Undergraduate students will declare their majors in their second year. Duke Kunshan currently offers the following majors approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education, and more majors are under development. Some of the MOE approved majors have multiple tracks.
Prospective students interested in attending medical school upon graduation from DKU, and who commit to pursuing the Biology track in the Global Health major or Data Science major are eligible to apply for the Duke Kunshan-Duke-NUS Medicine Pathway. This is a unique opportunity to gain conditional acceptance into the Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree program at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore along with your admission to Duke Kunshan University’s undergraduate program. Further details, including admissions criteria, can be found here.
All students regardless of their choice of major will be required to complete the following courses. Other specific major requirements are listed under each major. Note that students belonging to class of 2028 and previous classes must consult the Bulletin published in their first year to learn graduation requirements for their class year.
Academic Year | Course Code | Course Name | Course Credit |
First Year | GCHINA 101 | China in the World | 4 |
Second Year | GLOCHALL 201 | Global Challenges in Science, Technology, and Health | 4 |
Third Year | ETHLDR 201 | Ethics, Citizenship & the Examined Life | 4 |
Please see details in Part 3: The Curriculum.
Requirements | Course Credit |
Arts and Humanities Distributional Requirement | 4 |
Social Sciences Distributional Requirement | 4 |
Natural and Applied Sciences Distributional Requirement | 4 |
Quantitative Reasoning Course Requirement | 4 |
Please see details in Part 3: The Curriculum from the latest UG bulletin
Students in the English for academic purposes (EAP) track are required to complete eight credits of EAP courses – EAP 101A to EAP 102B; they can also complete elective 200+ level EAP courses or WOC courses to further develop their academic English skills.
Students in the Chinese as Second Language (CSL) track need to complete 8-16 credits of CHINESE courses appropriate to their Chinese skill level.
Students who are not assigned to either the EAP track or the CSL track can satisfy their foreign language requirement by taking advanced written and oral communication (WOC) courses, or courses in an additional language.
Students whose first language is not Chinese (CSL-track students) are eligible for Advanced Chinese Certification to be included in their transcript, if they complete the necessary requirements. For details, see the Language Courses section in Part 3: The Curriculum.
Please see details in Part 3: The Curriculum from the latest UG bulletin
Resulting in a Signature Work Product. Please see details in Part 3: The Curriculum from the latest UG bulletin
Option 1 (4+4 credits)
| Course Code | Course Name | Course Credit |
| CAPSTONE 495 | Signature Work Capstone I | 4 |
| CAPSTONE 496 | Signature Work Capstone II | 4 |
Option 2 (2+2+4 credits)
| Course Code | Course Name | Course Credit |
| CAPSTONE 495 | Signature Work Capstone I | 2 |
| CAPSTONE 495 | Signature Work Capstone I | 2 |
| CAPSTONE 496 | Signature Work Capstone II | 4 |
Satisfactory completion of non-credit DKU 101 course. Please see details in Part 3: The Curriculum.
1 Non-credit Mini-Term Course: Mini-term courses are intensive, non-credit, non-graded, one-week short courses. There are two types of mini-term courses: Exploratory and Signature Work. Please see details in Part 3: The Curriculum.
Students may select any major published and made available to them in the Academic Bulletin of the year in which they matriculated. Students may not generally select majors made available only in years subsequent to the year in which they matriculated.
When major requirements are altered, students who prefer to meet the updated requirements of a major for which they are eligible may do so but must contact the Office of Undergraduate Advising (See section on Major Requirements in Part 3). Students may not elect to meet major requirements as listed in Academic Bulletins published prior to their year of matriculation.
