School Profile

School Profile

School of Humanities and Law

Majors: Law, English, Chinese Language and Literature, International Chinese Language Education, Cultural Relics and Museum Science

An Overview of School of Humanities and Law:

The School of Humanities and Law consists of 5 departments, including the Department of Law, the Department of Foreign Languages, the Department of Chinese Language, the Department of Chinese for foreign Languages, the Department of Antiquities and Museums, and 4 College English teaching and Research sections. There are 143 faculty members, including 13 professors, 42 associate professors, 52 doctors (including 13 doctoral candidates), 66 masters and 3 foreign teachers. At present, there are 5 undergraduate majors: Law, English, Chinese Language and Literature, Chinese International Education, Cultural Relics and Museum Science, with 1201 full-time undergraduates and 72 graduate students. The school attaches great importance to the construction of teaching staff, the construction of teachers' ethics, the training of young teachers, and actively promotes teaching reform. The majors of law and English are first-class undergraduate ones in Hebei Province. The school has three provincial-level quality courses of "Legal Foundation", "Civil Law" and "College English", and five university-level key construction courses. In recent years, the school has undertaken and completed 3 national projects, won 33 provincial scientific research achievement awards and teaching achievement awards, and published more than 700 academic papers.

Centering on the construction goal of "a modern university with distinct engineering characteristics", the school implements the educational philosophy of "integration of arts and engineering and precise support", highlights the characteristics of liberal arts under the background of science and engineering, and focuses on cultivating applied talents of liberal arts who integrate with science and technology. The school actively promotes the construction of "new liberal arts" and the deep integration of curriculum ideology and politics, exploring the talent training model oriented by social needs. The law major has a moot court, and has established corresponding practice bases in courts, procuratorates and law firms. English majors and Chinese Language International education majors have practice employment bases in large and medium-sized enterprises, foreign affairs institutions, education and training institutions; Chinese language and literature majors have practice employment bases in newspaper offices, government agencies and other units. The school has a moot court laboratory and a simultaneous interpretation laboratory; The Museum of Architecture and Art of Hebei Engineering University has the largest number of ancient architectural components in North China, and is a practice teaching base for Cultural Relics and Museum Science. The law major has a "Master of Laws" professional degree authorization point, which will start to enroll students in 2019. The English major has a professional degree authorization point of "Master of Translation and Interpreting" and plans to officially enroll students in 2023.

The school has established research and training platforms such as Hebei Province "Three Modernization" Collaborative Development Research Base (co-construction), Hebei Province Intellectual Property Training Base, Hebei Province Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Base, Legal Research and Social Service Center, International Cultural Exchange Research and Language Service Center, Xunzi Institute. The relevant research fields have distinct themes and prominent focuses. Relying on the key disciplines of the university, it has played a great role in promoting talent training, innovation and entrepreneurship education, social services and cultural inheritance.

The school focuses on the integration of talent training with students' future development and career connection. A large number of students become civil servants and graduate students of well-known domestic colleges and universities, and graduates are generally praised by employers for their "professional, pragmatic and motivated" work style. Among them, Liu Xiaowei, who majored in Chinese language and literature, was admitted to the Communication University of China as a master's student and worked at the headquarters of Sinopec after graduation. Wang Pengda, majored in Chinese language and Literature, won the national first prize of the first "Sinology Master". Guo Zhilong, a law graduate, passed the national judicial examination as the first in Hubei Province and was admitted to China University of Political Science and Law as a master's student. Guo Zikai, a graduate majored in English, was admitted to Beijing Foreign Studies University as a master's student. Xia Mao, a law graduate, achieved “self-improvement star of Chinese college students” in 2010. Li Konghuan was nominated for “self-improvement star of Chinese college students” in 2011.