Liaoning Finance and Trade College
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Liaoning Finance and Trade College , formerly known as Shenyang Shifan University Bohai College, is a small, partially walled private undergraduate college located near the Bohai
coast in Xingcheng
, southwest of Huludao
in Liaoning
province on the east coast of China
.
New students start arriving at the end of August each year and complete a few weeks of compulsory military training before beginning their studies. Returning students arrive to resume classes at the beginning of September. The Fall semester ends at the beginning of January. The Spring semester starts at the beginning of March and ends at the beginning of July. A few national holidays are observed each semester.
Students typically spend the last week of each semester sitting exams. After exams are finished the students are required to vacate their dorms until the following semester. As a result the campus is like a ghost town for most of January, February, July, and August although there are workers present and security personnel vigilant.
Although it is a four-year institution, most students only attend classes the first three years. Come the fourth year, most students seek internships or employment and return periodically for examinations before graduation.
Many aspects of the students' lives are overseen by resident assistants and monitors. The students typically engage in very few extracurricular activities as their typical day is full of classes, study time, and sometimes mandatory group exercise (PE
). Classes run Monday through Friday with possible commitments over the weekend. Class days are divided up into eight 45-minute academic hours with 10 and 20 minute breaks in between. The day starts at 08:00 and ends at 16:50. Everyone breaks for lunch at the same time, between 11:40 and 13:20.
Students are required to live on campus in gender-restricted dormitories. Each dorm room houses 4-6 students. The students share public half baths with cold water only in the dormitories; they go to off-campus bath houses to bathe. There are laundry and hot water facilities in a facility adjacent the dormitories. The students have a curfew at night during which they must be in their dorm rooms and the power is turned off.
There are computers on campus but their use is strictly limited to certain users. There is also a library, a study hall, and an auditorium used for orientations, assemblies, and events.
There is a canteen on campus where the students can chow. The food is considered to be very basic but inexpensive. There are ATMs, a China Post
office offering EMS
service, China Mobile
and China Unicom
offices, and a "Western-style" fast food restaurant. There is a dry good store on campus between the dormitories and there are fruit and news stands as well as a gift shop in the northwest corner of the college campus.
There are basketball, tennis, and badminton courts with some exercise equipment. There is also a soccer (football) field.
Part of the student body participated in the campus ceremonies supporting the area's first International Swimsuit Festival in 2011.
Economics, Art, Tourism, Trade, Chinese and English are among the major disciplines offered.
Most of the classrooms are very modest, possessing only desks or tables with chairs or benches and a chalk board. Some classrooms, however, have projectors, computers, and large flat screen TVs. There are also some listening labs for language students.
Bohai Sea
Bohai Sea , also known as Bohai Gulf, Bohai, or Bo Hai, is the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea on the coast of Northeastern and North China. It is approximately 78,000 km2 Bohai Sea , also known as Bohai Gulf, Bohai, or Bo Hai, is the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea on the coast of...
coast in Xingcheng
Xingcheng
Xingcheng , former name Ningyuan , is a county-level city of Northeast China with a population of approximately 140,000 urban inhabitants, and is located in southwest Liaoning on the northern coast of the Bohai Sea...
, southwest of Huludao
Huludao
Huludao is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Liaoning Province, China. It is one of the two principal cities in the Liaoxi Corridor . Known as Jinxi until 1994, Huludao has a total area of 10,415 square kilometers and a population of 2.87 million, of which some 531,000 live in the city proper...
in Liaoning
Liaoning
' is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the northeast of the country. Its one-character abbreviation is "辽" , a name taken from the Liao River that flows through the province. "Níng" means "peace"...
province on the east coast of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
.
Academic year
The college's academic term is the semester.New students start arriving at the end of August each year and complete a few weeks of compulsory military training before beginning their studies. Returning students arrive to resume classes at the beginning of September. The Fall semester ends at the beginning of January. The Spring semester starts at the beginning of March and ends at the beginning of July. A few national holidays are observed each semester.
Students typically spend the last week of each semester sitting exams. After exams are finished the students are required to vacate their dorms until the following semester. As a result the campus is like a ghost town for most of January, February, July, and August although there are workers present and security personnel vigilant.
Although it is a four-year institution, most students only attend classes the first three years. Come the fourth year, most students seek internships or employment and return periodically for examinations before graduation.
Student life
Upon matriculation, the students are grouped together in classes that range in size between 30 and 160 students, depending on which major they have been assigned. These groups—or classes—attend the same courses at the same time with the same classmates for the duration of their college career. The courses that the students take and when they take them are decided and mandated by their department's administration. Attendance is mandatory.Many aspects of the students' lives are overseen by resident assistants and monitors. The students typically engage in very few extracurricular activities as their typical day is full of classes, study time, and sometimes mandatory group exercise (PE
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
). Classes run Monday through Friday with possible commitments over the weekend. Class days are divided up into eight 45-minute academic hours with 10 and 20 minute breaks in between. The day starts at 08:00 and ends at 16:50. Everyone breaks for lunch at the same time, between 11:40 and 13:20.
Students are required to live on campus in gender-restricted dormitories. Each dorm room houses 4-6 students. The students share public half baths with cold water only in the dormitories; they go to off-campus bath houses to bathe. There are laundry and hot water facilities in a facility adjacent the dormitories. The students have a curfew at night during which they must be in their dorm rooms and the power is turned off.
There are computers on campus but their use is strictly limited to certain users. There is also a library, a study hall, and an auditorium used for orientations, assemblies, and events.
There is a canteen on campus where the students can chow. The food is considered to be very basic but inexpensive. There are ATMs, a China Post
China Post
China Post , which is the name used by the State Post Bureau of PRC in business, is the official postal service of the People's Republic of China. China Post is operated by the State Post Bureau of the People's Republic of China. The State Post Bureau, commonly referred to as China Post, is both a...
office offering EMS
Express mail
In most postal systems express mail refers to an accelerated delivery service for which the customer pays a surcharge and receives faster delivery. Express mail is a service for domestic mail and is governed by a country's own postal administration...
service, China Mobile
China Mobile
China Mobile Limited is a Chinese state-owned telecommunication company that provides mobile voice and multimedia services through its nationwide mobile telecommunications network, the largest of its kind in the world...
and China Unicom
China Unicom
China Unicom or China United Netcom Ltd , is a Chinese state-owned telecommunications operator in the People's Republic of China.-History:...
offices, and a "Western-style" fast food restaurant. There is a dry good store on campus between the dormitories and there are fruit and news stands as well as a gift shop in the northwest corner of the college campus.
There are basketball, tennis, and badminton courts with some exercise equipment. There is also a soccer (football) field.
Part of the student body participated in the campus ceremonies supporting the area's first International Swimsuit Festival in 2011.
Academia
The teaching staff ranges from semi-retired career academics to new teachers. Many reside on campus in private dorms or apartments.Economics, Art, Tourism, Trade, Chinese and English are among the major disciplines offered.
Most of the classrooms are very modest, possessing only desks or tables with chairs or benches and a chalk board. Some classrooms, however, have projectors, computers, and large flat screen TVs. There are also some listening labs for language students.