Bachelor's Program Content and Course Requirements
The graduation credits stipulated by the department are a total of 132 credits (including 24 credits of school required and general education courses, 32 credits of departmental required courses, at least 30 credits of professional elective courses, and 15 credits of compulsory elective courses. Other electives courses can be up to 27 credits, which can be supplemented by the credits of courses of other departments or professional elective courses). In addition, students should note that the school has established the "English Proficiency Graduation Qualification Test" (applicable to undergraduate students, except for physically and mentally challenged students, overseas students and foreign students) in order to improve students' English proficiency. Students who have passed one of the following English proficiency standards are eligible to graduate with English proficiency.：
(1) The GEPT (Graded English Proficiency Test) intermediate and advanced preliminary examinations
(2) TOEIC test (TOEIC) score of 600 (or more)
(3) Pen and paper TOEFL test (PBT) score of 500 (or more)
(4) TOEFL paper and pencil test (ITP) score of 480 (or above)
(5) Computer Based Test of English as a Foreign Language (CBT) score of 173 (or higher)
(6) Internet-based Test of English as a Foreign Language (IBT) score of 61 (or higher)
Among the 132 graduation credits, there are the following six regulations.
(1) All required courses must be taken with passing grades. At the same time, you must complete the “choose two from four” courses offered for freshman (two of the department's four courses, including political science, economics, psychology, and introduction to the study of law) and the “choose three from six” courses offered for sophomore to senior (three out of the department's six courses, including social organization, social stratification, social psychology, cultural anthropology, political sociology, and economic sociology), a total of five required courses. If more of the above-mentioned courses are taken, it will be counted towards the credits of professional elective courses.
(2) The professional elective courses offered by the department amount to more than 30 credits.
(3) The courses stipulated by the Ministry of Education, such as: Chinese, foreign languages and physical education, etc., must be completed.
(4) General education courses require 16 credits in five dimensions, but please note that no more than 16 credits from general education courses will be recognized, any additional credits will not be counted in the total graduation credits.
(5) The upper limit of credits per semester is 25 credits. If your grades in the last semester are within the top 20% percentile of the class, you can take one or two additional courses. You should carefully evaluate your personal capacity.
