The school is dominated by state-owned referendum (state-owned funds account for more than 90%), other social forces participate in investment construction, introduce modern university system and enterprise management system, integrate the government support of public universities with the flexible school-running mechanism of private universities, learn from the training mode of modern art disciplines in the world, take "originality, artistry, practicality and foresight" as the school-running concept, and strive to build a school featuring creativity as the soul and the integration of art education and science and technology education.
The school has established a teaching mode with the professor's studio as the main body and the complete credit system as the feature. In the first school year, art-based platform teaching was adopted to provide students with broad-based and cutting-edge necessary professional quality training; In the second year, according to students' potential, interests and achievements, under the evaluation and guidance of teachers, we will provide opportunities to re-select majors; In the third and fourth years, we will gradually transition to professional studio teaching, so that every student can enjoy full development space. School teachers are composed of full-time teachers, honorary professors at home and abroad, visiting professors and part-time teachers.
The school has established an international platform for extensive exchanges and cooperation with international higher art education circles. Members include the deans of St Martin's College of Art and Design, Rhode Island School of Design, French National Academy of Fine Arts, Danish School of Design, Victoria School of Art, University of Melbourne, Australia, German Academy of Art, Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Musashino School of Art and Design.
The school gives full play to the resource advantages of the school board and related industries, promotes the integration of Industry-University-Research, creates multi-channel teaching practice opportunities for students, and provides a broad choice space for graduates to find jobs and start businesses.
The school is located in the center of Shanghai Songjiang University Park, covering an area of nearly 1,000 mu, with a planned total construction area of10.2 million square meters. The first and second phases of school building construction have been completed, with modern teaching and living facilities such as teaching building, graphic information center, training center, sports ground and student canteen, with a total area of more than 90,000 square meters. The campus is adjacent to six universities, including Shanghai International Studies University and Donghua University, and can share all kinds of teaching and living resources with Songjiang University Park, providing perfect study and life guarantee for teachers and students.
The functional departments of the school are divided into hospital affairs department, academic affairs department, scientific research department and industrial development department (continuing education department). The school has six professional colleges, including Communication Design College, Space and Industrial Design College, Fashion Design College, Fine Arts College, Digital Media College and Communication Performing Arts College, as well as an international art exchange center, a graphic information center and a training management center. (See the introduction of professional colleges and centers for details)
Since 2005, the school has enrolled students in 18 provinces and cities nationwide, and in 2008 it has reached the scale of 3,000 undergraduate students.
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