Class of Science

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Abbreviated as COS (Class Of Science), it is a joyful and dumb class, and sometimes it gets misunderstood by other classes.

This article describes a generalized, present-day class in Chiayi senior high school. It's also the only three class that includes girls, apart from the music and art class, guaranteed by the single-gender researvation quota varying each year by the total number of accepted students. There will be pathway courses right after the addmission and extra 8th classes on grade 12.

In 2022, the number of students in the science class of CYSH is reduced to 20 (4 single-gender reservations), possibly due to the previous graduating class having too many Medicine majors.

In 2023, the quota is adjusted to 25, which may be due to the rising number of Olympiad students of CYSH at that year.

Teachers

Year	Ordinal	Home Room Teacher
2011	First	Mr. 謝孟恭老師
2012	Second	Mr. 鄭榮泉老師
2013	Third	Mr. 吳博仁老師
2014	Fourth	Mr. 邱振程老師
2015	Fifth	Mr. 謝孟恭老師
2016	Sixth	Mr. 黃俊源老師
2017	Seventh	Mr. 洪瑞鼎老師
2018	Eighth	Mr. 吳博仁老師
2019	Ninth	Mrs. 陳惠璋老師
2020	Tenth	Mr. 洪瑞鼎老師
2021	Eleventh	Mr. 謝閔豐老師
2022	Twelfth	Mrs. 陳惠璋老師
2023	Thirteenth	Mr. 洪瑞鼎老師

Regulations

The science class is a national program established by the Ministry of Education, supported by the "高級中等學校科學班辦理要點" regulation. The number of students enrolled nationally is fixed each year. However, the number of high schools in Taiwan that run the science class may change each year, hence the quota of new students in each school every year is not constant. The board that decides how many new students will be appointed to each school appoints a team to visit the school each year. The decision is then determined based on the "performance" of each school in the previous year, which could be correlated with the response of the 3 students picked from each class for a small talk, what the students of the graduating science class major in or the number of students participating in Olympiads.

A special regulation of the CYSH science class is that the students automatically enroll in the Club of Science Research with no option to choose or create other clubs.

Curriculum

As per the regulations, the science class should encourage students to pursue elementary sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Math, Physics, etc.) More experiment sessions (as compared to other classes) should be scheduled. Humanity subjects such as Social Studies, History, Geography, Arts, Music, etc. are often, though not always, exchanged for subjects related to science. More credits are designated to science-related subjects as well. Schools that do not comply with the policies may receive a warning, or get punished by the board decreasing the number of new students in the following year. It is also encouraged that teachers let the students prepare content that is not yet taught, which implies that teachers should design quizzes to measure the effects of the students' pre-class efforts.

Controversy

The pursuit of the Department of Medicine (and some related others) is highly favored in Taiwanese society. Teenagers study incredibly for being doctors in order to pursue higher social position. Academically well-performing students are strongly encouraged to set the National Taiwan University's Department of Medicine as their first choice. However, the Ministry of Education dislikes science class students majoring in Medicine, since it is not considered an elementary Science subject and disobeys the original intent of the program. Too many Medicine majors could implicitly lead to less quota for new students in the near future.