Wheels Of Knowledge: Kaohsiung College Offers Credit For Biking

The National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology (NKFUST) Dept. of Liberal Arts and Humanities is offering a course entitled, Bicycle Theory and Practice, with the aim of teaching social awareness and cultural understanding, while teaching a practical set of skills.

According to the course instructor, Tsai Hsin-chieh, the university has provided several free bicycles for students to ride around campus. Tsai would like to combine the school's goals with the concept of bikes and provide a course to better integrate the school's aims for its students.

Professor Tsai's plan requires students to "adopt" two bikes on campus with the course which is divided into three parts: (1) maintainance- which involves fixing school bikes. (2) Teaching students how to ride safely. (3) Planning a bike route. The students are required to plan a ride around the island of Hsiao Liu-chiu 小琉球 at the end of the semester as their final exam for this course.

Students are also required to record a journal of their experiences.

Tsai hopes that through taking action on their bikes, his students can better combine theory and practice in a more practical manner and help to better their community as well.

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Yes, I like making up excuses to get paid to do what I like doing in my free time as well.

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