Introduction to School of Humanities
The discipline of philosophy of the school has a long history with two secondary master’s programs of Marxist philosophy and ethics, and a doctorate program of enterprise ethics. The postgraduate program of Marxist Philosophy was established in 1978, which was one of the early programs in the country. In 1993, the first postgraduate program of ethics in Hubei Province was authorized to confer Master’s degree and the doctorate program of Enterprise Ethics was approved in the year 2003.
During the course of development of the discipline of philosophy, great attention has been attached to the research of basic theories. Based on the backbone disciplines and superior disciplines such as economics and administration of the University, Philosophy of Economy, Philosophy of Administration, Economic Ethics, and Ethics of Enterprises (Ethics of Administration) have been drastically developed.
Major Academic Orientation
Study of Western Marxist Philosophy, Economic Ethics (including Ethics of Enterprises), Economic Philosophy (including Philosophy of Administration), Historical Idealism and Social Historical Philosophy.
Academic Team and Leading Scholars
The school has a well-balanced and potential teaching staff with such leading scholars as Liu Kefeng, Wang Yuchen, Yang Qingrong, Hu Xianxin, and Zhu Shugang.
Achievements in Scientific Research
In recent years, the faculty has published more than 300 theses in the core learned journals home and abroad, several monographs and textbooks, and joined in and undertook several research projects at the state, ministerial and provincial level, and some cooperative projects of China with the universities in Europe.
Objective of Academic Construction
The school is striving to sustain the superiority of traditional discipline of economics philosophy and economic ethics, strengthen the construction of new branches of learning such as Marxist philosophy, and intensify the construction of doctorate program of enterprise ethics.
Introduction to School of Information
Statistics is the key subject at the provincial level. The department of statistics held the qualification to offer the Master degree and PHD in Statistics in 1981and 1986 successively. The department of statistics has made great achievements in training talents, establishing disciplines and scientific research. The staff has publish more than 40 textbooks and reference books, over 400 theses, and trained nearly 1000 The leading scholars are Xiang Shujian, Xu Yingmei, and Liu Hong.
The subject of computer science and technology takes computer as the foundation and focuses on the combination of economics, law, and administration.
Academic Team and Forerunners ： The School of Information owns 52 professional teachers, among which there are six professors, Ten of them have been awarded doctoral degree. The prominent scholars are Yang Yunyan, Liu Tenghong, Zeng Qingwei, He Youming, Song Kezhen, Zhu Shaolin, Zhangkai, Ye Huangzhou and etc.
Major Academic Orientation: Study of the theories of systematic science, models of information system, systematic exploration of environment and tools, application of computer in management, application of data base and managerial information system, computer network and technology of e-business.
Major Achievements in Scientific Research: A dozen of monographs and more than 20 textbooks have been published. More than 20 research projects have been conducted such as Management System of Investment of Three Gorges Project, System of Electronic Administrative Affairs of Huizhou City, Taxation Administration System of Hubei Province. Besides, nearly 500 theses have been published.
Objective of Disciplinary Construction: The school has planned to carry forward the superiority of traditional disciplines, bring the strengths of present branches of learning into full display, and explore new subjects. We pledge to exert great efforts in running the two undergraduate subjects of Information Management and Information System, and E-Business. We will intensify the construction of two postgraduate programs, namely, Management Information System and Application Technology of Computers. The establishment of postgraduate programs of Computer Software and Theories and Management Science and Engineering is under consideration. It is desirable that the doctorate program Economic Information Management will enroll candidate in the year of 2006.