The School of Humanities has 5 departments: Chinese Language and Literature, History, Philosophy, Journalism and Communication, and Anthropology and Ethnology. All the departments have a long history and are well-established; they draw on rich scholarly traditions and resources, and offer advanced scholarship across a wide range of disciplines; they seek to stimulate initiative and innovation in new fields of academic study and across traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Currently the School has 67 full professors and 66 associate professors, 33 of whom are doctorate programme supervisors. Teachers and researchers with the title of professor or equivalent account for 77 percent of the academic staff.
The School of Humanities hosts one state key discipline in Chinese economic history, offers supervision in one principal PhD programme with eight secondary programmes. The School offers supervision in a further six secondary Ph.D. programmes, including Chinese linguistics, drama and traditional opera, and philosophy of science and technology. The School also runs 27 MA programmes. It is a national training and research base for foundation discipline in the literary arts, and history, and communications listed as provincial key disciplines. Currently the School has a total of 2,460 students, including 171 doctoral students, 604 master's students, and 58 international students.
Research centres
* Research Institute of Chinese Language and Literature,
* Research Institute of History,
* Research Institute of Anthropology,
* Research Institute of American History,
* Research Institute of Philosophy,
* Research Institute of Religion,
* Research Institute of Communications,
* Research Institute of Ancient Texts.