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A Brief Introduction
to Wuhan University
A Description of Disciplines
Application Procedure
Admission and Registration
Required Fees
Graduation Certificate,
Degree Certificate and Graduate
Address (for contact):
ｉ. A Brief Introduction to Wuhan University
Wuhan University, set
up in 1893, lies at the foot of picturesque Luojia Hill by the side
of the East Lake, the most charming place of Wuhan, a large city
of strategic importance in Central China, and is directly under
the administration of the Education Ministry of the People＊s Republic
of China.
The university now
has 29 colleges and various branches of learning, including science,
engineering, agriculture, medicine, literature, history, philosophy,
law, economics, education and management, 85 undergraduate specialties,
189 disciplines and specialties awarding master＊s degrees, 99 disciplines
and specialties awarding doctorates, 11 post-doctoral research programs,
and a number of the State＊s key laboratories, the State＊s discipline
laboratories, the State＊s engineering technology research centers,
and national bases for fostering basic science personnel. It has
5,000-odd teachers, including 3,000-odd professors and associate
professors, among whom are a number of academicians of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the
Eurasian Academy of Sciences. Among its 40,000-odd students at the
university, there are 600-odd foreign students, and 8,000-odd graduate
students studying for their master＊s degrees or doctorates.
The College of Foreign
Students Education (Or: The Foreign Students Education School求求fses) of Wuhan University is a special organ in charge
of the university＊s various kinds of foreign students enrolment,
management, and the Chinese language specialty teaching and training,
as well as one of the whole China＊s examination centers for HSK
examination and the examination for the qualifications of the teachers
teaching Chinese language to foreign students. The college, with
rich teaching resources and a comparatively higher teaching and
scientific research level, has 25 teachers teaching Chinese language
to foreigners, including 15 professors and associate professors,
4 members of the World Chinese Language Society for Foreigners,
and 23 members of China＊s Chinese Language Society for Foreigners.
ｊ. A Description of Disciplines
(ｉ)The College＊s Enrolment Categories
1.Chinese Language
Class for Bachelor＊s Degree (schooling length: 4 years)
The required courses
of the discipline: Chinese language, Chinese characters, spoken
Chinese, listening (or; aural ) comprehension, reading, writing,
modern Chinese grammar and rhetoric, an introduction to contemporary
China, general history of China, an introduction to Chinese culture,
ancient Chinese language, literature of modern and contemporary
China, social practice, school year-end thesis, graduation thesis,
etc.
The elective courses
of the discipline: Chinese calligraphy, Chinese painting, intermediate
and advanced seeing-hearing-and-speaking, spoken Chinese for economy
and trade, newspapers-and-periodicals reading, selected readings
in modern and contemporary Chinese literature, translation, news
listening comprehension, the culture of Hubei Province, Chinese
language for social sciences, an introduction to linguistics, traditional
culture of China, the use of Chinese reference books, Chinese function
words, analyses of misused Chinese, Chinese folkways culture, Chinese
humane geography, Chinese philosophy, Chinese language and culture,
etc.
2. Class for Advanced
Studies of Chinese Language (short-term class: 6 months at most;
long-term class: over 6 months)
Types of class: class
for elementary study of Chinese language, class for intermediate
study of Chinese language, and class for high-level study of Chinese
language (HSK examination is a must for each type of the class)
Teaching content: courses
of class for elementary study of Chinese language求求basic Chinese language, basic spoken Chinese, basic
listening comprehension, Chinese characters, etc.; courses of class
for intermediate study of Chinese language求求intermediate Chinese language, intermediate spoken
Chinese, intermediate listening comprehension, intermediate seeing-hearing-and-speaking,
writing, reading, etc.; courses of class for high-level study of
Chinese language求求advanced Chinese language, advanced spoken Chinese, advanced listening
comprehension, advanced seeing-hearing-and-speaking, newspapers-and-periodicals
reading, news listening comprehension, HSK examination guide, etc.
At the same time, according to the need, other courses for the study
of Chinese language can be taken as elective ones.
3. Chinese Culture
Class (2 weeks to 6 months)
Types of the class:
Chinese traditional culture class, Chinese language and culture
class, Chinese martial arts and qigong class, Chinese culture
tourism class, etc.; meanwhile other classes can be run in the light
of the two parties＊ cultural exchange agreement.
Teaching content: to
strengthen the students＊ ability
to express themselves orally in Chinese and their command of Chinese
language and culture, offered for them are the courses concerning
respectively the literature of ancient China, the arts of Beijing
opera, Chinese calligraphy art, the art of traditional Chinese painting,
Chinese martial arts, Chinese taijiquan, Chinese swordsmanship,
Chinese tourist culture, Chinese food (or: dietary) culture, Chinese
folkways culture, etc., also offered are lectures on special topics
and after-class learning, usually in a combined way.
(ｊ) Other Types of the Specialties Available in Wuhan
University
1. The Disciplines
and Specialties Awarding Bachelor＊s Degrees (schooling length: 4
years)
Humane Studies College:
philosophy, Chinese language, Chinese language and literature, drama
and film-television literature, historiography, world history, archaeology,
museology, etc.
Journalism and Mass
Media College: journalism, network journalism (or: news), radio-and-television
journalism, radio-and-television writing and directing, the art
of announcers and comperes, advertising, packing engineering, printing
engineering, etc.
Commerce College: economics,
finance, international economy and trade, insurance studies, marketing,
financial management, tourism management, public finance management,
business administration, project management, accounting, etc.
Information Management
College: library science, archives learning, information management
and system, editing and publishing, etc.
Law College: law, sociology,
social work, etc.
Politics and Administration
College: politics and administration, ideological and political
education, etc.
Public Relations College:
administration management, public undertakings management, labour
and social security, land resources management, etc.
International Relations
College: international politics, etc.
Mathematics and Statistics
College: mathematics and applied mathematics, information and calculational
science, statistics, etc.
Physics and Technology
College: physics, applied physics, material physics, electronic
information science and technology, etc.
Chemistry and Molecular
Science College: chemistry, applied chemistry, etc.
Life Science College:
living things science, biology technology, ecology, bioengineering,
etc.
Resources and Environmental
Science College: environmental science, environmental engineering,
geographical information system (computer cartography), resources
and urban-and-rural planning and management, land resources management
(land information technology), etc.
Material Science and
Engineering College: material physics, material chemistry, high
polymer material and engineering, inorganic-and-nonmetallic material
engineering, etc.
Water Conservancy and
Hydropower College: water conservancy and hydropower engineering,
agricultural water conservancy engineering, harbors-coast-and-riverine
engineering, hydrology and water resources engineering, etc.
Electrical Information
College: electrical system and its automation, etc.
Dynamics and Machinery
College: automation, thermal energy and power engineering, metallic
material engineering, machine design-manufacture-and-automation,
material forming and control engineering, etc.
Urban Construction
College: architecture, city planning, etc.
Civil Engineering and
Architecture College: civil engineering, water supply and sewage
engineering, engineering mechanics, etc.
Computer College: computer
science and technology, etc.
Photoelectric Information
Engineering College: photoelectric information science and technology,
survey technology and instrumentations, electronic information science
and engineering (technology), electronic information engineering,
communication engineering, etc.
Remote Sensing Information
Engineering College: electronic information engineering (remote
sensing information engineering, photographical survey and remote
sensing), geographical information system (space information engineering),
etc.
Survey Science and
Technology College: geophysics, cartographical engineering, satellite
applied technology, etc.
Medical College (schooling
length: 5 years): basic medical science, forensic medicine, clinical
medicine, anaesthesiology, medical imaging, medical examination,
nursing, etc.
Stomatological College
(schooling length: 5 years): stomatology, etc.
Pharmacy College: pharmaceutical
preparation, pharmacy, etc.
Public Health College:
preventive medicine, etc.
2. The Disciplines
and Specialties Awarding Master＊s Degrees (schooling length: 3 years)
Humane Studies College:
Marxist philosophy, Chinese philosophy, foreign philosophy, aesthetics,
religion studies, philosophy of science and technology, literary
and artistic studies, language and applied linguistics, Chinese
language and philology, Chinese classical documents, literature
of ancient China, literature of modern and contemporary China, drama
and opera studies, archaeology and museology, historical geography,
history of ancient China, history of modern China, world history,
etc.
Journalism and Mass
Media College: journalism, media studies, printing engineering,
etc.
Information Management
College: information studies, library science, archives learning.
Commerce College: political
economy, history of economic thought, economic history, Western
economics, world economy, population resources-and-environment studies,
national economy studies, regional economy studies, financial studies,
banking studies, industrial economy, world trade, mathematical economics,
accounting, business management, tourism management, technology
economy and management, management science and engineering, enterprise
management, etc.
Law College: law theories,
law history, criminal law, civil and commercial law, law of environmental
and resources protection, sociology, international law, etc.
Politics and Administration
College: theory of politics, political systems of China and other
countries, scientific socialism and international communist movement,
history of the Chinese Communist Party, Marxist theory and ideolocial-and-political
education, folklore, etc.
Public Management College:
administration management, social security, etc.
Higher Education Research
Institute: higher education studies
Mathematics and Statistics
College: basic mathematics, calculational mathematics, probability
theory and mathematical statistics, applied mathematics, etc.
Physics and Technology
College: theoretical physics, optics, biophysics, electric circuit
and system, microelectronics and solid electronics, electromagnetism
field and microwave technology, communication and information system,
etc.
Chemistry and Molecular
Science College: applied chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic
chemistry, physical chemistry, polymer chemistry and physics, test-and-measure
technology and instrumentations, environmental chemistry, etc.
Life Science College:
botany, zoology, microbiology, genetics, developmental biology,
cytobiology, biochemistry and molecular biology, biophysics, microbiology
and biochemical pharmacy, etc.
Resources and Environmental
Science College: cartography and geographical information system,
cartography and geographical information, environmental engineering,
test-and-measure technology and instrumentations, electric power
system and its automation, high-voltage and insulation technology,
power-driven electron and electric transmission, etc.
Water Conservancy and
Hydropower College: systems engineering, water conservancy and hydropower
(hydroelectric) engineering, history of science and technology,
engineering of protection and preventing-and-reducing natural calamities,
hydrology and water resources, hydraulics and river dynamics, harbours-coast-and-in-shore
engineering, hydraulic structure engineering, etc.
Dynamics and Machinery
College: thermal energy engineering, fluid machinery and engineering,
etc.
Machinery and Material
Engineering Department: machine design and theory, material processing
engineering, etc.
Civil Engineering and
Architecture College: engineering mechanics, rock engineering, structure
engineering, etc.
Computer Science College:
computer system and structure, computer applied technology, etc.
Photoelectric Information
College: optical engineering, test-and-measure technology and instrumentations,
signals and information handling, etc.
Remote Sensing Information
Engineering College: pattern distinguishing and intelligence system,
photographic survey and remote sensing, etc.
Survey Science and
Technology College: solid geophysics, geodesy and survey engineering,
etc.
Basic Medical College:
physiology, microbiology, biochemistry and molecular biology, human
body anatomy and histological embryology, immunology, pathogenic
biology (etiological biology), pathology and pathological physiology,
basic stomatology, labour-and-environment hygiene, etc.
The First Clinical
Medicine College: biomedical engineering, internal medicine, paediatrics,
neuropathology, neuropathy and mental hygiene, image medicine and
nuclear medicine, clinical-examination diagnostics, surgery, gynaecology
and obstetrics, ophthalmology, otolaryngology (ear-nose-throat medicine),
anaesthesiology, clinical stomatology, etc.
The Second Clinical
Medicine College: pathology and pathological physiology, internal
medicine, paediatrics, neuropathology, dermatology and venereology,
image medicine and nuclear medicine, clinical-examination diagnostics,
surgery, gynaecology and obstetrics, ophthalmology, otolaryngology
(ear-nose-throat medicine), tumour studies, anaesthesiology, clinical
stomatology, etc.
Stomatological College:
basic stomatology, clinical stomatology, etc.
3. The Disciplines
and Specialties Awarding Doctorates (schooling length: 3 years)
Humane Studies College:
Marxist philosophy, Chinese philosophy, foreign philosophy, aesthetics,
Chinese language and philology, literature of contemporary China,
archaeology and museology, history of ancient China, history of
modern China, world history, etc.
Information Management
College: information studies, library science, etc.
Commerce College: political
economy, history of economic thought, economic history, Western
economics, world economy, population-resources-and-environment studies,
etc.
Law College: constitution
and administration law, criminal law, civil and commercial law,
law of environmental and resources protection, international law,
etc.
Politics and Administration
College: theory of politics, Marxist theory and ideological-and-political
education, etc.
Public Relations College:
social security, etc.
Mathematics and Statistics
College: basic mathematics, probability theory and mathematical
statistics, etc.
Physics and Technology
College: condensed matter physics, radio physics, etc.
Chemistry and Molecular
Science College: inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry, organic
chemistry, physical chemistry, polymer chemistry and physics, environmental
chemistry, etc.
Life Science College:
botany, microbiology, genetics, developmental biology, cytobiology,
biochemistry and molecular biology, biophysics, etc.
Remote Sensing Information
Engineering College: photographical survey and remote sensing, etc.
Survey Science and
Technology College: cartography and geographical information system,
cartography and geographical information engineering, solid geophysics,
geodesy and survey (geodetic) engineering, etc.
Computer Science College:
computer software and theory, etc.
Water Conservancy and
Hydropower College: fluid machinery and engineering, electric power
system and its automation, high-voltage and insulation technology,
computer applied technology, rock engineering, hydrology and water
resources engineering, hydraulics and river dynamics, hydraulic
structure engineering, water conservancy and hydropower engineering,
etc.
Medical College: pathogenic
biology (etiological biology), internal medicine, surgery, clinical
stomatology, basic stomatology, etc.
ｋ. Application Procedure
(ｉ)Application Objects and Qualifications
1.Class for Advanced
(or: Graduate) Studies of Chinese Language
Applicants are required
to have the qualifications: graduation from a secondary school,
in good health, interest in Chinese language, under 55 (years old).
2.Chinese Culture Class
The class can be started
if there are over 15 applicants who are in good health and under
65 (years old).
3. Those Applying for
Their Formal Schooling Record of Undergraduate Studies
must be graduates from
a senior middle school, in good health and under 25 (years old);
those who apply for the study of science and (or) engineering, and
have passed at least HSK Examination Band 3, and those who apply
for the study of liberal arts and have passed at least HSK Examination
Band 6, can directly start their study in the relevant colleges
or departments; those who fail to pass the examination can at first
apply for their study of Chinese language for one year in Wuhan
University before their study in the relevant colleges or departments;
those who apply for the study of science or engineering must pass
the centralized examination organized by the Chinese government
for foreigh students before their study in the relevant colleges
or departments of Wuhan University.
4. Graduate Students
for Master＊s Degrees
Those who apply for
being master＊s degree graduate students must complete one year study
in Wuhan University, or be graduates from a university or college,
in good health, and pass the graduate students＊ entrance
examination given by Wuhan University before their admission (into
the university). The foreign students who have proved themselves
in Wuhan University to be excellent undergraduate graduates can
be admitted as graduate students for master＊s degrees without being
examined provided they are recommended by the college or department
where they studied.
5. Graduate Students
for Doctorates
Those who have got
their master＊s degrees, are in good health, and passed the university＊s
entrance examination of graduate students for doctorates can be
enrolled as graduate students for doctorates
6. Ordinary Graduate
Students
Those who apply for
being ordinary graduate students must have a college schooling over
2 years, be generally under 45 (years old) and finish their studying
within 2 years.
7. Advanced Graduate
Students
Those who apply for
being advanced graduate students must have their master＊s degrees
or associate professor title(s) , be under the age of 50, and finish
their studying generally within one year.
(ｊ) Application Time and Formalities
1.Application Time
Those who plan to start
their study in autumn are to finish their application before June
15 of the same year; those who plan to start their study in spring
are to finish their application before December 15 of the previous
year. All the material of application is to be mailed or faxed to
the office of the College of Foreign Students Education of Wuhan
University. Those who apply for class for Advanced Studies of Chinese
Language or Chinese Culture Class can at any time directly contact
the college office.
2. Application Formalities
Those who apply for
Chinese government＊s scholarship in order to study in Wuhan University
must submit by themselves their application to their country＊s government
department or relevant organization in charge of sending students
to study abroad, or to the Chinese embassy (or consulate) in their
country.
Those who apply for
their studying in Wuhan University at their own expense can directly
contact the college office and ask for the admission brochures,
Wuhan University foreign students application forms and physical
examination forms for foreigners. The applicants must also fill
in the application forms in detail and go through their physical
examinations as required.
(ｋ) The Material Required of Application
1. Those who apply
for China＊s scholarship should handle the material according to
the concerned agreement reached between the two governments.
2. Those who apply
for over 6 months＊ studying
in Wuhan University are required to submit the following 6 kinds
of material to Wuhan University:
(1) Wuhan University
foreign students application form filled out by the applicant (with
the applicant＊s recent photo);
(2) physical examination
form for foreigners filled out with the applicant＊s recent photo
(the duplicated one is also allowed);
(3) the applicant＊s
recent schooling certificate (the duplicated one);
(4) the written guarantee
with the name, occupation, address and telephone number of the guarantor
who is responsible for the applicant＊s stay in China;
(5) the duplicated
passport of the applicant;
(6) application fees:
$ 40;
n.b.:
those who apply for
their studying for master＊s degrees must submit, besides the above
6 kinds of material, the recommendation letters separately by two
associate professors or professors; those who apply for their studying
for doctorates must submit the above 6 kinds of material with 2
recommendation letters (for each applicant) by professors.
3. Those who apply
for their studying in Wuhan University for less than 6 months are
required to submit
(1) Wuhan University
foreign students application form filled out by the applicant;
(2) application fees:
$ 40.
ｌ. Admission and Registration
(ｉ) After receiving and approving the application material
and fees required, our college office is to send out Wuhan University
admission notices and foreign students application forms for entry
visa to China (JW 202 form) to the applicants before February 10
or July 15.
(ｊ) All the foreign students admitted to Wuhan University
must hold the admission notices and JW 202 forms and go to the Chinese
embassy or consulate in their country to get the entry visa to China,
and then as required in the admission notice, they must, holding
the admission notices, JW 202 forms, passports, personal registration
photos (8 for each person) and physical examination forms (including
the original blood laboratory test reports, X-rays and electrocardiograms),
come on schedule to the College of Foreign Students Education of
Wuhan University and go through the registration formalities. Those
who fail to go through their registration formalities on schedule
without good reasons are regarded as the ones who voluntarily abandon
their qualifications as the admitted students.
ｍ. Required Fees
(ｉ) Application Fees
$ 40 (mailed with the
application material to our college)
(ｊ) Fees required for the specialties of liberal arts
(annually per person)
1. The student of Chinese
language, undergraduate or ordinary graduate student $2,000
2. The graduate student
for a master＊s degree $2,400
3. The graduate student
for a doctorate $3,200
4. The advanced graduate
student $3,000
5. The researching
scholar $4,800
(ｋ) Fees required for the specialties of science and
engineering (annually per person)
1. The undergraduate
$ 2,400
2. The ordinary graduate
student $ 2,800
3. The graduate student
for a master＊s degree $ 3,200
4. The graduate student
for a doctorate $ 4,700
5. The scholar for
post-doctoral research $ 5,000
6. The advanced graduate
student $ 3,400
(ｌ) Fees required for the specialties of medical science
(annually per person)
1. The undergraduate
$2,800
2. The graduate student
for a master＊s degree and ordinary graduate student
$ 3,800
3. The graduate student
for a doctorate and advanced graduate student
$4,800
4. The researching
scholar $4,800
(ｍ) Fees for each student of a short-term class of Chinese
language:
$ 250 for 2 weeks,
$ 400 for 4 weeks,
$ 700 for 8 weeks.
(ｎ) The fees for each student of a Chinese culture class
are to be agreed and fixed by the 2 parties according to the studying
time, content and the tour cost.
(ｏ) Accommodation fees
1. A flat single room
(monthly per person) $110
2. an independent single
room (monthly per person) $ 150
(ｐ) The medical, living and teaching material costs are
paid by the students themselves.
ｎ. Graduation Certificate, Degree Certificate
and Graduate
Student
Certificate
(1) The students for
acquiring their formal schooling record can get the graduation certificates
and the relevant degrees (certificates) from Wuhan University if
they have completed all the courses and got all the credits required
in the teaching program. Those who fail to get the required credits
can only be given certificates of finishing their studies from the
university.
(ｊ) The students who study for no formal schooling record
can be given the graduate student certificates by the university
if they have completed all the courses required in the teaching
program. Those who fail to fulfil their study required in the teaching
program can only get the certificates showing that they have studied
in Wuhan University.
ｏ. Address (for contact):
The office of
The College of Foreign
Students Education,
Wuhan University, postcode:
430072,
Wuhan, the People＊s
Republic of China
Telephone: 0086-27-87863154
0086-27-87682209
Fax: 0086-27-87863154
E-mail address: fses@whu.edu.cn
Illustrations:
1. The old main library
2. Classroom teaching
3. Chinese language
teaching
4. The president was
awarding degrees to foreign students.
5. A corner of the
library
6. Computer teaching
7. A corner of students＊
dormitory
8. Participating in
a performance
9. Language learning
through practice
10. A grand meeting
of the century
11. Thesis denfence
12. The Humanities
Hall (Yifu Hall)
13. A corner of student＊s
dormitory
14. The medical experiment
building
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