Its predecessor was the Chinese Department of Southwest Normal University. 1950, 10 In June, the National Women's Normal University and Sichuan Institute of Education merged into Southwest Normal University, and the Chinese departments of the two colleges merged into the China Department of Language and Literature, referred to as the Chinese Department. 1952 national colleges and universities were adjusted, and the Chinese Department of Chongqing University was merged into the Chinese Department of Southwest Normal University. 1956 was renamed the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, and the College of Literature was established in July 2003. In July 2005, Southwest Normal University and Southwest Agricultural University merged to form Southwest University. With the birth of Southwest University, the College of Literature of Southwest Normal University was renamed as the College of Literature of Southwest University, which opened a new chapter in the development of the College of Literature.
The College of Literature of Southwest University inherits the motto of "connecting the past with the future" and the university spirit of "learning from the southwest and the world", which has been passed down from generation to generation. The College of Liberal Arts has developed into a training base for teaching and scientific research talents with complete disciplines, reasonable academic echelon structure, rich teaching experience, strong teachers and fruitful scientific research results, which has an important influence in the National College of Liberal Arts.
In the long-term development and construction, the College of Literature has established a teaching and research team with strong strength and high academic level, and has a group of influential experts and academic leaders at home and abroad. College * * * has 99 faculty members, including 90 full-time teachers, 50 associate professors and 30 doctors. 68.9% of the teachers have graduate degrees. There are 6 doctoral supervisors and 25 master supervisors. At present, there are 3 academic leaders in Chongqing, 3 young and middle-aged backbone teachers in Chongqing, outstanding young teachers in Chongqing 1 person, and famous teachers in Chongqing 1 person. Two of them were selected into the "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program" of the Ministry of Education, one-level talent 1 person of Chongqing "322 Key Talents Project", two-level talents and 65 "five groups" talents in Chongqing. A large number of young and middle-aged academic leaders and academic backbones are active in the front line of teaching and scientific research, making their mark in academic circles at home and abroad, and shouldering the historical responsibility of creating brilliant achievements for the College of Liberal Arts in the new century.
According to the discipline development concept of "overall planning and coordination, highlighting key points", the college pays attention to refining direction, building a platform, forming characteristics and highlighting innovation in discipline construction, and integrates talent training, scientific research, discipline integration, team building and academic environment construction into the discipline construction system. In terms of discipline construction, there are two doctoral programs in aesthetics and Chinese language and philology (jointly established with the College of Literature), and there are doctoral programs in Chinese language and literature; It has the first-class master's degree authorization point of China Language and Literature, and enrolls master's students in literature and art, linguistics and applied linguistics, Chinese philology, China classical philology, China ancient literature, China modern and contemporary literature, comparative literature and world literature, cinematography, aesthetics, curriculum and teaching theory and fine arts. China ancient literature, China modern and contemporary literature, Chinese philology and aesthetics are four key disciplines in Chongqing.
The college has formed a complete talent training system. As of September 2007, there were 362 undergraduates 178 1 person, 4 doctoral students and 3 foreign students. The college has four departments: Chinese language and literature (normal), Chinese language and literature (non-normal), Chinese international education and film and television art, and four undergraduate majors: Chinese language and literature (normal), Chinese international education and drama, and film and television literature. Chinese Language and Literature (Normal School) and Chinese International Education are normal schools, which mainly train excellent teachers for middle schools and have professional advantages in teacher education. Chinese language and literature (non-normal) is a non-normal major, which mainly provides graduate students for the College of Literature of Southwest University, and most graduates take postgraduate examinations. Drama, film and television literature is a non-normal major, which mainly trains film and television drama workers and other news and publishing professionals.
At present, the College has seven research institutions: Wu Mi Research Center, China Poetics Research Center (merged with New Poetry College), Aesthetics Research Institute, Southwest Film and Television Culture Education and Research Center, Narrative Literature Research Institute, China Calligraphy Research Institute and China Education Research Institute.
The college has strong scientific research strength and rich teaching resources. Teachers of the college have presided over 56 scientific research projects at or above the municipal level, including 6 projects funded by the National Social Science Fund, 2 projects sponsored by the Ministry of Education 1 1, 2 projects sponsored by the National Committee for the Arrangement of Ancient Books in Colleges and Universities, 3 projects sponsored by the Huaxia Talent Fund of the Central United Front Work Department, 3 projects sponsored by the National Language Committee 1, 33 projects sponsored by Chongqing Municipality and 53 projects sponsored by the university. He has published 57 monographs, 44 textbooks, 2 1 book and 6 ancient books1book successively in Zhonghua Bookstore, Shanghai Sanlian Bookstore, Higher Education Press, Chongqing Publishing House and Culture and Art Publishing House, and published more than 620 papers, including 279 research papers and 69 subject-level papers in core academic journals at home and abroad.
Since 200 1, there have been two national excellent courses 1 (Classroom Teaching Technology and Art hosted by Professor Zhao), two Chongqing excellent courses (Ancient Literature of China hosted by Professor in 2004 and Modern and Contemporary Literature of China hosted by Professor Wang Benchao in 2005) and three school-level excellent courses (Korean).
Since 2004, college teachers have won more than 30 awards at the provincial and ministerial levels. In 2005, Professor Xiong Xianguang (ranked second) won the second prize of national excellent teaching achievement evaluation, and college teachers won the 1 national excellent doctoral thesis award (Professor Li Yi's Japanese Experience and the occurrence of modern literature in China). Received 100 national excellent doctoral dissertations (Professor He Zongmei's Research on Beginners' Associations in the Late Ming and Qing Dynasties) nomination 1 person, 5 outstanding achievement awards for humanities and social sciences research in China universities from the first to the fourth session of the Ministry of Education, 22 outstanding achievement awards for social sciences in Chongqing from the first to the fifth session, and 65,438+people for outstanding teachers in national normal universities.
The college has gathered many academic sages and masters: Wu Mi, Gao Feng, Lai Lizhuang, etc. I was inspired to write here. Adhering to its cultural spirit and rigorous and realistic academic tradition, the college has trained more than 8,000 graduates for more than half a century, many of whom have become outstanding talents in all walks of life. Many people have become famous scholars in China (such as Professor Zeng Xiaoyu from Nankai University, Professor Chen Baoya from Peking University Chinese Department, Professor Wang Quangen from Beijing Normal University, Professor Longquan Ming from Wuhan University, and Professor Feng Xianguang from Sichuan University School of Literature and Journalism). Some of them have become provincial cadres (such as Teng Jiuming, former deputy secretary of Chongqing Municipal Committee of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and secretary of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, leader of the inspection team of state-owned enterprises of the Central Organization Department, deputy mayor of Chongqing Municipal People's Government, Luo, former vice chairman of the Standing Committee of Chongqing Municipal Committee, He Shizhong, minister of propaganda of Chongqing Municipal Committee, deputy director of Sichuan Provincial Public Security Department and Wang Jianjun, mayor of Guang 'an City, Sichuan Province, etc.), and have trained a large number of outstanding middle school principals and teachers (such as Liu, a special teacher of Lhasa Middle School in Tibet and a national Yang, a special Chinese teacher and national model teacher in Pingchang Middle School, Sichuan Province; Yang Ming, president of Xichong Middle School in Sichuan Province and outstanding teacher in China; Ou Ping, head of the Chinese teaching and research group of Chongqing Bashu Middle School, a special-grade middle school teacher, Zhang Lu, a national "young and middle-aged literary and art worker", and Zhong Ming, a reporter from Southern Weekend in Beijing, all received training.
The college is open to the world, and international exchanges and cooperation are increasingly frequent. It has established academic exchanges and Chinese teaching relations with many universities or scientific research institutions in Korea, Thailand and other countries and regions. Every year, the college sends 3-5 people abroad for further study, conducts international academic exchanges, and receives about 5 foreign students and visiting scholars for study visits. It is expected to continue to expand the scale of international students. The Confucius Institute, which was established in cooperation with Khon Kaen University in Thailand, has developed well and has become a model Confucius Institute in Thailand. The College has signed cooperation agreements with three universities in Thailand, established overseas practice bases, and sent more than 20 students to practice overseas every year. With the development of the College of Arts and Sciences, its international reputation has been continuously improved.