Colleges & Faculties

The College of Humanities and Urban-Rural Development currently has five undergraduate specialties in Law, Social Work, Rural Regional Development (Planning), Exhibition Economy and Management (Planning and Design), and Tourism Management. There are also two Master’s degree programs in the specialties of Rural Development and Social Work. A total of 1,438 students, including 1,260 undergraduate students, 99 full-time postgraduate students, and 79 part-time postgraduate students are now studying in the College. So far, it has 65 faculty members. There are 55 full-time teachers (34 with senior titles and 35 with doctoral degrees), 5 counsellors, 2 lab technicians, and 3 office staff (head of office, teaching secretary, and research secretary).

The college always prioritizes the quality of undergraduate teaching. Adhering to the principle of cultivating through moral education, it takes a student-centered approach to cultivate participants of and successors to the socialist cause with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor. In response to social demands, the undergraduate teaching of the College highlights the positioning of composite application-oriented education and the focus on agriculture, and stresses the cultivation of students’ abilities, aiming to meet the talent needs of the capital and the whole country in the fields of rural revitalization, integrated urban-rural development, grassroots governance, modernization of governance capacity, etc. At BUA, students can learn solid professional knowledge, acquire sound professional cognition and thinking, cultivate international vision, innovative and entrepreneurial abilities, and a strong sense of social responsibility, and participate in a wide range of student clubs, social practices, social services, and international exchange activities. After graduation, they perform well in postgraduate exams, overseas study, and starting businesses, with promising employment prospects.

Talent training in the College is characterized by multidisciplinary integration. There is deep interdisciplinary integration among the three specialties of Rural Regional Development, Exhibition Economy and Management, and Tourism Management. The three specialties place particular emphasis on planning and design, meanwhile they show the characteristic of interdisciplinary integration between management science and engineering science. The specialties of Law and Social Work, on the other hand, present the characteristic of interdisciplinary integration of the two. The College offers optional courses that cross five disciplines and has also established a unified practical teaching system that supports interdisciplinary integration.

The College puts emphasis on cultivating students’ practical abilities. It adopts a “3+1” teaching model, and an educational mode that enhances students’ learning motivation through participating in social practices. Close attention is paid to organically integrate the “first classroom” and the “second classroom”. By organizing students to participate in social research, social services, disciplinary competitions, and other activities, the College not only improves students’ practical abilities and comprehensive qualities, but also stimulates their learning interest and potential, guides their self-management and active learning, and boosts their classroom learning motivation as well as autonomous learning ability and efficiency. Every year, our students win a dozen of awards in disciplinary competitions and also publish a large number of papers. Many student activities of the College have been reported by CCTV and BTV, and the research reports written by the students have even received instructions from municipal leaders.

With excellent abilities in teaching, research, and social service, the teachers of the College have received over 10 provincial and ministerial-level teaching awards. In the past three years, they have presided over more than 30 scientific research projects at or above the provincial or ministerial level, with a research funding of over RMB 10 million. Each year, the College invests over RMB 1 million in teaching. So far, the College has also set its mock courts, multimedia classrooms, and virtual simulation labs, covering an area of over 1,000 m², equipped with modern professional teaching software and databases. The College attaches great importance to the construction of learning and practice platforms, and has set up a series of on-campus institutions like the Rural Governance Research Center, the Rural Social Work Development and Service Center, the Law Network for “Agriculture, Rural Areas, and Farmers”, the Law Clinic for “Agriculture, Rural Areas, and Farmers”, as well as the Social Work Office of BUA. It is a governing unit of the Institute of Legal Education of the China Law Society, a governing unit of the China Association for Social Work Education, a secretariat unit of the Institute of Rural Rule of Law of the Beijing Law Society, a vice-chairman unit of the Professional Committee on Disability and Rehabilitation Social Work of the China Association for Social Work Education, and an executive director unit of the Professional Committee on Rural Social Work of the China Association for Social Work Education, etc. There are more than 40 off-campus practice bases in judicial organs, large law firms, social work firms, grassroots organizations, industry leading enterprises, etc. Moreover, it has also developed regular exchange mechanisms with foreign universities such as Sapporo Gakuin University, Shimane University, and the University of Shimane.

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