Gu Jia/Shanghai Daily news

A tutoring office at Fudan University was officially opened for students yesterday. Prof. Liu Danchu from the Chemistry Department and three other professors were on duty for the first time, ready to receive questions on study and future jobs for students.
As of this semester, the University has begun to promote a new education measure to assist its 3 700 freshmen. This is the first time Fudan will not require any specialized courses except the basic and optional ones in its first school year.
The different specialties will no longer isolate students. One dormitory might house students from different departments. 
"The events in class may receive suggestions from students from other department, a situation which was totally unimaginable before," said Wang Lingyi excitedly after two-weeks of study in the university.
However, many student are worried and wondering if they can catch up to students in other universities who keep a more usual school timetable, or if they will fall at the end of their university due to inadequate scores.
"The new education measure is not a sudden change," explained Zhang Yun, vice secretary of the CPC Branch Office with the University. "The reforms in the scoring system in recent years have been paving the way for it."
"Comprehensive education courses, such as Contemporary Literature, Chinese History and Philosophy, might be transformed to the core lessons in our new education system," added Zhang Yun.