I. Training objectives

This major aims to train students in specialised skills with well developed moral, intellectual and physical traits, who love the socialist motherland, and can adapt to the needs of the development of a socialist market economy. They are expected to have good political awareness, a noble character, cultural literacy, and professional ethics, with a good foundation in art theory, basic painting skills, animation software, and basic animation-production. They should be able to help produce animations for film and television productions, games, digital media, and advertising. The major also aims to enhance the specialised practical skills and cultural literacy of students, as well as their capacity for innovation, while teaching correct values, big-picture thinking, and a sense of social responsibility. Finally, it aims to enable them to adapt to the new requirements of the era, and contribute to the construction of a modern socialist country.

II. Requirements

1. Duration of studies: This major requires 2 years, with 8 of part-time studies permitted, and at least 2.5 years.
2. Type of education: open
3. Total credit hours and credits: 1,404 class hours and 78 credits
4. Other requirements

Overall quality: This major aims to cultivate students who believe in and support the Party's leadership, love the country, seek to serve the people wholeheartedly, abide by the law, and be personally and professionally moral.

Professional and skills development:

It aims to teach the basics of ideology, culture and political science, including the principles of Marxism and Xi Jinping “Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era”, along with art theory and basic painting, common animation software and design, basic animation-production skills, independent entrepreneurship, adaptability, and the animation industry as a whole.

III. Main courses

1. Curricular modules

There are eight course modules in this major: Ideological and Political Courses, Public Basic Courses, Specialised Basic Courses, Professional Core Courses, General Courses, Specialised / Professional-extension Courses, Comprehensive-practice Courses, and Public English Courses.

Specialised basic courses

The lowest number of credits covered in the examinations of the OUC headquarters for this module is 19 units, and the lowest number set for the module is 40 units.

1) Unified compulsory courses: Introduction to Animation, Animation-oriented Film Language, Computer-image Processing, Colors, and Sketching.

2) Elective courses: Fundamentals of Multimedia-application Technology, Composition, Foundations of Visual Design, Digital Colors, Sketching, Fundamentals of Patterns, and Thematic-illustration Design.

2. Professional core courses

The lowest number of credits covered in the examinations of the OUC headquarters for this module is 19 units, and the lowest number set for the module is 40 units.

Unified compulsory courses: Flash-animation Production, Animated-scene Drawing, Animation Post Production and Synthesis, Principles of Animated Movement, and Foundations of Animation Modeling.

Elective courses: Computer Graphic Design (1 & 2), Animated-scene Drawing (1 & 2), Animation Post Production and Synthesis, Animation Technique (1 & 2), Animation Dubbing and Sound Effects, Animation-work Analysis, Applications of 2D Animation Software, Fundamentals of Computer-based 3D Modeling, Fundamentals of Computer-based 3D Modeling (1 & 2), Comics-drawing Techniques, and Fundamentals of Movie and TV Animated-short-film Production.

I.Training objectives

The major aims to train students capable of participating morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically and through their labour in the construction of a socialist country; to give them varied and practical management skills which they wield with integrity, allow them to meet modern requirements, teach them the basic theories and methods of administration and general management, and give them skills relevant to organisation, planning, coordination, communication, and execution.

II. Requirements

1. Duration of studies: This major requires 2 years, with 8 of part-time studies permitted, and at least 2.5 years.
2. Type of education: open
3. Total credit hours and credits: 1,404 class hours and 78 credits
4. Other requirements

Educational: This major requires students to master the basics of history, culture and administration (including theory), and to become familiar with real-world modern-day administration.

Skills development: The major requires students to gain investigation, expression, communication, coordination, self-management, self-discipline and auxiliary-management skills; to learn to process information, solve problems, engage in self-directed study, seek self-improvement, adapt to career changes, as well as to skillfully operate computers and other modern office equipment, and become competent in general administrative work.

Overall quality: Students will be taught to love the country, believe in and support the leadership of the Communist Party of China, master the theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics, establish a correct outlook on living and values, and be patriotic, honest, friendly and law-abiding. They must strongly support the rule of law, be public-spirited, feel social responsibility, and have a positive attitude toward life, while also gaining strong professional skills and mastering the thinking and research methods of the major. Finally, they should possess good cultural and scientific literacy and be healthy in body and mind.

III. Main courses

Specialised basic courses

Public Administration, Principles of Political Science, and Fundamentals of Management.

Professional core courses

Office Management, Individual and Team Management, Supervision, Social-investigation Studies and Methods, Administrative Organisation, and Practical Writing (in Chinese).

I.Training objectives

This major trains students committed morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically and in terms of labour to the construction of a socialist country, and gives them strong and practical technical skills to meet the requirements of social development, along with a high degree of ideological,  political, moral and cultural awareness, and a good understanding of the law, including theory and the ability to analyse and solve common problems, while able to provide grassroots legal services and legal-affairs management.

 II. Requirements

1. Duration of studies: Thismajor requires 2 years, with 8 of part-time studies permitted, and at least 2.5 years.
2. Type of education: open
3. Total credit hours and credits: 1,404 hours and 78 credits
4. Other requirements

1) Educational

Students are expected to master:

(1) Political theories

(2) Basic jurisprudence, constitutional law, civil law, criminal law, procedural law, and other areas

(3) Labour disputes and mediation, social security, and so on

(4) Related majors at a basic level

(5) Basic further-study and development skills

2) Skills development

Students are expected to:

(1) Master basic computer and office-software use

(2) Learn to arrange and manage legal files, undertake labour and civil-dispute mediations as well as judicial investigations, draft legal documentation, and offer legal education

(3) Be able to write and speak fluent Putonghua, deal with and coordinate public relations, and understand appropriate etiquette

(4) Be able to use information technology to research laws and regulations, retrieve literature and other information, and analyse, summarise and conduct discussions related to the information

(5) Be able to protect workers and social security, settle labour disputes, and ensure democratic worker-management

(6) Be able to forestall legal risks to enterprises and institutions

(7) Be able to innovate and to learn independently

3) Overall quality

Students are expected to:

(1) Be devoted to their work and maintain strong professional ethics

(2) Abide by regulations and political requirements

(3) Be physically and psychologically healthy

(4) Have a sound understanding of the law

(5) Have a good ability to collect, process and analyse information

(6) Be good learners

(7) Be good team players with strong willpower, self-confidence, and mental stamina; hard-working, eager for challenges, and enterprising.

III. Main courses

Specialised basic courses：Jurisprudence, Constitutional Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Civil Law, Administrative and Administrative-procedural Law, Economic Law, and others.

Specialised courses: Civil Procedural Law, Criminal Procedural Law, and others.

I.Training objectives

This major is dedicated to training students dedicated to building socialism, and well-developed in moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic terms, as well as their capacity for labour. They should be ideologically and politically sound, ethical, humane and technically skilled, as well as adaptable to the needs of administrative management and instruction in rural areas and in agriculture.

II. Requirements

Duration of studies: This major requires 2 years, with 8 of part-time studies permitted, and at least 2.5 years.

Type of education: open

Total credit hours and credits: 1,404 hours and 78 credits

Other requirements

Educational: The major teaches the basic theories and methods of Administrative Management and related disciplines; it covers rural society and its development, emerging issues related to agriculture and rural areas, such as land management, and the current situation and trends of rural development in China.

Skills development: It helps students apply their learning, analyse and solve practical problems, such as ones relating to rural development and regional administrative management, deal with agricultural and related affairs, become skilled in computer-use and writing, and able to undertake lifelong learning and entrepreneurship.

Overall quality: Students are expected to love the country, believe in and support the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and promote socialist core values, establishing a correct outlook on living and values, and being interested in, understanding of, and committed to agriculture and rural areas. They should be physically and mentally healthy, ethical and positive, and highly professional and practical in their approaches.

III. Main courses

1. Specialised basic courses

Rural Policies and Regulations, Township Administrative Management, and Rural Sociology.

2. Professional core courses

Land-use Planning, Small-town Construction, Promotion of Agriculture, and Introduction to E-government.

I.Training objectives

This major mainly trains students in the political integrity and overall competence required to help build “Chinese socialism for the new era”. Its graduates should also be practice-oriented and committed to the ethics and service of their profession, and have a solid grasp of the requirements for assessing the needs of older adults, psychological counseling, rehabilitation and nursing, organisation and planning of activities, project operations and evaluation, and the operations and management of elder-care institutions. Graduates will be able to work in private and government-run elder-care and service institutions, the system of the China National Committee on Aging, geriatric hospitals and foundations, and related organisations, or work in the design and marketing of products for older adults.

 II. Requirements

1. Duration of studies: The major requires 2 years, with 8 of part-time studies permitted, and studies lasting at least 2.5 years.
2. Type of education: open
3. Total credit hours and credits: 1,404 hours and 78 credits
4. Training requirements

Overall quality

The major aims to train students who firmly believe in and support the leadership of the Communist Party of China and China's socialist system, practice socialist core values under the guidance of Xi Jinping “Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era”, and are deeply patriotic. They must be law-abiding, honest, trustworthy, respectful, responsible and socially aware, as well as optimistic, practice-oriented, and able to manage themselves and their careers while also having a strong team spirit. Students should be sound in mind, body and personality, and competent in one or two sports and one or two artistic skills or hobbies.

Educational

Graduates of the major are expected to have mastered relevant ideological and political theory, as well as the basics of science and culture, including traditional Chinese culture. They should be familiar with the values of the profession and the policies and regulations related to it, understand the physiological, psychological and social characteristics of older adults, be able to survey and evaluate them, have skills related to individual, group and community cases, and be able to plan and manage service projects.

Skills development

The major aims to enable students to engage in lifelong learning, analyse problems, and find solutions; learn to communicate and cooperate; become self-aware and manage their emotions; gain basic writing and computer skills, as well as professional skills such as case work and administration; conduct investigations and evaluations relevant to their service; and plan, implement and evaluate specialised service projects and activities.

III. Main courses

1. Specialised basic courses

Unified compulsory courses: Practice of Social Work for the Elderly, Introduction to Social Work,and Foundations of Social Gerontology.

Elective courses: Social-investigation Studies and Methods, and Introduction to Sociology.

2. Specialised courses

Unified compulsory courses: Case Work, Activity Planningfor Older Adults, Protecting the Rights and Interests of Older Adults, Practical Psychology for Older Adults, Community Work, and Group Work.

Elective course: Social-work Administration