China

This course is intended to give a panoramic view of contemporary China. The topics are restricted to different aspects of the status-quo of China, including people and nationalities, food and cuisines, languages and dialects, festivals and traditions, marriage and family, leisure and entertainment, arts and sports, traffic and transport, travel and world heritage, natural resources and environment protection, mass media and publication, education and research, politics and government, religions and beliefs, information technology and internet, cities and countryside. Each topic is framed into 10 to 15 questions and presented in an easily accessible way with statistic figures, stories, pictures and video clips from different sources in order to ensure objectivity. The aim of the course is to offer a panoramic view of contemporary China in the selected aspects and help understand the variety and diversity of contemporary Chinese society.

ADVANCED INTENSIVE CHINESE I

INTERMEDIATE INTENSIVE CHINESE I

In our daily life, people often tell friends, peers, family of their distress before they tell professional counselors. Peer counseling is such a special kind of psychological counseling, conducted by trained or supervised unprofessional people, providing helps having some counseling effects. In this process, through the use of active listening and problem solving skills combining knowledge about human development and mental health, peer counselors instruct their companions and provide them with psychological and emotional support In this course, the basic concept, skills and ethic of peer counseling will be introduced, as well as some practical problems such as culture, race, sexual orientation and romantic relationship. As a general course, these goals are to reach: Students can have basic knowledge of peer counseling; Some basic peer counseling skills can be mastered and used in practical situations; This course also helps student in viewing their own mental health and improving it with related knowledge.

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INTERMEDIATE INTENSIVE CHINESE III

The modern and contemporary history of China course is a compulsory course of ideological and political theory for undergraduates, provided by The Central Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Education .This course focus on the history of Chinese people against foreign aggression, fighting for national independence, overthrowing the reactionary rule and achieving national liberation in modern China. It will help students understand the national history, the historical process and internal rules of the modern Chinese society and the revolution. By this way, they will deeply understand why people choose the Marxism, the Communist Party of China and the road of socialism. This course was set up by Peking University since September 2006 and it was named to the quality courses of Beijing and China in 2008. Credit score: 2. schedule type: 2 hours a week, optional during two semesters. level: freshmen required. This course use the form of seminars as teachers will be separated into four teams, include presenters, a competent teacher, lectures and teaching assistants. The teachers will give you some lectures, and the traits of the course is the practical parts, such as broadcasting documentaries or films, writing exercises about the films, class discussion, visiting the exhibitions and so on. The assessment of students is flexible. Final exams accounts for 60%, which is open-book examination, the rest 40% include individual performance and essays.