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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

Bell Green Demonstration Course<br />

Entered <strong>PKU</strong><br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=77758316<br />

Bell Green Demonstration Course, a multidisciplinary course and an experiment <strong>of</strong><br />

national higher environmental education, entered <strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> for the first time.<br />

About one hundred graduate and undergraduate students <strong>of</strong> different majors from<br />

Beijing's seven universities, listened to the wonderful speeches gave by the<br />

scientists both home and abroad in the fields <strong>of</strong> environment, energy, finance and so<br />

on.<br />

The course will last from February 13 to May 28. Every Friday night it takes place in<br />

Room 101 <strong>of</strong> Department <strong>of</strong> Philosophy at <strong>PKU</strong>. As the chief sponsor, the vice<br />

director <strong>of</strong> propaganda and education center <strong>of</strong> State Environmental Protection<br />

Administration <strong>of</strong> China, Mr. Jia Feng introduced that he had the tentative plan for<br />

the course when studying in U.S.A and then got in touch with the scientists both<br />

home and abroad. With his efforts, Bell Green Demonstration Course was soon put<br />

into practice. The course not only got the cooperation <strong>of</strong> College <strong>of</strong> Environmental<br />

Sciences <strong>of</strong> <strong>PKU</strong>, but also received the sustention <strong>of</strong> Shell Petroleum Company.<br />

Jia Feng introduced, many undergraduate students contacted them through<br />

Internet or telephone. The registration number was over two hundred. In the end,<br />

eighty students were selected according to their specialties and aptitudes.<br />

At the first class, the classroom holding more than one hundred people was<br />

crowded. The eight pr<strong>of</strong>essors made the wonderful deduction <strong>of</strong> the eight key<br />

environmental words, such as marsh gas, solar energy, biologic diesel oil, organic<br />

food and so on. The students all listened carefully and put forward some acute<br />

questions, which excited the pr<strong>of</strong>essors. It was said that the students would be<br />

divided into eight groups in terms <strong>of</strong> the eight key words according to their interest.<br />

Each group would discuss directed by one pr<strong>of</strong>essor.<br />

Zhang Shiqiu, a pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> College <strong>of</strong> Environmental Sciences <strong>of</strong> <strong>PKU</strong>, said that it<br />

was the first time for <strong>PKU</strong> to combine environment with market. She also predicted<br />

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