Department of Sculpture has a team with well-known sculptors and excellent artists, among them are 2 professors and associate professors, 6 assistant professors.
The department focuses on the combination of teaching and creating/executing art works. The faculty and students have completed many large projects of public arts & design in recent years. The completed projects have shown the outcome of the fruitful education. For example, the Sculpture Garden on the Knowledge Avenue at the Shanghai Educational Base for the Youth, 400 meters long sculptures on the new campus of Shanghai University, sculptures in the Industrial Park of Singapore in Suzhou, the Project of Sculpture in the Shanghai Bund, New buildings in LuXun Memorial and so on which obtain extensive social influence and development in teaching, producing and researching as well.

The teaching of the department emphasizes the high positioning of learning and research, which will deepen the teaching and promote the generation of new production. The educational objectives are to train the general students with well-knit sculpt ability by inducing the sense of creation and theory of arts methods to basic education. Many Art works of students have been displayed in exhibitions and have won awards.

Length of Study
Undergraduate Courses, 5 years;
Graduate Candidate Courses, 3 years

Academic Objectives
Students should systematically master the basic clay, wood and stone sculpture skills, and the technology of the design and production of sculpture, and also they should understand the fundamental knowledge and concerns of construction design, so that they will be competent at the sculpture producing and operation with all kinds of materials. They also should be to do teaching and researching independently.

Course Requirements
Drawing, Clay Sculpture, Studio work, Ancient and Folk Sculpture, Construction of sculpture, Wood Sculpture, Stone Sculpture, Copper Casting, Theory of techniques