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Student academic clubs

Security Research Society

The Security Research Society (SRS) is a society for people who are interested in investment or financial management. In SRS, you will not only learn some professional skills that are useful in the financial market, but also make friends with those who have common interest. SRS divides members into two parts, including students, who are here for learning, and current employees, who are responsible for managing the operation of the SRS. No matter whether you are a student or an employee, SRS promises an environment to enhance your personal abilities. Join us, and you will have a colorful college life.

Astronomy Club

Whenever a special astronomy phenomenon occurs (for example: eclipses, meteor showers, comets, etc...), our club will strongly promote knowledge and information about each phenomenon, welcoming teachers and amateur astronomers to observe. Our club has class once a week during the school semester and teaches stargazing techniques, astronomy, telescope specifications, astrophotography, and more. Additionally, to allow NCCU students to experience the mystery and vastness of outer space, our club will hold large outdoor star-viewing events once or twice each semester in the mountains to avoid light pollution. Let us lie on our backs and look up at a trillion stars twinkling in the darkness! We hope you can come to visit the Astronomy Club.

Falun Dafa Club

Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, is a meditation practice that cultivates both mind and body. It teaches people to become a better person by following three main principles: “Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance.” There are also five simple and easy exercises for one to practice. Practicing Falun Dafa can provide great relaxation for busy students.  Every Tuesday and Thursday from 6:10 p.m. ~ 7:10 p.m., students in the NCCU Falun Dafa club do the five exercises together. Later, we study a book called “Zhuan Falun” to cultivate our mind. It’s all for free, and you are welcome to join us!

Astrology Club

Come visit a mysterious place guided by the twelve constellations. The Astrology Club will teach you how to play "TAROT.” What is Tarot? It can transform you into a magician or fortune teller. Seventy-Eight Cards show You your past or reveal your future. What's more, learning about astrology could even reverse the bad future and help conserve the good we already have. What are Constellations? Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces. We will uncover the characteristics of each of these constellations. Discover which character you are from Harry Potter, and so much more: be a part of us. We are the NCCU Astrology Club!

Youth Association of International Conference

The Youth Association of International Conference of National Chengchi University (YAIC) is the club that shares the latest international news, catches up with the most crucial information worldwide, and guides young elites to analyze global issues with theories and practice. The goal of YAIC is to train young elites to participate in international conferences and to broaden their views under the trend of globalization. We are obliged to help every member of YAIC to become an excellent citizen of this global village along with gaining abilities and enthusiasm to voice out in international affairs.

Toastmasters Club

Toastmasters club is an international English speech club! If you want to level up your English ability and train your delivery skills, welcome to Toastmasters; it’s where you can make different kinds of friends from all over the world, and experience various joyful activities. Our motto is: learn hard, play hard. Toastmasters Club is exactly what you want!

Bliss and Wisdom Youth Club

What is the Bliss and Wisdom Club? Throughout our infinite lives, we seek to elevate our minds to become perfect in compassion and wisdom. Our goals:
1. To create an everlasting natural environment
2. To achieve a cooperative society that embeds genuine and trustworthy relationships
3. To experience an eternal spiritual bliss
4. To establish a venture of wisdom to benefit the public
We have received an overwhelming amount of kindness from others. As students of our school, we hope to give the best to everyone on campus! To enhance the wellbeing of our body, mind and spirit, we design activities around three major themes. We provide workshops, exhibitions, videos, outdoor activities, intercollegiate events, volunteer services and so on. We begin from building concepts to actualizing them in our daily lives. We have tasted the sweetness of learning and hope to share that with everyone!

Lu-Ren-Jia LGBTQQIA Club

NCCU Lu-Ren-Jia is a LGBTQQIA support group that was founded in 1996. Throughout its 20-year history, our club has aimed to provide a gender-neutral campus within NCCU, and cooperate with the gender-neutral clubs in other outside schools, in order to build up a gender friendly community among university students. Each semester, we hold activities such as movie screenings, beach field trips, and an orientation party. Lectures on different gender issues are held 3 to 6 times as well, and we also attend the annual gay pride parade in Taipei. Whether you are searching for self-identity or you care about gender issues and hope to make such “issues” never “an issue,” come and join us!

Mixology Club

The NCCU mixology club consists of a group of students who are enthusiastic about mixology. During our classes, we teach our club members how to make cocktails, and also spread the art and history of mixology. The NCCU mixology club has held events such as Cocktail Night and Cocktail Week, and has also been invited to make drinks for the graduation prom and other school events. Every year we invite professional bartenders to act as our teachers. The members of the mixology club will have the chance to participate in cocktail competitions to show what they have learned. We also emphasize exchanging ideas and knowledge with other schools’ mixology clubs .We aim to explore more about mixology and how to make good cocktails.

Rulai Buddhism Witness Club

The Rulai Buddhism Witness Club is a Zen practice group for young practitioners. We practice with Master Miao-Chan, a fully enlightened master, in order to understand the true meaning of life. By practicing Zen, you will become enlightened. Through enlightenment, you will gain wisdom and inner peace to help you excel in every aspect of life. We cordially invite you to join us and experience a life-changing journey.

NCCU SOCIETE DE VINO

What do you usually do after class? Grab a meal with friends? Go to see a movie? Or just stay in your room coping with your unfinished paper? Now you have another choice: come to the WINE TASTING CLUB! We will introduce several eminent kinds of grapes and wine from around the globe. With each short lecture, a sip of alcohol may transport you to roaming a Vineyard and visiting a renowned Château. Both the Old World & New World are open to every student on the scheduled Thursday nights. Cheers!

NCCU Consulting Club

This is a spontaneous, self-learning club formed by students who are full of passion for consulting. To increase our members’ abilities to problem solve and do basic consulting, NCCUCC sorts and shares news releases and key insights from well-known consulting firms and business news sources. The key concepts of problem solving will be explored as we analyze Harvard Business Cases, the structure of industries, M&A cases and strategies, P&L strategies, data interpretation, and so forth. Step by step review helps our members cultivate logic and problem solving abilities. Besides the lectures and discussion, NCCUCC also contacts big shots in the consulting industry, as well as professors to share their experiences and teach us skills for interviewing, writing resumes, and much more!

Gender Equality Workshop

The NCCU student club “Gender Equality Workshop” was established in October 2014 by students with concerns about the gender issues in daily life and society. Hitherto, we have had many activities such as a Marriage Equality Concert, a Gender and Human Rights Winter Camp, and Gender Equality Month. For this next semester, we plan to hold other gender-related activities like study groups or lectures. If you are interested in gender issues or have a passion for promoting gender equality, we welcome you to join us in building a gender-friendly school environment. Since gender issues are everywhere, we are here and do our best to change the situation.

Student art clubs

Hua Xia Chinese Music Club

The Hua Xia Chinese Music Club was founded in March of 1961. The club is called Hua Xia due to its devotion to carry the Chinese culture forward. Now, the club has been going strong for more than 50 years. In the past two years, 2014 and 2015, Hua Xia obtained Advanced Awards in the National Student Music Competition. Hua Xia got the first prize in Advanced Awards in 2015. Nowadays, we are active in developing outside NCCU to grab more performing opportunities. In 2015, our performance at the end of the semester took place in the Guangfu Auditorium of the historic Taipei Zhongshan Hall. Our annual routines are composed of these parts: the ensemble and the teaching class, the small-scale concert, the performance at a semester, and the National Student Music Competition.

Gu Zheng (Chinese Zither) Club

The Gu Zheng is also known as the “Chinese Zither.” The Gu Zheng is one of the most ancient Chinese musical instruments and also been regarded as one of the most important symbols of Chinese high culture. Gu Zheng can play both traditional and modern songs. It’s also easy to learn. Welcome to the Gu Zheng Club!

NCCU Symphony Orchestra

The NCCU Symphony Orchestra is a musical club formed by NCCU students in March 2014. Evolved from the Philharmonic club and the strings orchestra, the NCCU Symphony Orchestra specializes in orchestra. We hold concerts at the end of each semester, providing club members access to the performance stage. We hope to enhance the atmosphere of music appreciation in NCCU. In addition to classical music, we have also recently performed a diverse and varied repertoire: for instance, concertos with soloists, adapted versions of soundtracks, etc.

Chen Sheng Chorus

Since 1958, the Chen Sheng Chorus is a mixed choir with a long history. Besides promoting music in the Culture Cup Choir Contest, the Chen Sheng Chorus also regularly holds concerts and shares the choral arts with the public.

Rock'n Roll Club

This club is for people who enjoy music. For club activities, we have instrumental and song-writing lessons as well as presentations for club members to perform. Additionally, this is a place for you to find band members, since we include people from all sorts of musical genres. We welcome everyone who has enthusiasm for music no matter your age, gender, or nationality because music is boundless.

NCCU Taiwanese Opera Club

Established in 1998 by professor Hsin-Hsin Tsai, the top authority on Chinese opera research, the NCCU Taiwanese Opera Club is the youngest Taiwanese opera troupe in Taiwan and has been a prolific member of Taiwanese opera scene for more than a decade.
The NCCU Taiwanese Opera Club pursues the ideal of “passing the flame of tradition with vernal energy”. Through productions, it wishes to encourage and grant accessibility to younger generations, thereby enhancing popularization of the local traditional art form. So, it can be said that Taiwanese Opera is the one art form that represents Taiwanese culture the most! Want to wear ancient Chinese clothes? To experience the most energetic and native performance in Taiwan? To step into a dramatic world of elegance and oriental culture? To have a different stage on which to perform? Don't be shy! Don't hesitate! Join us now!

Drama club

The NCCU Drama Club gathers those who have a shared interest in drama, and helps us broaden our knowledge in drama through professional teaching and learning from each other. In the process, we will come to love drama more and more, thus devoting ourselves to spreading the beauty of drama. We hope that more students in NCCU will join us.
The form of club classes: Except for the week before and the week of midterms and final exams, we hold club classes once a week. Each class is about 3 hours. We hire external lecturers to teach us on topics including acting, script analysis, theatrical techniques, and theatre administration.
The form of performances: There is a public performance at the end of every semester. For each performance, there is an acting & directing team and a designing team. Each group does their job during the preparatory period, and we negotiate with each other and discuss in the meetings. After many rehearsals, we perform the play onstage. 
The characteristics of our club: The NCCU Drama club gathers lots of different people coming from all kinds of departments. With little limitation, the types of our performances and the form of club classes are very free. Our club offers diversity, mobility, and freedom at the same time.

Artcraft Society

The National Cheng Chi University Artcraft Society is a warm community. We aim to enhance the arts-and-crafts-making skills of each member and also make friends during our Thursday classes. Those who love making handicrafts and learning different craft skills such as beading, patch working, knitting, leatherwork, and crocheting are all very welcome. Each week we learn about a specific handicraft skill, and during class club members can work on a small project to take home!

Plastic Model Club

Welcome to the Plastic Model Club. A plastic model is a small scale model intended for stationary display. The majority of our club’s models depict military and civilian vehicles. We also have GUNPLA and Garage Kits which are based on animation. If you are interested in models, no matter whether it is GUNPLA or Military, if you have experiences or not, or if you aim to improve your skill or just have fun, join us! The only requirement is that you are keen on models!

Magic Club

Have you ever seen someone performing magic in front of you or on TV before? If you want to learn some magic, or even if you are just curious about why magic attracts so many people around the world, come and join the NCCU Magic club without hesitation! Your Chinese is not good enough? Don't worry, we have club members that can speak English, French, and Japanese and will teach you until you have fully understood! Welcome to the world of REAL MAGIC!

NCCU BRIDGE

We welcome everyone to join us and enjoy playing bridge.

NCCU Jazz Club

Founded in 2011, the NCCU Jazz Club is devoted to bringing jazz music onto the NCCU campus and establishing appreciation of jazz music. Our goals set out since our early years include music listening and practices in a small combo band. The NCCU Big Band, founded after the Jazz Club’s establishment, performed their first concert in the administration building, successfully bringing the audience’s attention to the art of jazz through the form of big band instrumentation. In order to encourage more people to understand and share the joy of jazz music, we run our performances in a practical and approachable manner, making the performance of classics attainable for anyone interested. This year, the NCCU jazz club will diversify the club’s focus with blends of varying elements: for example, fusion jazz. Watch out, because the charms of jazz are surely going to captivate you!

Digital Music Composition Club

Aiming to inspire and cultivate your musical potential, the Digital Music Composition Club offers a vast array of essential knowledge in both producing and performing aspects: For music production, we introduce several types of industry-standard music making software (e.g. Ableton/FL Studio/Pro Tools), guiding you step-by-step to build your own music from scratch. In regard to performing, we discuss the uprising of DJ culture and its technique, and also provide equipment for those who want to experience a DJ performance. The club will occasionally host workshops for our club members to hone their skills and learn from each other. We hope to see music lovers like you join and have fun with us!

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