Undergraduate course setting

Last updated：2026-08-13

This major adheres to the socialist orientation of running schools, fully fulfills the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, and focuses on cultivating innovative talents capable of leading future development. Centered on students’ all-round growth, it integrates general education with specialized education, and combines broad-category centralized training with discipline-specific training. The program strives to enhance students’ learning capability, critical thinking and practical execution capacity, and strengthen their digital intelligence literacy and artificial intelligence application skills. It aims to foster socialist builders and successors with well-rounded development in morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor education. Graduates will master fundamental theories and cutting-edge research expertise in planetary science, and possess sound scientific literacy and moral integrity, a solid foundation in mathematics, physics, computer science and foreign languages, robust capabilities of knowledge integration and lifelong learning, innovative awareness and an international vision. They will be competent for scientific research, teaching and administrative posts related to planetary science and deep space exploration.

The course setting is as follows：
 

Course Attribute

Course Category

Course Code

Course Title

Hours

Credits

Course Manager

Remark

Compulsory Courses

Public Courses

 

Ideological and Political Theory Courses

/

14

/

 

 

College Foreign Language

72

4

/

 

 

Physical Education

144

4

/

 

PUB121

Military Courses

2 weeks + 36

4

/

 

PUB1991

National Security Education

20

1

/

 

PSY199

Mental Health Education

36

2

/

 

PUB178

Labor Education

36

1

/

 

ISE1260

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Science & Engineering)

54

2.5

Wan Xin

 

 

Art and Aesthetic Courses

36

2

/

 

Specialized Courses

 

Introduction to Planetary Science

36

2

Huang Shichun

 

 

Freshman Seminar: Deep Space Exploration

18

1

Hao Yongqiang

 

 

Planetary Data Analysis and Visualization

72

3

Li Kun

 

AS230

Mathematical Statistics and Numerical Calculation

72

3.5

Liu Nigang

 

AS361

Electromagnetism and Electrodynamics

54

3

Wang Jing

 

AS356

Solar System Dynamics

54

3

Li Jianyang

 

AS232

Complex Variables and Mathematical Physics Equations

72

4

Liu Lijuan

 

AS226

Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics

54

3

Lai Hairong

 

 

Planetary Materials

54

3

Wu Yunhua

 

AS391

Planetary Geology

54

3

Xiao Zhiyong

 

AS364

Solar-Terrestrial Space Physics

54

3

Hao Yongqiang

 

AS390

Planetary Physics

54

3

Dmitrij Titov

 

AS384

Planetary and Space Exploration Technology

54

3

Zhong Jiahao

 

 

Planetary Chemistry

54

3

Huang Shichun

 

Practical Courses

AS3112

Research Study in Planetary Science (I)

72

2

Liu Nigang

 

AS3113

Research Study in Planetary Science (II)

72

2

Zhong Jiahao

 

AS382

Summer Comprehensive Practice of Planetary Science

108

3

Hao Yongqiang

 

Elective Courses

General Education Courses

MA189

Advanced Mathematics I (I)

90

5

Ding Wei

 

MA190

Advanced Mathematics I (II)

90

5

Ding Wei

 

MA179

Linear Algebra

54

3

Teaching Group, School of Mathematics

 

PHY158

College Physics (Science) I

72

4

Zhang Yong

 

PHY159

College Physics (Science) II

72

4

Zhang Yong

 

PHY147

College Physics Experiment (Science) I

36

1

Shen Han

 

PHY149

College Physics Experiment (Science) II

36

1

Shen Han

 

CHM149

College Chemistry (III)

54

3

Teaching Group, School of Chemistry

 

Top-notch Innovative Courses

CHM151

College Chemistry Experiment (III)

36

2

School of Chemistry

 

PA337

Fundamental Astronomy

36

2

Li Chengyuan, School of Physics and Astronomy

 

PA237

Basic Physics Experiment I

36

2

Lin Xudong, School of Physics and Astronomy

 

PA238

Basic Physics Experiment II

36

2

Lin Xudong, School of Physics and Astronomy

 

AS235

Fundamentals of Fluid and Magnetohydrodynamics

36

2

Duan Aiying

 

AS3110

Reading and Writing of Planetary Science Literature

54

3

Zhong Jiahao

 

AS3115

Big Data and AI Analysis Experiment in Planetary Science

54

3

Yu Jiang

 

AS414

Deep Space Exploration Mission Design

36

2

Li Jianyang

 

AS373

Frontiers in Space and Planetary Sciences

36

2

Xiao Zhiyong, Liu Shangfei(School of Physics and Astronomy), Zhang Ling(School of Earth Sciences)

 

GST101

Principles and Methods of Remote Sensing

54

2.5

Huang Huabing

 

AS381

Origin and Evolution of the Earth

36

2

Yi Zhiyu

 

AS388

Field Practice of Planetary Science

72

2

Yi Zhiyu

 

AS397

Small Bodies of the Solar System

36

2

Li Jianyang

 

 

Solid State Physics of Planets

36

2

Xiao Zhiyong, Zhang Ling

 

AS439

History of Space Exploration

36

2

Duan Aiying

 

PA5245

Mechanisms of Celestial Radiation

54

3

Yang Lili, Shen Rongfeng, School of Physics and Astronomy

 

AS393

Solar and Stellar Activity

36

2

Zhou Zhenjun

 

AS399

Magnetic Fields of Earth and Planets

36

2

Yu Jiang

 

AS386

Observational Practice of Comparative Planetology

72

2

Zhou Zhenjun

 

AS3116

Monitoring Practice of Solar-Terrestrial Space Environment

36

1

Zhong Jiahao

 

Undergraduate-Postgraduate Integrated Courses

AS5230

Physics of Space Plasma

54

3

Lai Hairong

 

AS5339

Structure and Evolution of Planetary Atmospheres

36

2

Dmitrij Titov

 

AS5340

Meteorites and Astrochemistry

36

2

Wu Yunhua

 

AS5341

Planetary Surface Processes

36

2

Xiao Zhiyong

 

AS5342

Formation and Evolution of Solar System Small Bodies

36

2

Li Jianyang

 

AS5286

Solar Atmosphere and Solar Eruption

36

2

Duan Aiying

 

AS5343

Detection and Characterization of Exoplanets

36

2

Li Jianyang

 

AS5344

Solar Wind Interactions with Planets

36

2

Li Kun

 

AS5345

Physics of Magnetosphere

36

2

Liu Nigang

 

AS5346

Physics of Upper Atmosphere and Ionosphere

36

2

Zhong Jiahao