Courses
Course Details and Assessment
- During the first three semesters, students must complete 32 credits of course-work, including the required eight core courses (3 credits each) in addition to electives. With the permission of the program director, students may also take courses offered by other departments at BNU to be counted as elective course credits.
- By the end of the fourth semester, students are required to submit a master’s thesis. This requirement offers students the opportunity to conduct independent research in a field of Chinese philosophy of their own interest, and it intends to cap the academic experience of studying Chinese philosophy in China.
| Type |
Course Name |
| Intro |
Chinese History and Culture |
| Core |
History of Chinese Philosophy I: Pre-Qin to Tang |
| Core |
History of Chinese Philosophy II: Song to 20th Century |
| Core |
Methodological Issues in the Study of Chinese Philosophy |
| Core |
Advanced Studies in Confucianism |
| Core |
Seminar of Issues in Chinese Religious Studies |
| Core |
Advanced Course of Chinese Philosophy and Culture |
| Core |
Advanced Seminar in Studies of Chinese Philosophical Thought |
| Core |
Instruction to MA Thesis |
| Elective |
Seminar of Special Topics on Chinese Philosophy |
| Elective |
Selected Topics in Confucian philosophy |
| Elective |
Selected Topics in Daoist Philosophy |
| Elective |
Selected Topics in Chinese Buddhism |
| Elective |
Chinese Political Philosophy |
| Elective |
Chinese Philosophy of History |
| Elective |
Chinese Ethics |
