The undergraduate education program jointly organized by GCC and Bellevue University has been approved by the Ministry of Education since 2012, and has completed 11 consecutive years of enrollment, in which the collaborative teaching between Chinese and foreign faculty members is an important part of the agreement. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, mutual visits between the two universities have been hindered, but through multiple times of online teaching, both sides have still been maintaining a variety of forms of teaching exchanges and cooperation. In October this year, Professor David Levy from Business School of Bellevue University who has rich teaching experience, came to GCC again to give students lectures. The long-awaited collaborative teaching between the two sides restarted in the form of an offline lecture. Starting from Week 8, Prof. David Levy and Dr. Wang Baixun, an excellent teacher from International College, cooperated to teach the one-month course “Introduction to Logistics”.

The co-teaching was conducted in the form of American teacher as the main lecturer and Chinese teacher as the assistant teacher. Before the class, the two teachers had a full discussion on the curriculum, classroom counseling, post-class seminars and other teaching aspects. On the lecture, the two teachers cooperated well. Prof. David Levy's lectures were focused, novel and interesting, and the classroom atmosphere was active; Dr. Wang Baixun also gave an in-depth and comparative explanation of the lecture contents. After the class, the two teachers conducted regular Q&A sessions with students in both English and Chinese, as well as small seminars, to better understand the learning situation and adjust the teaching methods in a timely manner, forming a closed loop in the teaching implementation process and effectively constructing a “guided learning” and “interactive” classroom model. The classroom teaching has been recognized and praised by the students of the program.

The restart of offline collaborative teaching is conducive to the enhancement of the unique bilingual teaching environment and internationalized academic atmosphere, which further stimulates the vitality of the cooperation between the two schools and deepens the connotation. In the next stage, GCC will continue to push forward the operation of the Sino-foreign cooperative education programs in a deep and practical way, constantly stimulate the strong kinetic energy to promote high-quality development, and cultivate high-quality talents with both international vision and localized advantages.

Lecture Given by Professor David Levy

Interaction Between Students and the Professor