About the School of Art

The School of Art was founded on May 18, 2017, formerly known as the College of Literature and Art Media, which was founded in 2004. After 20 years of development, the School of Art has become a young and energetic school.

The college has 87 staff members, including 69 full-time teachers and 36 teachers with senior titles, accounting for 52%. There are 48 doctors (including candidates). Currently, there are 1 State Council special allowance expert, 2 national and provincial social science evaluation experts, 1 Longfor Scholar, 1 provincial teaching team, 2 provincial teaching famous teachers, 2 teaching rookie, 1 school-level teaching team, 1 school-level My favorite teacher. In recent years, many teachers have been engaged in scientific research in the postdoctoral research stations of Southeast University, Shandong University, Soochow University, Shanghai University and other universities, and have been granted the project of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. In addition, 32 young and middle-aged teachers have gone to Tsinghua University, China Academy of Art, University of California (Davis), University College Cork and other universities at home and abroad to further enhance their teaching, scientific research and social services.

The college currently has 1021 students, including 831 undergraduates and 190 full-time postgraduates. In addition, 18 part-time graduate students will be enrolled in 2022. The school consists of five undergraduate majors: Painting, Animation, visual Communication design, environmental design and product design. Among them, animation, visual communication design, environmental design and product design are all provincial first-class majors. The school has 4 first-level master's programs in arts, Drama and Film, Design, fine arts and calligraphy. There are 35 graduate supervisors, accounting for 51% of the teachers.

The college has its own teaching building. The provincial art design Experiment and Training center consists of three experiment and training platforms, namely virtual reality, art experience and creative execution. There are experimental training center, art museum, Kopman University Student Activity Center, ceramic art characteristic laboratory, art design center, painting and calligraphy copying room, intangible cultural heritage class, art club classroom and other practice and training venues.

Promote teaching, learning and innovation by means of competition. In recent years, college teachers and students work full of vigour, to beauty, continuous to college students in anhui province micro film contest, college students' calligraphy competition in anhui province, anhui industrial design competition and so on five provincial competitions, both brothers college response and participating actively, run competitions level growing discipline competition gradually into the brand; Actively organize students to participate in the National College Students Art Performance of Ministry of Education, Challenge Cup Entrepreneurship Competition, National Grand Canton Competition, Anhui Province Quality Brand Cultural Creativity Competition and other competitions. He has guided undergraduates and postgraduates to participate in national college student art exhibitions, art exhibitions, discipline competitions and other competitions, and won 1753 provincial and ministerial level awards. Among them, Internet Plus competition won 5 national awards; 5 provincial gold awards and 5 silver awards; 36 teachers have been awarded the provincial and ministerial level Excellent Guidance teachers title; It has won 23 Excellent Organization Awards in Internet Plus competition, National College Students Advertising Art Competition, Anhui College Students Micro Film Competition, Yangtze River Delta public Service Advertising Competition, Anhui Province Industrial Design Competition Special Competition, and Anhui University Students Quality Culture and Brand Creative Design Competition.

The college has signed school-enterprise cooperation agreements with more than 30 enterprises and institutions in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places, and established and improved 35 practice teaching bases to meet the needs of professional creation, art collection and job practice in an all-round and three-dimensional way, such as scenic spot sketch, art collection, professional research, quality development, employment practice and so on. In recent years, professional teachers have organized students to go to museums, art galleries, the mountains of southern Anhui, Dabie Mountain revolutionary old base area, China village and other places to carry out professional research and art collection activities. Each semester, a number of works exhibition activities such as scenic spot sketch, art collection, and course closing have been held regularly.

In the past three years, 53 provincial-level quality engineering projects have been established, including 10 curriculum ideological and political demonstration courses, 6 provincial-level six excellence and one top-notch innovation projects for cultivation of outstanding talents, 6 research and reform practice projects for new liberal arts and new medical sciences, 1 professional service project for ten emerging industries in Anhui Province, and 2 virtual simulation experiment teaching projects. There are 5 major and key teaching and research projects, 11 quality courses, online courses and practical courses. The school has established a university-level art theory discipline special zone and a major scientific research team; Teachers have applied for 7 projects of National Social Science Fund (art special projects); 3 projects of the Ministry of Education; 1 project of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television; There are 26 major and key projects of Social Science Planning Office, Education Department and Science and Technology Department of the province. One national 13th Five-Year Plan publishing project, one key book topic of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee; More than 70 horizontal projects, social services and horizontal projects received more than 10 million yuan; He has published more than 25 academic works and more than 30 papers on CSSCI, SSCI, SCI and A&HCI. It has won more than 50 provincial and university-level teaching and scientific research awards. Teachers have applied for more than 300 design and utility model patents individually or in cooperation with teachers and students. The College has held a number of high-level academic conferences, such as the International Symposium on Chinese Art Anthropology, the International Summit Forum on Chinese Art Communication and the Symposium on Chinese Digital Media Creation Art and Meta-Universe Development, the Anhui Provincial Economic and Cultural Symposium, and the first Anhui Provincial Art Theory Discipline Construction and Development.

The College of Art implements the talent training path of major enrollment, major diversion, respect for aspirations and interests, and teaching students according to their aptitude. In the first year, there are no majors. It focuses on basic and general courses such as introduction to culture, history of art, history of design, color, modeling, fundamentals of computer application, etc. At the end of the second semester of freshman year, according to the internal circulation major diversion policy of our college, fully respect students' choice of major and future career development plan, implement the mutual flow of 5 undergraduate majors. Take this as the foundation, never forget the original intention. After the distribution, modern information technology means such as Internet, big data and artificial intelligence are comprehensively used to carry out the teaching of core courses, advanced courses, literacy expansion courses, interdisciplinary courses and practical courses in accordance with the requirements of advanced, innovative and challenging courses, so as to cultivate solid foundation, strong ability, high quality, innovative spirit and entrepreneurial consciousness. High-level application-oriented professionals who adapt to economic and social development. Based on the provincial first-class undergraduate major, the graduate education aims at the development needs of the emerging digital creative industry, and strives to build the characteristic brand of intangible cultural heritage protection. The high-quality development of graduate education is gradually displayed. In the past three years, the final employment rate of undergraduates has exceeded 95%. The employment rate of graduate students reached 100%.

With beauty, upward toward goodness. Anhui Provincial Management Office, which belongs to the management of art college, carries the functions of provincial calligraphy and painting grade examination and teacher training. At present, it has covered 16 cities in the province and set up 124 test centers. To cultivate the heart with art, to beautify people. The art club, which belongs to the management of the School of Art, carries out calligraphy, seal cutting, vocal music, instrumental music, painting, film and television, folk art and other courses, carrying the aesthetic education function of the undergraduate students of the school.

 Adhere to the direction of socialist education, education for the Party, education for the country. In recent years, the ideological and political teaching achievements of such courses as Wall Painting Party History, Art Class of Party History Education, Red Stories in Seals, Huizhou Rural Ideological and Political Lessons have been featured by People's Daily, Learning Power, Anhui Daily, Anhui Youth Daily and other media. The Party building and league building has achieved remarkable results. The Volunteer Service Group of Rural Vitalization wall painting was awarded the title of Outstanding Team of Summer Social Practice in Anhui Province, and Guoqing was awarded the title of Top 100 College students in Anhui Province when he graduated in 2022.