The former Music Department of chengdu normal university was established in 1987, and enrolled music education majors for the whole province. 200 1 Recruit students of music and dance for the whole province. After the establishment of xihua university in 2003, it was renamed as the Music Department of Art College, which enrolled undergraduate students of music and dance for the whole province. In 2005, undergraduate students of music and dance were recruited nationwide. In 2009, it was reorganized into the Music Department of the Art College of Xihua University and the Dance Department of the Art College of Xihua University, which recruited undergraduate students in musicology and dance for the whole country. 20 1 1 The Dance Department of the Art College of Xihua University began to recruit undergraduates majoring in dance performance.
The former chengdu normal university Fine Arts Department was founded in 1993. In that year, students majoring in art education were recruited for the whole province, and 1995 recruited students majoring in arts and crafts. In 2003, xihua university was renamed as the Fine Arts Department of Art College, and in 2005, undergraduate students majoring in fine arts were recruited for the whole province and the whole country.
The design department of Sichuan University of Technology was formerly the major of decorative art design and product modeling design in the Department of Packaging and Food Engineering of Sichuan University of Technology. The first enrollment of decoration art design major 1995 and product modeling major 1997. From 65438 to 0999, the Department of Packaging and Food Engineering began to recruit undergraduates majoring in industrial design. In 2000, Sichuan University of Technology established the Department of Industrial Design independently, and enrolled undergraduates majoring in industrial design, art design, sales and packaging design, product modeling and decorative arts. Xihua university was founded in 2003. The former Department of Industrial Design of Sichuan University of Technology was renamed as "Design Department of Art College of Xihua University", with two undergraduate majors: industrial design and art design. In 2009, the Department of Design of Art College was reorganized into the Department of Industrial Design and the Department of Art Design, which recruited undergraduates majoring in industrial design and art design respectively. 20 10 industrial design specialty was successfully declared as "the construction site of provincial specialty in Sichuan undergraduate colleges". After the adjustment of 20 12 professional catalogue, the industrial design specialty was renamed as product design specialty, and the art design specialty was split into visual communication design specialty and environmental design specialty.
20 10 The original animation major of xihua university International Animation Institute was merged into the Art College, and the animation department was established separately. From 20 1 1, we will continue to recruit undergraduate students majoring in animation for the whole country.
2 102 College successfully applied for "Industrial Design Industry Research Center", the key research base of humanities and social sciences of Sichuan Provincial Education Department, to carry out academic research.
In 20 13, the college independently set up the second-level master's degree point "industrial design and theory" and began to recruit master's students nationwide. In 20 15, the college independently set up two master's majors, namely "Art Industry Management" and "Marxism and China Art", and began to recruit master's students for the whole country.