The Introduction of Specialities

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[Chinese  Department]    [History Department]    

[Sociology Department]    [Archives Department]

     Chinese Department

The specialized subject of Chinese linguistics and literature:

 The speciality is aimed to train the advanced and specialized talents who not only have certain accomplishments of liberal arts and systematic knowledge of Chinese language and literature but can take up comments on liberal works and teaching and researching as well, who can also do practical work on culture and propaganda.

Students of this speciality are proposed to learn the basic knowledge mainly about Chinese language and liberal arts. Besides, systematic education and basic training are offered, the former of which contains some relevant theory and the developing history and the present situation of research, etc.

 

   The main courses we have had are:The Introduction of Linguistics, Ancient Chinese, Modern Chinese, The Introduction of Literature, The History of Ancient Chinese Literature, The History of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, The Treatise of Maxism, Comparative Literature, The Study of Ancient Chinese Documents, The History of Foreign Literature, Folk Liberal Arts, The History of Chinese Language, The Study of the History of Linguistics,etc. In addition, the graduates should master the relevant knowledge of news, history, philosophy, arts and so on. In higher grades, we have set a series of courses towards three directions:

  1.Liberal Arts

     There are Comment On Chinese Literature, Literature Of Movies and Television, The Commentary Of Present Liberal Arts, The Cultural History of Chinese Arts, etc. All is aimed to develop the ability of connoisseur, creation and comment, to develop the talents that are capable of scientific research and practical work to meet the needs of editing, news, advertisement, movies and television, public affairs, secretary, etc.

  2.External Chinese Language

     There are Grammar of External Chinese Language, The Comparison of English and Chinese, The Translation Between English and Chinese, The Study of Euro-American Linguistics and so on. All is aimed to develop the specialized talents with good English training and fine qualifications of Chinese so as to deal with Chinese language teaching towards foreigners and be capable of the application of English and Chinese in high levels of various kinds of the society, such as editing, secretary, public affairs, foreign affairs and advertisement.

  3.The Management of Culture and Arts

     There are The Policy and Laws of Culture, The Management of Culture and Arts, The Comparison of the Management of domestic and foreign culture, Market Running and Selling, etc. All is aimed to develop the talents who are capable of culture administration and the management of culture and entertainment. This direction initiated enrolling ungraduate students, thus became the chief base training the talents of culture management of Shanghai.

  Length of Schooling: 4 years

  Academic Degree: Bachelor of Arts

 

    History Department

The specialized subject of the study of history:

  The speciality is aimed to train the advanced and specialized talents who not only have certain accomplishments of the basic theory of historical materialism and systematic knowledge of historical culture but can take up daily management and secretary work in government office, culture and education facilities, news publishment, tourism industry, archives of culture and natural science and library as well to meet the needs of the times and the development of the society.

  Students of this speciality are proposed to learn the basic theory and knowledge of the study of history, to have basic training of history research, archaeology and the research of culture and natural science and the research of the culture of tourism, thus to have the basic ability of doing special work and to meet the needs of social work.

      

The teachers and students of history department are at the archaeological studies scene of The Three Gorges

    Graduates of this speciality will be in possession of the knowledge and ability as follows:

    1.Have profound basic theory of the study of history and humanistic social science.

    2.Have profound basic theory and research methods of the study of history.

    3. Have the basic ability of making culture and history research and the research of historical object and museum , be proficient in expressing.

     4. Be familiar with the basic knowledge of Culture Study, Anthropology, Tourism Study, Archaeology and the Study of Historical Object and Museum, etc.

    5. Understand the most important front line of the theory and the developing trends of domestic and international humanistic social science.

6.  Be proficient in using the methods of document index and data inquiring.

7.Be proficient in one professional foreign language and basic operating of computer.

The main courses of the speciality include: The Developing History of Chinese Society, The History of Western Civilization, The Introduction of the Study of History, The History of the Study of Chinese History, The General Survey of Archaeology, Ancient Chinese, The Reading Guide of Domestic and Foreign Works of History and Culture, Chinese Society and Culture, The History of Chinese Ideology, The History of Chinese Political System, Ethnology, The History of Universal Culture, The History of Chinese Economy, The History of Japanese Culture, The History of the Relations Between China and Foreign Countries, The Leading Introduction of the Study of Museum, The Introduction of the Study of Religion, The Introduction of the Study of Tourism, etc.

Length of Schooling: 4 years

Academic Degree: Bachelor of the Study of History


      Sociology department

Professor Deng Weizhi is leading graduate student

Recently, we have taken The Research of Peasant Problems In the Front Line of the Exploitation of China ( the task of the research of national philosophy and social science) and The Research of Peasant Problems In the Process of Civilization of Pudong New Area (the task of the research of philosophy and social science of Shanghai). We can see that with the development of the teaching and scientific research of this department, its growing space will be bigger and bigger.

This speciality was one of the point construction items of 211 of our school. It is also the earliest department established since Sociology was renewed in our country. With continuous efforts and improvement for twenty years, this department have formed some features of its own, the research achievements of which have made great contributions to social and economic development of Shanghai and the districts nearby. In recent years, Professor Deng Weizhi and Shen Guanbao of Sociology Department have been in charge of several important tasks of social science of the year 1995 for our country and Shanghai. The items are: The Research of the Life History of the Inhabitants In Yangtze Delta Region (national important task of the year 1995),  The Research of the Life History of the Inhabitants In the City of Shanghai  (important task of Shanghai of the year 1995), The Research of Social Safeguard System (important task of State Education Committee of Shanghai), etc. 

This speciality is aimed to train the advanced and specialized talents who have profound basic theory of sociology and skill in social research , who adapt to do work of social research and survey, policy research and estimation , social planning and management, development research and forecast in units of education, institute of scientific research, administrative offices, enterprises and social organizations.

 Students of this speciality are proposed to learn the basic theory of sociology, to have the basic training of skills of social research and survey and the ability of expressing. After graduation, students of this speciality will be in possession of the knowledge and ability as follows:

  • Be high- Level in the basic principle of Marxism and the basic theory of sociology, be familiar with main school of thought and theory of sociology of China and foreign countries and be capable of using the theory of Marxism to analyze influential trend of thought and theory of different kinds.

  • Be proficient in the methods and skills of social research and statistics of social science.

  • Understand the state of our country and be capable of analyzing various social phenomena and problems, be able to make initiate scientific research and be good at writing thesis and language expressing.

  •  Understand the important policies and laws and regulations of the Party and government, and concern about the important events and their development domestic and abroad.

  • Understand the theory of the front line of modern sociology and its new progress in important field of research.

  • Be proficient in using the methods of document index and data inquiring.

      The main courses of this speciality are:  The Introduction of Sociology, The Methods of Social Research, Social Psychology, The History of the Ideology of China and Foreign Countries, The Theory of Classical and Modern Sociology, Statistics of Social Science and calculator application of it, Chinese Society, Social Work, etc.

   We pay great attention to the training of social survey and research, social work, writing,           computer operating and English so as to strengthen our students' ability. After graduation, most students of this speciality will take up decision- inquiring, policy survey and research, administration    management, news workeducation and the management of city community.

Length of Schooling: 4 years

Academic Degree: Bachelor of Laws
   


           Archives department

Shanghai City file department in bureau and common developments file in college of arts

The archives speciality of college of liberal arts of Shanghai University is the only teaching unit of undergraduate course in Shanghai. We have had more than 700 graduates since the opening of the speciality in 1981. Now there are 224 students studying at school.

  The specialized subject of archives: This is a subject that regards archives and archives management as researching object, containing much synthesis and application. The main content of it is to study the nature , characteristic, function and regular pattern of archives and the principle and technique and methods of archives management, etc.

The speciality is aimed to explore and study the objective law of archives and archives management activities, to conclude a scientific and reasonable and effective way of management in order to push archives management work and the whole archives undertaking forward , giving systematic knowledge and scientific theory guide to archives worker. At the moment , the study of archives has become an substantial and independent subject with a reasonable structure and complete system.

This speciality is aimed to train the advanced talents who are proficient in the basic skills of modern information technique and adapt to take up information service, information management and research work in the archives and information units of government offices and enterprises. Students of this speciality are proposed to learn the basic theory of archives management and information management, to have systematic education and training of relevant theory , methods and skills, etc.

The main courses of this speciality include:  The Introduction of the Study of Archives, The Study of Archives Management, The Study of Scientific Archives Management, The Compile and Research of Archives and Documents, The Study of the Technique of Archives Protection, Electronic Document Management, The Study of Scientific Document Management, The Basic Courses of File Management Automation, The Systematic Analysis and Programming of File Management Automation, The Language of Archives Index, The History of the Archives of China, Archives Management of Foreign Countries, Archives Copy Technique, English of Speciality, Data Structure, The Law of the Property Right of Knowledge, The Study of Secretary, The Programming of Computer Language, etc.

  Length of Schooling:  4 years

  Academic Degree: Bachelor of Management