I Am the President of the University

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Xu Chenyang turned around.

A middle-aged man in a black coat walked quickly.

The other party was dressed very simply, with black round eyes and a lot of flesh on his face.

The most dazzling thing is the other person's sparse hair and tall hairline.

"Professor Yu, what's the matter?"

Of course Xu Chenyang knew this person. He was a professor in the physics department of the same school named Yu Dong.

Yu Dong has been at MIT for much longer than them, and Xu Chenyang, Zhang Wei and others came to work here two years ago.

But after Yu Dong studied for a doctorate in physics at the California Institute of Technology, he came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer, and was appointed as a full professor (tenured professor) by MIT in 2015.

Yu Dong gasped and came to Xu Chenyang's side, white breath coming out of his mouth.

"Professor Xu, are you going to Guanghua University?"

Because he was already going through the process, the news was revealed. He was not surprised that Yu Dong knew this, but looking at him like this made Xu Chenyang think of the weather on Ludao.

The average temperature in Boston, USA, in January is -6℃-2℃. The weather is still slightly cold, but the winter on Heron Island is still quite warm.

"Yes, I will return to China at the end of the month." Xu Chenyang nodded and asked with some confusion, "Is there something wrong with Professor Yu?"

"It's like this. I want to ask Professor Xu about something. Isn't it convenient?" Yu Dong said with some embarrassment.

"now?"

"Yes, now."

Although we don’t have much communication with each other, we are all Chinese after all, and it’s best if we can help each other overseas.

Xu Chenyang forced a smile and said, "Okay, there is a nice cafe in front. Let's go inside and chat."

ten minutes later.

In the cafe.

The two found an empty seat and sat down, taking off their coats and putting them aside.

Xu Chenyang asked Yu Dong curiously: "Professor Yu, is there anything you want to know?"

"Ahem, that's it."

Yu Dong coughed, twisted his body, and asked shyly: "I heard that Professor Xu, Professor Deng, and Professor Huang are preparing to return to China to teach at Guanghua University, so I want to ask you about Guanghua University." things.”

"oh?"

Xu Chenyang raised his eyebrows, his interest rising. \b

"Why is Professor Yu so interested in Guanghua University?"

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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 envisioned when it was first launched and has not yet been realized, thus affecting the effectiveness of this experiment. The purpose of this experiment was to establish a general education system similar to the first-class liberal arts colleges in the United States, but after more than ten years of operation, this purpose has not been achieved. You can find many commentaries on Yuanpei General Education at Peking University online, with mixed reviews. But in a word, this experiment was not successful.

2. Peking University Yuanpei College focuses on general education, but its current training model does not set up its own general education courses, but adopts a platter-style general education method. Whether this method is good or not remains to be discussed, but currently domestic The educational environment makes it difficult to set up independent general education courses. This may be the "experimental failure" mentioned above.

The so-called platter-style general education means that students at Yuanpei College can take all professional courses at Peking University. Therefore, Yuanpei itself does not offer general education courses, but students can achieve general education by freely combining professional courses from different departments. The result of education. Majors will be divided into sophomore years. Students are free to choose any major within Peking University as their major (of course, they retain the right to change directions and take other professional courses). They can also choose Yuanpei's specialty majors: such as PPE (Politics). , Economics and Philosophy), Foreign Languages ​​and Foreign History, Paleontology, Integrated Sciences, etc. As the name suggests, these majors are a combination of relevant courses from various departments as your required courses.

A banner that launched undergraduate education and teaching reform in this century, Yuanpei College has been exploring a talent training model with a solid foundation and a wide range of talents for 13 years. It is one of the first colleges in China to test the waters of general education. The accidents, frustrations, embarrassments and even controversies that "Yuanpei" encountered in this talent experiment fully reflect the difficulty and pain of general knowledge.

Peking University Yuanpei is the earliest and relatively mature model in domestic general education reform. General education is now being rolled out in various universities, but the current results are not particularly good - but at least it has taken a step forward.

3. According to the talent training plan of Yuanpei College, after freshmen enroll, they can theoretically choose any course offered by the school and listen to whatever they want. The course study plan is all made by themselves; starting from the sophomore year, students can according to You are free to choose the direction of study according to your own interests, and there are no restrictions in theory.

"Spiritual freedom, academic freedom, and learning freedom." After entering Yuanpei, the first feeling almost all students feel is "freedom", but soon after, most people begin to feel "confused."

A student who enrolled in 2004 once published an article online complaining about Yuanpei's "free system." For example, the "tutoring system" that is supposed to be responsible for guiding students to choose courses and majors has limited effect. In fact, freshmen in Yuanpei Grade 04 can't even get a departmental course plan and have to go to the academic affairs department of each department. "Take a look."

Compared with these trivial matters, the freedom to choose courses becomes a bigger obstacle - you can listen to all the classes in the school, but what exactly do you listen to.

At Peking University, undergraduate course plans are mainly divided into two parts: professional courses and general elective courses. Generally speaking, professional courses are more difficult than general elective courses. According to the idea, after any Yuanpei student is in his sophomore year and chooses his own major, the courses he has taken in other departments can replace the general elective courses, and he can graduate with full credits.

For students, such regulations are tantamount to shackles in addition to "free treatment": they choose courses based on their interests. Once their test scores are not satisfactory, they will lose a certain degree of freedom when choosing a major.

Many people who have come to Yuanpei have personally experienced the process of compromising with "unfreedom." Zhang Wanting, a 2003 Yuanpei law student at Peking University, told reporters that in the first few years of Yuanpei’s implementation, performance points were not a thing that was valued. “Most students in 2002 and 03 classes chose courses based on their own interests. "Difficult courses were a trend at the time." But since then, the focus has become more and more grade-oriented.

The existence of "grade point" standards still makes students have difficulty choosing courses.

Zhou Wenjie was admitted to Yuanpei College in 2008 and is currently the class teacher of Yuanpei College in Grade 13 at Peking University. What he observed was that in the academy, by virtue of