In China, junior high schools offer courses that combine discipline with synthesis, mainly including ideology and morality, Chinese, mathematics, foreign languages, science, physics, chemistry and biology. The overall nine-year compulsory education curriculum is mainly comprehensive in primary school, comprehensive in junior high school, subject-based in senior high school and comprehensive in junior high school?

Subject courses generally refer to subject courses. Subject curriculum is the general name of traditional curriculum forms organized on the basis of cultural inheritance. It consists of a certain number of different disciplines. Each discipline has its own internal logic and system. This course has a long history. Six Arts in Ancient China and Seven Arts in Ancient Greece are the earliest subject courses.

A comprehensive course is a course that integrates several related disciplines into a broader common field. For example, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, physiology and other disciplines are merged into science. The idea of curriculum synthesis originates from Herbart's textbook communication theory.