Southwest University, located in Chongqing, is a university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), which is jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Chongqing Municipal People's Government. It is a "double-first-class" world-class discipline construction university, ranking among the national 21/engineering and 985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platforms; Selected into the national "11/plan", "201/plan", "Hundred Schools Project", outstanding agricultural and forestry talents education and training plan, excellent teachers training plan, national college students' innovation and experiment plan, national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan, and national construction of high-level university graduate students.
The school can be traced back to East Sichuan Normal School as early as 1906, and 1936 was renamed Sichuan Institute of Education. 1950, Sichuan Institute of Education merged with the National Women's Teachers College to form Southwest Normal College, and the departments of agriculture, horticulture and agricultural products manufacturing merged with the private Xianghui College founded by 1946 to form Southwest Agricultural College. From 65438 to 0985, the two schools were renamed Southwest Normal University and Southwest Agricultural University respectively. In 2000, Chongqing Light Industry Vocational College was merged into Southwest Normal University; 200 1, Southwest Agricultural University, Sichuan Animal Husbandry and Veterinary College and Citrus Institute of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences merged to form a new Southwest Agricultural University. In 2005, Southwest Normal University and Southwest Agricultural University merged to form Southwest University.
"2 1 1 project", that is, the construction project of about 100 universities and a number of key disciplines facing 2 1 century, has greatly improved the education quality, scientific research, management level and running of about 100 universities and a number of key disciplines after several years of efforts.
Among them, some key institutions of higher learning and some key disciplines are close to or reach the advanced level of similar international schools and disciplines, most of them have obviously improved their school conditions, made great achievements in personnel training and scientific research, adapted to the needs of regional and industry development, and are generally at the domestic advanced level, playing a backbone and exemplary role.
At present, the 2 1 1 project and the 985 project have been integrated into a new double-class university.
201March 6 official website information shows that Southwest University has 1 1 departments and 36 colleges. * * * There are 55 first-level disciplines, covering philosophy, Confucian classics, law, education, literature and history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, art, etc. 12 disciplines.
Discipline construction:
World-class discipline construction discipline: biology.
National key disciplines: curriculum and teaching theory, basic psychology, special economic animal breeding.
National key (cultivation) disciplines: ecology, fruit science.
Provincial and ministerial key disciplines (first-class disciplines, ***37): philosophy, applied economics, politics, sociology, Marxist theory, education, psychology, China language and literature, foreign language and literature, China history, mathematics, physics, chemistry, geography, biology, ecology, computer science and technology, agricultural engineering;
Environmental science and engineering, food science and engineering, crop science, horticulture, agricultural resources and environment, plant protection, animal husbandry, aquatic products, business administration, agricultural and forestry economic management, music and dance, art, design, law, sports, journalism and communication, statistics, veterinary medicine, traditional Chinese medicine.
Teaching construction
Major with national characteristics: education, psychology, agronomy, special economic animal breeding (sericulture), food science and engineering, biological science, plant protection, sericulture, mathematics and applied mathematics, horticulture, history, chemistry, agricultural and forestry economic management, language and literature, physics, animal medicine, agricultural resources and environment, ideological and political education, and English.
National excellent courses: college English, comparative education, general psychology, horticulture and plant breeding, soil and fertilizer science, curriculum and teaching theory, physical education, introduction to linguistics, mathematics education, logic, classroom teaching technology and art, agricultural enterprise management and writing.