UIC advocates innovative liberal arts education, which not only absorbs the world's forward-looking educational ideas and concepts, but also conforms to the social environment and needs of China Mainland, and is inclusive of internationalization and localization. UIC is committed to building the first diversified and interdisciplinary liberal arts university in China, combining professional education with general education. UIC hopes to cultivate elite talents who not only understand China's society and culture, but also have a global perspective. Exchange plan
UIC students can apply to study as exchange students in overseas cooperative colleges that have signed international exchange contracts with UIC for one or two semesters. During the period, students only need to pay UIC tuition fees, and do not need to pay tuition fees from overseas institutions.
Universities that have established cooperative relations with UIC include many universities in the United States, France, South Korea and other countries. You can log on to the UIC website to learn about the cooperative colleges.
Overseas summer courses
Overseas summer courses generally last for four to seven weeks and are held during the summer vacation every year. According to universities in different countries, this project has designed many themes and activities with different professional subjects and different language backgrounds, mainly for all UIC students from freshman to junior.
Our overseas summer study includes 7 American universities, 1 French universities, 2 Canadian universities, 1 Italian universities, 1 New Zealand universities, 1 British universities and 2 Korean universities. 20 13 Two new summer program cooperation institutions were established: middlesex University in Britain and Stanford University in the United States. The subjects students study in different universities include business communication, European and American culture, Minnesota history and culture, film and television production, English learning, Korean learning and so on. Summer study can be partially transferred to credits, which helps students to experience different cultures and education, integrate into the English language environment, and at the same time realize the purpose of continuing learning in foreign classrooms. During the summer vacation of 20 12, UIC sent about 200 students to different universities in the United States, Canada, France and South Korea for short-term study. After the expiration of the study period, all eligible students can have 3-6 credits transferred back to UIC, so that they can experience the overseas study environment and relieve UIC's academic pressure for four years to varying degrees.
study abroad
In order to increase the opportunities for UIC students to study abroad, UIC has signed various study abroad plans with overseas cooperative colleges to provide students with study opportunities for one or two semesters. During their study abroad, students pay tuition fees from overseas cooperative institutions, but not UIC tuition fees, and enjoy accommodation, medical insurance, transportation, management fees, books and personal expenses from overseas cooperative institutions. 20 10, 1 1 UIC students were selected to participate in the American study abroad program.
International training program
International students and UIC short-term training programs
Since the establishment of the ——UIC exchange program, nearly 100 international students have been enrolled from foreign cooperative universities such as the United States, France and South Korea.
Students with academic qualifications-about 20 international students come to this school for academic qualifications. They come from America, Canada, Austria, Philippines, Nigeria, Liberia and South Korea.
Multi-campus culture
UIC is committed to creating an international cultural atmosphere and recruiting first-class scholars and experts from all over the world to teach. The school has gathered outstanding teachers from more than 20 countries and regions around the world. The school often invites international scholars, artists, writers and overseas celebrities to visit UIC and hold international lectures, so that students can touch the global pulse and feel the impact and integration of multiculturalism without going abroad.
UIC-MPCC speech
UIC takes liberal arts education as its school-running concept and explores a new model of liberal arts education in China. There are 65,438+07 higher private universities in Minnesota, USA, which are famous for their liberal arts education and have rich experience in promoting traditional liberal arts education. UIC and Minnesota Private University Association (MPCC) have formed a strategic partnership alliance and carried out long-term exchanges and cooperation. The two sides have successfully held four Sino-US liberal arts education forums to promote the development of international liberal arts education. brief introduction
Holistic education is the core of UIC's innovative liberal arts education, aiming at cultivating knowledgeable and all-round development people. Holistic education not only pays attention to imparting knowledge and acquiring skills, but also enables students to develop physically, intellectually, morally, critically, creatively, spiritually and morally. UIC holistic education provides students with eight experiential learning modules: the way of university, experiential development, sports culture, voluntary service, environmental awareness, emotional intelligence, survival in adversity and artistic experience. In addition, there are various student practice projects in the summer.
University road
"The way of a university lies in virtue, in new people and in perfection". The purpose of the way of university is to help freshmen adapt to the independent life and learning style of university smoothly, know themselves and urge themselves to think about the direction and road of future development. The content of study includes the way of university, critical thinking, life management skills and the basic values of Chinese and western ethics. The course of University Road aims to strengthen the idea of UIC, provide holistic education for young people, and emphasize that moral education is an indispensable way to maximize personal potential. The goal of the school is to cultivate students' critical thinking, moral ethics and self-management ability.
The topics of the invited speeches are: the concept of university, honesty (and plagiarism), university life and time management, manners and etiquette: manners and behaviors, financial management, health and health care, social interaction: tolerance and mutual respect. In a word, this module will make students understand the important position in the education process during their college years, cultivate students' healthy college life style, develop good study habits, and make full preparations for social life in a few years.
Experience development
Experiential development aims at cultivating students' self-awareness, teamwork spirit and positive attitude and way of life. The course adopts outdoor training projects, completes challenging tasks through teamwork, and then carries out personal experience sharing and behavior reflection. In order to cultivate students' self-awareness and understand team spirit and leadership. Encourage them to cultivate a positive attitude towards life and self-breakthrough. Promote the formation of healthy psychology and close team spirit, and promote social adaptability and self-motivation ability. Its uniqueness is embodied in "entertaining". By completing various tasks and challenges, the tutor points out the phenomena and problems in the activity, analyzes, discusses and communicates with the students, so that the students can understand the inspiration and significance brought by the activity.
10 week course includes outdoor experience and indoor review. The whole course has five themes: enterprising spirit, team spirit, leadership, innovative thinking and personal breakthrough. In addition, students also need to fill in the training manual after class every week, record the class content and personal feelings, and hand it over to the tutor for correction after completion. During the semester and at the end of the semester, all groups of students are required to summarize the courses they have learned and share their experiences and inspirations with teachers and students through exhibition boards, commemorative books and other forms.
Sports culture
The purpose of sports culture series courses is to cultivate students' consciousness of fair competition, respect for others' life concepts, friendship and mutual assistance, unity and cooperation, tenacious struggle and self-transcendence. This series of courses requires students to master the basic knowledge and skills of the selected sports, and improve their health through regular participation in sports; Learn and understand the cultural meaning of the project and improve the ability of cross-cultural learning; Promote the coordinated development of body and mind through skill acquisition and cultural infiltration.
Students choose one of the following items: chess, Japanese archery, dragon and lion dance, sports dance and golf.
voluntary service
The volunteer service course mainly includes three parts: first, the training seminar on the basic attitude and skills of volunteers, then the volunteer practice for the elderly, the disabled and the public, and finally the annual world volunteer spirit sharing meeting. The school aims to cultivate students' volunteer spirit of serving the society and caring for others by directly participating in various social service activities, and enhance students' commitment and responsibility to individuals, families and society.
environmental consciousness
The environmental awareness module aims to improve students' environmental awareness through participatory environmental education and cultivate students' sense of social responsibility in the process of participating in environmental services, so as to achieve the purpose of lifelong application and service to society.
Environmental awareness adopts participatory learning mode. On the basis of completing theoretical lectures/trainings related to environmental knowledge, skills and attitudes, students will personally participate in and implement their own environmental projects through OST workshop. The course is divided into five parts, combining theoretical training with practical experience. Full participation in practical experience and action reflection is the core of the course. Through practice, students' initiative and innovation are stimulated, and they know how to make effective use of social resources.
emotional quotient (EQ)
The EQ module enables students to learn the knowledge and skills of emotional management through guided lectures, a series of interactive workshops and healthy and interesting course training, and pays attention to cultivating students' emotional control ability, so that students have the ability and self-confidence to know their own emotions, manage their own emotions, motivate themselves, perceive others and establish harmonious interpersonal relationships. This project aims to improve individuals' understanding of their own emotions, their ability to understand others' emotions, and their sense of responsibility and cooperation spirit in teamwork. The purpose is to make every member understand and manage his emotions reasonably through various group activities.
In addition, senior and active students are encouraged to participate in the emotional intelligence simulation training camp and immerse them in realistic simulation scenes to reflect, experience and consolidate the emotional management skills and teamwork skills they have learned.
Adversity management
The purpose of adversity management module is to improve students' decision-making consciousness and survival consciousness in adversity and reduce depression and anxiety. This project has made an intense exercise plan, with the goal of cultivating students' adaptability in unfamiliar and unfavorable environments. Through the three-day and two-night outdoor survival training program, students can fully experience the process of decisive decision-making and cooperation with others, and focus on improving the awareness of decision-making process.
This sport will enable them to overcome basic mental obstacles, especially those that limit their potential and performance; Enhance their subjective motivation and execution ability under pressure and unfavorable environment. The school believes that after graduating from UIC, students can transfer their survival knowledge and subjective decision-making ability learned in this process to real life, and be sublimated and surpassed.
Artistic experience
The art experience module provides students with more than a dozen art workshops and other art experience courses, such as China music element creativity, Chinese and Western dance basic training, China poetry recitation training, painting basic drama performance, calligraphy class, etc., and provides a platform for interested students to enhance their artistic taste. In addition, the Experience Center actively supports the development of photography and graphic arts, as well as the rehearsals and performances of international student choirs, and provides guidance and support for students with artistic enthusiasm. The course is scheduled for 2-3 hours per week, with a total class time of 8 weeks, including the design and creation of commemorative books, painting, photography, evaluation and reflection. And there will be opportunities to cooperate with artists to complete the final exhibition or performance. The final results of each workshop will be displayed on campus, which fully meets the requirements of "experiential learning" for sophomores.
The art experience workshop provides enough opportunities for "hands-on" and experiential learning. Professional art teachers focus on guiding and paying attention to each student in an interactive environment, so that they can create satisfactory works when the results of the workshop are displayed. This is a process of constantly stimulating students' imagination and creativity, and it is also a process of improving professional skills through practice in different artistic fields. This process cultivates students' ability to solve problems in practice, and also cultivates students' ability to cooperate with others and respect others' life.
Summer activities
UIC Holistic Education cooperates with local organizations at home and abroad (such as outdoor sports associations, non-governmental organizations, charitable organizations, nature reserves and schools) to organize experiential learning activities that embody the characteristics of holistic education modules and provide students with colorful winter and summer vacation projects. Each project usually lasts 2-3 weeks. Traditional projects include: Cambodian and Thai summer volunteer service projects, Shanghai True Love Dream Coach Project, Silk Road Experience and Transcendence Project, Northwest Desert Grassland Environment Tour, Taiwan Province Province Diving & etc. Marine culture, emotional quotient Zen, autism and emotional quotient project, Swiss outdoor sports adventure summer camp, winter skiing exchange activities in Gunma County, Japan, etc. "Four-dimensional education" is a unique innovative educational concept of UIC. The "four dimensions" are teachers (schools), students (students), families (families) and countries (society). It takes students as the core, gathers the strength of school, family and society, and through the benign interaction of the four parties, provides all-round care and services to students in study, life, family, psychology and career development, and combines students' self-education, improves the student-oriented education model, achieves the goal of cultivating all-round development people and successfully realizes the smooth transition of students to society. Vision: "Committed to exploring how to deal with the relationship between students' growth and family in China's one-child environment, establishing a new interactive order among teachers, students, families and the state, and realizing the harmony between individuals and families, individuals and society, and individuals and nature".
Core values: "Care, respect and principle".
The function of the four-dimensional education office: take students as the core, keep in touch with parents, alumni and all walks of life, seek all-round enjoyment of resources and energy, and promote the development of students. This is a bridge and a hub; I am good at expressing and listening here. Anything that helps students grow up, the school is willing to reach with you.