Brief of Introduction of

the College of Marine Culture and Law

College of Marine Culture and Law of Jimei University traces its history back to 1918, when Mr. Tan Kah-Kee. founded Jimei Normal School and Sinology Studies Department in Jimei School. On August 25, 2021, the original College of Chinese Literature and the original College of Law merged to form the College of Marine Culture and Law of Jimei University.

The college has five undergraduate majors (directions) and Master of Social Work (MSW) education center, including Chinese Language and Literature (Normal Education), Chinese Language and Literature (Cultural and Creative direction), Drama, Film and Television Literature, Social Work, Law (Law direction and Maritime Law direction). Social work is one of first-class specialties in Fujian Province. Law and Chinese Language and Literature are the first-class specialties of the university. Chinese language and literature is one of the Provincial Key Disciplines in Fujian. We have 4 Master degree program, Chinese Language and Literature, Education, Social Work and Law. There are 2086 undergraduate students and 187 postgraduate students in the college.

The college has 119 faculty members, 94 of which are full-time teachers, including 19 professors and 34 associate professors, teachers have senior titles accounted for 56%. Currently, there is 1 expert enjoying the special government allowance of the State Council, 2 Minjiang Scholars Distinguished Professors, 1 Provincial Outstanding Teacher, 2 Outstanding Teaches on Municipal level, 2 were awarded the Youth May 4th medal, 1 Provincial Outstanding Teachers and New Century Top Talent, and 5 were part of Young Top Talent development program in Researching.

There is one expert enjoying the special government allowance of the State Council, 2 Professors entitled Minjiang Scholar, 1 Fujian Provincial Famous Teacher, 2 Xiamen City 2 outstanding teachers, 2 Xiamen youth May Fourth Medal winners, 1 Fujian province New Century Outstanding Talents Support Program for Colleges and Universities, 5 outstanding young scientific research personnel training program for colleges and universities in Fujian.

The college has 1 national first-class undergraduate course, 1 national entrepreneurship MOCC’s (short for Massive Open Online Courses) class, 1 excellent provincial online open certification course. We have won 1 provincial education and teaching achievement award, 2 prizes on school level. Our teachers undertake 6 provincial education reform project and 1 provincial new liberal arts research and reform practice project. In the practice of long-term education, many students practice and activity projects have been formed, such as college students' debate competition, moot court, legal service volunteers, "Phoenix flower-assisted flight" summer camp, "Treading Dream" volunteer, "Minxiu" volunteer, Tan Kah-Kee spiritual learing, college original literature award, microfilm competition, etc.

In the past five years, the college benefits from a series of academic achievements of the faculty, including undertaken 14 research projects supported by National Social Science Fund of China, 31 provincial or ministerial research projects, and 257 projects supported by government. 160 academic papers published in CSSCI (aka Chinese Social Science Citation Index) core journals, as well as a number of monographs and compiled books were published. Also, several provincial or municipal humanities and social science awards and teaching prize were awarded to our teachers. The college has two humanities and social sciences study platforms in Fujian Province, namely, Haixi Social Construction and Social Service Center (Humanities and Social Science Research Bases of Fujian Colleges and Universities), and the Marine Culture and Creative Industries.

The College of Marine Culture and Law adheres to the development ideas of "strengthening the university by the sea" and "integrating the work with the sea." Focusing on the overall study of "Fujian, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese", we will integrate the resources of ocean-related disciplines, promote the construction of oceanographic disciplines, and make unremitting efforts to build the university into a first-class university with more distinctive features of "industrial ocean."