Jimei University

College of Marine Culture and Law

Disciplinary Overview

 

1. Chinese Language and Literature

 

Program Overview

Chinese Language and Literature is a discipline category of the College of Marine Culture and Law. The discipline started in 1918 as the Department of Chinese Liberal Arts in Jimei Normal School and the Sinology Department specially designed later. At the very beginning, great scholars such as Cai Yuanpei, Lu Xun, Huang Yanpei and Ma Xulun gave lectures here, Qian Mu, Long Yusheng, Wu Wenqi, Wang Luyan have taught here.

Since the founding of new China, especially the reform and opening up, the Chinese discipline has been developed on a large scale. We were granted Master Education Qualification in 2006, and were granted Master Education qualification in Chinese Language and Literature as a primary discipline category in 2010. Chinese Language and Literature has been cultivating graduate students for 15 years, and has become an important basic and supporting discipline in Jimei University. The discipline has five main directions: Literature and Art, Chinese Philology, Ancient Literature, Modern and Contemporary Literature, Comparative Literature and World Literature, supported by several provincial and ministerial academic platforms.

In the past five years, the discipline benefits from a series of academic achievements of the faculty, including undertaken 1 Major research project and 7 research projects supported by National Social Science Fund of China, and 24 provincial or ministerial research projects; as well as 7 provincial or municipal humanities and social science awards and 1 ministerial award. 85 academic papers published in CSSCI (aka Chinese Social Science Citation Index) core journals, among which 1 was reproduced in full by China Social Science Excellence.

 

Disciplinary Characteristics

The discipline focuses on the overall study of language, literature and culture of "Fujian, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese". We have a close cooperation with the College of Art and Design, the College of Music and the College of Computer Engineering in Jimei University, to commit to the visual presentation and communication of "marine culture" characteristics, serving the national strategy and regional development.

With the opportunity of the Golden Rooster Award of China Film Academy settling in Xiamen for a long time, the "New Liberal Arts" feature has taken shape, to vigorously develop interdisciplinary integration of literature, art and technology. Facing Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, we have a prominent feature of oriented to application, serving five national and local strategies, including "the Belt and Road", cross-strait reunification, cultural identity of overseas Chinese, carrying forward traditional culture, prosperity of cultural industry.

The discipline is committed to docking the national development strategy and local economic development needs, giving play to the advantages and characteristics of the discipline, building a multi-faceted and three-dimensional social service system. We have achieved remarkable results in the protection of local traditional culture, Chinese cultural heritage domestic and abroad, Tan Kah-Kee culture research, local marine cultural economy and cultural industry development strategy, etc. Over the past five years, we have been doing 40 new social service projects, with a total outlay of 7.64 million.

 

Platform Construction

The discipline currently has 6 departments, Department of Literature and Art and Comparative Literature, Department of Ancient Literature, Department of Linguistics, Department of Modern and Contemporary Literary, Department of Cultural Creativity, Department of Drama and Film Literature. The discipline is related to 2 departmental social science research bases, the Research Center of Marine Culture and Creative Industry, Southern Fujian Village Cultural Education Base, as well as other research platforms, including the Research Center of Rural Revitalization, the Research Center of Tea-Boat Ancient Road, the Research Center of Fujian-Taiwan Literati Identity, the Research Center of Xiamen Urban Culture, the Research Center of Film and Television.

Our Master of Education (Chinese) program relies on the discipline construction, as well as a number of local key secondary schools to establish cooperation base as social practice platform and tutor cooperation system, we have output rich practical teaching cases.

 

Teaching Staff

As of September 1, 2021, the faculty has 27 full-time teachers, including 11 professors and 23 associate professors. Among the faculty, there are 37 have doctoral degrees, and 20 have master's supervision qualification. Currently, there are 1 expert enjoying the special government allowance of the State Council, 2 Minjiang Scholars Distinguished Professors, 1 lecture professor, 1 Outstanding Talent, 3 Provincial Outstanding Teachers and New Century Top Talent, and 1 High-Level Overseas Graduate in Xiamen.

 

Talents Cultivation

The discipline focuses on the characteristics of "Fujian, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese", and adheres to the school-running features of "establishing the school with the spirit of Tan Kah-kee and cultivating people with integrity and perseverance".  The purpose is to train students with attainments of good language and literary literacy, comprehensive understanding of Chinese history and culture, systematically managing basic theory and professional knowledge of Chinese language and literature, possibility for further study or engaging in relevant work of the Chinese Language and Literature.

 

2. Master of Social Work（MSW）

 

Program Overview

The Master of Social Work (MSW) program at Jimei University is established in 2018. Community service provision and management, healthcare social work and justice social work are embraced in this program, to promote high-level development approaches integrating production, education and research by the academic staff in Sociology and Social Work. We have undertaken five projects supported by National Social Science Fund of China, twelve provincial or ministerial projects. To date, fifty papers in CSSCI and four academic books are published, ten of them are reprinted by Xinhua Digest, Chinese Social Science Digest, China Social Science Excellence, fifteen reports are instructed by provincial and municipal government departments. Ten research outcomes have won Provincial or Municipal Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award so far.

 

Disciplinary Characteristics

Attention is paid to social work intervention strategies on rural and urban community building and social work service provision in rural revitalization. In the consideration of the situation in Xiamen, we explore the novel modes on care services integrated treatment and convalesce for the aged. We also contribute to the researches on community building and community e-governance.

 

Platform Construction

The MSW program is engaged in constructing social practice platform to broaden the applicability and improve service provision. We have established Haixi Social Construction and Social Service Center (Humanities and Social Science Research Bases of Fujian Colleges and Universities), and developed co-construction with sixty social service institutions for professional practice, including Justice Bureau, Civil Affairs Bureau, nursing institutions for the aged, social work organizations, hospitals etc. To facilitate the construction of targeted service provision platforms, organizing community voluntary activities, cooperating with local nursing houses for the aged and offering service for the disabled community are prepared for students’ development.

 

Teaching Staff

We have thirteen academic teachers until 1st September, 2021, including five professors, four associate professors, eight of them have obtained PhD degrees, nine of them are supervisors for master students. One is the member of Ministry of Civil Affairs National Social Work Expert Committee, one is selected to the New Century Excellent Talents Support Program of Fujian Colleges and Universities, two are selected to the Cultivation Program for Outstanding Young Academic Talents in Fujian Colleges and Universities.

   

Talents Cultivation

The goals of our MSW program are to promote students’ all-round development, uphold social work values and ethics and master theories and techniques in social work. Our students are supposed to understand China’s policy and build capacity for social welfare service design, implementation, supervision and studying, who are also prepared to be application-oriented senior professionals for social welfare service provision and social welfare administration among a variety of groups.

 

3.  Master of Jurisprudence (J.M.)

 

Program Overview

The Master of Jurisprudence (J.M.) Program was established in 2021. The master degree program is based on the discipline of law and integrates the accumulation of Marxism, navigation, finance and other disciplines, forming six major research directions including the construction of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, international law, economic law, civil and commercial law, procedural law, criminal law, etc.

The program benefits from a series of academic achievements of the faculty over the past 5 years, including 5 national-level research projects and 14 provincial and ministerial-level research projects; 44 academic papers published in the national CSSCI core journals; and a number of municipal social science outstanding achievement awards. In addition, the construction of the maritime law discipline is one of the supporting legal disciplines in Fujian Province.

 

Disciplinary Characteristics

The program is dedicated to expanding the development of interdisciplinary integration. It integrates related disciplines including the School of Marxism, the School of Navigation, the School of Port and Environmental Engineering, and the School of Finance and Economics. The disciplinary characteristics of the degree program are reflected in the following aspects:

1) it has formed the discipline direction of the construction of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics through in-depth research on Xi Jinping’s rule of law theory and continuous research on specific issues in the process of the rule of law in China;

2) it highlights the characteristics and frontier research of maritime law, taxation and financial law disciplines;   

3) it promotes the integration of law and information science, artificial intelligence, and big data, while gradually forming new disciplines such as big data legal governance and artificial intelligence legal regulations;

4) it expands the integration with related disciplines such as sports and literature (film and television creation), and explores the direction of special disciplines in film and sports law.

 

Platform Construction

The master degree program is related to 3 provincial and municipal social science research bases and 4 school-level research bases, as well as postgraduate cooperative training programs with two high-level foreign universities. In addition, the program is supported by and cooperated with 17 provincial and municipal authorities such as the Provincial Procuratorate and the Provincial Law Society.

The faculty and the School of Navigation jointly established the Fujian Provincial Shipping Research Institute (Provincial Characteristic Think Tank Type B) in 2018. In particular, the Shipping Law Policy Research Center relies on our faculty and this degree program to carry out various tasks.

 

Teaching Staff

    As of September 2021, the faculty has 27 full-time teachers, 9 professors, and 11 associate professors. Among the faculty, 20 have doctoral degrees, and 12 have master-tutor’s qualifications. Teachers with practical backgrounds account for 88.8%. The faculty has 1 Minjiang Scholars Distinguished Professor, 3 Provincial Outstanding Youths, 1 Provincial New Century Top Talent, and 1 Young Top Talent of Jimei University.

 

Talents Cultivation

The master degree program focuses on creating a talent training mechanism that integrates industry, education and research. After years of efforts, the faculty has formed a career-oriented talent training model consist of a series of basic courses, specialized courses and practical courses. In addition, the faculty built a scientific and technological moot court, established more than 20 legal practice bases, and co-constructed a ‘dual-tutor system’ with more than 20 practical departments outside the university, with an effort to cultivate practical and compound legal talents with high quality.