1, giving students more freedom of choice.
Yuanpei College guides students through various forms while allowing them to explore freely. Before the start of each year, the freshmen of Yuanpei College will attend the "Freshmen Training Camp" one week in advance.
The college invited first-class professors from various professional departments to explain the characteristics of each major to the students, and at the same time carried out activities such as quality development and psychological consultation, so that everyone could think about their study and life before entering the university.
In the first semester, the college will organize different types of discussion classes according to students' initial academic intentions, and invite teachers from many related fields to lead us to discuss some frontier issues in this discipline.
2. Set up a future-oriented interdisciplinary major.
In order to break the boundaries of disciplines and cultivate outstanding talents who can truly lead the future, Yuanpei College has set up two interdisciplinary majors, namely "Integrated Science" and "Data Science".
"Comprehensive science" integrates mathematics, physics, chemistry and information science, and pays attention to their intersection and integration in life science. "Data Science" combines mathematics, computer, statistics and other disciplines, and pays attention to its application in finance, medical care, natural language processing and other fields.
3. Establish the core curriculum system of general education.
"General education is experience, and learning the great ideas accumulated by human beings for thousands of years is of great benefit to the future development of students from all walks of life." On September 16, at the opening ceremony of the core course of general education in Yuanpei College, as the first director of Yuanpei Project Management Committee, President Lin Jianhua placed high hopes on the construction of the core course of general education in Yuanpei College.
Since the fall semester of 20 14, Yuanpei College plans to gradually offer four general courses: literature and humanities classics, social thoughts classics, art and aesthetics, and history of science and technology. At the same time, four undergraduate political courses will be rebuilt with the general education curriculum model, and a whole set of general education core curriculum system will be constructed with the model of "teaching in large classes and discussing in small classes".
4. Student-centered.
As a student autonomous organization, the Student Academic Committee of Yuanpei College has divided eight societies according to their majors and cooperated with four departments according to their work functions. In the teaching reform, the Student Academic Committee is responsible for the daily operation of the freshman discussion class and collects students' opinions and suggestions on English class, political class and discussion class.
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The enrollment of Yuanpei College is different from other departments, and the enrollment of junior students is divided into two categories: arts and sciences. Students choose and arrange their own courses and knowledge structure in the whole school; Under the guidance of tutors, according to their own abilities and interests, they choose their own majors in various departments of the school.
The name of Yuanpei College of Peking University is not domineering, but the admission score is very high. One year, the school accepted the second place in Henan science and the third place in a provincial liberal arts. Yuanpei College is for freshmen who are not sure what to study. Students' ability to be alone is very demanding.