丝路学院

Silk Road School (SRS) aims to create a curriculum system for China’s national conditions around Chinese politics, economy, law, and culture study. Through core competitive courses, renowned lectures, high-end forums, cultural experiences, and research practices, SRS provides students with a unique opportunity to comprehensively understand and explore China and the world, helping them further understand China’s development path, development model, and development experience, leading aspiring students to use “Chinese wisdom” to explore the common problems in world development, and cultivate them to become international top talents and future leaders with knowledge, ability, quality and global competitiveness.

Core Courses

China Politics

This course aims to introduce contemporary Chinese politics and issues on national governance. The course focuses on the institutions, processes, issues, and participants in the field of Chinese politics and national governance.

Overview of China

This course gives a comprehensive introduction to China, such as the characteristics of China’s social development, China's economic prosperity, the process of China’s opening up, etc.

Contemporary Chinese Foreign Policy

This course provides an overview and analysis of the evolution of China’s Foreign Policy.

Global Governance and Regional Cooperation

This course describes and explains China's relations with neighboring countries and regions and the process of cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.

Contemporary Chinese Economy

This course systematically introduces China's economic reform process, institutional characteristics and policy-making.

Contemporary Chinese Foreign Economic Relations

This course aims to give a broad understanding of China’s foreign economic policies since China’s reform and opening up.

Contemporary Chinese Society

This course explores various aspects of social life before and after the reform in China, with a focus on urban and rural social stratification, changes in gender, family relations and the welfare system.

Chinese History

China encompasses a wide range of ethnic, linguistic and regional differences within its territory. This course will focus on prominent and representative historical events and related topics.

Chinese Culture

This course selects typical themes of Chinese traditional culture and introduces its development, features and impacts. Courses are organized in the form of lectures, field studies and seminar.

Platform courses

Seminar on High-Quality Development of the Belt and Road

This course is a series of lectures focusing on high-quality development of Belt and Road and its impact.

Seminar on China Studies

This course is a series of lectures on China focusing on cutting-edge research topics to help students understand China's national conditions and important social issues, etc.

Writing Training

Academic English Writing

This course focuses on developing students’ knowledge of academic regulations and norms, necessary academic writing skills and thesis writing skills.

Methodologies in Social Science

This course aims to provide an understanding of the various research methods in social sciences.

Field Study

Overview of China’s Development

Based on the theoretical system of Chinese path to modernization and the geographical advantages of the Yangtze River Delta Economic Belt, this course aims to enable students to have a deep understanding of China’s development through field studies from dimensions such as the inheritance and development of Chinese excellent culture, new development empowered by technology, the modernization of national governance, the construction of ecological civilization, and common prosperity. The course enables students to witness the achievements of Chinese modernization, further understand China’s new development concepts, and enhance their all-round understanding of contemporary China through their own witnesses of China’s development path, development model and development experience.

Silk Road School, Renmin University of China

Telephone：0512-62606063

mailbox：srs@ruc.edu.cn

address：No.158 Ren'ai Road, Dushulake High Education District, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

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