Fudan University

The Vocal Healing Course is designed to teach active healing methods. Vocal healing greatly benefits human body both physically and spiritually through vocal training methods, which focus on breathing techniques, resonance adjustments, and vocal frequency vibrations, and through auditory guidance in music. This nonverbal form of communication can reach deep into people's emotional core. Some healing techniques can even “massage” the body’s internal organs in ways that are difficult to replicate with other healing approaches.

This course develops foundational skills in statistical reasoning and data analysis, with an emphasis on parameter estimation and model interpretation. Throughout the semester, students will learn how to estimate and interpret key statistical parameters that describe both individual variables and relationships between variables. 

This course adheres to the educational philosophy of "cultivating character before artistry," constructing a film curriculum system that emphasizes "ideological depth, holistic thinking, and creativity." It uses technical skills as a bridge, prioritizes human-centered values, and places artistic integrity at the forefront. Through three stages—film appreciation, film deconstruction, and film creation—the course aims to truly approach the artistic essence of cinema and immerse students in the world of film. It seeks to break conventional thinking patterns by guiding students from "theory to practice," "skills to concepts," "understanding to experience," and "appreciation to creation." The course strives to harmonize "ideological depth and artistic expression," "emotional experience and logical thinking," and "knowledge and individuality," ultimately fostering outstanding high-level innovative talents.

This course examines topics covering urban settlements, imperial tombs and burials, agriculture, handicrafts, sacrificial rituals and religions, as well as cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. Taking time as the fundamental axis, the course sorts out the development context of civilization during the Han and Tang dynasties through each thematic topic, comprehensively revealing the cultural features of the Han and Tang dynasties based on archaeological findings. 

The Dance Sport course integrates dance art and sports competition. Dance Sport includes five dance styles in both Standard and Latin. By learning these classic dance styles, it helps students master dance steps, improve body coordination and rhythm. In the course, students can feel the charm of dance art, shape a beautiful figure, enhance physical fitness through exercise, and cultivate elegant temperament and team spirit. It is a characteristic course combining beauty and vitality.

Literature is deeply embedded within socio-cultural context. This elect course focuese on the multi-dimensional intersection between literary studies, feminist literary critique, and western social hisotry, to emphasize the impact of literature on social development by way of examining women's relationship to reading and writing in a broad historical spectrum. Methodologies involved include literary and cultural analysis, feminist movments, and critical understanding and discussion on issues of women and family, marriage, motherhood, education, social engagement, intellectual history, and agency.  

In the age of digital intelligence, how can we coexist and collaborate with machines? What are the boundaries and limits of human–machine communication? This course focuses on five core issues in the field of intelligent communication: human–machine interaction, human–machine trust, human–machine emotion, human–machine value alignment and digital intelligence for good, and cultural and generational differences in human–machine communication. By adopting an interdisciplinary perspective and drawing on cutting-edge research cases, the course aims to help students better understand the nature of human–machine communication and human–machine relationships. It also equips students with the abilities to calibrate trust in machines, critically reflect on human–machine relationships, and engage in human–machine communication in a responsible manner.

This course builds upon an interpretation of the core text of the Zhouyi (the Book of Changes) and its commentaries (the I Ching (Yijing) and the Ten Wings (Yizhuan)). It progressively guides students to understand the foundational knowledge and key issues in Yixue. These include the historical context of the Zhouyi's emergence, the historical evolution of its doctrines, the various principles for interpreting the Book of Changes text, comprehending the philosophical spirit of the Ten Wings, examining the complex relationship between the Zhouyi and aesthetic culture, and reflecting on prominent issues within the cultural evolution of Zhouyi scholarship. With a focus on exploring the aesthetic and cultural dimensions of Zhouyi thought, the course aims to highlight its distinctive intellectual wisdom and conceptual allure, demonstrating the enduring and invaluable contributions this ancient classic has made to the course of human civilization.

This practical intermediate-level course in French conversation provides students with a wide variety of dialogue models in audio and text form, which they are invited to listen to, read and reproduce, before writing and performing, in groups, their own dialogue on a common theme.

Through the study of this course, students can grasp the basic views of Marxism as a whole. Furthermore, based on Marxist philosophy, they can understand the general development laws of the capitalist economy, recognize the historical necessity of socialism replacing capitalism, and strengthen their communist ideals and beliefs. They can form a scientific world view, outlook on life, and values, and consciously devote themselves to the great practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics. It conducts education on a scientific world view, outlook on life, and values for students, and cultivates their scientific ability and thinking methods for analyzing and solving problems.