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.

Language Courses

Chinese Language

This course aims students to understand Chinese, its usage habits and cultural connotations by learning the standard pronunciation, listening comprehension and daily life expressions of Chinese.

Chinese Pronunciation

This course aims at foreign students whose native language is not Chinese, and requires a basic or general understanding of Chinese pronunciation.

Chinese Listening and Speaking

This course aims at foreign students whose native language is not Chinese and those with an intermediate level of Chinese. It is a comprehensive skill training course to improve students' listening and speaking ability through audio-visual materials.

Chinese Grammar

This course aims at foreign students whose native language is not Chinese and those with an intermediate level of Chinese. The course will systematically explain 12 basic grammar items to help learners understand the structure rules of Chinese sentences.

Chinese Reading and Writing

This course aims at foreign students whose native language is not Chinese. They are required to have an intermediate level of Chinese. It mainly focuses on Chinese reading and writing skills.

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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