The Big Picture and Specifics of College General Education

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This paper was compiled from the following lectures and conference presentations by the author: April 24, 2006, lecture at Peking University; July 3, 2006, lecture at Fudan University; January 19–20, 2007, presentations at the “University Concept and General Education” academic seminar held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The author would hereby like to thank these institutions for their invitations and all those who joined the discussions.

Notes

For case reports and discussions on recent general education practices at some Chinese universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Wuhan University, Sun Yat-sen University, Shandong University, Shanghai University, and East China Normal University, see Gan et al. 2006.

For an initial summary of this general education experimental course at Tsinghua University, see the report published by the two assistant teachers for this course see Zhao and Wu 2006.

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Yang Gan

Yang Gan is the Dean of Xinya College, Tsinghua University.