Over the years, the student professional development has been considered as the core task of the university. We have continuously conducted the mode innovation of the student professional development through the constantly-enhanced management and the highly-increased investment and support. Our disciplines and programs for international students focus on the combination of language and culture and the integration of classroom teaching and extracurricular practice as the general mechanism. The composing of cultivation schemes contains sinology, national condition, history, geography, folklore, and other cultural subjects, listed as compulsory courses or optional courses. Chinese culture courses and relevant practice activities account for more than 20% of total credits, in order to guarantee normalization in daily life of foreign students.

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We promote colorful pragmatic methods for culture-oriented education, including Chinese calligraphy, reciting ancient poetry and idioms, retelling stories, learning musical instruments and Taichi. After years of exploration, the enthusiasm on learning Chinese culture is encouraged through campus activities; the "Language + Culture + Skills" training model is basically formed and playing an active role.LIVING IN SNUAlthough Shenyang is one of the biggest cities in China, the cost of living is considerably lower compared with other big cities. In addition, the tuition of our university is lower than other universities throughout China. Therefore the cost of study in our university is relatively lower.