For example, the classes designed by the Department of Humanities at Tzu Chi are lively and practical. Besides giving credit for such things as flower arranging and tea ceremony classes, for the class in "Philosophy of Life" (which students at other universities see as medicine they have to choke down) they invited Hong Chien Ching-wei, executive director of the renowned Hong's Foundation for Education and Culture, to teach.
像慈濟人文室設計的人文課程務求活潑實用，除了花道、茶道也列為選修學分外，一門向來在大專院校中普遍被學生視為「營養學分」的「人生哲學」，學校請來洪健全文教基金會執行長洪簡靜惠執教，無論師生，都有所獲。