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Syllabus Design for. “Chinese Environment and Development: From a Public Policy Perspective”. Yixin Dai, Ye Qi School of Public Policy and Management Tsinghua University. Outline. Background Information Syllabus Designing for the Course Goal Setting for the Course Syllabus designing
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Syllabus Design for “Chinese Environment and Development: From a Public Policy Perspective” Yixin Dai, Ye Qi School of Public Policy and Management Tsinghua University
Outline • Background Information • Syllabus Designing for the Course • Goal Setting for the Course • Syllabus designing • Teaching Methods
Background Information • Started from 2006 • Specially designed for Syracuse University Education Abroad Program • Basic requirements: • Small discussion seminar • Focusing on real-life situation w/ field trips • Partially embedded into Tsinghua’s course system
Goal Setting for the Course:Descriptive Statistics of Students • Student Nationality
Goal Setting for the Course:Descriptive Statistics of Students • Student Nationality • Student Major Distribution
Goal Setting for the Course:Descriptive Statistics of Students • Student Nationality • Student Major Distribution
Goal Setting for the Course:Students’ interests about the topic
Goal Setting for the Course:Students’ pre-course knowledge *number of students have certain knowledge about the topic, with numbers in () the number of Chinese student
Goal Setting for the Course • Name: Environment and Development in China: from public policy perspective • Content: • About basic information of China and Chinese environment situation • About Chinese environment policy • About Chinese link to the international community on environment issues • About real practice in China
Syllabus Structure • Session I: Knowledge about China and Policy Analysis • Session II: Knowledge about the most updated environment topics in China • Session III: Trends in environmental protection all over the world
Low Emissions Zone • Cars without approved pollution standards are charged to enter zone • Includes: mini-vans, cars made before 2001, and diesel-fueled. • Costs £28 per day • Those with unapproved cars can have their vehicles reequipped with healthy engines. • Otherwise… you have legs. Teaching MethodsExchange Project (II)
Teaching MethodsTsinghua Goes Green Project • Puff the Chinese Dragon (Video) • University River
Teaching MethodsOthers • Case study • Video clips for current events • Research paper reading
Thanks!Your suggestions, comments are welcome!! Yixin Dai yixindai@tsinghua.edu.cn