Cooperative International Undergraduate Degree Program in Elemantary Education Program between University of Alabama and Shanghai Normal University Tianhua College
The program has been approved by Chinese Ministry of EducationMOE31US2A20151711N .
Program objectives:
to promote the educational and cultural exchange between China and the United States, especially in the collaboration of student-teachers training. This educational collaboration will introduce the good practices in education from UA, and insist on the principle of non-profit.
Learning outcomes:
to train high quality student-teachers who will have global vision of education, and love the career of teaching and doing research in elementary school and can teach multiple subjects.
Duration of study and Degrees:
fulltime, four years.Students will study at SHNUTHC. Nominated SHNUTHC students can be enrolled to study the courses in UA for one year.
SHNUTHC will issue a Bachelors Degree and graduation certificate to each student who successfully completes the course work jointly designed by the two institutions and who meets the requirement of graduation by SHNUTHC.
Coursework completed on the campus of UA will be certified with a certificate of completion.
Study plan and schedule:
The study plan is jointly designed by the two parties. Students will be enrolled in the courses jointly designed by the two parties. They will be taught either in Mandarin or English.At least two third of the courses will be taught by faculty from SHNUTHC; up to one third of the remaining courses will be taught by UA instructors and/or instructors approved by the University of Alabama on the grounds of Tianhua College.