Transcript Course Design

Syllabus Design for
“Chinese Environment and Development:
From a Public Policy Perspective”
Yixin Dai, Ye Qi
School of Public Policy and Management
Tsinghua University
7/6/2015
Outline
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Background Information
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Syllabus Designing for the Course
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Goal Setting for the Course
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Syllabus designing
Teaching Methods
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Background Information
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Started from 2006
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Specially designed for Syracuse University
Education Abroad Program
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Basic requirements:
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Small discussion seminar
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Focusing on real-life situation w/ field trips
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Partially embedded into Tsinghua’s course system
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Goal Setting for the Course:
Descriptive Statistics of Students
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Student Nationality
Figure 1. Student Nationality Distribution
Korean
11%
Croatia
3%
US
Spain
3%
China
US
44%
Japan
3%
Japan
Spain
Korean
China
36%
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Croatia
Goal Setting for the Course:
Descriptive Statistics of Students
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Student Nationality
Student Major Distribution
Student Major Distribution (I)
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1
1
2
2
1
3
1
1
1
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
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aerospace engineering
anthropology
automation
chinese literature
economics
english literature
Electronic Engineering
geography
medicion
nuclear engineering
philosophy
public adminsitration
psychology
mathmatics
industrial engineering
history
business administration
computer science
international affairs
Goal Setting for the Course:
Descriptive Statistics of Students
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Student Nationality
Student Major Distribution
Student Major Distribution (II)
Social Science
Natural Science
Medicine
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Goal Setting for the Course:
Students’ interests about the topic
Typical Questions Students Were Interested in
Current environmental
situation & economic
development in China
Chinese environment policy
and implementation
Connecting to global
environmental issues
International
communication
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Current environmental situation in China
Relationship between investment/development and environment in
China
Renewable energy development in the western provinces in China
Environmental ethics
Current environmental policies in China?
Importance of environmental concerns to the government
Ways Chinese government take sustainable development into policy
consideration
Environment policy implementation /what have been done till now
China’s way to switch from western development model to a
sustainable one
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How would Chinese environment affect environment in other countries
What role would china play in response to global warming
International comparison on environmental policy
Technology transfer between China and other countries
How could China solve the dust storm problem that has influenced
other countries such as South Korea?
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What are local people’s perspective towards environmental protection*
Why do people (esp. students) do not see environment as a huge
problem?
Improve English skills*
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Goal Setting for the Course:
Students’ pre-course knowledge
Coal Burning/
CO2 emission
Air
Pollution
Water
Pollution
Energy Usage Environme
and Shortage ntal NGOs
Sand
Storm
2008
Spring
4
2
5
2
0
1
2008 Fall
4
7
7
2
1
1
2009
Spring
5
1
6
5
1
1
Total*
13(2)
10(4)
18(8)
9(3)
2(0)
4(1)
*number of students have certain knowledge about the topic, with numbers in () the number of
Chinese student
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Goal Setting for the Course
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Name: Environment and Development in
China: from public policy perspective
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Content:
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About basic information of China and Chinese
environment situation
About Chinese environment policy
About Chinese link to the international
community on environment issues
About real practice in China
Syllabus Structure
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Session I: Knowledge about China and
Policy Analysis
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Session II: Knowledge about the most
updated environment topics in China
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Session III: Trends in environmental
protection all over the world
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Teaching Methods
Exchange Project (I)
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Teaching Methods
Exchange Project (II)
Low Emissions Zone
•Cars without approved pollution
standards are charged to enter zone
•Includes: mini-vans, cars made before
2001, and
diesel-fueled.
•Costs £28 per day
•Those with unapproved cars can have
their vehicles reequipped with healthy
engines.
Otherwise… you have legs.
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Teaching Methods
Tsinghua Goes Green Project
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Puff the Chinese Dragon (Video)
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University River
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Teaching Methods
Fieldtrip Visit
Field Trip
Content and purpose
Beijing 798 Art Zone
Re-vitalization of brown field
National Olympic Park
Wetland management; Water
management
Beijing Taped Water
Museum
Taped water management and history in
Beijing
Beijing Eco-village site
Eco-village building and sustainable
development
Miyun Reservoir
Local government management; water
management
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Teaching Methods
Others
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Case study
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Video clips for current events
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Research paper reading
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Thanks!
Your suggestions, comments are welcome!!
Yixin Dai
[email protected]
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