In Taiwan, community college is a unique adult education design. It was proposed by Professor Huang Wu-hsiung, a social activist, in 1997. Next year, Huang's proposal got the support of Taipei City Government to set up the first community college in Wenshan District: Wenshan Community College. From then on, other districts of Taipei as well as other cities and counties in Taiwan set up community colleges subsequently, and there are 83 community colleges in Taiwan now. Community college courses can be divided into three categories-academic courses, life and skill, community groups. And the academic courses then can be divided into three categories: the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. The natural science courses in Community College may be considered as a part of science popularization. Taking Wenshan Community College's natural science course as an example, we give a brief introduction of its curriculum, faculty and students. We hope our experience may afford mainland China's adult education and science popularization some reference.

community college  /  natural science courses  /  Huang Wu-hsiung  /  social movement  /  lifelong learning  /  adult education  /  science popularization