As an organizational term, "Chinese Department" generally refers to the abbreviation of "China Language and Literature Department". It is a teaching administrative unit set up by colleges and universities according to their professional nature, and it is one of the institutions under colleges and universities.
"Chinese Department" as the name of the institution is preceded by the name of the university, such as Peking University Chinese Department, Tsinghua University Chinese Department, Xiamen University Chinese Department, Fudan University Chinese Department, Sun Yat-sen University Chinese Department and so on. According to incomplete statistics, more than 500 colleges and universities across the country offer Chinese departments (Chinese majors).
At present, some colleges and universities have renamed it the College of Literature, the College of Humanities and the College of Literature and Journalism, such as Beijing Normal University, Wuhan University, Tongji University, Zhejiang University, Minzu University of China, Central South University and Sichuan University.
The undergraduate majors of Chinese department in colleges and universities generally include Chinese language and literature, Chinese language, teaching Chinese as a foreign language, Chinese international education, secretarial science and so on. The majors offered generally include Chinese education and secretarial science. However, Chinese majors in different universities are different. ?
Postgraduate majors offered by Chinese Department generally include literature and art, China ancient literature, China modern and contemporary literature, comparative literature and world literature, Chinese philology, linguistics and applied linguistics, China classical philology, drama, film and television literature, subject teaching (Chinese), curriculum and teaching theory (Chinese teaching direction) and so on.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Department