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    Tsinghua University
    Beijing, China

    Tsinghua University is situated around Tsinghua garden, originally an imperial garden of Qing dynasty, in the northwestern suburbs of Beijing. The University was instituted in 1911, originally under the name of Tsinghua Xuetang, as a preparatory school for students who would be sent by the government to study in the United States.

    Tsinghua University is one of the national key universities in China, comprising disciplines in sciences, engineering, management, humanities and social sciences, law, arts and design, as well as medical science. 49 disciplines are listed as National Key Disciplines. There are 13 schools and 54 departments, offering 61 Bachelor’s programs, 198 Master’s programs and 181 Doctoral programs.

    At present, Tsinghua has over 30,000 undergraduate and master’s students, and 5,156 PhD candidates. It has over 2,800 faculty members, including 34 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 30 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. There are also one Nobel Laureate and one Turing Laureate among the faculty. Tsinghua University’s main research areas are information science and technology, life science, new materials, energy, environmental science, advanced manufacturing.

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    VSE Season 2, 2025-26

    Courses offered by Tsinghua University


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    Before applying, please make sure you understand the following enrolment restrictions set by the course offering university:

    Each student can apply and enroll in ONE academic course offered by Tsinghua University at VSE Season 2, 2025-26 only. If you have submitted two applications to Tsinghua University courses, the VSE Central Office will withdraw the SECOND application without prior notice. If you wish to change your course selection after making the first application, please make a request by emailing [email protected].


    Application Deadline

    Students must submit an application to the VSE Central Office before:
    Jan 25, 2026 12:00 noon Hong Kong Time (UTC+8)


    Course Information

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    Number of Credits3
    Offering DepartmentDepartment of Civil Engineering
    Course TeacherHuiyong Ban
    Language of InstructionEnglish
    First Day of ClassFeb 25, 2026
    Last Day of ClassJun 12, 2026
    Course ComponentLecture
    Mode of TeachingSynchronous
    Meeting TimeMon 0950-1215
    Time ZoneUTC+08
    Course Description

    This course is one of the most important specialised courses for undergraduates majoring in civil engineering. It mainly introduces principles of mechanism and design methods by means of lectures. 

    More specifically, the contents include: i) characteristics and advantages of steel structures, their development and application as well as basic requirements for their design; ii) manufacturing process, mechanical properties and selection of steel structural materials; iii) connections in steel structures, and fundamental behaviour, mechanical analysis, design method and configuration requirements of both welded and bolted connections; iv) failure modes of steel members subjected to axial loadings, design theories of their strength, stiffness, overall and local buckling, as well as design and checking of their cross-sections; v) flexural behaviour of steel members including calculation of their strength, stiffness, flexural-torsional buckling and local buckling within flanges and web, as well as design of cross-sections and configuration requirements of hot-rolled and welded steel beams; vi) mechanical performance of steel members subjected to bending with tension or compression in combination, including calculation method of their strength and buckling and configuration details; vii) typical joints in steel frame structures and their loading capacities, configurations. National standards are also incorporated in this course, including the China's one and the European and American ones.

    Course Outline

    https://cloud.tsinghua.edu.cn/f/9834d305674e40fc94bb/

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    Number of Credits2
    Offering DepartmentDepartment of Electronic Engineering
    Course TeacherYuan Shen
    Language of InstructionEnglish
    First Day of ClassFeb 25, 2026
    Last Day of ClassJun 12, 2026
    Course ComponentLecture
    Mode of TeachingSynchronous
    Meeting TimeTue 0950-1125
    Time ZoneUTC+08
    Course Description

    This course will introduce students to the modelling, quantification, and analysis of uncertainty. Topics covered include: formulation and solution in sample space, random variables, transform techniques, simple stochastic processes and their probability distributions, and limit theorems.

    Course Outline

    https://cloud.tsinghua.edu.cn/f/b5b9f509d412465ba6b8/

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    Number of Credits3
    Offering DepartmentDepartment of Electronic Engineering
    Course TeacherCheng Ma
    Language of InstructionEnglish
    First Day of ClassFeb 25, 2026
    Last Day of ClassJun 12, 2026
    Course ComponentLecture
    Mode of TeachingSynchronous
    Meeting TimeFri 0950-1215
    Time ZoneUTC+08
    Course Description

    Electromagnetic field and wave is the theoretical foundation for the studies of electrical circuits, optics, photonics, microwave systems, etc. It provides the basic method and tool for understanding, analyzing, and solving problems involving electromagnetism. The course will introduce vector analysis, Maxwell's equations, Lorentz force, electrostatics and magnetostatics, electrodynamics, propagation of EM waves, and radiation. Beside basic principles, the course will introduce a number of examples including electrical circuits, optical and RF waveguides, antenna, and electrical measurement in biomedical applications, such that the students can implement the theory to solve real-world problems. 

    Course Outline

    https://cloud.tsinghua.edu.cn/f/7145e7e18f704ef6a268/

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    Number of Credits2
    Offering DepartmentSchool of Humanities
    Course TeacherDag Westerståhl
    Language of InstructionEnglish
    First Day of ClassFeb 25, 2026
    Last Day of ClassApr 17, 2026
    Course ComponentLecture
    Mode of TeachingSynchronous
    Meeting TimeMon & Wed 1520-1655
    Time ZoneUTC+08
    Course Description

    The course gives an overview of classical meta-logical results, in particular, Godel's completeness and incompleteness theorems, Church- Turing's proof of the undecidability of first-order logic, and Tarski's theorem on the undefinability of truth. After a recapitulation of the syntax and semantics of first-order logic, Henkin's proof of completeness, in terms of syntactic models and maximal consistent sets, is presented. Philosophical and logical consequences of the result and its proof are discussed, with some glimpses from model theory. The course then presents the notions of complete and incomplete theories, as well as decidability of theories. After an overview of the philosophical and mathematical background in the early 20th century, including Hilbert'sProgram, the incompleteness theorems and related results, and the ideas behind their proofs, are presented at an informal level. The remainder of the course fills in some of the details. The course presentation focuses on important concepts and ideas, philosophical as well as mathematical, but also gives pointers to the technical details.

    Course Outline

    https://cloud.tsinghua.edu.cn/f/0ec3884200b04c69853c/

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    Number of Credits2
    Offering DepartmentSchool of Humanities
    Course TeacherJeremy Seligman
    Language of InstructionEnglish
    First Day of ClassApr 20, 2026
    Last Day of ClassJun 12, 2026
    Course ComponentLecture
    Mode of TeachingSynchronous
    Meeting TimeMon & Wed 1520-1655
    Time ZoneUTC+08
    Course Description

    Among branches of modern logic, modal logic provides a nice balance of expressivity and complexity, allowing it to be applied widely and extensively in many fields ranging from humanities to software design. In this course, ideas and methods of modal logic will be introduced along with its famous applications in modeling time, knowledge, necessity, and social behaviors. In this thread, student will be led into environments similar to research, in which ideas and needs from theoretical side and practical side frequently interact. Pointers will be given to standard textbooks/handbooks as well as notable papers, and with knowledge and skills introduced in this course, students with further interests should in principle be able to explore by their own. This course aims to student who more or less have learnt some logic, but this is not strictly required.

    Course Outline

    https://cloud.tsinghua.edu.cn/f/2560f64c105c49948f3c/

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    Number of Credits3
    Offering DepartmentAstronomy
    Course TeacherORMEL Christiaan Wessel
    Language of InstructionEnglish
    First Day of ClassFeb 25, 2026
    Last Day of ClassJun 12, 2026
    Course ComponentLecture
    Mode of TeachingSynchronous
    Meeting TimeThu 1920-2145
    Time ZoneUTC+08
    Course Description

    Stars are the objects that have enabled us to learn how our universe works. There may be over 1022 stars in the universe and modern estimates indicate that most of these stars are accompanied by planets. This course aims to understand the formation, structure, and observational properties of stars and planets from elementary physical principles. Questions that will be addressed include: why do stars have a mass of about 1 solar mass, which conditions must be met for nuclear fusion, why are stars stable, how do planets form and what determines the size and composition of planets, how can we detect exoplanets, how do planetary bodies influence each other? In addressing these questions, the student will learn and apply a great number of concepts that shape our modern understanding of these objects. This course is organized along seven modules: 1. Light 2. Exoplanet detection techniques 3. Matter under astrophysical conditions 4. Planet and stellar Birth 5. Stellar Evolution and Death 6. Atmospheres 7. Planet Dynamics

    Student participation and problem sets play an instrumental part throughout the course. The classical instruction will be further supplemented by presentations mini-project by students on a topic of their choosing related to the field of Stars and Planets.

    Course Outline

    https://cloud.tsinghua.edu.cn/f/ad1ff622441645858896/

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    Number of Credits3
    Offering DepartmentAstronomy
    Course TeacherCUI WEI KEVIN
    Language of InstructionEnglish
    First Day of ClassFeb 25, 2026
    Last Day of ClassJun 12, 2026
    Course ComponentLecture
    Mode of TeachingSynchronous
    Meeting TimeTue 0950-1215
    Time ZoneUTC+08
    Course Description The course covers key observational techniques, astronomical phenomena, and related physical processes in the field of high energy astrophysics.
    Course Outline

    https://cloud.tsinghua.edu.cn/f/ffd4dac3485e4dac8537/

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    Points to Note for StudentsThis course is primarily designed for graduate students at Tsinghua University. However, undergraduate students are also welcome to enroll in this course.
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