Research On Humanities Arts And Social Sciences Curriculum System Of Massachusetts Institute Of Technology

Nowadays, the competition in comprehensive national strength among every nation, from a long-term perspective, has become a competition in education and talent contest. With the development of society, it has a higher requirement for the quality of education and talents. Only with a professional technology has been far from enough.Massachusetts Institute of Technology was founded in1861as the world’s most famous University, which has given birth to numerous outstanding talents. MIT provides an excellent curriculum system of humanities arts and social sciences, which is called HASS Requirements for short, for all the undergraduate students. HASS Requirements is an important part of MIT’s General Institute Requirements. There are three components to the HASS Requirement:Distribution, Concentration, and HASS Electives. Every candidate for a bachelor’s degree must have completed a minimum of eight term subjects in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, including distribution and concentration components. This program is intended to ensure that students develop a broad understanding of human society, its traditions, and its institutions. The requirement enables students to deepen their knowledge in a variety of cultural and disciplinary areas. Based on the introduction of MIT’s educational mission, undergraduate curriculum system and General Institute Requirements system, this thesis analysis the HASS Requirements system on the aspects of curriculum ideas, setting goals, setting principles, curriculum content and the management system and summarizes the HASS Requirements system’s characteristics of the curriculum content and curriculum system management. In the end, this thesis offers some suggestions for our Chinese colleges and universities on the humanities education.