Mental health class for college students: The teacher used bananas to teach "wearing condoms"

Recently, the Ministry of Education issued the basic requirements for mental health courses for general college students, including sexual psychology and love psychology, and other mental health courses will become a standard for college students. compulsory content.

So, how to take such a class? The reporter's interview found that some universities in Jiangsu have made mental health courses a required course.

Required courses

There are universities in Jiangsu that have opened early

China Southern University: Discuss whether it is appropriate to live together before marriage

Exhibitionism, love affair Fetishes, etc. are all discussed

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics has made mental health education a required course as early as 2003. "The origin is from the elective course I started in 2002, called Mental Health for College Students. It was originally planned to be a class for more than 100 people, but more than 800 people signed up. Later, it had to be expanded to a class for more than 300 people. Many students came to observe. Watch It became so popular that in 2003, the school made this course a compulsory course for all freshmen," Associate Professor Yang Xuehua from the University Student Mental Health Education Center told reporters.

“Love and sexual psychology take up 1 class hour. I mainly discuss topics of interest with the students. For example, homosexuality, exhibitionism, fetishism, etc. are all within the scope of discussion. As for I find teaching about wearing condoms a bit funny. In my opinion, this is a problem that should be solved in middle school. The topics that college students are more interested in are actually marriage and love issues: such as cohabitation before marriage, sexual openness, sexual morality and sexual responsibility, etc. For some controversial topics, my class is conducted in the form of debate, such as whether it is appropriate to live together before marriage."

The exam for this required course is actually very simple, "Just write a brief summary of your experience, do you have any?" What’s gained? Do you have any suggestions?” Teacher Yang said that college students generally report that this course is very useful, but it is too late to gain access to this kind of knowledge. It is best to offer it in middle schools.

Nantong University: Let students "simulate" falling in love

The teacher showed slides to teach students how to use condoms

Nantong University has offered a compulsory course on mental health for college students since 2006. Wang Xiaotian, director of the school's Mental Health Education Service Center, told reporters that the required courses include a total of 10 topics, 30 hours, accounting for 2 credits, distributed over two semesters, and are a required course for every freshman. The love psychology of college students is one of them. Special topic, about 3 semester hours.

The mental health class is divided into the first class and the second class. The first class focuses on imparting knowledge, and the second class simulates scenarios. "For example, when the teacher talks about the love psychology of college students, he will open an emotional training camp, allowing students to simulate the scene of broken love, intervene in advance, and convey the concept of healthy coping with broken love. When talking about sex education, the teacher will show slides to teach students How to use condoms?" Wang Xiaotian said. In order to make mental health a compulsory course, Nantong University has trained more than 60 psychology teachers. Some are teachers specializing in mental health education, and there are also counselors and teachers related to mental health majors.

Nanjing Information Vocational and Technical College: Make-up classes must be made if you take leave

Homosexuality and sexual assault are the main issues for private consultation

Nanjing Information Vocational and Technical College has already "Mental health education course" has been included as a required course.

According to Tao Airong, director of the Mental Health Education Center of the school’s Academic Affairs Office, the mental health education course is a compulsory course at the school level, with a total of 2 credits, and the requirements are more stringent than professional courses. "No matter whether students ask for leave in any form, they must arrange for dedicated teachers to make up the lessons after class." The content covers career planning, sexual and love psychology, and the prevention of mental health diseases. Among them, the more sensitive "Sex Psychology and Love Psychology" content actually only has 3 class hours, and 5 full-time teachers and more than 10 part-time teachers are responsible for teaching the entire school.

During class, the teacher wrote the discussion topic on the blackboard and then started the discussion, "Although everyone was shy at the beginning, after a while everyone opened up."

Elective courses

"Sexual Psychology" is the most popular

Southern Normal University: Teach you to understand the male reproductive organs

Students discuss the names of various organs in groups

In the elective liberal arts course schedule of Nanjing Normal University, "Sexual Science and "People" is always the most popular one. The "battle" for course selection does not take more than half a day each semester, and this course is already full or even "overflowing."

There was a course on “Teaching You About Organs” that impressed Li, a student from Nanjing Normal University. "The teacher first showed us a very large slide, and the whole class burst into laughter. It was a picture of the male reproductive system." Li told reporters that the teacher divided the students into several groups to discuss and write about each organ. The girls' faces turned red and their heads lowered. "Every organ has to be named in detail. I really can't figure it out." The girls were too embarrassed to speak. The boys talked about everything: testicles, corpus cavernosum, and vas deferens, but no one told them everything. What made the students feel "embarrassed" was that the teacher also asked everyone to discuss the functions of organs. “Everyone thinks it is necessary to learn, but we really don’t know a lot of knowledge.” Student Li said.

Nancai: Teaching condoms with bananas

It is inevitable for men and women to have physical contact, which is both funny and embarrassing

During the interview, the reporter learned that at present, most universities in Nanjing All offer elective courses in psychological education, and elective courses in sexual psychology are particularly popular. Director Guo Jinlin of the Mental Health Education Center of Southeast University told reporters that Southeast University currently has three elective courses related to psychological education, namely: mental health of college students, emotional psychology of college students, and sense of accomplishment of female college students, all of which involve the content of sexual psychology education.

A female junior at Nanjing University of Finance and Economics told reporters about a sex education class she experienced. There were more than ten boys sitting in the narrow classroom. When she walked in, she could only sit next to one boy. The challenge continues. A piece of paper is laid on the ground and nine grids are drawn, A, B, C, D, E... nine grids. Draw lots again according to the English letters. Students who draw A will place an arm or a leg in the A grid, and continue in sequence. "Boys and girls were intertwined, so there was inevitably physical contact. In the end, many people's arms were entangled with other people's legs. It was really funny and embarrassing."

The hottest part is of course learning to wear condoms. The "teaching aid" is a banana. The teacher first demonstrated, and when he put a condom on a banana, the whole room burst into laughter, and the awkward atmosphere was gone.

What are the benefits of the new regulations?

Compulsory courses start as early as freshman year, much earlier than elective courses

In response to the overwhelming news yesterday in the online media that "sexual psychology courses are included as compulsory teaching content in colleges and universities", Professor Sang Zhiqin, chairman of the Mental Health Expert Steering Committee for College Students in Jiangsu Province and director of the Mental Health Education and Research Center of Nanjing University, first spoke to reporters in an interview "Refusing Rumors": "The Ministry of Education requires that mental health courses be included in the compulsory teaching content in colleges and universities. Sexual psychology and love psychology are just one of the chapters and cannot be generalized."

Sang Zhiqin said, Every school now has mental health courses, but some are electives. For example, the psychological counseling room at NTU often has to be booked two weeks in advance. Mental health education has become a compulsory course and entering the curriculum system will definitely increase efficiency. And after it becomes a formal classroom teaching, students will recognize this course more. Another point is that as an elective course, we can only offer it in the middle and senior grades, but as a required course, it can be offered in the freshman year, which is more helpful to college students.

“However, this places higher demands on teachers. Even if it is a compulsory course, if students find it boring, it will become a course that ‘cultivates skipping classes’. To make students interested and gainful, teacher training is indispensable. It must be done.” Moreover, “after it becomes a compulsory course, we also plan to revise the teaching materials of undergraduate colleges and universities,” experts said.

School confusion:

The most lacking thing in compulsory courses is teachers

Director Guo Jinlin of the Mental Health Education Center of Southeast University believes that mental health of college students should be changed to a compulsory course. This is a good thing, but in order to roll it out comprehensively and ensure quality, schools have to prepare a lot. The most lacking thing for the school is professional psychology teachers. Dongda has hired 6 external teachers and trained 16 teachers, but this is not sufficient. The reporter learned that more schools are currently facing headaches for teachers.

Controversy among netizens:

It’s a little late to “learn love” in universities

After the launch of mental health courses, “Sexual Psychology and Love Psychology” will be included in the required courses in universities . Many netizens agreed with this and believed that this was an improvement in college education. However, some netizens are worried about whether it is too late to teach relevant courses in college, because many children have already had relationships and even sexual experiences before entering college.

Some netizens questioned that it may be too late to study love psychology and sexual psychology courses in college. Netizen "push80" revealed that he is a college counselor, and nearly half of the students he manages have had a relationship before going to college. "If love psychology courses are only taught in universities, will the courses be attractive to students who have had love experiences, and can these students be retained?" "If parents teach private topics, children may be more accepting. If Moving it to the classroom could be counterproductive."