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General Study Program

Mission Statement

General Study Program (GSP) is designed for the students who intend to take further study for honor degrees of bachelor in Canada. GSP employs Canadian university curriculums and provides about 60 credit courses within a period of around two years. All textbooks used in GSP are original English version and most of them are currently used in several Canadian universities. All the credit courses are instructed in both English and Chinese, that means, all the written teachings, such as textbooks, tests, homework and blackboard writings, are exclusively in English, the oral teaching is in Chinese.

In addition to the credit courses, GSP provides the students with about 1,300 hours of intensive English training courses to improve their English ability.

GSP, with its international standard university education system, is also an ideal program for the students who are interested in taking a further study in USA, British and other English speaking countries.

Admission Requirement

Students enrolled in the GSP must meet all the entry and eligibility criteria of the Southwest Jiaotong University. They will study Canadian curriculum during the first two years for the General Study Program (GSP) which follows the criteria and academic regulations of Canadian higher education system. Meanwhile intensive ESL courses are offered in the GSP for all students expecting to meet English proficiency requirements of Canadian universities. At the end of these two years students will be assisted in their application to a Canadian university to complete their degree program.

All prospective students applying to the GSP must meet all of the requirements as following:

Graduated from a senior high school of 12-years level or equivalent and hold a diploma.
Foreign language studied since junior high school (Grade 7) is English.
Passed Chinese National University Entrance Examinations (CNUEE) and received an ordinary college admission score.
Have documented good family financial status to support student's further study in Canada.
Meet visa application requirements.
Healthy and of good character.

Applicable Majors

General Study Program offers 32 courses of general study in two disciplines for honor degrees of bachelor.

1. Economics & Commerce

Students who are interested in economics, finance, accounting, business and other related majors are suitable to take the course package under this Major Intension.

2. Engineering & Science

Students who are interested in mechanics, electronics, biotechnology, physics, chemistry, computer and other related majors are suitable to take the course package under this Major Intension.

Course List

1. Universal Courses

UNIV 111 The Western Heritage

UNIV 112 Logic

UNIV 113 Introduction to Computer

UNIV 114 Calculus I / (Differential)

UNIV 115 Calculus II / (Integral)

UNIV 121 Sociology

UNIV 122 Program Design I

UNIV 123 Calculus III / (Multivariable)

UNIV 211 Understanding Psychology

UNIV 212 Linear Algebra

UNIV 213 Political Science

2. Economics & Commerce

ECCM 121 The Principle of Microeconomics

ECCM 122 The Principle of Macroeconomics

ECCM 211 Business Statistics

ECCM 212 Theoretical Microeconomics

ECCM 213 Theoretical Macroeconomics

ECCM 214 Organization Behavior

ECCM 221 Marketing

ECCM 222 Modern Industrial Organization

ECCM 223 Financial Accounting

ECCM 224 Money and Bank

ECCM 225 International Economics

3. Engineering & Science

ENSC 121 General Physics I

ENSC 122 General Physics II

ENSC 211 General Chemistry I

ENSC 212 General Chemistry II

ENSC 213 Statistics and Probability

ENSC 214 Program Design II

ENSC 221 General Biology I

ENSC 222 General Biology II

ENSC 223 Differential Equation

ENSC 224 Engineering Graphics

ENSC 225 Electronic Circuits

4. English as a Second Language (ESL)

NESL 111 Oral English (Level 1)

NESL 112 English Grammar (Level 1)

NESL 113 English Writing (Level 1)

NESL 114 English Reading and Comprehensive (Level 1)

NESL 115 English Application Training (Level 1)

NESL 116 English Listening (Level 1)

NESL 121 Oral English (Level 2)

NESL 122 English Grammar (Level 2)

NESL 123 English Writing (Level 2)

NESL 124 English Reading and Comprehensive (Level 2)

NESL 125 English Application Training (Level 2)

NESL 126 English Listening (Level 2)

NESL 211 Oral English (Level 3)

NESL 213 English Writing (Level 3)

NESL 214 English Reading and Comprehensive (Level 3)

NESL 215 English Application Training (Level 3)

NESL 216 English Listening (Level 3)

NESL 221 Oral English (Level 4)

NESL 223 English Writing (Level 4)

NESL 224 English Reading and Comprehensive (Level 4)

NESL 225 English Application Training (Level 4)

NESL 226 English Listening (Level 4)

Course Description

1. Universal Courses

Course Code UNIV 111

Course Name The Western Heritage

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment, Frank M. Turner, A. Daniel Frankforter, The Western Heritage, Brief Edition, Combined Volume, Third Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002.

This course outlines the key developments in Western history. It includes several critical themes: The capacity of Western civilization to generate transforming self-criticism; The development of political freedom, constitutional government, and concern for the rule of law and the rights of individuals; The shifting relations among religion, society, and the state; The development of science and technology and their expanding impact on thought, social institutions, and everyday life; The major religious and intellectual influences that have shaped Western culture.

Course Code UNIV 112

Course Name Logic

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook Bruce N. Waller, Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2001.

This course provides a solid and substantial introduction to logical thinking, showing students how critical thinking skills can be applied to their present and future lives outside of the classroom. Students will learn how to analyze argument structure, identify arguments and their premises and conclusions, describe and distinguish necessary and sufficient conditions. The course topics concerned arguments and statements, premises and conclusions, symbolic sentential logic, truth-functions, conditions, proofs, and etc.

Course Code UNIV 113

Course Name Introduction to Computer

Total Hours 80 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook George Beekman, Computer Confluennce, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2001.

Introducing to basic computer concepts and exploring the promises and problems of information technology. The contents involve basic computer concepts and a brief historical perspective; Hardware and software fundamentals; The most important and widely used computer applications including word processing, desktop publishing, spreadsheets, graphics, multimedia tools, and databases; Networks and gateways; Issues, algorithms, and intelligence; Information age implications.

Course Code UNIV 114

Course Name Calculus I (Differential)

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook C. Henry Edwards & David E. Penney, Calculus with Analytic Geometry, CH1-CH4, Early Transcendentals, Sixth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002.

Introduction to calculus; Equations, functions and their graphs; Limits and continuity; Derivatives; Chain Rule; Implicit differentiation; Inverse functions and polar coordinates; Mean value theorem; L’Hospitals’ rule; Approximations and Newton’s Method; Application of derivatives.

Course Code UNIV 115

Course Name Calculus II (Integral)

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook C. Henry Edwards & David E. Penney, Calculus with Analytic Geometry, CH5-CH10, Early Transcendentals, Sixth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002.

Antiderivatives and indefinite integral; Definite integral; Techniques of integration; Methods of evaluating definite integrals; Newton-Leibniz formula; Improper integrals; Trigonometric Integration; Curves, areas and volumes; Integral applications.

Course Code UNIV 121

Course Name Sociology

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook John J. Macionis, Sociology, Eighth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2001.

This course is designed for students to understand basic social knowledge and introduces basic sociological concepts and their application demonstrated in various areas of sociology. The contents involve foundations of sociology and social life, social inequality, social institutions and social changes.

Course Code UNIV 122

Course Name Program Design I

Total Hours 80 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook John Lewis & William Loftus, Java Software Solutions: Foundations of Program Design, Second Edition, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.

Introduction to designing, implementing, and understanding computer programs using an imperative programming language. Topics include overview of computers and software, introduction to computing and problem solving, fundamental elements of object-oriented programming, top-down design and incremental development.

Course Code UNIV 123

Course Name Calculus III (Multivariable)

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook C. Henry Edwards & David E. Penney, Calculus with Analytic Geometry, CH11-CH15, Early Transcendentals, Sixth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002.

Infinite Series and Convergence; Vectors in space and their operations; Vector functions; Analytic geometry in space; Cylindrical and spherical coordinates; Differential calculus of several variables; Integral calculus of two variables; Line and surface integrals; The applications of multiple integration.

Course Code UNIV 211

Course Name Psychology

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook Charles G. Morris & Albert A. Maisto, Understanding Psychology, Sixth

Edition, Prentice Hall, 2003.

This course is a survey of major topics and theorists in the field, including the nature, growth, development and research methods of psychology. Student will primarily focus on normal developmental trends and patterns while exploring the social and cognitive realms of behavior. The topics covered memory, motivation, emotion and adjustment, learning and thinking, perception, individuality and social behaviors.

Course Code UNIV 212

Course Name Linear Algebra

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook David C. Lay, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Second Edition Update, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. 2000.

This course provides a modern elementary introduction to linear algebra and some of its interesting applications. The main goal of the text is to help students master the basic concepts and skills they will use later. The topics concern matrices, eigenvectors, vector space, diagonalization, orthogonality, linear systems and applications.

Course Code UNIV 213

Course Name Political Science

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook Michael G. Roskin, Robert L. Cord, James A. Medeiros & Walter S. Jones, Political Science: An Introduction, Eighth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2003.

As science, this course provides an unbiased, thorough introduction to the basic terminology, concepts, and theories of politics. The contents involve political principles, attitudes and interactions, outline political systems and their mechanism. Concerning political ideologies, culture and opinion, governments, legislatures, legal systems and international relations.

2. Economics & Commerce

Course Code ECCM 121

Course Name The Principle of Microeconomics

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook Robin Bade & Michael Parkin, Foundations of Microeconomics,

Addison Wesley, 2002.

This course will help students understand the basic principles of microeconomics and connect them with economic practice, outline the choices that individuals and businesses make, the way these choices interact, and the influence that governments exert on these choices. The course concerned supply and demand, product and factor markets, taxation and international trade policy.

Course Code ECCM 122

Course Name The Principle of Macroeconomics

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook Robin Bade & Michael Parkin, Foundations of Macroeconomics, Addison Wesley, 2002.

This course will help students understand the basic principles of macroeconomics and connect them with economic practice, focus on the aggregate effects on the national economy and the global economy of choices that individuals, businesses and governments make. The course concerned economic growth and cycles, impact of both monetary and fiscal policy on inflation, unemployment, interest rates, investment, the exchange rate, and international trade.

Course Code ECCM 211

Course Name Business Statistics

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook Patrick W. Shannon, David F. Groebner, Phillip C. Fry & Kent D. Smith, A Course in Business Statistics, Third Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002.

This course introduces core topics in descriptive and inferential statistics with a rich assortment of business examples and real data and an emphasis on decision-making. Concerning data collection and describing, discrete and continuous random variables, samples and hypothesis, populations, probability laws, distributions, covariance and correlation, mathematical expectation and variance.

Course Code ECCM 212

Course Name Theoretical Microeconomics

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook Michael L. Katz & Harvey S. Rosen, Microeconomics, Third Edition, Irwin/McGraw-Hall, 1998.

This course introduces important theories of microeconomics. Topics concern consumer behavior, exchange, production and cost; Competitive model, market power, monopoly; Equilibrium of the firm under different market structures, industry equilibrium.

Course Code ECCM 213

Course Name Theoretical Macroeconomics

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook J. Bradford DeLong, Macroeconomics, International Edition, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2002.

This course introduces important theories of macroeconomics. Topics concern income and employment theory, monetary theory, the open economy, economic fluctuations and growth.

Course Code ECCM 214

Course Name Organization Behavior

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook Stephen P. Robbins, Organizational Behavior, Ninth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2001.

This course introduces behavioral concepts and tools to help students understanding behavior in organizations and improving organizational effectiveness. Topics include individual motivation, perception and communication, managerial roles, schools of management theories, group processes and teamwork, leadership, supervision, and introduction to organizational structure, processes, and culture.

Course Code ECCM 221

Course Name Marketing

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook Philip Kotler & Gary Armstrong, Principles of Marketing, Ninth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2001.

This course surveys the principles for choosing target markets, assessing their needs, developing products and services, and delivering them at a value to the customer and a profit to the company. It is designed to help students learn about and apply the basic concepts and practices of modern marketing as they are used in a wide variety of settings: product and service firms, consumer and business markets, profit and nonprofit organizations, domestic and global companies, and small and large businesses. The topics include product design and management, distribution channels, and marketing communications; Consumer buyer behavior, sales force management, and marketing research

Course Code ECCM 222

Course Name Modern Industrial Organization

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook Dennis W. Carlton & Jeffrey M. Perloff, Modern Industrial Organization, Third Edition, Addison Wesley, 2000.

This course provides a unified structure for analyzing theories and empirical evidence about the organization of firms and industries. The topics focus on market structures concerning competition, monopolies, industry structure and performance; Business strategies and conduct; Marketing behaviors and factors, international trade and its regulations.

Course Code ECCM 223

Course Name Financial Accounting

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook Jane L. Reimers, Financial Accounting: A Business Process Approach, First Edition, Prentice Hall, 2003.

This course attempts to bridge the gap between business and accounting and shows how accounting fits into business as a company is created, operated, and expanded. It introduces accounting and business activities, the mechanics of an accounting system, assets, debt, equity, inventories and liabilities. Sales and collection process, cash flows, annual report, financial statement analysis.

Course Code ECCM 224

Course Name Money and Bank

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook Ritter, Silber & Udell, Principles of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets, Tenth Edition, Addison Wesley, 2000.

The course describes basic principles of money, banking and financial markets. Topics include theories of money, credit creation and banking; organization, operation and control of the banking system; and the relationship between the quantity of money and the level of economic activity.

Course Code ECCM 225

Course Name International Economics

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook James Gerber, International Economics, Second Edition, Addison Wesley, 2002.

An introduction to international trade and finance. Topics include determinants of trade, balance of payments, and policy issues of current interest. The latter may include the political economy of tariffs, bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations, trade and development.

3. Engineering & Science

Course Code ENSC 121

Course Name General Physics I

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook Robert Resnick, David Halliday & Kenneth S. Krane, Physics, Fifth Edition, Volume 1, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

This course involves general subjects in mechanics and thermodynamics. Concerning motion, kinematics and dynamics, momentum, conservation laws, oscillations and wave, temperature, molecular properties, entropy, laws of thermodynamics.

Course Code ENSC 122

Course Name General Physics II

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook Robert Resnick, David Halliday & Kenneth S. Krane, Physics, Fifth Edition, Volume 2, John Wiley & Sons, Inc..

This course involves the subjects in electricity, magnetism, optics and nucleonics. Including electric field, magnetic field, DC and AC circuits and up to Maxwell’s equations, light wave, interference and diffraction of light, spectrum and polarization, concepts of atom and nuclear physics.

Course Code ENSC 211

Course Name General Chemistry I

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook John McMurry & Robert C. Fay, Chemistry and Media Companion CW Pkg., Third Edition, CH1-CH13, Prentice Hall, 2001.

This course introduces key concepts and general principles of chemistry. Topics involve the theories of atoms, molecules and ions, the concepts of formulars, equations and moles, the properties of gases, liquids, solids, solution. The course also outlines the periodicity and atomic structure, ionic and covalent bonds, chemical energy, kinetics and equilibrium, main-group elements, aqueous solution, and phase changes.

Course Code ENSC 212

Course Name General Chemistry II

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook John McMurry & Robert C. Fay, Chemistry and Media Companion CW Pkg., Third Edition, CH14-CH24, Prentice Hall, 2001.

This course introduces key concepts and general principles of chemistry. Topics involve the properties of hydrogen, oxygen and water, the properties of main-group and transition elements, aqueous equilibria and their applications, the concepts of entropy, free energy, equilibrium and thermodynamics. It also provides the fundamentals of electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry, organic chemistry and biochemistry.

Course Code ENSC 213

Course Name Statistics and Probability

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook Jay L. Devore, Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences, Fifth Edition, Duxbury Press, 2000.

This course introduces concepts of probability and statistics. It emphasizes models methodology and applications rather than rigorous mathematical development and theory. The topics include descriptive statistics, probability and probability distributions of discrete and continuous random variables, joint probability distributions and random samples, point and interval estimation, variance, hypothesis testing, regression and correlation, quality control methods.

Course Code ENSC 214

Course Name Program Design II

Total Hours 80 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook Michael Goodrich & Roberto Tamassia, Data Structures and Algorithms in Java, Second Edition, Wiley Higher Education, 2001.

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to data structures and algorithms, including their design, analysis, and implementation. It involves techniques, methods, and tools for systematic development and maintenance of software systems and documentation; basic algorithms and data structures; and fundamental concepts of object-oriented programming. Topics include control and data abstraction, modularization, abstract data types, layers of abstraction, information hiding, separation of concerns, type checking, program design, separate compilation, software libraries, techniques for the development of high-quality software components, program understanding.

Course Code ENSC 221

Course Name General Biology I

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook Scott Freeman, Biological Science, First Edition, CH1-CH24, Prentice Hall, 2002.

Introduction to cell structure, function and division; gene structure, expression and application, developmental biology, evolutionary patterns and processes.

Course Code ENSC 222

Course Name General Biology II

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook Scott Freeman, Biological Science, First Edition, CH25-CH52, Prentice Hall, 2002.

This course outlines forms, types, function and mechanism for most life concerning bacteria and archaea, viruses, protests, land plants, fungi and animals. It also introduces fundamentals of ecology and ecosystems.

Course Code ENSC 223

Course Name Differential Equations

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook John Polking, Albert Boggess & David Arnold, Differential Equations, Prentice Hall, 2001.

This course focuses on first and second order equations, modeling and applications, Laplace transforms, numerical methods, matrix algebra, linear and nonlinear systems.

Course Code ENSC 224

Course Name Engineering Graphics

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook Frederick E. Giesecke, Alva Mitchell, Henry C. Spencer, John T. Dygdon, James E. Novak, Ivan Leroy Hill & Shawna Lockhart, Modern Graphics Communication, Third Edition, Prentice Hall, 2004.

This course introduces basic principles of engineering drawing and designing. The subjects concerned design concepts, definitions, standards and processes; Orthographic projections, dimensioning and tolerancing; Geometric construction and modeling; Computer Aided Design/Drafting and its applications.

Course Code ENSC 225

Course Name Electronic Circuits

Total Hours 48 Hours

Credit 3 Credits

Textbook J.R. Cogdell, University of Texas, Austin, Foundations of Electric Circuits, Prentice Hall, 1999.

The course presents basic circuit analysis techniques, basic Circuit theory and analysis of DC circuits, first and second-order transient analysis, AC circuit theory, transient and steady state circuit analysis based on complex numbers, and an introduction to electric power systems.

Academic Regulations

Course Credit

Normally, an academic course will be assigned ONE credit if it has 12 lecture hours in class plus 4 additional hours for tutorials and discussions. The total teaching hours for a course with a certain credits can be calculated as

Total teaching hours = (12 Lecturing hours + 4 Additional hours) x Credits

Lecture in-class will be given not more than 6 hours per week. Lecturing hours do not involve tutorial, homework and projects out-class.

A student can register for not more than 18 and not less than 9 credit courses each semester. A student who fails a required course must repeat the course in the following year.

Grading System and Examinations

1. Academic Courses

All examination scores for academic courses employ a percentage grading system. A mark of 100% is the full score and a mark of less than 50% is a failing grade.

Each course must give a final examination, in which a weight of not less than 30 percent and not more than 60 percent will be assigned. The remaining weight for the course will be assigned to term work including attendance, discussion in class, homework and term assessments. The final course grade can be calculated as:

Attendance Weighting of final grade 5-10%

Discussion in class Weighting of final grade 5-10%

Homework Weighting of final grade 10-20%

Term assessments Weighting of final grade 20-30%

Final Examination Weighting of final grade 30-60%

A student's academic achievement is measured by the Grade Point Average (GPA) of credit courses, Semester GPA during one semester, Academic Year GPA during one academic year, and Overall GPA as students complete their study in the General Study Program.

2. English As Second Language (ESL) Courses

All examination scores of ESL courses employ a percentage grading system. A mark of 100% is the full score and a mark of less than 60% is a failing grade.

The Grade Point Average of ESL courses (EGPA) only is a grade average during one semester, Semester EGPA, one academic year, Academic Year EGPA, and Overall EGPA as students complete all ESL courses.

The grades of ESL may be compared with the scores of some international English test, such as TOEFL. Generally, an overall EGPA of 75% would be equivalent to the score of 550 in TOEFL.

Contact Information

1. Southwest Jiaotong University

International Relations Office

Southwest Jiaotong University

Chengdu, Sichuan 610031

P. R. China

Tel: 86-28-87600341

Fax: 86-28-87605147

Email: fad@home.swjtu.edu.cn

Website: http://fad.swjtu.edu.cn

2. General Study Program

Director Office

General Study Program(Canadian Criteria)of Southwest Jiaotong University

Box 121, Southwest Jiaotong University

P. R. China

Tel: 86-28-87634097

Fax: 86-28-87634082

Email: gspr@home.swjtu.edu.cn

Website: http://gsp.swjtu.edu.cn