Literature and Journalist Communications College

The College of Literature and Journalist Communications (formerly the Department of Chinese Language and Literature) was founded in 1964. In 1993 it was renamed as the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, usually referred to as the Chinese Department. In 2003 the College of Literature Journalist Communications was established. In the early days, CLJC built its undergraduate Chinese Language and Literature program. In 1984 it was added to with an undergraduate journalism program. With the development of China's higher education and needs for more professionals, CLJC successively was supplemented with the undergraduate programs of advertising and TCFL. In recent years, following the development principle of higher education, CLJC further enhanced its education, accelerated the pace of discipline construction, and gradually built up a series of programs with the authority to award master's degree and doctorate. In 2005 it built up doctoral programs of the discipline of Chinese language and literature with the joint effort of itself and the College of Chinese Minority Language and Literature. The doctoral programs include that of ancient Chinese literature, Chinese contemporary literature, literary theory, comparative literature and world literature, Chinese semiotics, and that of linguistics and applied linguistics (second language teaching). There is also a doctoral program for the study of folklore. For Journalist Communications there is a master’s program of journalism. The present students, including undergraduates, graduate students and foreign students have reached the number of 1,200.

CLJC owns a vibrant faculty mainly composed of young and middle-aged teachers. At present, there are 63teachers, including 27 professors and associate professors, 30 doctoral and master’s tutors. Among them 23 teachers have got their doctorate, 8 are Ph.D. candidates, and 22 have master's degree. There are also 8 part-time teachers. Eight of all the teachers hold positions as directors or higher in the domestic academic and research institutions.

CLJC has six teaching subsections: the section of ancient Chinese literature, modern Chinese literature, world literature and literary theory, linguistics, journalism, and advertising; one research center: Folklore Research Center; one institute: Literature and Journalist Communications Institute; three laboratories: laboratory of journalism and literature electronic typesetting, laboratory of nonlinear editing, radio and television studio; one periodical academic series: "literature and media studies".

For the 40 years since the foundation of CLJC, it has educated nearly 5,000 professionals in all levels of administration, academic research, journalism, and in education for the country, particularly for the ethnic minority areas. Some of these students have made outstanding contributions to their work. Many of the graduates were given various state-level and ministry-level awards, such as the "National Labor Medal", "National Top 100 journalists", "Fan Changjiang Journalism Awards", "Honorary National Book Award", "National 5-item Project Award", "Beijing Supreme Award for Philosophy and Social Science Works", "National Outstanding Journalists", "First Prize for Chinese Journalism," "Provincial Youth Medal," and so on. Nearly 300 experts, professors and teachers who are engaged in the study of Chinese language and literature, minority language and literature, and journalism have received more than 30 national, provincial and ministerial-level awards in education and scientific research for their hard work and dedication in the education career, curriculum construction and personnel training of CLJC. CLJC has undertaken a variety of educational reform projects. It has won the first prize for outstanding teaching achievements of Beijing area and a number of teachers won in the Beijing teaching basic skills competitions. CLJC took charge of some research projects of the national "Tenth Five-Year Plan" and "11th Five-Year Plan" Social Science Fund, State Ethnic Affairs Committee’s "Tenth Five-Year Plan" Scientific Research Fund, CUN’s "Tenth Five-Year Plan" Social Science Fund, Innovative Team Work, and Young Major Researchers; it also participated in the Peking University Social Science Fund projects and the social science projects of the Institute of Religious Studies of Chinese People's University. All the projects above amounted to the number of 15.

CLJC teachers published more than 150 academic works. among them there are some which have got provincial and ministerial level scientific prize, like Professor Peijialin’s "Literary Theory" which got the second prize for Beijing philosophy and social sciences outstanding achievements and the second prize for Beijing Outstanding Teaching Achievements, his book "10 Thoughts on Li Bai " which got the first prize for the State Ethnic Affairs Committee philosophy and the social sciences outstanding scientific research, and his another book "Love of Poems" which got the second prize for Beijing philosophy and social science policy research outstanding achievements; Professor Wu Chongyang’s " Overview of Contemporary Chinese Ethnic Literature" which got the outstanding textbook award given by the State Ethnic Affairs Committee; Professor Tao Lipan’s "Theoretical Basis of Folk Literature" which got the outstanding achievement awards for Philosophy and Social Sciences in Beijing, his " Introduction to Folklore" which got the outstanding achievement award for social sciences given by State Ethnic Affairs Committee; Professor Bai Runsheng’s " History of Chinese Ethnic Minority language Newspaper" which got the second prize for humanities and social science achievements of the second competition of universities and colleges held by the Ministry of Education, and the second prize of the Fourth Beijing contest of philosophy and the social sciences achievements; Professor Chen Yunfeng’s joint work with others "Study History of Wenxindiaolong" which got the first prize of the seventh Beijing contest of philosophy and social sciences achievements; and Professor Xing Li’s "Guanyin’s sacredness and earthliness" which got the Chinese Folk Literature and Art Society Literary Flowers Award.

Currently, CLJC’s discipline construction and development have formed a development trend with the Chinese language and literature as basic platform, Chinese Language Literature as a focus, and with the construction of Chinese Literature as a leading career to develop coordinatedly the discipline of journalist communications; and it has formed the management ideas and the development model with academic research as the pioneer, pedagogic research as a driving force, and the training of students’ competence ability as the target. Today's CLJC has become a comprehensive college in which undergraduate education and graduate education develop parallelly, and basic theoretical specialty and applied specialty integrate with each other

To CUN’s "11th Five-Year" development plan, CLJC will vigorously strengthen the education reform on the basis of the present scale of the undergraduate education, stick to the educational concept that knowledge, quality and competence are equally important, construct a more comprehensive practical teaching system, and promote innovative education. During the "11th Five-Year Plan" period, CLJC plans to establish an undergraduate radio and television journalism program, and a master’s program of communications, and vigorously develop graduate education. In the next five years, the number of doctoral and postgraduate students will reach 400.