Compared with traditional liberal arts, under the background of global new scientific and technological revolution, new economic development and Socialism with Chinese characteristics entering a new era, the new liberal arts has broken through the traditional liberal arts' thinking mode, and promoted the deep integration of disciplines by taking inheritance and innovation, intersection and integration, cooperation and sharing as the main ways, and promoted the upgrading of traditional liberal arts from discipline-oriented to demand-oriented, from professional division to cross-integration, and from adaptive service to support and guidance.
Its characteristics
The new liberal arts embodies the general characteristics of humanities and social sciences, and at the same time has some new characteristics.
First, strategic. This is the value of the new liberal arts. The construction of new liberal arts should serve the country to cope with complex international and domestic situations and enhance China's discourse expression ability in the international community; To serve the comprehensive deepening reform in China's economic and social fields and solve major theoretical and practical problems related to people's ideological concepts and spiritual values.
Second, innovation. This is the attribute of the new liberal arts. The construction of new liberal arts should transform, transform and upgrade traditional disciplines through new discipline growth points, seek new breakthroughs in the field of humanities and social sciences in China, and realize theoretical innovation, mechanism innovation and model innovation.
Third, integration. This is the discipline characteristic of the new liberal arts. The construction of new liberal arts covers the intersection, integration, infiltration or expansion of multiple disciplines in the field of humanities and social sciences, and it can also be a new field such as the intersection of arts and sciences, literature and medicine, and literature and industry formed by the intersection of humanities and social sciences and natural sciences.
Fourth, development. This is the dynamic feature of the new liberal arts. There are many uncertainties in the research of humanities and social sciences. With the development of society, many new problems will emerge one after another, and there is no fixed model to solve them, which needs to be explored, adjusted and improved in practice.