Although the original policy of changing majors in our school is relatively loose, nearly 10% of freshmen can change majors successfully every year, but in recent years, some problems have also been exposed, such as students with poor academic performance in the original major can not register to change majors; Second-year students can't change majors; The contradiction between less popular majors and more applicants. These contradictions have attracted the attention of school leaders. In order to let each student choose his favorite major as much as possible, President Ke Bingsheng explicitly asked the Academic Affairs Office to conduct extensive research, communicate and discuss with various colleges seriously, and convene teaching experts for discussion and brainstorming many times, thus forming a new policy of changing majors, which was listed as one of the top ten reform measures for undergraduate teaching in the new year.
There are five main changes in the new policy of changing majors.
First, the number of recipients who switched majors increased. In addition to the related majors of Food College and Biology College, some transfer programs are reserved in advance to increase the number of transfer majors. Other majors have also expanded the number of people who accept and transfer to majors. Among them, the Water College and the International College are open, and the highest enrollment of other majors exceeds 300, which is the same as the number of applicants in spring 2009, which is 1 times more than the actual number of people who changed majors in spring 2009;
Second, there is no registration restriction for changing majors, and freshmen and sophomores who are interested in changing majors can submit applications;
Third, students who sign up for a major can fill in two college volunteers, and each college can fill in two professional volunteers.
Fourth, second-year students can also apply to change majors. If you are admitted, the courses you have studied do not reach 50% of the total number of compulsory credits specified in this year's training plan, you will be admitted in the lower grades.
Fifth, students are allowed to have multiple opportunities to change majors, and students who change majors once can also apply for changing majors.
Wu Wenliang, director of the Academic Affairs Office, said that one of the guiding ideology of this policy reform is to allow students with poor academic performance to change majors, especially those who don't like their current majors, and ask the college to give them the opportunity to change majors. "Under normal circumstances, only students with excellent academic performance can get the opportunity to change majors, but in fact, students with poor academic performance need to adjust their majors." Wu Wenliang said that another measure of undergraduate teaching reform in 20 1 1 our school is to expand the coverage of dual-degree (minor) majors, with the aim of overcoming the shortage of single major, cultivating compound talents and improving students' employment competitiveness and sustainable development ability. Fully meet the learning requirements of students' double-degree (minor) majors, and the coverage has steadily increased from 20% to more than 50% year by year, with emphasis on agricultural economic management, English, computer and law. The school will give policy support to relevant colleges.