The school is divided into two campuses. The campus covers an area of 2,476 mu, with a building area of 910.9 million square meters. It has modern teaching service facilities such as comprehensive gymnasium, tennis court, swimming pool and multifunctional student activity center. The school library has 3.25 million books, an electronic education and research network and a document retrieval center. The total fixed assets of the school is 65.438+0.3 billion yuan, and the total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is 65.438+0.267 billion yuan.
Current leader:
Yang Shuzheng, Party Secretary
Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Chairman Chen Ning
Nie Yingde, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission
Deputy Secretary of Wang Anping Party Committee
Vice President Liu Yuping.
Vice president Peng
Vice President Li Jian.
[Edit this paragraph] Historical evolution
1.1946 In May, a part of Sichuan teachers of Northeastern University founded a private North Sichuan Agricultural and Industrial College in the former site of Northeastern University in Santai County, Sichuan Province (during the Anti-Japanese War). There are seven departments of agronomy, agroeconomics, chemical engineering, civil engineering, business administration, mathematics and physics, and irrigation and water conservancy.
2.1949 65438+February, the address was moved from Santai County to Nanchong City and renamed as private North Sichuan University. Set up liberal arts business college, polytechnic college and agricultural and industrial college, and add two departments of Chinese, philosophy and history.
3.1July, 950, it was renamed as public North Sichuan University.
4./KLOC-0 was renamed as North Sichuan University in September, 1950, and five one-year specialized courses were added, including water conservancy, civil engineering, chemical engineering, electrical engineering and mining.
5. 1952 10, renamed as Sichuan Normal University. Sichuan University Teachers College (undergraduate course transferred to Southwest Teachers College) was accepted, and five departments of Chinese, history, chemistry, mathematics and physics and corresponding majors were set up.
6.1In August, 1956, the branch of Sichuan Normal University was relocated, and the undergraduate major of the college was moved to Chengdu (1renamed Sichuan Normal University in August, 1985), while the specialist remained in Nanchong and was renamed Nanchong Normal University. Increase biology department and corresponding majors.
7. 1958 1 1 resumed undergraduate education and was renamed Nanchong Teachers College. At the same time, four departments of foreign languages, geography, physics and politics are added, totaling nine departments and corresponding majors.
8.1989 65438+1October 9, the name of the school was restored to Sichuan Normal University.
9. On April 6th, 2003, approved by Sichuan Provincial People's Government and Ministry of Education, the school was renamed as West China Normal University. At present, there are more than 30,000 full-time college students, graduate students and international students.
[Edit this paragraph] Orientation of running a school
After more than 60 years of development, it has gradually condensed the campus spirit of "strict management, rigorous scholarship and hard work" and the school-running concept of "casting souls to inspire education and edify education", which has played a powerful cohesive function and assimilation function in the process of talent training. After several generations of unremitting efforts, the school has developed into a teaching-oriented normal university with distinctive teacher education characteristics, which is based in Sichuan, facing the west and radiating the whole country. At present, the whole school is striving to build the school into a comprehensive teaching and research-oriented normal university.
[Edit this paragraph] Subject category
At present, the school has 22 secondary colleges, 54 undergraduate majors (sports training is a single-recruit major approved by the Ministry of Education, and 20 10 and 1 add wildlife and nature reserve management and accounting), 35 master's degree authorization points, and 4 disciplines jointly train doctoral students. Since 1979, the school has been recruiting graduate students, and it is the first batch of master's degree authorized units in China after the Cultural Revolution. At present, there are 35 master's degree authorization points, including four professional master's degree authorization points: master of education, master of agricultural extension, master of physical education and master of normal university. Four undergraduate majors, such as biological science, Chinese language and literature, ideological and political education and physics, are national characteristic majors (construction points); Education, history, chemistry, musicology, physical education, biotechnology, educational technology, ideological and political education, etc. 13 is a provincial-level specialty (construction point); There are 1 1 provincial undergraduate talent training bases, 5 provincial teaching teams and 1 provincial talent training mode innovation experimental zones; Provincial key courses 14, and provincial excellent courses 34. The school has 9 provincial key disciplines, 1 Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education [1], 1 Sichuan Key Laboratory, 4 Sichuan University Key Laboratories, 4 Sichuan Basic Laboratories, 1 Sichuan Superior Subject Laboratories, and 3 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers (zoology experimental teaching demonstration center and teachers' vocational skills training center). There are nearly 300 practice training bases. In 2002-2004, in the national first-class discipline evaluation ranking, school forestry ranked 5th [2] in China, 30th in environmental science and engineering, and 3rd in biological science1,ranking first among the participating master units. After more than 60 years of construction and development, a comprehensive discipline layout and a complete talent training system have been formed, with relatively complete disciplines, coordinated development of normal and non-normal majors, reasonable structure and obvious characteristics and advantages. School teachers have won 39 national and provincial higher education teaching achievement awards in recent three sessions, including 2 second-class national higher education teaching achievement awards. The school has successively been rated as the advanced unit of college enrollment in Sichuan Province, the advanced collective of national higher education self-study examination, the advanced unit of electronic registration management of higher education diploma, and the first batch of standardized demonstration schools in China.
[Edit this paragraph] Department and Specialty Settings
1. College of Education
Pedagogy (normal school)
Primary education (normal school)
Psychology (Normal University)
Preschool education (normal school)
Educational technology (normal school)
2. Faculty of Arts
China Language and Literature (Normal School)
Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (Normal University)
China Language and Literature (Public Relations and Secretarial Direction)
3. School of Politics and Administration
Ideological and Political Education (Normal School)
Politics and administration
administration management
4. College of History and Culture
History (Normal University)
5. School of Foreign Languages
English (general)
English (business)
Japanese
6. Business school
enterprise management
Economic category
accountancy
7. School of Mathematics and Information
Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (Normal University)
Information and computing science
Information management and information system
8. School of Physics and Electronic Information
Physics (Normal University)
Electronic information engineering
Electronic Information Science and Technology
Electronic technology education application
9. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Chemistry (Normal University)
Science Education (Normal School)
environmental engineering
applied chemistry
10. School of Life Sciences
Biological Sciences (Normal University)
garden
environmental sciences
biotechnology
Wildlife and nature reserve management
1 1. College of Land and Resources
Geographical Science (Normal University)
resources environment and the management of urban and rural planning
geographical information system (GIS)
12. Computer College
Computer Science and Technology (Normal University)
software engineering
communication engineering
13. School of Management
manpower management/scheduling
Responsibilities outside of daily work
tourism management
14. Law school
Legal science
15. School of Journalism and Communication
journalism
Broadcasting and hosting art
16. Conservatory of Music
Musicology (Normal School)
dance
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Fine Arts (Normal School)
Art design
18. Sports Institute
Physical Education (Normal School)
social sports
cultivate
19. Higher Vocational and Technical College
Engineering survey technology
property management
Real estate management and valuation
Mathematics education
Language education
English education
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20. See the website of the College of Continuing Education.
2 1. See the website of the Institute of International Education.
[Edit this paragraph] Teaching staff
There are 2,054 on-the-job teaching staff and 556 full-time teachers/kloc-0, including professors 159, associate professors (406), doctors 162, doctoral supervisors (4), master tutors (234), academic and technical leaders in Sichuan province 12, and young people with outstanding contributions at the national level. Member 1 person of the subject evaluation group of the National Social Science Fund, member of the steering committee of professional degree education of the Ministry of Education, member of the communication evaluation expert of the National Scholarship Fund Committee, member of the National Sports Development Strategy Research Association, 2 experts of teaching level evaluation in national undergraduate universities, member of the national Sports Master Education Steering Committee, kloc-0/person, High-level academic technology [3] There are 20 experts enjoying special government allowance from the State Council, 3 outstanding talents from the Ministry of Education in the new century, 7 outstanding experts from Sichuan Province, "Light of the West" visiting scholar 1 person, 3 famous teachers from Sichuan Province, 6 national outstanding teachers and national advanced individuals 1 person. A sufficient number of teachers with reasonable structure and excellent quality is a reliable guarantee to improve the quality of school education and enhance the overall strength of running a school.