MAJOR: PHILOSOPHY
SPECIALIZIED MAJOR: SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM
ORIENTATION: RESEARCH
CODE: 60 22 03 08
(Issued with the Decision No. /QĐ-ĐHQGHN, ..../..../2015 of the Director of Vietnam National University of Hanoi)
PART I: GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1. Some information of the program
+ In Vietnamese: Chủ nghĩa xã hội khoa học
+ In English: Scientific Socialism
+ In Vietnamese: Triết học
+ In English: Philosophy
+ In Vietnamese: Thạc sĩ ngành Triết học
+ In English: The Degree of Master in Philosophy
- Awarding institution: VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities.
2. Program objects
2.1. General objects
The Master Program in Scientific Socialism provides students basic and advanced knowledge on socio-political philosophy in order to help them to apprihend and solve theoretical and practical issues from a philosophical perspective.
2.2. Particular objects
2.2.1. In term of knowledge: The program extends the knowledge that students acquired during their undergraduate program and provide them with more interdisciplinary and deeper knowledge about scientific socialism to help learners adapt to academic works within the major.
2.2.2. In term of skills: Students are equipped with analytic and inductive skil and able to discover and solve problems of theory and socio-poltical practice. Students are capable of completing tasks with high quality within their trained field.
2.2.3. In term of professional ethics: Students have firmed polotical stance, hardworking, ethusiastic in studying, and serious in their professions.
3. Admission information
3.1. Entrance examination
- Admisison according to the Regulations of VNU-Hanoi.
- Examination subjects:
+ Basic subject: Marxist-Leninist Philosophy (for specialized major of Philosophy)
+ Foundational subject: General Scientific Socialism.
+ Foreign Language: choosing 1 from 5 foreign languages (English, Russian, French, German, and Chinese).
3.2. Application requirement
- Have clean personal profiles and are not currently charged with criminal offence.
- Have bachelor degree in Philosophy or in other standard programs with an additional training to be equivalent with a bachelor degree in Philosophy.
- No requirement of working experience.
3.3. List of correct, compatible, and near majors
- Correct major: Philosophy, Scientific Socialism, Religoius Studies, Political Education.
- Near majors: Citizenship Education, History, Political Sciences, Sociology, Psychology, Political Economics, Cultural Studies, Ho Chi Minh Studies.
3.4. List of additional traning subjects
|
No. |
Subjects |
Credits |
Notes |
|
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Ancient Chinese Philosophy |
2 |
|
|
|
Ancient Indian Philosophy |
2 |
|
|
|
Ancient Greco-Roman Philosophy |
2 |
|
|
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Western Medieval Philosophy |
3 |
|
|
|
German Classical Philosophy |
2 |
|
|
|
Advanced Marxist-Leninist Philosophy |
3 |
|
|
|
Western Modern Philosophy |
2 |
|
|
|
Specific Issues in Logics |
2 |
|
|
|
Specific Issues in Religious Studies |
2 |
|
|
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Specific Issues in Scientific Socialism |
2 |
|
|
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Vietnamese Philosophical Thoughts |
2 |
|
|
Total |
24 |
|
|
PART II: LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE PROGRAM
1. In term of knowledge and research skills
1.1. In term of knowledge
1.1.1. Generic knowledge
- Foreign language efficiency at basic level in listening, speaking, reading and writing equivalent to level 3 in the 6-level frame of foreign language efficiency of Vietnam.
1.1.2. Foundational and major knowledge
- Students are in control of major knowledge and capable of becoming professionals in the field; capable of critical thinking; capable of processing new knowledge and training in doctorate program; having comprehensive knowledge in laws and regulations regarding the trained major;
- Students have systematic knowledge about types of worldviews and philosophical methodology, especially about Marxist-Leninist philosophy;
- Students are sufficient in term of Vietnamese philosophical thoughts in history and today;
- Students are able to identify socio-political issues in Vietnam and on the globe in the context of integration and globalization.
- Students are able to utilize philosophical methods and interdisciplinary knowledge to conduct philosophical researches:
+ Discovering issues that are of public concern and need to be studied.
+ Identifying particular research questions, constructing research outlines, filtering and processing relevant data.
+ Suggesting solutions for practical issues.
+ Generalizing and conceptualizing research conclusions into theories.
- Students have in-depth knowledge about foundational philosophical issues such as «Human in scientific-technological revolution», «Rule of societal development in history of thoughts», «Oriental cosmology», «Philosophical thoughts on religions», «Market economy and ethics in Vietnam», «Historical development and its rules», «Democracy in Vietnam and on the globe»...
- Students have firm knowledge about socialist theories and methodologies.
- Students have decent knowledge about state of laws and the state of laws in Vietnam today.
- Students have knowledge about the essence of socialism and the scientific basis of Vietnamese socialism according to Ho Chi Minh ideology.
- Students have knowledge about capitalism, especially modern capitalism and its socio-political relaitionships.
- Students have knowledge about the Vietnam Communist Party and its policies of social welfare in the context of market economy with socialist orientation.
- Students have deep and systematic understanding about social classes in Vietnamese society today.
- Students have advanced knowledge about Doi Moi and related issues.
- Students have an overview of Marxism and History of Marxism since the middle of the 19th century.
- Students have generic knowledge about the development and socialist orientation of Vietnam presented in major documents of the Vietnam Communist Party.
- Students have knowledge about relationships between ethnic groups in Vietnam.
- Students have decent knowledge about social and cultiral issues in Vietnam today.
- Students understand the basic of civil society and the issues of developing civil society in Vietnam.
1.1.3. Graduation thesis
- Students are able to speculate a doable topic.
- Students have overview of materials related to the topic and are able to analyze and make comments about them.
- Students can specify research goals and missions, research object and methods.
- Students know how to solve research missions.
- Students can suggest solutions and advice which are contributive and appllicable.
1.2. Independence and responsibility
- Students are able to recognize and solve issues related to their major; to direct themselves toward further development; to adapt to competitive working environment; to draw professional conclusion, defend and be responsible for them; to build and assess projects; to teamwork in professional and administrative activities; to assess and make decision related to their appointed mission.
2. In term of skills
2.1. Professional skills
- Students are able to perform complicated tasks and deal with unexpected, irregular problems; to study independently and develop new solutions and technique in their educated field.
- Students can study and teach philosophical and socio-political subjects.
- Students can recognize socio-political issues in the practice of the proletariat movement.
- Student are able to identify and generalize basic contents of their research topics.
- Students can select the right methodology for their research.
- Students can choose the accurate approach and specific methods.
- Students know how to build research outline to process their studies.
- Students are able to filter and work with research materials, to generalize overview and philosophical standpoint to direct further studies.
- Students can utilize qualitative and quantitative methods to collect data for their research and know how to process them using tools such as STATA, EVIEW, SPSS.
- Students are able to form and test scientific hypotheses in order to answer research questions and solve newly emerged problems.
- Students can compare theories and practice in order to draw conclusions and suggest solutions in term of both theory and practice.
- Students know how to summarize research results in the format of a scientific paper or article.
- Students can form and manage a research group/project efficiently.
- Students are capable in term of knowledge and methodology to guide undergraduates in conducting their thesis within their specific major.
- Students can participate in projects as advisors and organizers and assess them.
- Students are able to participate in building and criticizing social, political, cultural and scientific policies in various level depending on their posts.
2.2. Soft skills
2.2.1. Individual skills
- Students are able to suggest and conduct a scientific project, to design a syllabus and textbook, to write scientific articles. Students also can gather information and update their knowledge about new trends in philosophy in the country and worldwide; to actively adapt to changes in their professional fields and working environments; to communicate and exchange ideas in academic conferences.
2.2.2. Teamwork skills
- Students are able to cooperate with other in conducting scientific projects and assessing the outcome of research and teaching.
2.2.3. Management and leading skills
- Students can mobilize manpower within their organization to accomplish short-term and long-term goals; know how to respond flexibly and lead their team to success under the changes of situation.
2.2.4. Academic foreign language skills
- Students possess foreign language efficiency at the level of being able to understand an article or a speech in that language within their major; can communicate and express their ideas in foreign language in most of the academic situation; can write basic academic paper and are able to present and comment on an academic issue in foreign language.
2.2.5. Computer skill
- Students can use Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point.
3. In term of ethics
3.1. Personal ethics: Students are good citizens who are enthusiastic about their job, loyal to their organization, have working principle and responsibility, are honest and respect solidarity, has self-reflection and are not factionalists nor opportunists.
3.2. Professional ethics: Students have an objective attitude, responsibility, professionalism. They can bravely express their personal ideas for the sake of the development of their organization and can confront and overcome difficulty in their work.
3.3. Social ethics: Students have respect to and care about people, have influence within their organization, have responsibility with their community, and act for the sake of social development.
4. Employability
- Graduates can work as teacher and researcher in the fields of philosophy, political theory education in universities, colleges, and institutes in Vietnam.
- Graduates can work as policy makers in administrative offices of the government and other organizations.
- Graduates can do research work in political institutes.
- Working quality requirements: Graduated students are able to employ their critical thinking to adapt to different working environment and requests. Graduated students have wide and deep knowledge to contidue to study higher in doctorate programs in Scientific Socialism, Dialecticla Materialism and Historical Materialism, or Religious Studies, etc.
5. Higher education capability
- Graduates are able to independently analyze and solve problems emerged during practical activities at their working places
- Graduates are capable of self-study in term of theoretical and practical issues related to philosophy.
- Graduates are capable of pursuing doctorate programs in majors related to philosophy and scientific socialism and become specialists in these fields.
6. Curricula of international standard used as reference
- The master program in Scientific Materialism, Ho Chi Minh Academy of Politics and Administration.
PART III: CURRICULUM
1. Summary of curriculum requirements
Total credits accumulated: 64 credits
- Block of general knowledge: 04 credits
- Block of knowledge by major and specific majors: 40 credits
+ Block of knowledge by major: 15 credits
Required: 07 credits
Optional: 08/16 credits
+ Block of knowledge by specific majors: 25 credits
Required: 11 credits
Optional: 14/30 credits
+ Graduation thesis: 20 credits
2. Curriculum Framework
|
No. |
Code |
Courses |
Credits |
Credit hours |
Code of Prerequisite Courses |
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|
Theory |
Practice |
Self study |
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|
I |
|
Block of general knowledge |
4 |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
General Foreign Language (choose 1 from 5 languages) |
4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
ENG 5001 |
General English |
30 |
30 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
RUS 5001 |
General Russian |
30 |
30 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
FRE 5001 |
General French |
30 |
30 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
GER 5001 |
General German |
30 |
30 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
CHI 5001 |
General Chinese |
30 |
30 |
0 |
|
|
|
II |
Block of knowledge by major and specific majors |
40 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
II.1 |
Block of knowledge by major |
15 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
II.1.1 |
Required courses |
7 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
PHI 6133 |
Philosophical Worldview and Methodology |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
3 |
PHI 6134 |
Socio-political Issues Today |
3 |
30 |
15 |
0 |
|
|
4 |
PHI 6036 |
Methodology for Philosophical Studies |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
II.1.2 |
Optional courses |
8/16 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
5 |
PHI 6035 |
Vietnamese Philosophical Thoughts: Tradition and Present |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
6 |
PHI 6016 |
Philosophy of Man in the Scientific - Technological Revolution |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
7 |
PHI 6018 |
Category of Law in the History of Philosophy and the Apprehension of Social Laws |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
8 |
PHI 6137 |
Oriental Philosophical Cosmology |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
9 |
PHI 6020 |
Philosophy of Religion in Present Time |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
10 |
PHI 6017 |
Ecological Ethics under the Condition of the Market Economy in Vietnam Today |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
11 |
PHI 6138 |
Philosophy of History |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
12 |
PHI 6029 |
Democracy and Democratization of Social Life: History and Present |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
II.2 |
Block of knowledge by specific majors |
25 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
II.2.1 |
Required courses |
11 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
13 |
PHI 6146 |
Methodology of the Study of Socialism |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
14 |
PHI 6147 |
Socialism and the Transition into Socialism in Vietnam |
3 |
30 |
15 |
0 |
|
|
15 |
PHI 6148 |
Ho Chi Minh’s Thoughts on Socialism and the Way to Socialism in Vietnam |
3 |
30 |
15 |
0 |
|
|
16 |
PHI 6149 |
Socio-political Problems of Capitalism |
3 |
30 |
15 |
0 |
|
|
II.2.2 |
Optional courses |
14/30 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
17 |
PHI 6276 |
Social Welfare Policy in the Context of Socialist Oriented Market Economy in Vietnam Today |
3 |
36 |
9 |
0 |
|
|
18 |
PHI 6111 |
State of Law: Some Theoretical and Practical Issues |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
19 |
PHI 6150 |
The Modern Working Class and Its Historical Mission |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
20 |
PHI 6151 |
Vietnamese Intellectuals in the Renovation of the Country |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
21 |
PHI 6152 |
Economic and Political Renovation in Vietnam Today |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
22 |
PHI 6153 |
Western Marxism |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
23 |
PHI 6054 |
Documents of the Party’s Congress: Philosophical Aspects |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
24 |
PHI 6155 |
Farmers in the Process of Industrialization and Modernization in Vietnam |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
25 |
PHI 6056 |
The Gap between Rich and Poor in Vietnam Today |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
26 |
PHI 6057 |
The Revolution in Sciences and Modern Technology: Socio–political Issues |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
27 |
PHI 6258 |
The Relationships within Ethnic Groups in Vietnam Today |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
28 |
PHI 6159 |
Village Culture in the Process of Renovation in Vietnam |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
29 |
PHI 6277 |
Philosophical Issues of the Modern Science and Technology |
2 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
30 |
PHI 6275 |
Civil Society |
3 |
36 |
9 |
|
|
|
III |
PHI 7201 |
Thesis |
20 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
64 |
|
|
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Note: Credits of Foreign Language are counted in total credits but their grades are not counted in GPA.