A Comparative Study of the Three Modes of the Curriculum Setting of International Economics in Universities

Abstract

Currently, there are three modes of curriculum setting for International Economics in China's universities. The first one has International Finance and International Trade. The second one has three courses of International Economics, International Trade, and International Finance in the same major; and the third one only has International Economics. 163 majors of 81 universities were surveyed and analyzed. This study provided information that 84 majors adopted the second mode, 68 majors adopted the first one, and only 11 majors adopted the last one. By contrastive analysis methods, this thesis focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of these three modes, and finally proposes some relevant suggestions about how to make optimization and improvement of International Economics in universities. Because the largest number of majors chooses this mode and there are many advantages in it, the second mode is highly recommended to majors adopting the third mode, and strengthening cooperation between teachers of different three courses is proposed.