Features of our curriculum

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Bilingual Liberal Arts Education: 15-20 student seminars, encouraging students to participate in critical discussions that are advocated by top liberal arts colleges. Meanwhile, our rigorous mathematics and science courses fully integrate advantages of Chinese educational methods blended with diversified experimental learning.

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Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Diversified Education: we utilize the lingual skillsets of our faculty and students to encourage the multicultural and interdisciplinary research. We lead students to read classic literature, and explore communication barriers that have risen between diversified cultures. Similarly, Dalton breaks through traditional disciplinary boundaries through close communication with our diverse faculty, a variety of elective courses, and student led project learning.

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Experiential Learning and Service to Society: we encourage our students to fully utilize learning opportunities around us in order to deepen their personal exploration, growth in experiential learning and service to society.

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Independent and Active Learning and Research: Just like Parkhurst, we attach great importance to developing students' curiosity and autonomy. What students continue to experience throughout their learning is an open research process: students are guided by their teachers to come up with ideas, conduct research, implement plans, reflect on the process, and then restart. Students will spend the last two years working on a variety of independent research projects and participating in a wide range of electives.