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Calligraphy is the representative of Chinese art. To understand Chinese art, calligraphy is a convenient way to enter. The purpose of offering calligraphy aesthetics and practice, a general elective course across colleges and departments, is to enable students who are not majoring in calligraphy to have a preliminary perception of the aesthetics of Chinese calligraphy, a general cognition of the history of Chinese calligraphy, and a basic experience of the basic techniques of Chinese calligraphy. Therefore, this course is integrated with aesthetics, history and practice. In this course, students not only listen to the history and theory of calligraphy taught by teachers and famous teachers, but also practice calligraphy in person under the inspiration of the teachers' unique teaching methods: seal script, official script, regular script, running script, cursive script, meaning and ancient meeting, elegant in hand. Students will be improved aesthetically, cultivated in their humanistic and artistic temperament, improved in the practice of writing, and finally have a new understanding of Chinese calligraphy and Chinese artistic spirit.

Developmental psychology is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes, emotional changes, and perception changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span.

Search engine is one of the most important information access tools for network users, search engine design and implementation process, the integrated use of today's Internet applications in the field of the highest level of research results. Students through the study of this course, not only can master and Internet applications closely related to the network information retrieval, network data mining and other aspects of knowledge, but also help to cultivate its comprehensive use of knowledge to solve problems. The teaching objectives of this course include: to understand the basic principles of search engines, product design ideas and commercial operation mode; to master the characteristics of the Internet data environment and its impact on the design and implementation process of the search engine; to learn and master the system design of large-scale commercial search engines and their core algorithms. The course combines classroom lectures with hands-on practice, so that students have a considerable theoretical foundation of search engine and practical ability. This will enable students to acquire knowledge with both theoretical depth and practical integration with the latest search engine applications.

Teaching Purpose:

To understand the general process of the history of the development of world literature, to explain the formation and evolution of major literary trends and schools on the background of the history of ideological and cultural development; To be able to interpret the ideological content and artistic characteristics of the classic works (about ten works) of classic writers in detail.

The teaching content includes the basic knowledge of literary history as well as the general situation of social history and culture that affect the development of literature. Due to the limited class time, the teaching content is mainly European literature, with appropriate intersperses related content about the influence of Eastern literature on the development of Western literature.

This course teaches about the best achievements of Chinese literature in various ancient periods, enabling students to master the basic characteristics of major literary genres such as ancient Chinese poetry on the basis of studying some of the most representative works.

This course enables students to have a general and basic understanding of ancient Chinese literature, thereby improving their literacy in Chinese literature and laying a solid foundation for further education.

Part One: Tang Dynasty Literature; Part 2: Literature of the Song Dynasty.

ICH Tai Chi Arts（Mr. Wang Qihe style） The Wang-Style Tai Chi, founded by Mr. Wang Qihe in the late Qing Dynasty, is a unique style of Tai Chi developed from the Yang-style small frame. In Wang style, not only is the softness and agility of Yang style well blended into the Wu-style hard frame, but it has also assimilated into its system the essence of other traditional arts such as Xingyi and Bagua, thus forming a special school of Tai Chi, characterized by its spiraling force and quick easy grace. Practitioners of Wang style should accustom themselves to the soft, water-like moves in Tai Chi and remember to be always as agile as the mouse-catching cat. From 1914 to 1921, Wang Qihe served in the Huiyou Security Bureau in Beijing. In 1913, Wang’s disciple Cao Shouhua was admitted to the Law Department of Peking University where he met Li Dazhao, who was also fond of martial arts. The two soon became close friends. Learning and practicing martial arts together, they also became comrades in battle when Cao joined the Communist Party under Li’s introduction. In 1938, Cao and Wang Jingfang (Wang Qihe’s son) escorted Deng Xiaoping and Chen Zaidao eastward and assisted them in establishing the revolutionary base in the south of Hebei. While Li and Cao sacrificed their lives for the Revolution in China, the Wang-Style Tai Chi survives and has thus formed an indissoluble bond with Peking University. Today, the Wang-Style Tai Chi has been listed as an intangible cultural heritage at the international (2020), national (2014), Beijing (2020) and Haidian (2018) levels. It is also a project declared, protected and inherited by the Peking University Headquarters. This course offers an overview of Tai Chi, including tuishou (pushing hands), sanshou (sparring), postures, as well as the biomechanical, biotechnological and philosophical principles behind the Tai Chi moves. The aim of the course is to let students understand and inherit the essence of Chinese culture, to boost their cultural identification and confidence, and to promote their physical and mental fitness. By learning and practicing Tai Chi, students can enhance their coordination, balance and flexibility, activate certain muscle groups, strengthen their cores, and thus gain a better control of their bodies. Tai Chi is also helpful in curing spinal and pelvic problems, reducing daily sports injuries and developing life-long sports habits among students.

Social psychology studies the psychology and behavior of individuals and groups in social situations and their development patterns. This course will cover the important concepts and theories in mainstream social psychology,including how individuals look at themselves and others,critical thinking about social phenomena, human aggression and helping behavior, attitude formation and change, social influence and its performance, the foundation of interpersonal relationships and intimacy, group psychology and behavior, how culture affects people, the psychosocial factors that affect human health, and the latest positive psychology. This course focuses on the application of social psychology in social life, the formation and maintenance of interpersonal relationships, principles of interpersonal communication and conflict resolution, and a smooth team work.This course will also focus on contemporary scholars' researches on human psychology and behavior under different cultural backgrounds. Through this course, students will master the research contents, research methods and major research results of social psychology and better understand social life and events.

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.