I Am the President of the University

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　　Guo Xin, professor at Peking University, leader of the carbon-based chip team at Peking University.

　　 As for this China forum, with Professor Guo Xin’s qualifications and abilities, he would naturally receive an invitation, but he only found out when he looked at the list that he asked the other party to give a special report.

　　 Could it be that he came to settle his account?

　　 While Chen Hao was guessing, Professor Guo Xin spoke up.

　　 "Principal Chen, is it convenient to talk now?" The others are fine, but Ren Hong kept looking at him with a smile, making him a little annoyed.

　　 "If I promised early, maybe the person standing on the stage this morning is me instead of you Ren Hong."

　　 murmured inwardly. Among the domestic chip research institutions, Ren Hong of the University of Science and Technology of China is indeed good, but their carbon-based chip team at Peking University is the first in China.

　　 Guo Xin felt even more sour when he thought of the report meeting just now and watched Ren Hongda show the limelight.

　　 "Okay, let's talk on the beach next to the conference center?" Chen Hao thought for a while and replied.

　　Ludao International Conference Center is leaning on the sea, and walking across a road is the beach. The name is also very straightforward. It is called the Convention and Exhibition Center Beach.

　　 "Professor, Professor Broad, and Professor Miller, then I will get out of company for a while and see you at the forum."

　　 After bidding farewell to Ren Hong and Broad, Chen Hao and Guo Xin's private car came to the beach of the Convention and Exhibition Center.

　　 After the car stopped, the two walked out.

　　 The reason why I chose to chat on the beach instead of in the meeting room is because the chat is also affected by the environment. For example, chatting in the meeting room will be more cautious, and it is easier to get closer when you are outdoors.

　　 The wind on the beach was very strong. Fortunately, when Chen Hao went out in the morning, he specially applied wax and hairspray. Even if the sea breeze was blowing, it would not affect his handsome hairstyle.

　　Professor Guo Xin...The sparse hair on the top of his head has absolutely no resistance in front of the sea breeze, and it has been blown out of shape.

　　 "The sea breeze on Ludao is really strong." Guo Xin noticed Chen Hao's gaze and twitched the corner of his mouth, and said with a smile.

　　 "It's okay now, it's only terrible during the typhoon season." Chen Hao remembered the typhoon Morante in the past few years. Although he was not in China, it was called a tragic and the circle of friends exploded.

　　 "Professor Guo, is there something going on?" Chen Hao asked in a confused manner.

　　Professor Guo Xin can do anything to find himself? Can’t you just join Guanghua University?

　　 That is naturally impossible.

　　 Only the Optical Core Research Center can attract each other.

　　 The answer is already very clear.

　　 "That's it, cough cough." Guo Xin's face was reddish, and he asked with difficulty, "I don't know if your school's optical core research center is short of people?"

　　 After all, the other party invited him to join, and the school secretary also strongly hoped that he would support him in the past.

　　 As a result, I was too arrogant, not only offended Guanghua University, but also upset the secretary.

　　 Thinking about the original decision, Guo Xin really feels like a pig.

　　 foolishness!

　　 "Optical Core Research Center?"

　　 Chen Hao read it for a while, and said with some regret:

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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 liberal arts colleges in the United States. 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’s 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-calibre 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.

　　 "Spiritual freedom, academic freedom, and learning freedom." After almost all students enter Yuanpei, their first feeling is "freedom", 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 are you listening 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 sophomore year and chooses his own major, the courses of other faculties previously selected can replace the general elective courses, and they can graduate after completing the credits.

　　 For students, regulations such as these are tantamount to the shackles other than "free treatment": choosing courses according to their interests, 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 makes students unable to let go of course selection.

　　 Zhou Wenjie, admitted to Yuanpei College in 2008, 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 have a strong plan as soon as 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.

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."

　　 Zhou Wenjie said frankly that the "freedom" provided to students by Yuanpei College is still a kind of "negative freedom" in a sense. "Students have to take the risk to choose courses without knowing what is going on in this major, and they have to judge whether these courses can touch the core issues of the major." Especially for freshmen, the psychological pressure is all of a sudden. Just come up.

　　 Not long ago, a post on the bbs of Peking University "fired". The poster stated that he submitted an application for extension of the school system, but was rejected by the school's academic affairs office, which delayed his plan for undergraduate study.

　　 Not long ago, a post on the bbs of Peking University "fired". The poster stated that he submitted an application for extension of the school system, but was rejected by the school's academic affairs office, which delayed his plan for undergraduate study.

　　 This student is Lv Weicong, Yuanpei's 10th grade. After completing the mathematics professional course, he hopes to study mathematics and computer science cross-study, so he applied for an extension. According to Yuanpei's teaching plan, students enjoy a flexible academic system and can complete their undergraduate education within 3 to 6 years. But the reason for the school's academic affairs not to postpone is that the student's graduation credits have been completed.

　　 After coordination, Lu Weicong's application was finally approved. However, this matter still caused follow-up discussions within Yuanpei: Yuanpei did not get rid of the trouble of the "dual track system", and some of the college's teaching systems did not receive effective administrative protection at the school level.

　　 Although the "dual track system" has not completely disappeared over time, Xu Chongren said that Yuanpei College is a model that is beneficial to the improvement of undergraduate education based on the diversified source of students. Yuanpei’s reform addresses two prominent problems in higher education: students’ premature entry into professional studies leads to narrow knowledge; most students blindly choose majors, and there is a gap after learning.

　　 "Beijing University is to train the same students into different people." Xu Chongren said that Yuanpei provides students with more choices. It may not be suitable for all students, but it is necessary for its existence. "

　　 4. The marginalization of general education courses

　　 Regardless of "General Knowledge" or "Liberal Arts", it literally emphasizes broad knowledge. When conducting general education in Chinese universities, a common practice is to require students to take courses other than their major.

　　 Peking University offers five general elective courses, covering mathematics and natural sciences, social sciences, philosophy and psychology, history, linguistics, literature and art. Students must complete at least one course in each category to be able to graduate.

　　 This approach partly refers to the curriculum of elite American universities, the most well-known of which is undoubtedly the "core curriculum" of the University of Chicago as a junior student.

　　 This approach partly refers to the curriculum of elite American universities, the most well-known of which is undoubtedly the "core curriculum" of the University of Chicago as a junior student.

The core courses include humanities, mathematics and natural sciences, and social sciences, emphasizing western classical humanistic traditions, classic reading and critical writing, with heavy burdens and high standards. It is by no means that students can work hard outside of professional courses. It can pass, so the University of Chicago students actually start to focus all their energy on major courses in the third year.

　　 In contrast, a Peking University student needs to complete 140 credits to graduate, while the general elective courses only account for 16 credits. The rest are required professional courses, professional elective courses, English courses, and political courses.

　　Most of the energy of the students in the lower grades is spent on professional courses. In the upper grades, they are busy with internships, job hunting, applying for overseas graduate schools and graduation thesis. The effective teaching time of the university is actually only three years.

Teachers from Peking University have devoted considerable enthusiasm and effort to the general elective courses. The teachers who teach the general elective courses are not lack of domestic first-class scholars in related fields, but the lack of the system guarantee of the core curriculum means that the general elective courses are at most an adjustment after professional courses. Yuanpei’s There is no special treatment for students~www.readwn.com~ Generally speaking, students at top universities in the United States need to complete three to four courses per semester, but each course comes with considerable homework and reading, while Chinese college students generally have one semester There are eight to ten courses to learn.

　　 Chinese college students do not work harder than their American peers. The number of courses is doubled, and the quality of completion can only be sacrificed. One or two general courses per semester may become formalism.

　　 Learning any subject requires examining the history of knowledge development.

　　 5. For example, Peking University formulated and implemented the "Yuan Pei Plan" in September 2001. Since 2002, the new teaching plan has been revised, and a free course selection system has been implemented within the scope of undergraduates in the whole school. In terms of curriculum settings, in addition to professional compulsory courses, school-wide compulsory courses, and public elective courses, general elective courses are set up. General elective courses include several courses in 5 fields including mathematics and natural sciences, social sciences, philosophy and psychology, history, linguistics and art. The undergraduate level basically forms the "general education + wide-calibre professional education" curriculum model.

Since the new semester of 2005, Fudan University has integrated the 68 majors of the school into 7 categories, including adult humanities, law and politics, economics and management, natural sciences, technical sciences, mathematics, and hospitals. Freshmen first enter Fudan College in the freshman year, and then enter the professional college one year later. Department of learning. The college restructured the curriculum content system according to the training objectives, and established a curriculum framework of comprehensive education, basic education in liberal arts and professional education.

　　 The Xinya College established by Tsinghua University in 2014, its school-running philosophy and teaching plan, have largely borrowed from the American liberal education or general education model.