I Am the President of the University

(The author has never participated in international academic conferences... I am checking the information, so I have delayed the time. Don't read this chapter for now. I will refresh it after 1 o'clock. 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 passing through, Wei Hong said to Geng Haobo excitedly: “Old Geng, this is too exciting. It’s the first time to participate in such a high-level opening ceremony!”

Although Dongda is not a TOP10 school in China and ranks 18 on the Chinese list of world universities, it is quite strong in some engineering fields.

Naturally, Wei Hong has participated in many academic conferences and seminars with his tutors, but most of them are in the past to join in the fun. You don’t need to think about opening ceremonies and closing ceremonies. They all have to be invited. Only experts and scholars can participate.

And this time the China Forum even allowed the attending guests' escorts to participate.

As for the position...Of course, they are all placed at the back, and the front is the position of major experts and scholars at home and abroad.

But being able to participate in the opening ceremony is already very exciting.

"Guanghua is really awesome..." Geng Haobo glanced at the two professors, Professor Sun Wenchang and Professor Huang Weidong who were walking in front of the chat, and said with some puzzlement, "But the workload and risks of the opening ceremony with more than 1,000 people have also increased, right? Guanghua is really courageous. I have never seen any organizer doing this."

For nothing, I don’t know what Guanghua thinks, but I don’t know what Guanghua thinks, but it does make them like graduate students +1+1+1+1 to Guanghua University...

"Who knows, when you enter the venue, you will have to take a few more photos and post them to the Moments of Friends and the Little Treeworm Forum to pretend!" Wei Hongmei said, suddenly noticed the free gift booth on the side of the entrance. Take a closer look.

There seems to be 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 envisaged at the beginning of the establishment but has not been realized so far, which affects the effect of this experiment. The purpose of this experiment was to establish a general education system similar to that of the top American liberal arts colleges, but after more than ten years of operation, this goal was not achieved. You can find many commentary articles on Peking University Yuanpei General Education on the Internet, with mixed reviews. But in a word, this experiment was not successful.

2. Yuanpei College of Peking University focuses on general education, but its current training model is not to offer general education courses by itself, but to adopt a combination of general education methods. Whether this method is good or not remains to be discussed, but at present domestic It is difficult to set up independent general education courses in the educational environment of China. This may be the "experimental failure" mentioned upstairs.

The so-called platter-style general education means that students of Yuanpei College can take all the professional courses in Peking University. Therefore, Yuanpei does not offer general education courses, but students can freely combine professional courses from different departments to achieve general education. The result of education. In the sophomore year, students are divided into majors. Students can freely choose any major in Peking University as their major (of course, the right to change directions and take other professional courses), or choose Yuanpei’s special majors: such as PPE (Politics) , Economics and Philosophy), Foreign Languages ​​and Foreign History, Paleontology, Integrated Science, etc. As the name suggests, these majors combine the relevant courses of various faculties and departments as your compulsory courses.

This century is a banner of undergraduate education and teaching reform. Yuanpei College has been exploring a broad-based and broad-based talent training model for 13 years. It is the first batch of domestic colleges and universities to test the waters of general education. The accidents, frustrations, embarrassments and even controversies encountered by "Yuan Pei" in this talent experiment fully reflect the difficulty and pain of general knowledge.

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

3. According to the talent training plan of Yuanpei College, after enrolling, freshmen can theoretically choose any course offered by the whole school. They can listen to whatever they want. The course study plan is all made by themselves; from the sophomore year, students can follow You can freely choose the direction of study for your own interests, and there is no limit in theory.

"Freedom in spirit, freedom in academics, and freedom in learning." Almost all students' first feeling is "freedom" after entering Yuanpei, but after that, most people will start to be "lost."

A student who enrolled in 2004 once published an article on the Internet complaining about Yuanpei's "free system." For example, the "tutorial system" that should be responsible for tutoring students to choose courses and majors has limited effect. In fact, the freshmen of Yuanpei's 04 freshmen can't even get a course plan of the department and must go to the academic affairs department of each department. "Look at it."

Compared with these trivial matters, the freedom of course selection has become a bigger obstacle-you can listen to the classes in the whole school, but what exactly do you listen to?

At Peking University, the undergraduate course plan is divided into two parts: professional courses and general elective courses. Generally speaking, professional courses are more difficult than general elective courses. It is envisaged that after any Yuanpei student is in his second year of sophomore year and chooses his or her major, the courses of other faculties previously selected can replace the general elective courses, and they can graduate after completing the credits.

For students ~www.wuxiahere.com~ regulations such as these are no different from the shackles of "free treatment": choose courses according to their interests, and once the exam results are not satisfactory, they will lose a certain degree of freedom when choosing a major.

Many Yuanpei "comers" have personally experienced the process of compromising to "unfreedom". Zhang Wanting, a student of Yuanpei Law at Peking University Level 03, told reporters that in the first few years of Yuanpei’s implementation, grade points were not a matter of importance. Difficult classes were a trend at the time.” But since then, the grade point orientation has become heavier and heavier.

The existence of the "Grade Point" standard still keeps students from choosing courses.

Zhou Wenjie was admitted to Yuanpei College in 2008 and is currently the class teacher of Yuanpei College, Peking University. What he observed is that there are fewer and fewer students in the college who choose courses based on a wide range of interests, and many freshmen are very planning when they enter the school. For example, in the first semester of the freshman year, the 13th grade freshmen choose courses in economics, management, mathematics, politics, economics and philosophy, and there are no courses with a particularly large span of disciplines.

Xu Chongren explained that the biggest difference between Yuanpei and various schools and departments is that traditional professional schools can develop on their own without any external force, while Yuanpei often requires schools to push from the back and continue to formulate special specialties that apply to Yuanpei. policy. "Professors need to do research and need their own graduate students, so they must rely on professional colleges and departments, and Yuanpei alone cannot do it alone."