2024-08-07
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Coming up, the launch of the country's first marriage related undergraduate major has made headlines here in China.
This program is designed to address modern challenges in relationships and family dynamics.
Stay tuned as we look into the necessity, curriculum and potential impact of this major on students and society.
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Now this September 2024, civil affairs University in China is rolling out the red carpet for students enrolling in Chinas first ever bachelors degree in marriage service and management.
Whether its a ticket to becoming a top notch matchmaker and marriage guru in Chinas evolving love landscape or just an expensive way to get into a niche industry, I want to ask both of you this question, but after we talk about what exactly is this new major is about what exactly does it teach?
Sure.
Well, this major is called marriage service and the management.
It can be sounds a little bit far fetched for people who are not so familiar with it because your immediate response would be it should be those couples who manage their own marriage.
But this major is actually about providing professional marriage services.
And when you look at the specific purpose of why this university, I mean civil affairs university are trying to launch this new major, they're just trying to provide both theoretical knowledge and also practical skills required for a career or profession in this marriage services sector such as marriage registration, management, marriage and family counseling and wedding project planning and also design, development of marriage and dating products.
And some specific courses include management and sociology, marriage and family culture, family ethics, marriage industry, economics and management and also marriage services and new media communication.
And for those students who major in this marriage service, assist and management, they got to use, I mean accomplish their both thesis and practical project if they want to graduate.
For example, if you specialize in wedding planning, then you got to plan and organize a real creative wedding show before graduation.
And for those who still feel a little bit bizarre about this new major, actually this university, civil affairs university is a school under the Ministry of Civil affairs of People's Republic of China.
So it really makes sense of why this university is trying to launch this service, this major, because actually all its majors are related to civil affairs, you know, from birth to marriage and also to death, funeral.