University of Michigan-Peking University Joint Institute

Work Summary of UM-PKU Joint Institute Summer Courses

September, 2006

Based on the agreement signed by both Peking University (PKU) and University of Michigan (UM) and under the full support of Peking University, the UM-PKU Joint Institute successfully launched and completed all the courses offered for this summer, which gained good feedback from most of the students and achieved the desired results. In this respect, we would like to express our most heartfelt thanks to Peking University leaders, the Office of International Relations, the Graduate School, the Office of Assets Management, the Office of Financial Affairs and other relevant departments and collaborative teachers!

The PKU/UM Joint Institute began her formal operation with a brand new, international, joint model for running schools. Her philosophy is to invite famous scholars of their respective fields to one of the best university in China to offer relevant courses, with those graduate students and outstanding undergraduates in their higher grades as the principal targets. This new attempt provides in China the same education as abroad for the students, in this way they can feel outstanding foreign teachers’ teaching styles and teaching attitudes.

Since January, 2006, the Joint Institute began to work on preparation and enrollment (Some work had already started in 2005). In April, the staff moved into Leo KoGuan Building of Peking University. The detailed work is as follows:
January to February: enrolling students according to the teaching plan and course requirements; sending materials such as courses introduction to recommended students via email;
March: Students sending in application materials;
April: Dealing with affairs such as the foreign teachers and foreign students’ visas and accommodations (including Chinese students from outside Beijing); contacting to fix classrooms;
May: Reviewing applications of students, sending and mailing the admission notices;
June to the end of August: registering of students of respective courses; starting courses.

Actually, the working items listed above were carried out alternately and concurrently. It was the first year of practice, for this reason we didn’t carry out any advertisement. Instead, we accepted students through the recommendations of experts and professors. Among the recommended people there were students and teachers from universities, researchers from national scientific research institutions and scientific research units, researchers from the Academia Sinica of Taiwan. There were teachers and students from Chinese universities including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Beijing Normal University, Fudan University, Shanghai University, Nanjing University, Nankai University, Zhongshan University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Harbin Institute of Technology and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, as well as students from University of Michigan, Yale University and Stanford University of USA and Cambridge University of UK.After the recommendation procedure by the experts and scholars, the deadline for application was March 31, 2006, but until then there were still many students who came to counsel and actively applied for enrollment. In order to meet the demands of the majority of people under certain limitation, finally the Quantitative Analysis Laboratory project expanded from 100 to 125, and the Interdisciplinary Chinese Studies project from 40 to 53 (Table 1).Each applicant was required to hand in application form (which had special requirements for English listening, speaking, reading and writing ability and level, so as to adjust to English teaching), recommendation letters and official school transcript. The relevant students were admitted after discussion of the Admission Committee of the Institute.

Table 1: Basic Statistics on teachers and students of 2006 Programs

Program Title	Quantitative Analysis Laboratory		Interdisciplinary Chinese Studies		Total Students
Program Director	Xie Yu(UM), Guo Zhigang(PKU)		David Porter(UM), Yang Shanhua(PKU)
Course Title	Introduction to Survey Research(Lecture)	Methods of Survey Sampling(Lecture)	Social Science(Seminar)	Humanities(Seminar)
Course Instructor(s)	Nora Cate Shaeffer	James Lepkowski	Mary Gallagher；Albert Park	Martin Powers；Miranda Brown
PKU teacher(s)	Guo Zhigang, Qiu Zeqi, Ren Qiang	Ibid	Shen Mingming	Lu HuiLin
Planned Admission Number	50	50	20	20	140
Actual Admission Number	65	60	26	27	178
Number of PKU students	38	34	14	14	100
Percentage of PKU students	58.46％	56.67％	53.85％	51.85％	56.18%

 

PKU/UM Summer Program – Summer 2006 Courses
北京大学－密歇根大学学院2006年暑期课程计划

Courses 课程	Instructors 任课教师	Time / class hours 时间 / 课时数	Number of students 学生人数	Others 备注
1. Introduction to Survey Research 社会调查研究方法	Nora Cate Schaeffer University of Wisconsin- Madison	June 19-July 13, 2006 12 / 48 (周学时/总学时) 3学分	50	带电教设备的教室和普通教室各一
2. Methods of Survey Sampling 抽样调查法	James Lepkowski University of Michigan	July 17-August 10,2006 12 / 48 (周学时/总学时) 3学分	50	同上
3. Interdisciplinary Chinese Studies Seminar Social Science 跨学科中国研究研讨班 社会科学	UM Instructors: Albert Park Department of Economics  Mary Gallagher Department of Political Science	July 3-July 28, 2006 10/40 (周学时/总学时) 3学分	20	同上
4. Interdisciplinary Chinese Studies Seminar Humanities 跨学科中国研究研讨班 人文学	UM Instructors: Miranda Brown Department of Asian Languages and Cultures  Martin Powers Department of History of Art	July 31-August 25, 2006 10/40 (周学时/总学时) 3学分	20	同上