In order to continuously promote the high-quality and connotative development of ouruniversity’s English-taught demonstration courses for international students, the 2023 Shanghai Business School’sInternationalStudents English Demonstration Course Construction Project Appraisal Meeting was organizedby the Collegeof International Education in a combination of online and offline methodson November 4th. Chen Yili,Director of the International Student Office of Tongji University, Sun Bing,Dean of theCollegeof International Cultural ExchangeofShanghai University of Finance and Economics, and Li Yuewen,DeputyDean of theCollegeof International EducationofShanghai University of Engineering Science, attendedthe meetingas review experts. Nine course leaders from theCollegeof Finance, Business Administration, and International Education of Shanghai Business School, as well as relevant personnel from the International Student Office of theCollegeof International Education, attended the meeting, which was presided over by Dai Ying, deputy dean of theCollegeof International Education.
At the beginning of the meeting, Deputy Dean Dai Ying introduced the participating experts, and clarified the course project approval process, the key points and criteria for evaluating course project approval. Nine teachers from the different colleges reported their declared courses. In the course defense session, each teacher introduced the objectives,thecontents,theselection of materials,theteaching methods,theassessment methods,theteaching resources andtheteaching use platform.
In the expert questioning session, three experts, Director Chen Yili, Dean Sun Bing and Vice President Li Yuewen, exchanged and interacted with the declared teachers around the issues of courses’ ideological and politicalconstruction, course construction funding, diversified examination methods, teaching team composition, teaching content, teaching methods and means, and textbook selection.
After the report, the experts fully discussed and collectively voted on the course review meeting, and finally determined that the eight courses were successfully approved. The successful holding of this meeting not only strengthened the construction of the English-taught demonstration courses for international students, but also laid a foundation for the continuous promotion of high-quality and connotative development of international students and theuniversity’s international talent training.
Written by:Shen Lanxin
Photos by:Zhang Wen
Reviewed by: Chen Wei