Subject teaching is a master's major with practical teaching ability and teaching theory as the training goal, mainly focusing on employment, which is different from master's degree in academic research. The undergraduate education specialty in Chinese universities is set at three levels: discipline category, discipline category (first-class discipline) and specialty (two disciplines).

Pedagogy itself is a first-class discipline. The first-level disciplines of pedagogy include pedagogy principles, educational technology, curriculum and teaching theory, comparative pedagogy, educational history, preschool pedagogy, adult pedagogy, higher education, vocational and technical pedagogy, special pedagogy and so on.

Pedagogy is divided into philosophy, economics, law, pedagogy, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, military science, management, art 13, and each discipline has several first-level disciplines, such as mathematics, physics, chemistry and so on.

Pedagogy mainly studies the basic theories and knowledge of pedagogy and psychology, including educational phenomena, educational problems, educational laws, educational methods and students' psychological state. , cultivate good humanistic quality and teachers' professional quality, and carry out education, teaching, educational research and educational management. For example, the development of efficient teaching methods.