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ⅠCollege Profile

Political Science and Law College was established formally on May, 2003, which is a younger and vigorous college of Foshan University of Science and Technology (FSUST). However, it has longer history and its predecessor is Marxism-Leninism Teaching Section and Politics and History Department respectively built by Foshan Normal College in 1983 and 1984.

The College has general college office, student’s office, Politic & Administrative Department, Law Department, Public Management Department, Law Institute, Technical & Social & Science Institute and Chinese Culture Institute.

There are three undergraduate majors including Ideology & Politics Education (normal), Law and Public Affairs Administration, Additionally, the College associates with Politics and Administration Colleges of South China Normal University to enroll postgraduate.

At present, the college has a leading academic direction in Aesthetic Culture & Aesthetic Education of University. There are three general subjects: Chinese Marxism, Politics Theory and Civil & Commercial Law.

Since 2003, teachers of the College have undertaken 2 national social science fund projects, presided in 7 provincial-level subjects (including 1 planning project of provincial social science and 3 provincial-level teaching research projects), 10 provincial-municipal-level subjects and a batch of horizontal projects. The scientific research’s expenses breaks through RMB 300,000 yuan in 2007. Many teachers get the outstanding achievement and publish thesis on the top-level Periodical in their own majors. there are a batch of achievements winning awards, such as third prize of 1^st Guangdong Excellent Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences, Foshan 1^st Social Science excellent prize and over 10 prizes of Foshan ‘Five-one’ Project, 6 prizes of Guangdong Academic Research Award in Ideological and Political Education, etc.

The College develops 2 university-level key courses of Aesthetic and Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and The important Thought of “Three Represents”, establishes university-level key courses including Law Conspectus, Deng Xiaoping Theory and Basic Principle of Education, and also gets great achievements.

The College has 53 teaching and administrative staff including 43 professional teachers among whom there are 8 professors, 14 vice-professors, 9 doctors and 4 doctor candidates, the teachers with master degree or above take over 88% of total teachers. And the teacher team includes 3 master supervisors and 3 evaluation experts of project proposal on provincial social and scientific program who are retained by Guangdong Social and Scientific Program Bureau. The College’s teachers are from different places and different universities respectively including Renmin University of China, Jilin University, Nankai University, Wuhan University, Zhongshan University, Sichuan University, Henan University, Zhengzhou University, Xiangtan University, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Northwest University of Political Science & Law, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, East China Normal University, Northeast Normal University, Central China Normal University, South China Normal University, Hunan Normal University, Central China University of Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Party School of the CPC and England Stanffords University.

The College attaches importance to academic exchange. Since establishment, the College has actively enhanced intercommunication and cooperation amongst universities: The College enrolls and cultivates postgraduates combined with South China Normal University, and successively invites many famous scholars, such as the famous scholar Lin Anwu from Taiwan Normal University, doctor advisor Deng Xiaomang, Zhao Lin, Zhao Gang, Li Hezhong from Wuhan University, doctor advisor Meng Jianwei from Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, famous scholar Lv Da from People Education Press, doctor advisor Zhang Yunyi from China University of Technology, doctor advisor Liu Dahong from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, famous scholar Cai Fanglu from Sichuan Normal University to give lectures for students. In addition, the College also sends 9 teachers to go abroad for further study.

Up to now, there are 835 undergraduate students coming from Guangdong, Hainan, Jilin, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Inner Mongolia and Gansu, etc. The postgraduates-enrolling rate of the College is among the best in FSUST: The first arts postgraduate is also from Political Science and Law College of Foshan University of Science and Technology. In 2007, there are 8 students from Ideological and Political Major entering for entrance examination for graduate, of whom 7 were enrolled; 4 students entering for entrance examination for master of South China Normal University, of whom 3 rank the first and 1 for the second in themselves major. Further more, the passing rate of CET-4 and CET-6 of Political Science and Law College also ranks the first in FSUST. The College also successively develops ‘Legal Aid Center for Non-active Workers’ taking students as main participants and volunteers-trained services.

II College-running Characteristics

Through several years’ college-running accumulation, Political Science and Law College gradually defines its own directions on cultivating and creating its college-running feature as follows:

1. Adhere to the principle of serving for the society, the locality and the weak group

①Focused on the characteristics of developing economy in Foshan and even many non-native workers with lack legal consciousness and limited economic ability for safeguarding rights, the College establishes ‘Legal Aid Center for Non-native Workers’, on the one hand to help non-native workers solve some legal problems, and on the other hand, to provide practical chance for students and exercises students.

② Aimed at the comprehensive assistance demand of enterprises’ employees, psychological teachers are developing EAP（employee assistance program）in enterprises to help employees solve some problems on psychology, law and even moral personality.

③ Actively develop the social research of local historical culture, the main achievements include Research of Li Xiaolong (People’s Press, 2005), Research of Li Wentian, Research of Shangcun (Sub-research Topic of National Social Science Fund) Culture Research of Shiwan Pottery, Research of Changes of Foshan Urban Management----from Late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, Research of Kang Youwei, Research of Lingnan Historical Culture, Research of Foshan Real Faith Enterprise Culture, Research of Daqitou Village, Research of Foshan Public Security Situation and Solutions, Several Leal Issues Faced in Developing Foshan Ceramic Industry of the New Period, Research on Preventing Law Risk of Ceramic Industry and Community governance model Research of “Village living change ”in Foshan All these show the service for local society, economy and culture construction.

2. Open-style college-running and implement open-style professional education model

As a new built college, the College is cultivating and creating own characteristics on talent-training model based on talent-training model of FSUST, such as adopt open-style college-running, implement the open-style professional education model of outside-going and inside-inviting and train senior applied specialized talents to meet the developing demand of local social economy. The College now has three majors (including Ideological and Political Education, Science of Law and Public Management) which are of strong social application; as the local college, talent-training of the three majors should highlight its social application in order to differ from that of laying stress on theory and scientific research of research-type key university. Therefore, the College is making great efforts to walk the road of ‘open-style college-running’, explore a multi-layer practical approach for encircling ‘stress on practice’ to manifest various majors’ features on talent-training. Particularly, open-style professional education model under ‘open-style college-running’ includes the following ways:

(1) Teachers outside-going: Serving the locality and the society brings lively case, and then is changed to the resource of classroom teaching. Most teachers of the Law Department and the Public Management Department often go out of college to serve for the locality because of their own professional features, especially the Law Department, most of teachers are lawyers, besides, a part of teachers are arbitrators, legal lecturers and supervisors etc. in Foshan City. They integrate teaching with practice during serving for the locality, grasp plenty of firsthand case materials, enrich classroom-teaching content, and make classroom teaching combine tightly with the locality and practice.

(2) Students outside-going: The College establishes Foshan Non-natives’ Rights Protection Center. As the solid platform for students of Law Major to go out of classroom and college and to join in practice, the center exercises students’ judicial practical ability, meanwhile, assists non-native workers needing help, enlarges the social influence of the Law Department, and improves social reputation. Additionally, over 150 students of the Law Major now work as Foshan legal aid volunteers, and hold ‘Certificates for Legal Aid Volunteers’ issued by Foshan Youth Volunteers Association. The College irregularly organizes students of the Law Major to many units including People’s Court of Chancheng District and the Intermediate People’s Court of Foshan City to audit the court hearing, which lays a good foundation for students to learn well the legal theory; and leads students to the community and the downtown area to do large-scaled compulsory legal advice and publicity activities, which plays a good promotion role in spreading and popularizing the legal knowledge, and receives favorable comment from all walks of life. Practice teaching not only enlarges students’ professional vision, strengthens their practical ability, but also inspects professional college-running quality and direction to lay a foundation for the development of professional construction.

(3) Invite leaders and experts of relevant departments to college to educate students using their own experience: The College takes partial fund from adult education income to engage experts and leaders of practical affairs departments to hold lectures for students for widening their vision and enhancing their understanding on social practical work. In recent years, the College engages Liao Dongming, Procurator-general of the People’s Procuratorate of Foshan City, Lai Zining, Vice-president of the People’s Court of Foshan City, Zeng Zhenping, President of the People’s Court of Nanhai District and Zhang Baicheng, General Manager of Zhujiang Switchgear Co., Ltd to hold lectures here, and they use the method of theory explored from their practical work combining with practice to enlighten students, widen students’ social vision and increase students’ perceptual knowledge on the society, which gets good effect.

(4) Promote achievement in scientific research to be changed into teaching resource: In recent years, the scientific research of the College’s teachers has formed obvious feature of serving for the development of local economy and culture. In order to change the featured scientific research resource to teaching resource, the College encourages teachers to combine their own scientific research to establish optional course or thematic lecture to promote the College’s talent-training direction to serve for the locality.

III College Planning

Development Objects: Firstly, during the period of ‘Eleventh Five-Year Plan’, the aims for subject and major construction of Political Science and Law College are putting emphasis on the construction of academic directions of Chinese Marxist Theory, Aesthetic Culture and Aesthetic Education. Secondly, the College develops Political Theory and Civil & Commercial Law to make at least one subject get the conferring right of Master Degree Station by 2011, and cultivates 2 influential academic leaders. Thirdly, on major construction, the College strives for opening an intellectual property direction in the Law Major and declaring an Administrative Management Major.

Specific implementation: (1) Make process of improving subjects’ construction. Firstly, propel the courses like Chinese Marxist Theory, Aesthetic Culture and Aesthetic Education to gain the qualification of applying for master-degree-conferring right. Secondly, develop Political Theory and Civil & Commercial Law; (2) Make preparation well for the 2007 undergraduate evaluation of Law Major and prepare actively intellectual property direction on the basis of obtaining the right of bachelor’s degree; (3)Continue to construct Ideology and Politics Education Major, based on which we endeavor to declare an Administrative Management Major (4) Continue to develop Public Affairs Administration Major to obtain the professional conferring right of bachelor’s degree successfully on schedule (in 2009); (5) Strengthen and optimize the teaching staff construction, develop their internal potential and attract external talents to cultivate a group of teaching staffs who are willing to cooperate, dedicate, experience hardships, and courageous to enterprising. And Encourage young teachers to obtain on-job doctorate and upgrade their educational backgrounds, academic degrees and professional titles. Realize over 10 teachers with professor title, 15 or above doctors within teachers’ group (6) Enlarge the scale of recruiting student to make the amount of undergraduate students of the College arrive at 1,200 to 1,500 by 2010.