adds practical writing and teaching skills for autobiography and basic commercial planning writing for students' future application of current trends.
(4)Promote Innovative Teaching and Learning
(i) To encourage teachers to engage in diversified teaching and learning, and to reward teachers who continue to develop innovative teaching and teaching materials into the curriculum, CCU offers programs for teachers to apply every semester and awards them after passing the review.
(ii) To improve the teaching methods of teachers from different fields through the process of co-teaching or mutual lesson observation, 13 interdisciplinary teacher development communities were established this year and 72 activities and seminars were held.
(iii) To enhance teachers' professional ability to teach appropriately and to use standardized tests to understand students' learning characteristics, 2,522 students completed the learning style questionnaire. It helps teachers to adjust the teaching contents to students' characteristics and enhance students' learning effectiveness.
II. Develop CCU’s Unique Features
(1)Cultivate interdisciplinary π talents
Students admitted in the school year 2017 and after are required to take 6-course/12-credits of general studies courses to cultivate π talents. 84 sets of interdisciplinary concentrations were offered in 2022, and micro-credit courses were offered in each department to provide students with the opportunity to choose freely and earn credits.
(2) Integrate Chinese culture into the teaching
Since its founding, Chinese Culture University has made the promotion of Chinese culture a feature and a vision of the university, and each faculty has planned the relevant teaching programs.
(i) College of Liberal Arts: The College established the "Chinese Culture Characteristic Curriculum Promotion Team" to conduct workshops, courses, seminars, educational training, and competitions. In 2022, the College held 4 micro-credit lectures, 6 workshops, and 3 competitions to enhance the learning atmosphere of traditional Chinese culture on campus.
(ii) The College of Science: The College of Science held 8 lectures and 2 industrial visits with 1,473 attendees. Through the integration of Chinese culture and Taiwanese local spirit in the curriculum, the effectiveness of the innovative development of local culture was enhanced, and through the integration of Chinese culture and Taiwanese local culture in the original inflexible professional curriculum, learning can hence be more diversified and integrated. Through the visiting activities, students experienced the positive attitude of "environmental friendliness", which should be continuously expanded, and fully understood the ecological environment and environmental changes, so that they could apply what they learned and cherish natural resources.
The College is committed to promoting a wide range of learning and growth impetus, considering appropriate strategies to protect the ecosystem, and realizing the ideal of sustainable ecological development.
(3)Establish Smart Life Technology Courses
(i) Applying digital technology information to shape FinTech professionals: offering courses on introduction to financial technology, app design and application, social media marketing, third-party payment, blockchain technology and application, digital financial marketing, mobile commerce, financial supervision, and legal regulation, etc. to strengthen students' relevant knowledge and skills. In 2022, 20 students obtained the license for trust operations personnel and 80 students obtained the license for financial data analysts (level 1).
(ii) VR Class ∞ Virtual Classroom Infinity: 2 professional module courses were offered, and VR-related radio production equipment was purchased for the courses. Combined with the professional internship courses, 48 pieces of work were produced in 2022.
(iii) Smart Living Mobile Internet of Things (IoT) Maker Program: 2 mini-courses and 4 IOT Maker Courses or Smart Living IOT Courses.
(4)Interdisciplinary curriculum design and development
To enhance interdisciplinary technological learning, CCU actively promotes interdisciplinary courses and student learning activities among faculties and departments, including the Colleges of Law, Social Sciences, Agriculture, Engineering, Mass Communication, and Arts and Education.
(i) College of Law – “Interdisciplinary Training Program for Corporate Legal Talents”: including 9 interdisciplinary courses, summer, and mid-term internship programs in cooperation with several law firms and companies, the 7th Conference on Corporate Innovation and Management Law, and the 9th Hwa Kang Financial Law Conference, and conferences on Metaverse, contemporary financial law, international law, insurance law, etc.
(ii) College of Agriculture - "Agriculture into Life, Innovative Industry and Research": Due to the epidemic this year, the teaching and student learning exhibition were held on a smaller scale. 7 lectures were held on the latest developments in industrial and academic research and development. The lectures, intended to broaden students' career horizons, covered the introduction of the cow camphor industry, the development of innovative technologies such as the floral industry from research to industry, and the latest developments in the meat industry, nutrition marketing, and the latest development of territorial projects in Taiwan.
(iii) College of Engineering - "Smart Factory Talent Cultivation": The College `of Engineering offered 15 courses on Smart Factory. 552 students took the courses, and 470 (85.15%) of whom were from other colleges. Five department-level competitions and one college-level student competition were held to meet the capstone requirement for IEET Engineering Certification.
(iv) College of Mass Communication - "Connecting with Corporates Program to Cultivate Students' Ability to Solve Social Problems": The Department of Communication held 15 seminars on new media and digital marketing, self-media planning, and video compositions, with a total of 800 attendances.
(v) College of Arts - "Humanities and Technology Integration, Crossover Performance Talent Cultivation": The College of Arts organizes several courses for interdisciplinary creators, including courses on physical kinetics, theater video technology, pop music creation, music crossover creation, metalwork design creation, and art marketing topics, to lay the foundation of academic and application theories. In 2022, the College held 33 art creation workshops or lectures, 6 art competitions, and 18 art performances on campus, which effectively enhanced the value and power of arts in cultivating talents
(vi) College of Education - "Teacher Professional Development Community and Workshops on New Curriculum Guidelines":
The Teacher Training Center held a total of 6 sessions of professional development community activities about new curriculum guidelines. Director Tsai Yi-Chen of Taibei High School in Taipei discussed the teaching of information technology courses. In addition, Professor Lin Tzu-Bin of National Taiwan Normal University, Professor Chuang Hsueh-Hua of National Sun Yat-sen University, and Professor Hsieh Chuan-Chung of National Tsing Hua University were invited to share their experiences on the promotion of the training for bilingual instruction. They also advised how to continuously improve teacher education.
In 2022, the College of Education organized workshops by discipline, including one workshop respectively for language, social science, kinesiology & health and a workshop for all subjects. The invited high school teachers shared their experiences virtually or physically and encouraged participants to engage in introspection through hands-on practices. The workshops benefited 167 teachers and students (the number of participations) and effectively enhanced participants’ teaching capability and employment competitiveness.
(vii) College of Social Sciences - "International Perspectives on Social Science Education, Industry-Academia Integration and Social Care": Collaborating with private sectors, 8 academic exchange events on international issues, 19 courses taught in English, and 34 lectures were held. The Department of Economics organized 100 hours of community service for the "U.S. Army Community;" the Department of Social Welfare had 1200 hours of community service at the New Taipei Center for Children and Families and the Tranan Indigenous Village.
III. Enhance higher education institutions’ publicness
(1) Support for economically disadvantaged students
(i)CCU provides residential assistance for economically disadvantaged students, mainly helping students with low-income, low and middle-income, students with physical and mental disabilities, children and grandchildren of families with special circumstances, indigenous people, and new immigration people, hoping to reduce their financial pressure through residential concessions, so that they can gradually turn their attention to their studies and hope to turn the future of economically disadvantaged students through education. In 2022, CCU assisted 298 disadvantaged students to live on campus, creating a win-win situation for economically disadvantaged students and helping them pursue their dreams.
(ii)The learning effectiveness inventory dashboard, which focuses on economically disadvantaged students, can be built to present the data from the overall indicators to the details in a hierarchical manner and to present them in a specific way with dashboard diagrams and color-coded highlighting so that students can quickly grasp the overall status of learning and provide them with self-checking.
(iii)According to its individual needs, each college is assigned 1-6 seed students to help lead the learning community of the college students, conduct independent learning, topic discussions, book clubs, etc. They also serve as a communication link between the Teaching Resource Center and disadvantaged students and assist the university in promoting various seminars, activities, visits, or information on academic counseling and providing media.
(iv)Student Counseling Center of the Office of Student Affairs provides counseling services to all CCU students. To avoid labeling disadvantaged students, the Center does not match students in need of counseling with disadvantaged students. The Center first evaluates to determine if a student needs counseling. For students who are in need, the Center obtains their agreement before arranging individual counseling sessions with full-time or part-time counselors.
(v) The Indigenous Student Resource Center conducted a follow-up survey in 2022 for students who take leaves of absence or withdraw from the university. It also held several meetings regarding indigenous students, including the Student Resource Committee meeting, teacher-student conferences, freshman seminars, advisory committee meetings, etc. Other activities held for indigenous students were indigenous language courses, certificate/license preparation, tarot card sessions, corporate visits, service learning, indigenous costume day, indigenous village visits, commencement and gathering in indigenous villages, orientations for new indigenous students, indigenous culture seminars and tasting, indigenous craft workshops, etc.
In 2022, a total of 40 activities were held and all had a satisfaction rate higher than 90%. In addition, the Center hopes to build a friendly campus for indigenous students by assisting in their learning and campus life, such as adaptative learning, counseling services, career planning, etc.
(2) Strengthen self-accountability with a professional institutional management system and disclose university information and data
The Office of Institutional Research follows the decision of the Institutional Research Committee to give definitions to all data types and conduct analysis. The analysis report is based on the quantitative methodology and is made available on the website of the office and the institutional research platform.
The office also collaborates with the Taiwan Associate for Institutional Research and the Taiwan Assessment and Evaluation Association to publish books and conduct research. Collaboration projects include the survey on freshman adaptation and the survey on the learning effectiveness and satisfaction of college students in Taiwan, Thailand, and Japan. The survey result is a valuable reference for the CCU.
(i) Research topic: Learning effectiveness of students in innovation and entrepreneurship courses
Research description: the statistics of the innovation and entrepreneurship courses in the school years 2018-2020, and the distribution of the course participants ’learning styles.
Findings: CCU emphasizes innovation and entrepreneurial capabilities, prepares students for the skills required for the workplace, and encourages students to take innovation and entrepreneurship courses. From the school year 2018 to 2020, the number of relevant courses offered increased from 46 to 159.
The analysis of the 159 courses indicates all the courses are based on “expertise in the subjects,”140 courses (88%) focus on the planning and execution skills required for entrepreneurship, and 103 courses (65%) are about the personality and character essential for build or manage a company. Regarding learning styles, the analysis shows that students’ learning attitudes and methods for selective courses are better than that for requirements and interdisciplinary courses. Overall, the learning styles among students are in balance. The result suggests CCU continue the innovation and entrepreneurship courses to teach students the required skills. It also suggests future studies on the correlation between learning effectiveness before and after taking the courses to further enhance their learning effectiveness.
(ii) Research topic: Pretest and posttest performance of college students’ basic literacy
Research description: Does CCU education improve students’ basic literacy? Does students’ background affect their basic literacy?
Findings: Previous literature indicates literacy includes cognitive and affective aspects. To ensure whole-person development, liberal education and international tests propose 10 core competencies students should have. One of them is information literacy, which CCU emphasizes. This research uses CCU’s institutional data: the test results of the freshmen in the school year 2018, and the test results of the same student group in the school year 2020, to see students’ pretest and post-test performance.
Overall, for the cognitive aspect, the test scores of 6 competencies drop, while those of 3 competencies (communication and cooperation, civil society, and career development) improve, and the score of innovative leadership is consistent. For the affective aspect, the test scores of the 3 competencies drop, while those of the 6 competencies (aesthetics, innovative leadership, civil society, humanistic literacy, lifelong learning, and scientific literacy) improve, and the score of information literacy is consistent. The result suggests that for the cognitive aspect, innovative leadership needs to be strengthened; for the affective aspect, information literacy needs to be improved. It helps students to improve their different competencies.
(iii) Research topic: Basic literacy and career patch of college students
Research description: Satisfaction of college graduates in different lines of work for their programs after graduation.
Findings: This study investigates the satisfaction of CCU graduates from four aspects: gender, program (college), employment status, and satisfaction with the program (college). In terms of satisfaction with the program, most of the graduates are satisfied. In addition, gender, program, and employment status do not make a significant difference. The number of students with different employment statuses varies, so it is reasonable that the satisfaction of graduates of different programs and employment statuses is different. The result is a reference for the CCU to modify policies. It also suggests providing assistance for students to find appropriate career paths. As to the graduates’ low satisfaction with the correlation between career path and major, the university can encourage students to take interdisciplinary courses to enhance their interdisciplinary skills and improve the correlation.
IV. Social Responsibility
(1)Incorporate faculty expertise into community building
The 8 colleges of CCU focus on community humanistic care, whether in the survey and planning of community data, strengthening the awareness of the community about the environment, caring for the elderly and children in the community, improving the foreign language ability of the community, and promoting the community through media production, etc., to bring CCU closer to the community, to unite CCU teachers and students and the community cohesion, related measures are as follows.
(i) The College of Environmental Design invited planning and development practitioners to give 120 hours of lectures in 2022. The college also held a forum entitled “Paradigm Shifts in Urban and Rural Development and the Impact” on May 28, 2022. The forum analyzed current public land management policies of the government through the discussion on national spatial development strategies and policy implementation. The 8 articles presented in the forum covered popular topics such as urban and rural planning and regulations, urban design, urban renewal, regional revitalization, aging cities, disaster prevention and climate change, real estate market, etc. It was hoped the sharing and discussion of theories and empirical studies would enhance the integration of teaching, research, and practices. The college also brought classrooms to local communities. Students were asked to make development plans and designs for different spaces in Taipei City to build a smart, eco-friendly, and sustainable community.
(ii) College of Science: Considering the needs of the community, the College interacted with the local community from different aspects and integrates with teaching, internship, service learning, and other teaching activities to promote sustainable development of the community and enhance interaction with the community and strategic alliance high schools to achieve the goal of positive campus development and community love. A total of 8 activities applying expertise and promoting the profession were held in 2022.
(iii) College of Engineering: Undergraduates from the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering led the experiments of Yangmingshan Elementary School students to train their practical and experimental design skills. They also analyzed the decibels, illumination, electromagnetic waves, humidity, and ultraviolet rays measured on site in the U.S. Army dormitory area in Yangmingshan and the main campus of the CCU, so that users in the area can know the environmental parameters of their area and participate in the green technology course by improving the areas with high hazards.
(iv) College of Agriculture: To integrate horticultural science into local creation and to promote the concept of ecological education, the College held training camps for ecological interpretation by organizing horticultural handicraft workshops and inviting professional ecological interpretation experts to train college students as seed teachers, so as to establish an ecological interpretation team, establish a cooperative relationship with the local community, link people, ecological tourism, and environmental education, convey ecological science knowledge and the correct values of ecological conservation, and train professionals and deepen local services. In 2022, the college organized 2 ecological tours and held 2 gardening workshops.
(v) College of International Studies and Foreign Languages: To promote multilingual learning and cultural awareness, the five departments of the college offered five foreign language courses in three schools, including Yangmingshan Elementary School, Bai Ling High School, and Fuxing High School. The Department of Korean Language and Literature has signed cooperation agreements with 17 high schools to form a Korean language and culture education circle by linking with high schools. The college will publish textbooks, send graduate students to teach in contracted high schools, and offer AP (Advanced Placement) courses in high schools.
(vi) College of Social Sciences: To increase the opportunities for students in the Department of Social Welfare to apply their learning and practical work learning, the Department cooperated with the Yung Fu Home in Taipei to provide the faculty and agency social workers with the knowledge of placement and professional services for people with physical and mental disabilities. Students designed and implemented life education groups and related activities based on social work methods and principles and participate in various services to help people with mental and physical disabilities to have a better quality of life. This year, 6 students participated in the program, working in small groups to implement two "life education" programs for six weeks to help clients understand the life process, death and separation, and emotional adjustment. Each student completed 50 hours of service and produced a report on the results and presented it.
(vii) The Department of Journalism has been cooperating with USR's "Bright Top: Yangmingshan Green Energy Creation and Community Transformation Action Plan" to expand the scope of the existing campus and community building to cover Beitou District in Taipei City and Jinshan District in New Taipei City, and to follow the current social trend to extend to local creation, so as to enrich the topics of reporting and to demonstrate the social responsibility of USR in Yangmingshan to the Twin Taipei Living Area.
(viii) College of Liberal Arts: To meet the core spirit of the 108 syllabi "independent action, social participation and communication", to enhance the artistic and aesthetic qualities of high school students, to strengthen their physical and mental qualities, and to equip them with the ability of self-improvement, the College worked with Fuxing High School to offer a micro-course on "Literature, History, Philosophy and Digital Creativity" to guide high school students to understand and experience the characteristics of the various departments of the College of Liberal Arts, and to participate in community humanities activities and learn to build local digital cultural and creative contents.
(2)Share campus resources to create community vitality
The mission is to guide students to deepen their empathy, caring power, and self-reflection by taking the needs of the local community as the scope of services for community co-prosperity and disadvantaged organizations.
(i) Service learning takes root on the ground, and goodwill and neighborliness are integrated into the community: To fulfill the university’s social responsibility and increase interaction with the community, CCU aims to serve the community in Yangmingshan, Shilin, and Beitou, and to serve the disadvantaged organizations in the local community by promoting the cultural roots of student organizations and environmental education service learning activities, organizing service learning activities for neighborly and public welfare, and organizing reflective review and feedback and competition for neighborly service. In 2022, the College organized extracurricular-service learning activities to provide services in 15 institutions. The overall satisfaction rate was 89.8%.
(ii) Library and museum services: Hwa Kang Museum held the exhibition of "CCU 60th Anniversary: Artworks of the Pu Family" from March 1 to June 30, 2022. The exhibition presented Pu Xinyu and his students’ paintings and manuscripts. Additionally, the museum also collaborated with nearby museums in Yangmingshan, the Lin Yutang House and the Garden 91, to organize the exhibition of the reproduction of artworks by the Pu family. The two museums borrowed the reproduction of “A Collection of Paintings of Vegetables” and respectively exhibited at the same time with the exhibition of original works in the Hwa Kang Museum. They also held activities such as cooking the dishes in the paintings. These exhibitions, combining 5 human senses, were well applauded – 2,558 visits for the exhibition of the Hwa Kang Museum, 227 visits for the exhibition of the Lin Yutang House, and 1,201 visits for the exhibition of the Garden 91.
From August 30-November 13, 2022, Hwa Kang Museum held the exhibition of “The time in Yangmingshan: The Classics of Calligraphy and Painting of the Republic of China” in the Grass Mountain Chateau, displaying artworks of masters such as Chiang Kai-Shek and his wife, Pu Ru, Chang Dai-Chien, and Huang Jun-Bi, etc. The exhibition received a lot of attention. Many people made a special trip to the exhibition. It attracted 7,012 visits, including Taipei City Mayor Ko Wen-Je.
In late December of 2022, the museum kicked off the exhibition of “CCU 60the Anniversary: Donated Artworks.” The opening day invited the descendants of many masters, whose artworks are part of the museum collection, such as Li Mei-Shu, Ma Pai-Shui, Yi Jun-Zuo, Liang Dan-Fong, Wu Cheng-Yen, Sun Duo-Ci, Wang Ze-Lu, etc. During the exhibition, two forums were also held. The exhibition attracted more than 1,500 visits (up to December 29, 2022.)
(iii) The exercise physiology laboratory has set up a health testing station, offering an examination of body composition, bone mineral density, and cardiorespiratory fitness by appointment. The laboratory staff explains the test results to the participants and provides health-related knowledge to prevent diseases and raise awareness of health management. The laboratory conducted 957 examinations in 2022.
The Office of Physical Education and Sports Affairs held the Hwa Kang Neighborhood Badminton Game 2022 on December 1, 2, and 10. With more than 319 players from 6 junior high schools, 3 senior high schools, and 14 universities, the 3-day competition was divided into 3 levels - junior high school, senior high school and university, and CCU. The events included men’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s singles, and women’s doubles. The game was held for high school teachers and students to understand CCU’s philosophy of education - “honesty, modesty, strength, and perseverance.” It was also meant to enhance student recruitment by strengthening the interaction with the community and demonstrating CCU’s positive mindset and friendliness.
V. USR Hub
More than 10 departments in 5 colleges of CCU use "Yangmingshan Studies" as the main axis to create an impression of the humanities, arts and natural cultural landscape of Yangmingshan, combining practical work, internships, fieldwork, field visits, and data collection, etc. CCU also fulfills its responsibility to cultivate industrial talents for society and offers media literacy courses to enhance the independent thinking ability of junior and senior high school students and to put them into practice in life.
(1)College of Liberal Arts - "Yangmingshan Studies": Humanities Study Project
Collaborating with the College of International Studies and Foreign Languages, the Department of History integrates practical learning and theoretical concepts based on the “Yangminshan Studies” to hold the following activities:
(i) Micro-credit courses: 38 courses were held and attracted 500 attendances.
(ii) Field trip and oral interviews: 6 trips and interviews were conducted with a total of 60 attendances. The project also assisted the Yan Xishan House to conduct an oral interview of Liu Baochun and to complete the 15,000-word interview transcript.
(iii) Yangmingshan studies workshops: 4 workshops were held and attracted 500 attendances.
The project enhances students’ understanding of the Yangmingshan area and deepens their relationship with local communities. The collaboration with the Yan Xishan House and the agreement signed with various museums in Yangmingshan demonstrate CCU has successfully promoted Yangmingshan Studies.
(2)College of Arts - "Yangmingshan Studies": The Essence of Yangmingshan Studies
The College of Arts links its educational achievement with the history and culture of Yangmingshan to create new art forms, beautifying and promoting the spirit of Yangmingshan through performance arts.
Collaborating with the cultural venues in the Yangmingshan area, CCU uses its performance venues to provide opportunities for art appreciation for the neighborhood residents and visitors.
In 2022, CCU and the neighborhood’s business held the serial activities of “Yangmingshan: Fascinating Tonight.” With an outdoor concert and an exhibition combining light sculptures and digital arts, the activities illustrated Yangmingshan’s cultural and aesthetic landscapes. It also indirectly created a new value of the coexistence between the neighborhood residents/business and the environment.
(3)Department of Landscape Architecture - "Yangmingshan Studies": Build a local network of sustainable environment and social practice
Professional investigators who go to the forefront and challenge the muddy wetlands.
The Department invited Professor Yang Shu-Sen of National Tsing Hua University, Director Ye Zai-Fu of Guandu Nature Park, Professor Lin Hsin-Ju of National Chung Hsing University, and Professor Fang Wei-Ta of National Taiwan Normal University to guide students to conduct research on Tamsui River beach off the Guandu Wharf on October 29 and 30, 2022. Students collected soil samples of mangrove forests and beaches to compare the biodiversity and measure mangrove tree height and diameter to quantify carbon deposition. They also discussed the management of watersheds and mangrove wetlands.
The project in 2022 certified 18 students to be wetland trainees. The knowledge, skills and technology of wetland conservation were passed on through “learning by doing” and group discussion. It also brought in fresh blood for wetland research and ignites students’ passion for wetland science.
(4)Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering – Project of Human Resource Development for Ceramics Industry
The three approaches, based on the project framework, for the implementation are as follows:
(i) Industry visits and consultation.
(ii) Development of ceramics talent cultivation courses and talent cultivation.
(iii) Promotion of ceramics education in high schools
To promote ceramics education in high schools and communities, in addition to hands-on pottery courses for the Stars Program students, the Department held parent-child pottery workshops for elementary schools in Beitou District (Yangmingshan.) Activities offered in 2022 were 4 industry visits and consultations, 1 onsite investigation of ceramics spaces in Lengshuikeng of Yangmingshan, 16 hours of lectures by ceramics industry experts, 42 hours of hands-on and lab courses, and 18 hours of parent-child pottery workshops for three elementary schools in Beitou District.
Participants of the ceramics talent training activities include CCU students of science/technology and non-science/technology majors and high school students of the Stars Program. For the participants to have hands-on experience and shorten their adaption time in the industry, the participants join the team organizing the parent-child workshops in elementary schools. The arrangement reduces the gap between higher education and industry and achieves two goals - ceramics talent cultivation and promoting ceramics education in high schools.
(5) Department of Mass Communication – Teacher Training and Curriculum Practice of Media Literacy Education
To align with the goal of media literacy promotion, the media literacy camp this year added local revitalization courses. Through lectures, hands-on courses, media studio tours, and hardware and software learning. Participants acquired knowledge about the media environment and how to analyze information in media as an audience. To enhance the effectiveness of media literacy education, the Department also collaborated with schools of all levels and non-profit educational institutions. The Department held four media literacy camps for high schools in November and December. The camps served 112 high school students (204 attendances). These students are from Taipei Municipal Chenggong High School, Taipei Municipal Yangming High School, Er Xin High School, St. Bonaventure Girls’ Senior High School, New Taipei Municipal High School, etc.