In the United States, although the concepts of "political lesson", "moral lesson" or "ideological and political education lesson" are not explicitly used, there are "political lesson" or "moral education lesson" with strong capitalist ideology in both public universities (state universities, there is no national university in the United States) and private universities. Although the United States is a diversified and liberalized country, the "political courses" and "moral education courses" offered by various schools are completely independent and diversified. Generally speaking, each university offers 3-5 ideological and political courses (for example, western economics: including macroeconomics and microeconomics, American history, citizens and law, America and the world, philosophy of science and pragmatism, etc.). ) and about 3 ideological and moral courses: college students. If we make a simple analogy between the political courses in China and American universities, we can see that American universities study philosophy of science and pragmatism, while China University studies the principles of Marxist philosophy; Western economics in American universities (including macroeconomics and microeconomics) and Marxist principles of political economy in China University; American history of American universities, introduction to Mao Zedong Thought, introduction to Deng Xiaoping Theory and introduction to Theory of Three Represents of China University; (Before the Revolutionary History of Upper China and the Socialist Construction of China); American universities study the United States and the world, while China University studies contemporary politics and economy: the courses of American universities are citizens and law, professional ethics and social studies, while the courses of China University are legal basis, moral cultivation, situation and policy.
There are similar courses in Europe, but with different names.