School of Literature of Southwest University grew out of the Chinese Language Department of Southwest China Normal University. In 1952, the Chinese Language Department of Chongqing University merged into the Department of Chinese Language and Literature in Southwest China Normal University. In July.2005, Southwest China Normal University merged with Southwest Agriculture University, and established School of Literature of Southwest University after adjustment of disciplines.
In the long-term development and construction, the school has formed a teaching and research contingent which has high academic level, and owned a group of experts and academic leaders who has influence to the academic circle at home and abroad. Now, the college has 99 staff members (90 full-time teachers), 14 professors, 50 associate professors. There are 30 teachers got doctor’s degree, and teachers who have master’s qualification take 68.9% of the teaching staff. There are 6 tutors for doctor's candidate and 25 for master’s candidate, 2 winners of “New Century’s Excellent Talent Supporting Plan”, 3 Chongqing’s academic leaders,3 talents of “322 Important Talent’s Project” of Chongqing, 1 talent of “Five.
In the aspect of discipline’s construction, there are 2 specialties for doctorial candidates (Aesthetics, Chinese Classics), 12 specialties for master’s degree (Theory of Literature and Arts, Chinese Classics, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Ancient Chinese Literature, Contemporary Chinese Literature, Comparative Literature and World Literature, Chinese Classic Philology, Film Academy, Aesthetics, Curriculum and Teaching Theory, Arts (Calligraphy Education), among which Ancient Chinese Literature, Contemporary Chinese Literature, Chinese Classics and Aesthetics are Chongqing’s key disciplines. It has formed a complete system for training talents having the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, the Department of Teaching Chinese as Foreign Language, the Department of Film Arts and 3 specialties for bachelor’s degree (Chinese Language and Literature, Teaching Chinese as Foreign Language, Film Arts).
The former two specialties are specialties for normal students, aimed at training good teachers for middle school; Film Arts is a specialty for non-normal students, mainly training film, TV and drama workers and special talents for news publication.
Tuition and Fees
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Undergraduate Programs:
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¥15,000 (2193USD)per year
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Master’s Programs:
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¥22,000 (3217USD)per year
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Doctoral Programs:
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¥30,000 (4384USD)per year
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