1995, the history discipline of the college was approved as the national talent training and scientific research base for basic disciplines of liberal arts. In 2003, the national base for talent training and scientific research in basic disciplines of liberal arts was officially listed.
In 2000, with the support of Pacific Rim Education Foundation, the College established the Department of Cultural Management.
200 1, the college introduced talents and established Chu Institute.
The college has several research centers, such as Taoism and Taoism, cultural exchange between the East and the West, Zhang Shunhui, cultural management, missionary universities, business culture and so on.
There are 1 national key disciplines-modern history of China. There is 1 National Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences-China Institute of Modern History. Provincial key discipline-historical philology 1. School-level key discipline 1—— Ancient history of China. In 2003, the college applied for the first-class discipline of history, and applied for the two disciplines of special history (ideological and cultural direction) and world history.
The overall goal of college construction is to adhere to the law of education and teaching, persist in reform, make our college a first-class college in China, focus on history education and research, and expand the research direction of culture and cross-cultural management.
Zhang Shunhui and Zhang Kaiyuan are determined to take "self-improvement, pragmatism and truth-seeking" as their academic tradition. The college has created a harmonious, orderly, efficient and upward discipline construction atmosphere. There are 492 undergraduates, including master students 1 16 and 43 doctoral students.
The history department has formed two talent training modes: normal majors and undergraduate and postgraduate courses. The history department insists on curriculum reform, and the reformed curriculum system has formed new characteristics:
(1) Broaden professional fields. There are four course groups: specialized courses, comprehensive quality courses, normal quality courses and practical links, which form four teaching chains respectively, and are arranged according to the principle of step by step to form a comprehensive teaching system.
(2) Optimize the professional curriculum structure. The hours and credits of general history at home and abroad have been reduced from 40 credits in 720 hours to 25 credits in 450 hours, and elective courses have been increased accordingly, which are divided into two categories: special history (including dynastic history and national history) and special research courses. The special history is arranged from the second grade, and the special research class is arranged from the third grade, which not only embodies the hierarchy, but also gradually improves.
(3) Professional courses are cutting-edge, forward-looking and academic. A number of new courses have been set up, such as special courses for doctoral supervisors, Chinese and foreign cultural history, the history of international relations in the 20th century, and the introduction of China's classics. We should also pay attention to setting up some courses that are helpful to improve professional quality, such as professional English, scholarships, life and so on.
(4) Theoretical courses of related disciplines should be included in the teaching plan. The curriculum system includes computer foundation, Chinese and foreign literature history, political science, sociology, advanced mathematics, cultural anthropology, public relations and so on. It is also stipulated that each student must have 65,438+00 credits to choose foreign courses, of which 4 credits must be selected for natural science courses.
At present, the Culture Department has enrolled 3 students, including more than 40 students/kloc-0. The training objectives of this major are: to have profound theoretical knowledge and solid professional skills in culturology and management, to understand the basic situation of Chinese and foreign cultures, to be familiar with the cultural mechanism of modern management operation, to master the professional knowledge of economics and economic law, to be familiar with the practices and practices of international economic management, and to have export-oriented compound management talents skilled in using foreign languages for transnational communication and management. The main courses offered by the Department of Culture are: Introduction to China Culture, Introduction to World Culture, Introduction to Culturology, Principles of Management, etc. To form a three-in-one curriculum system for cultivating compound talents: the combination of cultural management (management); Combination of Chinese and foreign; Combination of ancient and modern. There are 19 basic courses, 8 designated elective courses and 16 elective courses in this major, which form the cultivation of theory, knowledge and ability at three levels. As a new major, cultural management focuses on selecting new textbooks for the 2 1 century. At the same time, it has also started to compile and initially completed the main cultural traditions of the world, an introduction to human culture and research, an introduction to western culture and an introduction to culturology. Among them, "Introduction to China Culture" has been published and listed as the designated teaching material for the national higher self-study exam.
The research on curriculum reform in our college was approved as 2 1 century by the teacher department of the Ministry of Education, and won the first prize of Hubei Teaching Achievement Award. The college has undertaken 3 educational reform projects of the Ministry of Education, 3 provincial education reform projects and 4 school education reform projects. The College undertook the task of making courseware for the online course Modern History of China funded by the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC).
The college attaches importance to the adoption and compilation of teaching materials. The college started to build a general history textbook, and the teachers have compiled the General History of China (three volumes) and the General History of the World (three volumes), and four volumes have been drafted, which will be tried out in undergraduate teaching. Write Notes on Writing Historical Papers. It also undertakes some textbooks compiled by relevant departments of the Ministry of Education, such as "China's Economic History" organized by Teachers College and "An Introduction to China Culture" organized by Hubei Education Commission. The Outline of China's Historical Theory has been adopted by many brother colleges. Teachers' modern educational skills training is often held in colleges, which requires teachers to actively use modern teaching methods.
90% of university professors and 95.5% of associate professors are undergraduates. Professors such as Ma Min, Zhu Ying, Luo Fuhui and Yan Changhong undertook the course "Special Topics on Modern History of China", all of which were taught by doctoral supervisors. The course "Introduction to China Yuan Dian" is basically undertaken by doctoral supervisors such as Xiong Tieji and Zhou Guolin. Teachers who focus on scientific research undertake specialized courses or elective courses for undergraduates respectively. Teaching achievements have won many awards. Students emerge advanced collectives and individuals every year. 880 1 also won the title of 199 1 advanced collective in Hubei province. 199 1 and 1992 summer vacation, history students voluntarily set up a social practice group in Hong 'an, an old revolutionary base area, and were awarded the title of "the first social practice group" by the Propaganda Department of Hubei Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Education Commission, the Provincial High-tech Work Committee, the Youth League Committee and the Provincial Education Union for two consecutive years. Tao Yang, president of the Student Union and student of Class 8802 in our department 1990 All the students attended the Third National Congress. History students have won the team championship of the whole school many times. At the school spring sports meeting on 1992, the students won the first place in the men's group and the second place in the women's group. 1993 won the second place in the total score of the student men's team in the school spring sports meeting, and broke two school track and field records. In the inter-school competition, the literary and art team members of the department won the first prize in the performance of literary and art programs in Hubei universities. Song Zhi, a 86-year-old student, won the first prize for novel essay writing in the National Star Cup. Zhang Zhihao, a student of Grade 84, and Wang Jingdong, a student of Grade 86, won the first prize of creation and the first prize of recitation in the poetry competition of Wuhan University respectively. After the 95-and 96-grade base classes were rated as the advanced class collective of the school, the 97-grade base class was rated as the advanced class collective of the whole country and Hubei Province in 2000.
80% students in each grade have written an application for joining the Party. There are generally more than 20 party member in the graduating class. Feng Shengbing insisted on subsidizing poor students and won the title of "National Model of Three Good Students" and the United Nations International Youth Poverty Eradication Award. He also launched the "Saint Warrior Love Society" to lead a group of students to participate in the school's love activities.
Among the students, Hou Shen, Xiang Jing, Li Qinhe and other new scientific research talents have emerged. Nine achievements won the Hubei Scientific Research Achievement Award and three won the "Historical Rookie Award" of the National Liberal Arts Base. Students have published papers in military history, countries around the world and other publications, and some of them have been reprinted by Xinhua Digest and NPC Copy Materials. Every year, a number of excellent papers emerge, many of which are innovative. For example, Li Wenkai, a 96-year-old student, published his graduation thesis "A New Probe into the Laws of the Labor Flow in the Song Dynasty" in the No.20065438 1 issue of Historical Studies of China. The students founded the tabloids "The Boat of Literature and History" and "Jianhai" as publications for publishing practice.
Most of the undergraduates trained by the college have become the backbone of middle school history teaching, some are principals, and some are rated as special-grade teachers. After studying, they often go back to school to hold "homecoming" and have deep feelings with the history department. The college has been training master students and doctoral students. The main courses offered by graduate students are: the theory and method of historical philology, the history of historiography, the history of China's thoughts, the modern history of China, the history of international relations, national history and modern history. A strong academic atmosphere has been formed among graduate students, reading has been strengthened, and "graduate forum" has been held regularly every month. The forum of the Institute of Modern History is presided over by doctoral supervisors, and graduate students submit papers, which are reported in full accordance with the mode of international academic seminars. The graduate students comment on the papers and then have a heated discussion. After each forum, papers, comments and discussions will be posted on the website of this discipline to continue discussion.
The college has trained a group of leading figures in the field of history, who play an important role in their respective units. Such as Sang Bing from China Academy of Social Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhu Qingzhi from Peking University, Feng from Shandong University, Wang Jiru from Harbin Normal University and Suzhou University. The college has also trained a number of government officials, such as Li, Secretary-General of the Central Organization Department, Deputy Director of the State Environmental Protection Bureau and Mayor of Wuhan.
At present, the scholarships provided by the College mainly include: Zhang Kaiyuan East-West Cultural Exchange Fund, Nozawa Scholarship, Zhang Shunhui Scholarship, Yu Jiaju Scholarship, and Love Fund of the Institute of History and Culture.