The College of Arts and Sciences of Yangtze University (abbreviated as the college) is a full-time general higher education institution approved by the Ministry of Education in 2004 and organized by Yangtze University. It recruits students from 26 provinces (cities, districts) across the country. Cultivate double bachelor degree qualifications.
College is located in the capital city of Chu State in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period, the hometown of the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan, and the national historical and cultural city-Jingzhou City, Hubei Province. It runs schools on two campuses, the Chengzhong Campus and the West Campus. Located in the ancient city of Jingzhou, the Chengzhong campus was once the place where Ma Rong, a famous politician, writer and educator in the Eastern Han Dynasty, "set up accounts and lectures". Major activities such as Confucianism, sacrifice to Confucianism, rural examinations, and welcoming champions were all held here; in 1936, Hubei Fourth District Simple Normal School was born here. Under the leadership of Dong Biwu and the underground party of the Communist Party of China, it became a red fortress in the western Hunan, Hubei and Hubei base areas. As "Hubei Anti-Da" and "Jiangnan Shaan Gong". The Xuangongtang, the Confucian Temple, the Lei Xing Gate and other iconic historical buildings on the campus complement each other, telling the story of the success of the generations of the Chinese nation since ancient times.
The college hosts Yangtze University. It is a comprehensive university with the largest scale and a complete range of disciplines among the universities in Hubei Province. It is a "double first-class" construction university in Hubei Province and a university selected by the national "Basic Ability Construction Project for Central and Western Universities". It is also Hubei The Provincial People's Government, China National Petroleum Corporation, China Petrochemical Corporation, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, and Hubei Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Agriculture jointly established universities. Relying on and sharing the high-quality educational resources of Yangtze University, the college has the Department of Economics and Law, the Department of Humanities and Media, the Department of Foreign Languages, the Department of Mechatronics and Information Engineering, the Department of Mathematics and Medical Care, the Department of Business Administration, the Department of Architecture and Design, the Department of Basic Courses and Higher Vocational Education There are 9 teaching units including the Ministry of Education, with 40 undergraduate majors and 16 junior majors. The undergraduate majors involve 10 disciplines in economics, law, education, literature, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, and art. The college passed the qualification evaluation of undergraduate professional teaching in Hubei Independent College in 2010. Electronic information engineering, marketing, gardening, English, etc. are listed as the pilot projects of the "professional comprehensive reform" of undergraduate colleges and universities in Hubei Province; mechanical design and manufacturing and its automation, electronic information engineering, and gardening are listed as the strategic emerging of ordinary colleges and universities in Hubei Province ( Pillar) Undergraduate program of industrial talent training plan. There are nearly 7,000 full-time students.
The college has a reasonably structured and relatively stable high-quality faculty and education management team. There are 504 faculty members, including 385 full-time teachers, 18 off-campus teachers, and 128 full-time teachers with associate senior titles or above. Doctoral and master's degrees account for about 77%; Yangtze University has long appointed high-level teachers to the college to undertake teaching and management work, which provides a solid guarantee for the college's education, teaching and management.
The college has complete teaching and living facilities such as academic lecture halls, art design exhibition halls, professional laboratories, libraries, multimedia classrooms, campus all-in-one card information platforms, and standardized student apartments; the student apartments are equipped with dual-system air-conditioning and hot water baths. System, broadband network; total assets of teaching and research equipment is more than 40 million yuan, and the collection of paper books is more than 700,000. It has realized the sharing of book resources with Yangtze University and the exchange of loans.
The college fully implements the party’s educational policy, adheres to the socialist direction of running a school, implements the fundamental task of Lide’s cultivation of people, upholds the "people-oriented, student first" school concept, and focuses on the school thinking of "establishing teaching, scientific research, and innovation and strength". Implementing the education concept of "teaching and educating people, managing and educating people, serving and educating people through the environment," has delivered more than 10,000 applied and innovative talents with innovative spirit and innovation and entrepreneurial capabilities to the society, the level of running schools, and the training of talents The quality and social influence are increasing day by day. The college won the first special prize for outstanding achievements in party building and ideological and political work in the first national private colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education, the second and third prizes for teaching achievements of the eighth Hubei Provincial Colleges and Universities, and the honorary title of "Charming Colleges" by Xinhuanet.
The college implements the motto of "Broad civilization, science, and daily life", focusing on the combination of student personality development and overall development, focusing on the combination of professional knowledge learning and campus culture construction, forming a diversified talent training system with liberal arts characteristics. In student management, build a "three-strength, three-in-depth" education system, that is, strengthen process management, strengthen brand building, strengthen work research, go deep into the classroom, go into the dormitory, and go into the psychology of students, forming a "Panchi May Wind" technology culture Festival'" "Top Ten College Students" selection and commendation and a group of influential special brand activities such as "Guoxue Forum", with sincere, true feelings and true intentions to care for and help students, and promote students to grow into talents. In funding education, establish a system of “rewards, grants, loans, diligence, subsidies, exemptions, and reductions” to support students in need, and establish national scholarships, national inspirational scholarships, national grants, national student loans, college scholarships, The "Hubei Sky Blue Earth Green" scholarship, the "Songzi Garden" scholarship and the work-study scholarship and other scholarships have helped the poor students and rewarded them with merit. In the teaching reform, the implementation of the "three-in-one" talent training model of knowledge, ability, and quality, highlights the status of practical teaching, integrates practical ability training and innovation and entrepreneurship education into the whole process of talent training, actively carries out double degree education, and cultivates compound talents. In the past three years, student subject competitions have achieved remarkable results. More than 300 people have won awards in various national, provincial and ministerial competitions; the admission rate of students for postgraduate entrance examinations has increased year by year. 20 students majoring in landscape architecture participated in the 2018 postgraduate entrance examination, and 16 Being admitted, the acceptance rate is as high as 80%; the national judicial examination pass rate is about 15%, surpassing the country's annual pass rate of about 10%; the initial employment rate of graduates has remained above 90%, which is generally praised by employers.
The college adheres to open education and vigorously promotes international education and school-enterprise cooperative education. The "2+2", "3+1" and "4+1" and other universities have been carried out with universities such as the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom, Gangneung Wonju National University in South Korea, Soongsil University, Shumei Women's University, and Katuli Kandong University. A dual-degree international education; sharing the resources of Yangtze University and cooperative universities in the United States, Japan, Ireland and other countries as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan, participating in "exchange students", "college promotion", "double bachelor's degree", "application for a master's degree", and paid college students during summer vacation Practice" and other learning, further education and practice. At the same time, it has established a school-enterprise cooperation platform with various units such as Chinasoft International Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Baoye Steel Structure Construction Co., Ltd. to actively develop talent training for industry-university-research cooperation.
The teachers and students of the School of Arts and Sciences of Yangtze University are striving to realize the beautiful vision of beautiful arts and sciences, charming arts and sciences, harmonious arts and sciences, and vigorous arts and sciences, and are working tirelessly for the grand goal of building a well-known domestic application-oriented university with distinctive characteristics and outstanding advantages!