The Department of Sociology of Nanjing University, on the one hand, is rooted in its own social context and pays attention to China's practical problems; on the other hand, it is committed to a systematic and comprehensive orientation, or focuses on the cultural and psychological perspective, and emphasizes the heritage of culture. Through long-term efforts, the Department of Sociology of Nanjing University has established its position as an important research and teaching center of Chinese sociology.
We are "student-centered, academic oriented, practical and growth oriented". In the great era of "realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation", we have established the characteristics of our major, and cultivated sociological professionals with a world-wide mind and the heart of "people, people and people".
The Department of sociology is also in the social College of applied psychology, social work undergraduate training, demography, anthropology graduate professional direction. Each major is relatively independent, has its own characteristics, but intersects with each other, forming a wealth of interdisciplinary academic resources within the college.
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Professional positioning, historical evolution and characteristic advantages
The Department of Sociology of Nanjing University has a long history, which originates from the Department of Sociology of Central University established in 1928 and the Department of Sociology of Jinling University established in 1930.
In 1983, 30 years after the cancellation of China's sociology major, Nanjing University established a sociology research office, and then was approved to establish a master's degree in Sociology in 1985, becoming the first batch of domestic institutions to restore sociology.
In 1988, Nanjing University rebuilt the Department of sociology, set up the sociology major, and began to recruit undergraduates majoring in sociology.
In 1996, after Peking University and the National People's Congress, it became the third university in China with the right to confer a doctor's degree in sociology.
In 2001, Jiangsu Provincial People's government established it as "key discipline of higher education in Jiangsu Province".
In 2003, it was approved to establish a post doctoral station of sociology.
In 2007, it was listed as "national key discipline" by the Ministry of education.
In 2010, 2014 and 2018, it was selected as the dominant discipline of Jiangsu Province for three times.
In 2012, the Ministry of education ranked third in the country in the third subject evaluation.
In 2016, the fourth discipline evaluation of the Ministry of education was identified as a discipline.
The first head of the Department is Professor Song Linfei (former president of the Chinese Society);
The second chairman of the Department is Professor Zhou Xiaohong (senior professor of Nanjing University, distinguished professor of Changjiang Scholars of the Ministry of Education);
The current Dean of the Department is Professor Zhai Xuewei (distinguished professor of Changjiang Scholars of the Ministry of Education).
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Deepening the comprehensive reform of undergraduate major
In order to improve the students' academic quality and practical problem-solving ability, we insist on scientific research as the driving force of teaching. In the aspect of undergraduate talent training, we closely follow the guiding ideology and practical needs of running a school to formulate training objectives, training specifications and curriculum, and constantly adjust and improve talent training programs according to the social response and teaching feedback. The two highlights are the construction of "three three systems" training brand and the construction of international and localized comprehensive talent training brand.
"Three three systems" undergraduate talent training brand building. In recent years, the "three three systems" training program has been continuously improved and gradually matured. In the process of the "three three systems" reform of undergraduate teaching in Nanjing University, we have constantly promoted the teaching reform of sociology. Through the comparative analysis of the training programs (including professional objectives, curriculum settings and teaching plans) for undergraduate students of sociology major in famous foreign and overseas universities, we have found the gap, in order to further improve the curriculum settings and sociological researchers of the branches of sociology A series of teaching reform plans and specific programs have been formulated in the course of law. At present, the total credit of four-year undergraduate course of sociology is 150 credits, including 49 credits (33%) for general education course module (general education course, general course), 45 credits (30%) for discipline professional course module (discipline platform course, professional core course), and ③ elective course module (professional academic course, cross compound course, employment and entrepreneurship course, innovation and entrepreneurship course) 46 credits (30%), and 10 credits (7%) for practical teaching (academic year thesis, graduation thesis, professional practice). The "three three systems" training program has effectively improved the academic quality of students of this major, built a more comprehensive and reasonable professional knowledge structure for students, and combined with the employment needs, created opportunities for students to provide theoretical and practical opportunities, and improved the ability of students to apply sociological theory, sociological survey methods and social statistical knowledge to comprehensively analyze social problems.
The brand building of undergraduate talents training with both internationalization and localization. The brand building of comprehensive talent training with both internationalization and localization is supported by international courses, diversified lecture systems and field research at home and abroad. Among them, ① the "Sun Wen sociological forum" has been held for 245 times, with the keynote speaker being scholars from home and abroad who are active in the academic frontier; ② based on the existing "China Research" International Summer School (in cooperation with Harvard Yanjing society, the World University Alliance and other international important research institutions), as well as undergraduates' overseas exchange and study, we opened in 2018 We started to implement the overseas research plan of sociology, supported and encouraged our teachers and students to carry out on-the-spot investigation and Research on China's surrounding countries and regions, and strive to establish an important overseas sociological research base in Nanjing University, and provide suggestions and support within our capabilities for the national strategy. So far, Nanjing University has successively set up and implemented the international scientific examination and scientific research training program for undergraduate students, "survey of Chinese social adaptation and social integration in South Korea" (Busan, South Korea, 2018), "survey of Chinese social adaptation and social integration in Japan" (Tokyo, Japan, 2019), "survey of Chinese social adaptation and social integration in the UK" (expected) In 2020, London, Manchester, UK), obtained excellent evaluation in undergraduate training effect and social evaluation. ③ In the context of "globalization" and "big data" era, we continue to highlight the importance of local knowledge exploration, combined with our own resource advantages, seize the opportunity to launch community research in Jiangsu and Nanjing, which is in the leading position in the country.
At present, in terms of both "globalization" and "localization", we will do the following three work well.
① Relying on the resources of the Ministry of education, the national fund for studying abroad and the University, we will actively promote the outbound exchange of undergraduates, so as to maintain the current 50% level of the exchange rate of undergraduates between semesters and raise it to 60%.
② In terms of internationalization, further strengthen the construction of international practice and scientific research projects. Under one belt, one road, Chinese Chinese in Japan gradually launched an overseas field survey of "Chinese adaptation and integration in overseas society".
③ In terms of localization, we will continue to vigorously promote the construction of sociological survey platform and carry out large-scale community survey projects in Nanjing.
Through the above efforts, in order to form a "three three systems" composite curriculum teaching system, "globalization" and "localization" innovative practice teaching trinity of new teaching system, and constantly explore the expansion and deepening of composite innovative talent training system.
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Continuously strengthen the construction of teaching staff and basic teaching organizations
After years of hard work, the sociology major of Nanjing University has become an important sociological town in China with orderly teachers, leading teaching quality and outstanding research characteristics. High level and diverse teaching staff and effective construction of grass-roots teaching organizations make us have considerable academic competitiveness and cultural creativity.
(1) Construction of teaching staff. Through the introduction of young and middle-aged excellent teachers and the absorption of excellent talents from other colleges and universities at home and abroad, the sociology major has greatly improved the age structure, professional institutions, learning edge structure of teachers. At present, there are 27 teachers in the Department of sociology, and the ratio of teachers with doctorates is the first among all departments of Nanjing University. There are 16 professors (including Changjiang & lt; including youth & gt; of the Ministry of education; There are 4 scholars, 1 national "famous teacher of teaching", 1 member of the discipline evaluation group of the State Council, 1 top young talent of the "ten thousand talents plan", 8 associate professors, 1 lecturer and 2 assistant researchers. Nearly half of the teachers graduated from Oxford University, Northwestern University, Tokyo University, Kyoto University, Nagoya University, Chinese University of Hong Kong and other famous universities in the world; they are professional teachers The distribution of structure in theory, method and branch sociology has been greatly improved and its characteristics are distinct, which meets the requirements of teaching.
(2) Education and teaching level. We guide teachers to actively participate in undergraduate teaching. Our department has won the National Teaching Achievement Award for many times; Professor Zhou Xiaohong was selected as the "famous teacher" in the national ten thousand talents plan of the Ministry of education in 2016; Professor Zhai Xuewei was selected as the "my favorite teacher" of Nanjing University in 2017; Baosteel Education Award in 2019; Professor Cheng Boqing team won the excellent teaching team award of Nanjing University; Associate Professor Zhu Anxin was selected as the "charm" of Nanjing University in 2018 Tutor ", etc. In the past three years, the undergraduate students of our department have received up to 15 education and teaching awards at the provincial and ministerial level or above.
(3) Teachers' investment in teaching. We actively guide teachers to consciously perform their duties of teaching and educating people, encourage teachers to open scientific research opportunities to students through innovative projects for college students, and integrate the cutting-edge achievements of this discipline into teaching in a timely manner. 100% of the professors of this major offer undergraduate courses and direct guidance for undergraduate academic year papers and graduation papers.
(4) The construction of grass-roots teaching organizations. The department focuses on the organizational construction of Teaching Committee (including daily operation). At present, the Department of sociology undergraduate personnel training affairs are efficiently coordinated by the Teaching Committee.
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Continuously improve the construction of professional teaching quality assurance system
(1) Practical teaching
① Improve the construction of practice base. On the basis of the "new rural construction practice base of the Ministry of education", Kaixiangong Village (located in Wujiang City, Jiangsu Province, built in 2004), Zhaitan Village (located in Jixi County, Anhui Province, built in 2009) and other practice bases, sociology and Anthropology Institute of the college jointly actively explore a new undergraduate professional practice base, and in 2018, Nanjing University Social college Pingwu was built County sociological anthropology teaching practice base "(located in Pingwu County, Sichuan Province). We hope that through the consolidation and construction of the practice base, we can effectively cultivate high-level and compound sociological professionals.
② Further emphasize the combination of classroom knowledge and social reality, encourage students to combine courses, and carry out empirical research and empirical research on local (Jiangsu) communities. From the experience of sociology major in famous universities, they attach great importance to the research in the area where the university is located, which can not only give full play to their own advantages, but also strengthen the connection with the local community through research. For example, Harvard University offers community based research (community-based research), which aims to teach students to conduct sociological research in Boston area where Harvard University is located. The course consists of reading, discussion and practice. Under the background of globalization and domestic marketization, Jiangsu's economic development is amazing, and its social changes also show the characteristics of rapid transformation. The transformation of social structure and cultural life brought by this development mode, as well as the following social problems, need to be solved