The predecessor of the School of Humanities and New Media is the Normal Department of the Fourth District Simple Normal School in Hubei Province, which was founded in 1936, and is one of the schools with the longest history in Yangtze University.
With more than 80 years of experience in education, the School has a strong faculty with reasonable structure. There are 65 full-time teachers, including 8 professors, 28 associate professors, 30 teachers with doctoral degrees, 29 supervisors for master's degree, 5 school-level academic leaders, 3 school-level academic backbones, and 2 professors selected for the " Yangtze Talents" program.
The School has two province-level key disciplines of Chinese History and Chinese Language and Literature, two first-level master's degree programs in Chinese History and Chinese Language and Literature, and two professional degree programs in Subject Teaching (the Chinese Language) and Subject Teaching (History).
The School offers five undergraduate degrees: Chinese Language and Literature, History, the Internet and New Media, Radio and Television Studies, and Radio and Television Directing. Among them, Chinese Language and Literature is a national first-class undergraduate major construction site, History is a provincial first-class undergraduate major construction site, and Radio and Television Studies is a construction major of provincial "Jingchu Excellent Journalism Talents" cooperative education plan.
The School has one national quality course, three provincial first-class courses, one provincial quality course and seven school-level quality courses; it is equipped with seven laboratories, including an audio production laboratory, a graphic photography laboratory, a graphic production laboratory, a non-linear editing laboratory, a TV production laboratory, a virtual broadcasting laboratory and Jingchu Literature and Culture Research Center.
The School has built the Chu Culture Research Institute of Yangtze University (including the Jingchu Culture Research Center—Hubei Provincial Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research Base, Hubei Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Center and Hubei Regional History and Culture Research Center), and 5 other school and college-level research platforms.
In the past five years, the School has made great achievements in scientific research. The faculty have undertaken 59 research projects of the National Social Science Fund of China, the Humanities and Social Science Fund of the Ministry of Education and Hubei Province; more than 221 academic papers have been published, of which 51 have been retrieved by CSSCI and A&HCI, and 36 academic books have been published; the research achievements have won 2 province and ministry-level awards and 8 department and bureau-level awards..
The School attaches importance to the cultivation of students' comprehensive qualities and practical abilities. In the past five years, the undergraduates’ CET-4 pass rate has remained above 90%, and the employment rate of graduates has remained above 92%; more than 140 literary works and academic papers have been published by students, and 148 national and provincial awards have been won, including the third prize in the "Challenge Cup" national extracurricular academic science and technology competition. The School has four excellent college-level student organizations, including Yangtze Literary Club, Yangtze Press Club, Yangtze Drama Club and Yangtze Intangible Cultural Heritage Society. Every year, the School holds a poetry festival, a film festival, the "Three Hundred Classical Articles" professional basic skills competition and the "Three Brushstrokes" calligraphy skills competition to cultivate students' mind and improve their overall qualities.
With more than 80 years of rich experience in education and profound cultural accumulation, guided by its motto "Respect the Way and Value Virtue, Reflect Carefully and Practice Earnestly", the School has formed a distinctive teaching style of "love and dedication to work, erudition and skill in teaching" and a unique learning culture of "diligent and enquiring, seeking truth and realism".
