Ideological and Political Education (Teacher Education)

1. Program Description

Ideological and political education，which is a brand-specialty of Jiangsu province, belongs to Marxist Theory. It is based on two first level doctor’s degree authorization centers ,one second level doctor’s degree authorization center, four first level master’s degree authorization centers and more than twenty second level master’s degree authorization centers .It is characterized by long history 、profound academic background、abundant qualified teachers 、broad-caliber cultivation and graduates owning strong adaptability.

This program foster, primarily, students with high quality of politics 、morality and Marxist Theory ,who equip with fundamental knowledge of diverse disciplines such as philosophy , politics, jurisprudence、economics、sociology、management and pedagogy ,to be Ideological Workers having capacity of teaching Ideological and political Theory、working on moral education and participating in research and management at government offices as well as enterprises and public institutions.

2. Program Duration and Credit

This is a four-year undergraduate program, which can be completed within a minimum of three years and a maximum of seven years.

A total of 153 credits are required to the completion of the program.

3. Curriculum

Four modules of courses are offered for the program: Basic Curriculum, Essential Curriculum, Teacher Education Curriculum and Elective Curriculum. The Basic and Essential curricula are compulsory for a Bachelor’s degree.

The Elective Curriculum in the list includes extended disciplinary courses offered by the school into which an individual student is admitted, as well as cross disciplinary courses offered by other schools. Students can choose the extended and cross disciplinary courses according to their personal interests and career plans; however, credits should be approved by the School.

(1) Basic Curriculum

Course Code	Course	Credit	Semester	Remark
100305252101	Principles of Marxist Politics*	3	1
100305252102	Principles of Marxist Philosophy(1) *	2	1
100305252103	Principles of Marxist Philosophy(2) *	2	2
100101032003	Introduction to Sociology	3	3
100305252105	Foundation of Logic*	2	1
101204032101	Principles of Management	3	3
100305252104	Document Writing and Practice	2	5
101204033013	The  Methods  of  Social  Survey  Research	2	4	including 1 practice credit
100305252201	Principles of Marxist Political Economics(1) *	2	1
100305252202	Principles of Marxist Political Economics(2) *	2	2
100305252203	Principles of Marxist Ethics	3	3
100305252204	Introduction To Jurisprudence*	3	5

(2) Essential Curriculum

Course Code	Course	Credit	Semester	Remark
100305253001	Professional Introduction to Ideological and Political Education	2	1
100305253002	Modern Chinese History*	3	1
100305253003	The History of the People's Republic of China*	3	2
100305253004	Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought*	3	2
100305253005	Chinese Modern Political Thinking History	3	2
100305253006	Scientific Socialism Theory and Practice	3	3
100305253007	An Introduction to the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics*	3	3
100305253008	The History of Ideological and Political Education of the Chinese Communist Party	3	3
100305253009	Methodology of Ideological and Political Education*	3	5
100305253010	Contemporary Chinese & Foreign Political Institution	3	5
100305253011	The History of Western Political Thought	2	6
100305253012	Theory of Politics Comparison of Ideological and Political Education	2	6
100305253013	The Ideological and Political Education Principle*	3	4
100305253014	International Political Theory and Practice	3	4
100305253015	Marxism Original Literature Selected Readings	3	4
100305253019	Western Economics	3	6
100305253020	The Theory and Practice of the Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics	3	5
100305253018	Graduation Thesis	4	8	practice course

(3)Teacher Education Curriculum

Course Code	Course	Credit	Semester	Remark
100401223001	Rudiments of Teacher Professional Development	1	1
100401223002	Foundation of Secondary Education*	3	3
100401223003	Children Development and Learning*	3	4
100401223004	Teacher Language Expression and Application*	2	2
100401043037	Modern Educational Technology*	2	5&6
100401223007	Studies on Secondary School Politics Curriculum Standards and Textbooks *	2	5
100401223017	Middle School Politics InstructionalDesign and Skill Training*	3	6	practice course
100401223029	Middle School Education Probation	1	5	practice course
100401223030	Middle School Education Internship*	6	7	practice course

(4) Elective Curriculum

Course Code	Course	Credit	Semester	Remark
100305254001	The Development History Of Marxism	2	6
100305254002	The world economics and politics of present age	2	7
100305254003	The contemporary Western Political Trends of Thought	2	6
100305254004	Theory of Political Communication	2	5
100305254005	History Of Chinese Philosophy	2	7
100305254006	History of Western Philosophy	2	6
100305254007	Research and Paper Writing	2	6	Including 1 practice credit
100305254008	Public Administration	2	5
100305254009	National Civil Servant System	2	6
101204033014	Organization Behavior	2	6
101204034007	Administrative ability development and training	2	7	Including 1 practice credit
101204034010	Human Resource Management	2	7
101204034009	Effective Communication	2	7
101204034013	Business administration and practice	2	5
101204034020	Introduction to Chinese culture	2	5
100305254010	General Psychology	2	6
100401224001	Teacher Leadership	1	4
100401224002	Middle School Students’ Psychological Counseling	1	5
100401224003	Middle Students’ Moral Psychology and Moral Education	1	5
100401224004	Education Philosophy	1	6&7
100401224005	Education Ethics	1	5&6
100401224006	Education Research Methodology	1	6&7
100401224007	Hot Issue Research on Basic Education	2	6
100401224008	Introduction to School Management	1	7&8
100401224009	Micro-teaching Skills Training	1	5&6	practice course
100401224010	Research on Teacher Education and Teaching Thoughts in Contemporary China	1	7&8
100401224011	Educational Films Appreciation	1	7&8
100401224012	Questionnaire Date Analysis by SPSS	2	5&6
100401224013	Digitized Teaching Materials Design and Development	1	6&7
100401224016	Middle School Politics Education Measurement and Evaluation	1	6&7

(Note: 1. Odd-number semesters are the fall semesters and even-number semesters are the spring semesters in each academic year.

      2. The asterisk * marks a core course.)

4. Core Courses and Introductions

100305252101      Principles of Marxist Politics      (3cr.)

Prerequisites:

Principles of Politics is the basic course for ideological and political education major, the logic starting point of politics science training, and the theoretical presentation of the essential grasp of political phenomenon. Based on the analysis and research of the basic conception and the basic content of politics science such as state, regime, state system, government, parliament, congress, political party, nation, democracy, political culture, political behavior and political development, this book reveals the basic structure, basic characteristics and the regularity of the occurrence and development of political phenomenon and political activities, explores the internal mechanism of political phenomenon and political activities, and answers the questions “what is political phenomenon”, “why is it so”, and “what has to be done about it”. The content of Principles of Politics is general and fundamental, and is a basic course that has to be understood and mastered for politics science learning.

100305252102  Principles of Marxist Philosophy（1）     (2cr.)

100305252103  Principles of Marxist Philosophy（2）     (2cr.)

Prerequisites:

This course is the ideological and political education of professional backbone of four-year undergraduate course, compulsory.

Marxist Philosophy Is Scientific Practice as the basis for the unity of dialectics and materialism, dialectical materialism view of nature and history of a unified system for scientific content. It is the theoretical foundation of Marxist theory. Is a scientific world outlook and methodology of unity, the revolutionary Marxist philosophy epitomizes its critical spirit. Teaches the basic principles of Marxism, to help students establish a correct world outlook and outlook on life, a scientific way of thinking, to raise awareness of things and problem-solving skills, improve students' humanistic qualities.

100305252105        Foundation of Logic         (2cr.)

Prerequisites:

The course of Foundation of Logic will teach the significance, methods, laws and common errors of all kinds of everyday thinking, such as concepts, propositions and inferences. Students can understand the basic meanings and the correct expression of every form of thinking through repeated lectures and discussions, students can also develop fast and reasonable communication skills, proven abilities and rebuttal skills through continuous practical exercise. The Course of Foundation of Logic can provide the correct basis of thinking for the everyday thinking, discussions and exchange, academic research of students.

100305252201  Principles of Marxist Political Economics（1）        (2cr.)

100305252202  Principles of Marxist Political Economics（2）        (2cr.)

Prerequisites:

This course focuses on the basic content of Marx's Political Economics (part of the capitalism). The content of the course is divided into three parts. The first part of the book tells us the thesis of political economics and why we study it; the second is the analysis of commodity economy and social production, giving us the rule of and the commodity economic and social production  The third part tells us the basic principle of the capitalist economy and the essence, contradiction and historical trend of  the capitalist, and it also reveals  the new situation and new problems of the contemporary capitalist economy, the operating mechanism of the capitalist market economy and the state of the economy and the international economic relations.

100305253002        Modern Chinese History         (3cr.)

Prerequisites:

The course of Modern Chinese History is one of the basic courses in the Political Ideology Department. The Modern Chines History is the period from 1840 to 1949 when the People’s Republic of China founded. It includes the late Qing Dynasty, period of Provisional Government of the Republic of China, period of Northern warlords, and period of national Government. It is a history during which the semi-colonial and semi-feudal society evolved to collapse in China. The course mainly introduces the history when the Chinese resisted foreign aggression, defended the national independence, and carefully explored the road to salvaging; introduces the particularity and necessity of Chinese modernization and opening to the world. From the course, the students can have a practical understanding on how modern Chinese people changed difficultly and slowly from passivity to activity, moving toward modernization and conscientiously sum up the valuable lessons of which could provide the realistic enlightenment for today’s Chinese modernization.

100305253003   The History of the People's Republic of China (3cr.)

Prerequisites:

The history of the People's Republic of China is the basic course for ideological and political education major, and one of the important ways of ideological and political education of professional students to understand and master the development history of the People's Republic of China and its internal logic.From the point of the nature of the course, history of People’s Republic of China belongs to the category of modern history and contemporary history,and a part of the general history of Chinese. From the time span, It tells us every development process of the people's Republic of China since the establishment of the New China.

100305253004   Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought   (3cr.)

Prerequisites:

To learn and research the scientific system of Mao Zedong Thought as the object is summary of the formation and development of the scientific meaning of Mao Zedong thought, Mao Zedong thought, Mao Zedong thought, the scientific system and its basic principle and basic points of view, Mao Tse dong thought living soul of Mao Zedong thought, the historical status and guiding role of discussion. Through learning, so that students understand the Communist Party of China and the people of Mao Zedong led the people to carry out the new democratic revolution, socialist revolution and socialist construction practice and basic theory.

100305253007  An Introduction to the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics         (3cr.)

Prerequisites: Introduction to Mao Zedong thought

The study and research of socialism with Chinese characteristics as the object, on display in the new period since the Communist Party of China form the Deng Xiaoping Theory and "Three Represents" important thought, the scientific development concept and "four comprehensive", the content involves the Chinese characteristic socialist road, theoretical system and the system, including on the basis of the total, total task, reform and opening up, the overall layout of the five in one, "peaceful reunification and one country, two systems", peaceful development, relying on the strength and the core of leadership and other content, is the core courses of Marxist theory education of contemporary college students.

100305253009 Methodology of Ideological and Political Education       (3cr.)

Prerequisites: The ideological and political education principle

First, we are going to interpret the methods of Ideological and political education on the basic concept, research object, the theoretical basis of the functional characteristics, and the historical development. Second, We will discuss the methodology system of recognition, implementation, and regulation evaluation. Last, we will give an overview of the research methods of Ideological and political education and the training methods of the educators.

100305253013 The Ideological and Political Education Principle (3cr.)

Prerequisites:

The main content of this course has the following several aspects: the basic theory of ideological and political education, inheritance and reference, category; Process and the regularity of ideological and political education, the status and role, environment, object, target and contents, mechanism principle and method, evaluation, team building and leadership.

100401223003Children Development and Learning     (3cr.)

Prerequisites:

It is a compulsory course for students majoring in teacher education. This course has two parts:

The first part – Children's psychological development. It mainly involves theories of psychological development, the psychological characteristics of students in different age groups and the latest cutting-edge research findings. And theories applied in practice – case analysis, the psychological mechanism behind the case;

The second part -- secondary school students' cognition and learning. It mainly includes the learning theories, middle school students' learning motivation, learning strategies, learning styles, etc. And it will introduce some major psychology genres’ main thoughts on learning such as behaviorism, cognitive psychology genres and the constructivism. Analyze the reason why today's students lack learning motivation, understand the current situation of students learning motivation and the latest research findings of students learning motivation, and understand the types and development of the students' learning strategies; Introduce the concept of learning style, and the characteristic of the current middle school students' learning styles, and learn how to implement individualized teaching on today's middle school students, and the latest research findings on learning style, etc.

100401223004 Teacher Language Expression and Application (2cr.)

Prerequisites:

The purpose of this course is to help the normal university students master teaching basic writing and language skills, turn the theory of professional knowledge and teaching skills into specific vocational behavior mode and skills, and tend to be standardized and highly efficient. The major contents include two parts. First is to analyze the structure and function of the teacher's writing and written expression skills, and to tell the students about the training target, principles, methods and basic ways, so as to enable students to form the overall understanding of the goals, methods and ways of teachers. Second is to analyze the basic expression skills of teachers, and give training to the teachers' professional skills of literacy which is one of the most important and core qualities to be improved.

100401043037Modern Educational Technology       (2cr.)

Prerequisites:

Modern educational technology is a kind of public course of teacher education. Curriculum for normal school students' educational technology ability presents situation and subject of elementary and secondary school teacher's ability of applying information technology requirements, selects seven aspects of the normal students' teaching which is closely related to the exchange, research and practice. As a course with strong guidance, practicality and development for normal students, it will be able to meet the basis of normal students' information teaching, broaden our horizons, access and create teaching resources, grasp the technical support of teaching methods and skills, so as to easily control the 21st century classroom.

100401223007 Studies on Secondary School Politics Curriculum Standards and Textbooks                                (2cr.)

Prerequisites:

This course is the fundamental course in Politics teachers' professional curriculum system, and a compulsory course for the normal students who are interested in middle school and high school Politics education teaching. The course takes middle school and high school Politicscurriculum standard and teaching material as the research object, and aims to familiarize students with the basic ideas of curriculum standard, structure, content and requirement, the system structure and writing characteristics of middle school Politics teaching materials, to improve the students' curriculum literacy, and to cultivate the wisdom of analyzing teaching material and using teaching materials.

100401223017Middle School Politics InstructionalDesign and Skill Training    (3cr.)

Prerequisites:

This course content and structure reflect the teaching ideas which is based on the teaching ideas that the theory as longitude, the skill as latitude, case and practice as the carrier, emphasis on practical, openness. This course requires students to experience in the teaching feelings, to internalize in practice, to achieve the teaching goal of the formation of the basic skills and establish the correct idea. It requires the way of teaching: instructor diversity, both college teachers and middle school teachers. Two-way teaching activities, including the teacher lectures, also have students prepare teaching and micro-teaching, on-scene observation, etc., and they are dispersed in practice and communication in the class.

100401223030Middle School Education Internship   (6cr.)

Prerequisites:

Through education internship, student teachers will form teacher professional awareness and emotion, grasp specialized knowledge and professional skills, be equipped with the ability of automatically conducting teacher professional development through education, teaching and class management practice, which sets solid foundation for future teaching job.

Student teachers need to take part in all kinds of educational and teaching activities like observing other teachers’ lesson, preparing for the new lesson, trial teaching, giving lessons, managing class, attending research activities,etc.,during the whole educational practice period to improve their comprehensive professional ability which compose the inseparable part for being a secondary school teachers.