Academic Credit System and Interpersonal Relationship: New Development in Contemporary Chinese Colleges

Abstract

After decades of exploration and development, the credit system has become the main trend of Chinese colleges' reform. Although the credit system has brought some progress to Chinese institutions, its implementation also leads to problems—for example, about teacher-student relationships, the teacher's lower requirements for students, poorer teacher-student relationships, and some students' means of retaliation to course evaluation; concerning classmate relationships, the fewer opportunities to communicate, a lowered sense of class belonging and inadequate class cohesiveness. The credit system's introduction has changed the overall relationship pattern between students and teachers at the university. This study takes ST University as an example, and the students in ST University as the main research objects to investigate the relationship between students as well as the relationship between teachers and students by using an anthropological approach and give some recommendations.