What is a public elective course?

Elective courses in universities are divided into professional courses and public courses. Public elective courses are free of charge in the whole school, usually starting at the end of a semester or the first week of school. Different from professional courses, public elective courses are optional, and each university's elective courses are different, some are more, some are less, so just choose according to your own ideas.

Public course refers to the course that candidates of any major or some similar majors must study in the self-study exam of higher education. Such as philosophy and political economy. Although the public course is not necessarily directly related to the major studied, it is an essential course to cultivate talents with all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique and provide methodology for further study.

The basic course is a course that guides the basic theory, basic knowledge and basic skills of candidates in a certain major, and its role is to lay a solid foundation for candidates to master professional knowledge, learn science and technology and develop related abilities.

Professional basic courses refer to basic courses directly related to professional knowledge and skills, including professional theoretical basic courses and professional technical basic courses.

Compulsory courses refer to the courses that a major must study and master. These courses are essential to ensure the training of specialized personnel.

Elective courses refer to courses that candidates of a certain major study selectively according to their own needs and limited by educational procedures. However, this choice is limited, that is, it can only be selected within the scope of courses specified in the professional examination plan. For example, as an elective course for Chinese language and literature majors, only one course can be selected for general logic, pedagogy and psychology.