Recently, the Ministry of Education released the results of the second batch of national first-class undergraduate courses. Six courses of SEM were awarded. Together with the two courses awarded in the first batch, the School has now been awarded a total of eight national first-class undergraduate courses, which is the highest number of courses selected in the Tongji university. Tongji University was ranked fourth in China and first in Shanghai in terms of the number of courses selected, with a total of 55 courses selected.

Analysis of China’s Economic Development

The course integrates XI Jinping’s economic thinking into the economics major and general elective courses, focusing on hot issues and students’ interests. It systematically explains the core content of XI Jinping’s economic thought and the results of its practical development. The course aims to develop students’ economic thinking skills and a broad perspective, enabling them to gain a comprehensive understanding of national economic development plans, strategies and policies, grasp the general trend of China’s economic development, and closely integrate personal development with national development.

Supported by modern education technology, the student-centred course continues to update teaching concepts and methods, and actively promotes a mixed teaching mode of online and offline. The course textbook, Political Economy of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era, has been selected as a foreign translation project of Chinese academic works by the National Social Science Foundation of China and has been awarded as an excellent textbook by Tongji University. In addition to on-campus students, 477 institutions outside the university have taken the course, with a total of 35,000 students and more than 148,000 interactions on the course platform.

Management Information Systems

This course is oriented towards the new features of the “digital, cyber and intelligent” technological revolution. Based on the “socio-technical system” perspective, the course is taught from five aspects: introduction to information systems, information systems principles, information systems technology, information systems applications and information systems development. Relying on the National Education Science Planning Project and the Shanghai Education Science Research Project, the course team has explored an online and offline teaching model. At the same time, it actively promotes a new model of industry-education integration by developing high-level digital transformation cases, organically integrating information management expertise with curriculum thinking, and unlocking students’ intrinsic potential and learning motivation. Since 2019, the course has been offered for 8 sessions on both the MOOC and WisdomTree online education platforms, with a total of 26,000 students taking the course, involving 100 institutions. The main course textbook “Management Information System” was selected as a national planning textbook for general higher education, and has been used in many schools across China.

Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Based on the strengths of the A+ discipline of Management Science and Engineering, this course aims to cultivate innovative logistics management with an understanding of Chinese practices, mastering the core methodologies and possessing a global perspective of supply chain management talents. The course takes Chinese practice as the entry point, enabling students to understand and compare new trends and models in global logistics and supply chain management. Aided by self-authored case studies of Chinese scenarios, the course teaches professional knowledge and skills in the collaborative management of physical, information and financial flows in enterprise logistics and supply chain management; proficiency in optimisation modelling and data-based decision analysis through the analysis and design of logical and innovative enterprise logistics and supply chain solutions. The main textbook Logistics and Supply Chain Management (3rd edition), was selected as one of the “14th Five-Year Plan” textbooks and was chosen by more than 70 universities across China.

Marketing Management

This course is a general elective course for all students in the context of the development of a large market economy. The course aims to develop students’ interest in marketing, deepen their understanding and knowledge of marketing concepts, and master the theories, techniques and methods of marketing. The course is characterised by fully exploring students’ interests, using vivid cases instead of theoretical teaching, and experimental simulations to let students experience the fierce and challenging competition first-hand. The course started in 2014 and has since become a first-class undergraduate course in Shanghai, a key undergraduate course in Shanghai, a high-quality general studies course at Tongji University, and a model course for moral education at Tongji University. The main textbook “Marketing” was selected as one of the national “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” and “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” teaching materials, and won the second prize in the Shanghai Young Teachers’ Lecture Competition.

E-commerce

China is actively laying out and starting the construction of Digital China, leading innovative development by relying on “Internet+”. By incorporating this contemporary context into its teaching, the course features “theoretical, Chinese, innovative and entrepreneurial, and technological characteristics”, aiming to help learners build a solid theoretical foundation for analysing e-commerce, enhance their thinking and exploration of e-commerce practices in China based on an understanding of international e-commerce development.With the efforts of the course team, the course has been awarded as a National Online and Offline Hybrid First-class Course, Shanghai Key Course, Tongji University’s University-level Excellence Category General Elective Course and Tongji University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Quality Course. The English and Chinese versions of the course are available on mainstream online education platforms in China.

Production Operations and Management (Operations Management)

The course is an important foundation specialist course in the business curriculum. The teaching design focuses on an exploratory case study process through team-based action learning to acquire an understanding of business operations logic and equip students with the basic ability to analyse the business logic of entrepreneurial ventures. The course has been built over the years and completed with MOOC teaching resources (Xue Tang Online Operations Management), which enables flipped classroom teaching and provides dynamic learning resources through the WeChat public website and B-site platform. The teaching process can be combined online and offline, with the classroom dynamically sensing student learning and achieving effective interaction with students. Team learning can be organised quickly both online and offline and team learning can be shared. Interesting team action learning methods such as team listing and world coffee are used to help students improve not only their interpersonal and teamwork skills, but also their leadership skills. The course leader has extensive experience in teaching case studies and was awarded the “Best Coach Award” in the national finals of the “4th National Management Case Competition (2016)”, the “Excellence in Teaching Award” by the School of Economics and Management of Tongji University in 2017, and the “Excellence in Teaching Award” in 2018. In 2018, he won the first prize of the 2nd Shanghai MBA Case Teaching Competition of Shanghai MBA Education Steering Committee.