100% employment rate of unpopular specialties! What about the prospects? The college admission season has ended, and the problem of choosing schools and majors that once bothered many freshmen has also been settled, and they can start looking forward to their professional study life in the future. Recently, a freshman shared the curriculum schedule of the funeral service major, which includes funeral psychological analysis, funeral etiquette, funeral customs, and the study of cemetery feng shui knowledge.
In recent years, some niche and unpopular majors such as funeral management have gradually become popular and come into the public eye. Many people are curious about what exactly these mysterious majors learn in class and what the employment prospects are.
Funeral service major
The curriculum schedule includes cemetery feng shui knowledge
"I have been admitted! It is the funeral service major that everyone is curious about! Many people said they wanted to see my professional courses, so I found the curriculum schedule of Chongqing City Management Vocational College. Although there are many classes, this profession is proportional to the input and output in the end." Recently, Student Yin, who has just been admitted to Changsha Social Work College, shared a "curriculum schedule of the funeral service major."
The curriculum schedule shows that there are classes from Monday to Friday, and the learning contents include funeral psychological analysis, funeral etiquette, funeral customs, funeral social work, funeral flower art, etc. Among them, the two courses of "Zhouyi knowledge" and "Laborer rights and interests protection" have received quite a lot of attention.
For the "Zhouyi knowledge" course, Student Yin said that this item is more applied to another small major in the funeral department - the cemetery major, which is mainly used to look at feng shui.
Affected by traditional concepts, the funeral service major was generally considered unlucky. With the popularization of film and television works such as "Departures" and the continuous improvement of people's understanding of the value of life, the negative label of the funeral industry is gradually being torn off, and the significance of funeral workers escorting the deceased and comforting the living is being seen positively.
Nowadays, the funeral service major is not as "unpopular" as people think. Not only does it have a high admission threshold, but also a high employment rate.
Student Yin introduced that the funeral service major is the most popular major in Changsha Social Work College and also the most difficult major to apply for. The tuition fee is three or four thousand yuan a year. Among the branches of this major category, Student Yin tends to the branch of management and service, and its salary level is relatively high, but not as exaggerated as rumored.
Zhao Yu, a teacher at Chongqing City Management Vocational College, said in a recent interview with the media that the admission score line of the modern funeral technology and management major of this college has exceeded the admission score line of the undergraduate course for three consecutive years. Since 2020, the number of students applying for this major has increased sharply.
And in terms of employment prospects, not long ago, the "employment rate is almost 100%" of the funeral service major caused a hot discussion. At present, there are 8 middle and vocational colleges in China that have opened funeral-related majors. Many teachers of these colleges have disclosed that the employment rate of this major is almost 100%. Most graduates have successfully found employment in funeral service institutions such as funeral parlors, cemeteries, and funeral service companies.
And behind this is the large demand for talents in the funeral industry. It is known that only in the funeral parlor sector, there is a talent gap of about 10,000 people every year, and the total number of graduates of the 8 existing colleges and universities that offer funeral-related majors in the country is less than 1,000 every year.
Not only the funeral service major, but some unpopular majors have gradually become popular and attracted public attention.
Taoism major
Nearly 1,300 people signed up, and the admission ratio is close to 21:1
Today, another unpopular major has also caused a hot discussion, and the topic "Taoism college is on fire, and the admission ratio is close to 21:1" has rushed to the hot search.
This popular Taoism college is the Zhejiang Taoism College built on the Tiantai Mountain in Zhejiang. It is a full-time higher religious college approved by the State Administration for Religious Affairs and sponsored by the Zhejiang Taoist Association. It sets up a full-time undergraduate major of "Taoist scriptures and temple management", with a four-year academic system.
The college is located by the Jinting Lake on the Tiantai Mountain in Tiantai County, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province. Picture / @Zhejiang Taoism College
Taoism, major, college, such a combination is strange and mysterious for many people. In March of this year, the 2023 autumn enrollment brochure released by the Zhejiang Taoism College once attracted attention.
Unlike most ordinary colleges and universities, this school does not recruit students through the college entrance examination. Usually, the applicants who meet the conditions such as age (18 to 28 years old) and educational level (high school and above) participate in various rounds of assessment organized by the school and are selected on a merit basis.
The media promotion has really affected the number of applicants this year. The teacher in the admissions office of the college said that the number of people applying for the undergraduate major of this school this year is nearly 1,300, which is nearly 1,000 more than last year and also the most in previous years. Selecting 60 people from nearly 1,300 people, the admission ratio is close to 21:1.
And people are also curious about the undergraduate study life on the mountain. Is it really as carefree as people imagine at the foot of the mountain?
From the curriculum setting announced in the 2023 autumn enrollment brochure of the Zhejiang Taoism College, the college not only has cultural basic courses such as ancient Chinese and English, but also has cultural and sports art courses such as calligraphy and painting. Among them, the most special ones are Taoist professional courses such as ritual sacrifices and Zhouyi divination.
It is known that the professional courses are based on four professional frameworks such as medicine (Taoist medicine), Yi (Taoist art), Tao (Dan Tao), and ritual sacrifices. From the junior year, students can choose one of them as the main direction according to their own interests.
A junior student of the Taoism College introduced that each course has a fixed credit and also has the corresponding final exam. "I took a ritual sacrifice course before, and there was a question in the final exam that asked us to judge the feng shui only based on the picture information, which is still quite difficult."
In the professional training plan, the training ideas of the Taoist undergraduate and the ordinary undergraduate are basically similar. In the first semester of the senior year, the college will comprehensively consider the characteristics of each student and arrange for students to go to different Taoist temples for internships. In the second semester, students need to start writing theses and defending theses.
Students must complete the design, opening, writing, and defense of the graduation thesis in order to graduate smoothly. Picture / @Zhejiang Taoism College
And four years of undergraduate study is not easy. "Maybe many netizens think that coming here can 'lie down', but in fact we get up at 5 o'clock every day, and we have classes six days a week."
And the employment direction of students in the Taoism College is narrow but stable. It is known that after graduating from the Taoism College, according to the委派 of the Taoist Association according to the results, they will go to various Taoist temples for teaching or management work.
Oracle bone script major
Writing is like solving a case, and the "unpopular and unique discipline" has seen a rise in popularity.
The oracle bone script major, which is also called the "most unpopular discipline" by many people, is not so unpopular anymore.
Li Youxi, a video blogger born in the 1990s, embarked on the path of popularizing oracle bone script because she released a video of "Challenging the most unpopular major in the whole network, a monologue of an oracle bone script major graduate". In April of this year, she became popular because of explaining the "heavenly book" oracle bone script.
In 2021, Li Youxi graduated with a master's degree from the Chinese Language and Literature major of Zhejiang Normal University, and the research direction is oracle bone script. At the beginning, she had to look up materials for every line of the book she read. She recognized individual characters, but couldn't understand them when put together. Even the graduation thesis was written while learning.
It is known that the oracle bone script major is generally set in the direction of ancient Chinese philology in the Chinese language and literature major, and in this large field, the number of people researching oracle bone script is also a minority, which can be called an "unpopular and unique discipline".
In recent years, with the attention of the national and public levels to ancient philology, the popularity of this major has increased somewhat. In the past, the talent training of ancient philology mostly started from the postgraduate stage. At present, more than a dozen universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Nanjing University, and Sun Yat-sen University that train ancient philology talents through the Strong Foundation Program.