China’s first university degree in marriage offers courses like matchmaking

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China’s first university degree in marriage offers courses like matchmaking

Newly-wed couples attending a group wedding ahead of ‘520 I Love You’ Day on May 19, 2024 in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China.

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China is issuing its first university degree program in all things matrimony, and its curriculum includes wedding planning, matchmaking services and marriage counseling.

The Beijing-based Vocational University of Civil Affairs is offering a

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, which aims to teach students how to engage with “the entire cycle of marriage and family,”

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“It starts from before [a couple] starts a family — from marriage matchmaking, to premarital counseling, marriage registration, wedding services, and then extending down to counseling before divorce,” Yu told local media according to a

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translation, adding that there is currently a talent demand gap for highly trained professionals in the marriage services market.

Modules in the course include sociology, wedding venue design, family ethics, the economics of the marriage industry and family policies. Students will also have the chance to intern at agencies that specialize in weddings, matchmaking, marriage registration and counseling.

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The Vocational University of Civil Affairs is a

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. Aside from its marriage management program, the school also offers degrees in smart health-care management, social work, rehabilitation assistive device technology and ******** management.

The

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, which is also the country’s first undergraduate major in this field, aims to equip students with a variety of skills such as body embalming and preservation, palliative care and grief consolation, as well as body cremation and ******** equipment maintenance.

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