The School of Arts and Communications was established, in June 16 of 2004, following the three department-Arts, Music and Chinese Language and Literature-from the School of Humanities & Social Sciences. In The School, there are six academic departments: Department of Art Design, Department of Industrial Design, Department of Fine Arts, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Department of Communications, and the Department of Music. It also hosts the Research Institute of Comparative Literature and Contemporary Culture, Research Institute of International Applied Art, the Center for Plastic Art,The Center for Film and Television and the Music Performance Training Center. The School consists seven bachelor programs, including Art Design, Industrial Design, Drawing, Chinese Language and Literature, Communications, Advertising, Music Performance. We offer Industrial Design doctoral programs and six Master's programs, such as Chinese Language and Literature, Art, Fine Arts, Design Art, Industrial Design and Communications. The total number of full-time students in The School is more than 2300, about 200 master's degrees candidates and doctoral candidates, there also 200 students of Adult Education.
The School of Arts and Communications has a strong faculty team with 140 members, more than 37% of whom are professors and associate professors. Many of them are Chinese scholars and artists come from Austria, Japan, Germany and Russia. We also engaged more than 40 famous scholars and artists as adviser or Visiting Professor.The School will serve as a center of media talent training and talent information exchange, scientific research and technology development, information and literature collecting and distribution. Besides, it will also be a platform for art and communication content creativity and international exchange of art and communication education and co-operation.
