China’s first college diploma in marriage presents programs like matchmaking

China is issuing its first college diploma program in all issues matrimony, and its curriculum contains wedding ceremony planning, matchmaking companies and marriage counseling.

The Beijing-based Vocational College of Civil Affairs is providing a four-year program in marriage companies and administration, which goals to show college students methods to interact with “the complete cycle of marriage and household,” mentioned the dean of the college’s Faculty of Marriage ceremony Tradition and Media Arts, Yu Xiaohui.

“It begins from earlier than [a couple] begins a household — from marriage matchmaking, to premarital counseling, marriage registration, wedding ceremony companies, after which extending all the way down to counseling earlier than divorce,” Yu advised native media in accordance with a Baidu translation, including that there’s at present a expertise demand hole for extremely educated professionals within the marriage companies market.

Modules within the course embody sociology, wedding ceremony venue design, household ethics, the economics of the wedding business and household insurance policies. College students may also have the possibility to intern at companies specializing in weddings, matchmaking, marriage registration and counseling.

The Vocational College of Civil Affairs is a newly established establishment below China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs. Apart from its marriage administration program, the college additionally presents levels in good health-care administration, social work, rehabilitation assistive gadget expertise and funeral administration.

The Trendy Funeral Administration curriculum, which can be the nation’s first undergraduate main on this area, goals to equip college students with quite a lot of expertise corresponding to physique embalming and preservation, palliative care and grief comfort, in addition to physique cremation and funeral gear upkeep.