China

This course is designed to introduce students to the main currents of Chinese ancient spiritual traditions, tracing into literary and philosophical texts the inner experience that they carry and interpret. Pondering over a selection of relevant excerpts, the students will navigate throughout Taoist, Confucian, Legist and early Buddhist traditions. Students will be able to understand and compare the structure of the spiritual world as suggested by various schools, mystics and authors, and to approach the journeys that have been undertaken into the inner world. The goal of the course is also to provide students with skills in comparative textural and cultural studies, by drawing their attention to the lived experience that lies behind major texts of Chinese culture.

This course is a general arts course for all students. The course is based on the achievements of historical documents, audio and video, creation and other fields in the music art discipline, combined with the weekly explanation and performance of excellent music works at home and abroad, highlighting the stage teaching practice activities with on-site effects, expanding the resonance of elegant music in the campus, and improving the musical literacy of students of all majors. At the same time, the participation of the network and film and television media inside and outside the university is organized to carry forward the achievements of excellent campus culture in a timely manner, and actively expand the social influence of campus music culture of Tongji University. Its teaching purpose is to make students understand the basic history of the development of music art and explore related issues in the field of aesthetics through undergraduate teaching, so as to reveal the aesthetic principles and basic rules contained in music creation and performance, learn to appreciate excellent works in music art, and understand the relationship between art development and social history and culture. Students are required to understand the basic historical facts in the development process of music history, as well as the basic laws of music creation, performance and appreciation, appreciate a certain number of excellent music works, and cultivate students' analytical ability.

An Introduction to Philosophy This course aims at being an introduction to the way of philosophical thinking through a close reading of Plato’s Republic and other classical philosophical texts. The course will introduce the students to the major topics, problems, concepts and approaches of philosophy by following the lead of Socrates to examine the ways of life. In addition, the course will provide a preliminary training of reading, arguing and writing in the philosophical way. Introduction: philosophy as a way of life Republic I: Justice, the failure of the definition Republic II: The founding of a just city? Republic III: Education of the Guardians Republic IV: From city to Soul Republic V:　Three Waves Republic VI: the way to philosophy Republic VII: the ladder of learnings Republic VIII: degenerate cities Republic IX: Tyrant Republic X: the Myth of Er Mencius I: Justice and advantages Mencius II: Beyond Altruism and Egoism Mencius III: Ataraxia Mencius IV: Natural Goodness Great Learning

Group social work is an important method among the three major practice methods of social work. This course mainly introduces the basic principles of group social work, the theoretical basis of group work, group types, elements of group systems, group dynamics, group social work process and the evaluation of group social work. The purpose of setting up this course is to enable students to systematically understand the meaning, origin and development of group social work as well as the theoretical basis of group social work practice, to have an in-depth understanding of the structure, process and development of the group, and to master the principles and characteristics of each different implementation stage. On the basis of comprehensively using various methods and techniques of group social work to organize the implementation of group social work. The course will explain practical theories while supplementing them with relevant cases. While paying attention to the analysis of practical theories, it will also focus on teaching group work skills and methods to prepare students for group social work.

Through the analysis of specific cases of communication in different situations and the systematic study of relevant theories, students can understand the basic theories of communication and master the methods to improve communication efficiency in different situations. Through a series of case discussions, students are trained to analyze and solve interpersonal conflict, team management, negotiation, cross-cultural adaptation and other related problems in practice by combining relevant theories. At the same time, through actual research and reporting, students will be trained to discover, analyze and solve problems, as well as expression and teamwork skills.

In today's society, with the process of globalization and informatization, people are more and more exposed to individuals and groups with different backgrounds. How to communicate with different individuals? How to improve the efficiency of the team? How do you adapt to a new environment?

Through the study of this course, students will be able to better understand and master the theory and skills of communication, management and negotiation in life and work.

This course is concerned with building of the guarantee system about firm’s long-term survival. It aims at training the students’ capabilities to grasp the overall nature of business, to analyse environment, mission, and competence of a firm, to craft and to execute strategy of uniqueness, trade-offs, and synergy. The ways of thinking, analytical skills and practice of art, discussed in this course can be widely applicable to all types of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. As a result of this course, students will be able to: 1) enhance ability to think the corporate strategy as a whole 2) learn the framework of strategic thinking 3) understand the essence of successful strategy crafting, implementing and executing in practice.

This course is concerned with the fundamental objective, "to live, to live well, and to live longer," of the (for profit or not-for-profit) business organization. It deals with identifying and analyzing past and current strategies, with formulating new ones and with implementing them through the organization evolving and operating in the global economic environment. It focuses on business unit strategy, corporate strategy (including choice of business evolution path and pace), co-opetition interactive strategy to solve the problems about "how" to get "what" done through "whom" and by what the firms can set-up, survive and die.

Through classroom study, classic reading and course videos, a more comprehensive understanding of the basic knowledge of critical thinking and argumentation theory. Through case analysis and problem discussion, this course will focus on cultivating my ability of independent thinking, comprehensive analysis and language expression. Through the overall design of the course, it will guide the formation of reflective thinking attitude, logical thinking skills and open thinking quality, reflecting critical thinking and innovative spirit.

This course explores selected topics in European politics and international relations, including the rise of modern states, revolutions, international orders, alliance politics, geopolitics, military strategies, strategic competition, political reforms, regional integrations, democratization, foreign policy, and sovereignty. Students are expected to actively participate in class discussions. Through their oral and written presentations, they are expected to be able to understand broad themes in European politics/international relations.

This course is for international undergraduate students with intermediate Chinese proficiency. The selected textbooks cover a wide range of subjects, including literature, history, philosophy and natural sciences, etc., and the contents are highly discussable, helping to train students' critical thinking abilities. At the same time, the written vocabulary is expanded in a targeted manner, the reading speed and comprehension level are improved, and students are trained to master the basic writing skills of Chinese articles during reading. The writing training combines the text content, style and the actual needs of the students, focusing on the analysis of grammatical errors, the analysis and application of written vocabulary, and the writing training that is biased towards academic argumentative styles, striving to enable students to write in order and meet the course requirements. Chinese article.