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Chapter Two
Common Core Requirements at the
UGC-funded Universities

Table 1: A summary of the GE programme structure of the eight UGC-funded universities

Institutes/ GE Programme Structure Language courses required but
Name of GE programme/ College/ not counted as part of the GE
(Number of credits of GE Core requirement Language Distribution requirement School specific programme
programme) requirement

Core University English language
enhancement
U1 Scientific and Technological Literacy (6 credits)
Common Core Humanities
Curriculum Global Issues Discipline English
(36 credits) China: Culture, state and Society (6 credits)
(36 credits)#1 Chinese language enhancement
(6 credits)

U2 In Dialogue with Chinese Cultural Heritage Chinese (6 units)
Nature, Science and Technology
General Education Humanity (3 units) Society and Culture 6 units English (9 units)
(21 units) In Dialogue with Nature Self and Humanity
(3 units) (9 units)

Four Cluster Areas:
Human nature, relations and
English Language and development
Freshman Seminar Communication Community, organization and
U3 Leadership and Intra- Requirements subjects globalization
General University Personal Development (6 credits) History, culture and world views Discipline-specific Language
Requirements Service-Learning Chinese Language and Science, technology and environment requirement
(30 credits) Healthy Lifestyle Communication (12 credits, at least 3 credits from (2 or 3 credits for each language)
(9 credits) Requirements subjects each area)
(3 credits)
(With China Studies Requirement;
Chinese and English Reading and
Writing Requirements)
School-based English course
Humanities (Min. 3 credits)
U4 English communication Social Analysis Department-based English course
Core Curriculum (6 credits) Science and technology (Min. 3 credits)
Programme Chinese communication Quantitative reasoning Number of courses/credits
Arts
(36 credits) (3 credits) Healthy lifestyle subject to programme needs.
(27credits) Some programmes may need to
take additional Chinese-related
course

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