Each semester students pursue a one-on-one topic as an independent study class for 1 unit of credit. Students should consult with their Chinese professors to come up with specific content they would like to study for this tutorial. In addition to weekly oral and written reports, all students report on their progress in structured oral midterm exams. These presentations take place before a team of faculty. The final exam includes a handwritten essay (approximately 2,000 characters) and an oral presentation before a team of faculty.

Instructors are chosen for the tutorials based on their teaching experience and level of expertise. They may be selected from ZUT and a wide range of educational institutions in Hangzhou. Although the focus of the one-on-one tutorial is Chinese language acquisition, the unique nature of the course allows students to conduct research and gain special knowledge in a topic of interest to them. Topics that the previous students have studied are:

20th Century Chinese Warfare
20thc. Chinese Diaries in Japan
Changes in Women's Status Since 1949 
Children's Literature and Elementary Education
China's AIDS Problem
China's Economic Reform
China's Environmental Protection
China's Ethnic Minorities
China's Financial Policy
Chinese Business Culture
Chinese Business Relations with Korea
Chinese Buddhism
Chinese Historiography:Comparing Popular History with Records
Chinese Historical Linguistics and Dialectology
Chinese Landscape Painting
Chinese Literature in Ming and Qing Dynasty
Chinese Myths and Fairy Tales
Chinese Psychology 
Environmental Protection in China 
Ethics in Chinese Medicine
Fate in Chinese Culture
The History of Hangzhou
Homosexuality in China
Impact of the 2008 Olympics
Influence of Christianity on Modern China
Literature of the Cultural Revolution
Migrant Labor in Zhejiang Province

News Media and Journalism in Modern China
Pan Tianshou, his paintings, biography, and influence
Sino-Japanese Relations
Traditional Industries in Hangzhou
Urban Chinese Youth of Today 
Water Pollution Control
The Writings of Luxun
 

Students are free to propose other topics but with the understanding that the School in China reserves the right to ask the student to change topics if the topic proposed is too uncommon or non-academic.

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