Two Students from the Center for European Studies have beenenrolled

into the School of International Governance Innovation (SIGI)

Mar.5, 2017

As the new 2017 schoolsemester begins, Han Xueying and Hu Huadao, first-grade postgraduates from theCenter for European Studies(ESC), got the pre-admission of the first session ofSIGI Project(hereafter called as “the Project”) out of 160 candidates afterstrict written examination and interview by expert panel. This has demonstratedthe excellent foreign language capability and consolidated professionalknowledge of students from ESC, and also represented ESC’s achievements indeveloping high-level international talents, such as the open internationalexperiment. With this fruitful start of post-graduation work in 2017, we lookforward to greater progress of students in ESC.

Attachment: Introduction to theProject

Attachment: Developmentmode, teaching plan and school fee of the Project

I.                  DevelopmentMode

We adopt“1+1+1”—three-year development mode based on current post-graduationdevelopment plan and curricula arrangement. In compliance with the requirementsof GDUFS and cooperating American universities, after completing the first andsecond school year, students of excellent performance are eligible to get a half-yearor one-year internship in international organizations such as UN, with theirschool registration status retained. Moreover, they will obtain two diplomasfrom GDUFS and cooperating America university separately.

II.               TeachingPlan

To avoid overlappingcourses, highlight major disciplines and develop high-level professional andprofessional talents with compound expertise复合型专业人才, SIGI formulated a new set ofteaching plans, different from that of post-graduation courses, with itsteaching scope covering politics, diplomacy, economy and trade, management, lawand other disciplines involving China, America and global governance.  

1.     CurriculumArrangement

Students need toparticipate in required curricula based on curriculum arrangement of Americauniversity, provided that professional courses in GDUFS have been completed.These courses will focus more on the research and practice ability ofinter-disciplinary fields and mainly contain international economy, politics,law, management and etc..

2.     TeachingManagement

SIGI and Americanuniversities agree upon the following principles concerning curriculaarrangement, location and expert instructors:

(1)   Adopt inter-disciplinarycurricula, including required and selective courses within degree-conferringrequirement.

(2)   Parts of credits aremutually acknowledged with reference to post-graduation credits exchangeregulations.  

(3)   Domestic curricula andparts of curricula abroad are open during weekends, the afternoon of Tuesdayand summer vacation; major curricula in American universities are completedabroad. SIGI is in charge of recruiting and selecting teachers as well as thedetailed curricula arrangement.

With post-graduation feein GDUFS remaining the same, participation in SIGI courses is for free. Tenstudents will be sent abroad for one-year further post-graduation study with afull subsidy by China Scholarship Council(CSC), covering school fee,accommodation fee and round tickets. Other students in SIGI project may applyfor Studying Abroad Scholarship, Construction of High LeveUniversity to have post-graduation study in American universities.