I Am the President of the University

(The author has never participated in an international academic conference... I was looking for information, so I wasted time. Don't read this chapter for now. I'll open it after 1 o'clock and refresh it. I'm really sorry!)

"Hello, please show your invitation letter and sign in."

There was a delay at the entrance of the conference center. After successfully passing through, Wei Hong said excitedly to Geng Haobo: "Old Geng, this is so exciting. This is my first time to participate in such a high-level opening ceremony!"

Although Tokyo University is not among the top 10 universities in the country and ranks 18th on the Chinese World University Rankings, it is quite strong in some engineering fields.

Wei Hong has naturally participated in many academic conferences and academic seminars with his tutor, but most of them were just there to join in the fun. There is no need to think too much about things like opening and closing ceremonies, they all have to be invited. Only experts and scholars can participate.

This time, the China Forum actually allowed the accompanying persons of the guests to attend.

As for the position... of course, their positions are all at the back, and in front are the positions of major experts and scholars at home and abroad.

But just being able to attend the opening ceremony was exciting.

"Guanghua is really awesome..." Geng Haobo glanced at Professor Sun Wenchang and Professor Huang Weidong who were chatting in front, and said with some confusion, "But with the opening ceremony of more than a thousand people, the workload and risks have also increased, right? ? Guanghua is really brave, I have never seen any organizer do this. ”

Although I don’t know what Guanghua thinks of adding more workload to himself for nothing, it does make graduate students like them have a good impression of Guanghua University +1+1+1+1...

"Who knows, when I enter the venue, I will take a few more photos and send them to Moments and the Little Tree Worm Forum to show off!" Wei Hong said happily, and suddenly noticed the free gift stall on the side of the entrance. Take a closer look.

It seemed like there were a lot of people gathered there.

Is there something?

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Peking University Yuanpei general education curriculum system

1. It has not been established since its inception. This is also an important reason why it was not envisioned when it was first launched and has not yet been realized, thus affecting the effectiveness of this experiment. The purpose of this experiment was to establish a general education system similar to the first-class liberal arts colleges in the United States, but after more than ten years of operation, this purpose has not been achieved. You can find many commentaries on Yuanpei General Education at Peking University online, with mixed reviews. But in a word, this experiment was not successful.

2. Peking University Yuanpei College focuses on general education, but its current training model does not set up its own general education courses, but adopts a platter-style general education method. Whether this method is good or not remains to be discussed, but currently domestic The educational environment makes it difficult to set up independent general education courses. This may be the "experimental failure" mentioned above.

The so-called platter-style general education means that students at Yuanpei College can take all professional courses at Peking University. Therefore, Yuanpei itself does not offer general education courses, but students can achieve general education by freely combining professional courses from different departments. The result of education. Majors will be divided into sophomore years. Students are free to choose any major within Peking University as their major (of course, they retain the right to change directions and take other professional courses). They can also choose Yuanpei's specialty majors: such as PPE (Politics). , Economics and Philosophy), Foreign Languages ​​and Foreign History, Paleontology, Integrated Science, etc. As the name suggests, these majors are a combination of relevant courses from various departments as your required courses.

A banner that launched undergraduate education and teaching reform in this century, Yuanpei College has been exploring a talent training model with a solid foundation and a wide range of talents for 13 years. It is one of the first colleges in China to test the waters of general education. The accidents, frustrations, embarrassments and even controversies that "Yuanpei" encountered in this talent experiment fully reflect the difficulty and pain of general knowledge.

Peking University Yuanpei is the earliest and relatively mature model in domestic general education reform. General education is now being rolled out in various universities, but the current results are not particularly good - but at least it has taken a step forward.

3. According to the talent training plan of Yuanpei College, after freshmen enroll, they can theoretically choose any course offered by the school and listen to whatever they want. The course study plan is all made by themselves; starting from the sophomore year, students can according to You are free to choose the direction of study according to your own interests, and there are no restrictions in theory.

"Spiritual freedom, academic freedom, and learning freedom." The first feeling almost all students feel after entering Yuanpei is "freedom", but then most people will start to feel "confused."

A student who enrolled in 2004 once published an article online complaining about Yuanpei's "free system." For example, the "tutoring system" that is supposed to be responsible for guiding students to choose courses and majors has limited effect. In fact, freshmen in Yuanpei Grade 04 can't even get a departmental course plan and have to go to the academic affairs department of each department. "Take a look."

Compared with these trivial matters, the freedom to choose courses becomes a bigger obstacle - you can listen to all the classes in the school, but what exactly do you listen to.

At Peking University, undergraduate course plans are mainly divided into two parts: professional courses and general elective courses. Generally speaking, professional courses are more difficult than general elective courses. According to the idea, after any Yuanpei student is in his sophomore year and chooses his own major, the courses he has taken in other departments can replace the general elective courses, and he can graduate with full credits.

For students, such regulations are tantamount to shackles in addition to "free treatment": they choose courses based on their interests. Once their test scores are not satisfactory, they will lose a certain degree of freedom when choosing a major.

Many people who have come to Yuanpei have personally experienced the process of compromising with "unfreedom." Zhang Wanting, a 2003 Yuanpei law student at Peking University, told reporters that in the first few years of Yuanpei’s implementation, performance points were not a thing that was valued. “Most students in 2002 and 03 classes chose courses based on their own interests. Difficult courses were a trend at the time. "But since then, the focus has become more and more grade-oriented.

The existence of the "grade point" standard still makes it difficult for students to choose courses.

Zhou Wenjie was admitted to Yuanpei College in 2008 and is currently the class teacher of Yuanpei College in Grade 13 at Peking University. What he observed is that there are fewer and fewer students in the college who choose courses based on their broad interests, and many freshmen have strong plans as soon as they enter the school. For example, in the first semester of their freshman year, the course selections for Grade 13 freshmen are concentrated in the fields of economics, management, mathematics, political economics and philosophy, and there are no courses with a particularly wide span of subjects.

Xu Chongren explained that the biggest difference between Yuanpei and various departments is that traditional professional departments can develop themselves without external force, while Yuanpei often needs the support of the school to continuously formulate various special programs suitable for Yuanpei. policy. "Professors need to do research and need their own graduate students, so they must rely on professional departments. Yuanpei alone cannot do it."