Students for undergraduate studies were first enrolled in the Department of Mass Communication in June, 2003. The past 7 years have witnessed the fast development of this Department. At present, the Department offers two undergraduate programs in mass communication and advertisement studies. In 2006, the Department initiated Second Grade Discipline M.A. program, and started to enroll graduate students in 2007. Up to 2010, over 20 graduates have completed their respective studies and the Department has enrolled a total of 80 students for the M.A. program. In 2010, the Department initiated its First Grade Discipline M.A. program in News and Mass Communication upon the approval by relevant authorities and it is now offering 5 different M. A. programs in mass communication, editology, journalism, advertisement studies, and cultural originality, all of which closely correlate with social practice in different industrial fields, full-fill the present and potential social demands, and correspond to the orientation of the Nation in the promotion of cultural and mass media industries.
The faculty are composed of 22 members, 4 of them are professors, 11 associate professors, and 13 of them Ph. D. holders. Strong in innovative academic activities, they have implemented several projects of national and provincial or ministerial levels in recent years. Students of the Department have won 2 First Prizes and 4 Second Prizes in the Third National University Students’ Advertising and Art Context held by Ministry of Education and University Cup of China University Students Mobile Phone Film Festival, Academy Award of China Advertising Association, the Gold Calf Award of China Times of Taiwan, and 82 other prizes and awards.
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