College of Applied Arts and Sciences, Beijing Union University

The predecessor of the College of Applied Arts and Sciences, Beijing Union University, was the Peking University Branch and the Second Branch of Renmin University of China, which were founded in 1978 by Beijing with the support of Peking University and Renmin University of China. After the establishment of Beijing Union University in 1985, the two branches became the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Liberal Arts and Law under Beijing Union University respectively, and merged into the College of Applied Arts and Sciences in 1994. It is a college under Beijing Union University that focuses on training undergraduates and gradually expands the scale of master's students, and is committed to the training of compound applied talents. The college takes literature, history, law, and science as its main disciplines. It currently has three first-level master's degree authorization points in archaeology, Chinese history, and geography, four professional master's degree authorization points in master of law, cultural relics and museums, journalism and communication, and library and information, and a second-level master's degree authorization point in cultural heritage regional protection planning; 8 undergraduate majors are enrolled. At present, there are nearly 2,000 undergraduate students and 167 master's students. The college cooperates with the Institute of Geography and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and has established academician research workstations and postdoctoral research workstations.

The college adheres to the talent training characteristics of "application-oriented, learning for practical use", takes "advocating academics, caring for humanities, cultivating morality and cultivating talents" as its mission, and continuously deepens the reform of education and teaching, and the teaching quality and talent training level continue to improve. In 2019, the major of human geography and urban and rural planning was approved as a national first-class undergraduate major construction site, and the major of archival science was approved as a first-class major in Beijing. The education team of the major of human geography and urban and rural planning was approved as an excellent undergraduate education team of Beijing universities. The college has an applied liberal arts comprehensive experimental teaching center, which is a municipal and national experimental teaching demonstration center; it has a cultural heritage inheritance application virtual simulation experimental teaching center, which is a national virtual simulation experimental teaching center; the college has two municipal off-campus talent training bases, the Capital Museum and Beijing Archives, as well as a large number of school-level off-campus talent training bases such as the Palace Museum, Legal Evening News, Fengtai District People's Court, Beijing Surveying and Mapping Design Institute, Beijing Land and Resources Survey and Planning Center, Beijing SuperMap Software Co., Ltd., and Beijing Urban Construction Archives.

The college has strong faculty and scientific research strength. It has a high-level faculty team including Beijing Great Wall Scholars, Beijing University Teaching Masters, Beijing "High-tech Innovation" Masters, Beijing High-level Talents and other well-known scholars. Focusing on the protection, utilization, inheritance and dissemination of Beijing's cultural heritage, we have refined the discipline and professional direction, strengthened the integration of liberal arts and the intersection of liberal arts and science, and integrated integration. Among them, "Beijing Studies" has been included in the list of high-end disciplines in Beijing universities; "Beijing Cultural and Creative Industry Historical and Cultural Resources Survey Report" won the second prize of the 15th Beijing Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievements; "Research on Ideas and Measures to Improve the Capital's Cultural Soft Power and Influence during the '14th Five-Year Plan' Period" is a major topic of "National Cultural Center Construction" in the preliminary research of Beijing's national economic and social development plan during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. In the past five years, the number of high-level scientific research projects and the level of scientific research results of the college have steadily increased. It has undertaken 24 national scientific research projects and 52 provincial and ministerial projects. It has also undertaken more than 300 projects commissioned by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, Municipal Science and Technology Commission, Municipal Social Science Federation, municipal and district government departments, academic groups and other enterprises and institutions.

The college currently has the Beijing Studies Research Base (municipal level) and the Beijing Studies Research Institute, the Three Mountains and Five Gardens Research Institute (in cooperation with the Propaganda Department of the Haidian District Party Committee), the Cultural Heritage Research Institute, the Nationalities and Religions Research Institute, the Archaeological Research Institute, the Human Settlement Research Center, the Urban and Regional Development Research Institute, the Capital Legal Research Center, the Archives Affairs Research Institute, the Olympic Cultural Research Center, the Advertising Research Institute, the Internet Literacy Education Research Center (in cooperation with Qianlong.com), the Capital City Cultural Communication Research Center and other municipal and school-level research institutions. The academic activities carried out by these institutions have had a great impact at home and abroad.

The college has always taken moral education as its fundamental task throughout the entire process of education and teaching, and has used subject competitions and student scientific research projects as a platform to improve students' humanities and scientific literacy and cultivate students' practical innovation capabilities. Students have won many national and Beijing-level awards in subject competitions such as the "Challenge Cup", liberal arts computer design, English speech, humanities knowledge, mathematical modeling, and moot court. The college takes the "May 4th" Science and Technology Culture Festival and the "December 9th" Sports Culture Festival as the main line, and carries out a variety of campus cultural activities. There are more than 40 student clubs of various types. The Chinese folk music group and the guzheng orchestra have performed in Hong Kong and the United States and achieved good results. They have also performed on the stage of the National Grand Theater, showing the charm of Chinese art and inheriting Chinese culture; college student volunteers are active in the community and various districts and counties, and actively carry out practical activities and public welfare activities to serve the society based on their professional knowledge. The college implements an open school and conducts international cooperative education with universities in many countries and regions such as the United States, Britain, France, Switzerland, Hong Kong, and South Korea. Students can obtain dual academic qualifications or degrees at home and abroad by participating in international cooperative education projects, and can obtain master's degrees through various forms such as "4+1" and "3+2". In recent years, the proportion of students taking postgraduate entrance examinations and studying abroad has increased significantly, and the employment rate has remained above 98%. Nearly 100 students go abroad for exchange and study every year.

The college is located in the largest college cluster area in China, Xueyuan Road. It shares the rich off-campus education resources of the "Xueyuan Road Regional Teaching Community" built by the Ministry of Education and other universities such as Beijing University of Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing Language and Culture University, and China Agricultural University. Students can choose courses and minor majors across schools. It is based on cultivating compound application-oriented talents with high comprehensive quality, strong practical ability, profound humanistic qualities and scientific spirit. Starting from the 2016 students, the college has piloted a full credit system reform. Under the guidance of teachers, students can choose courses, teachers, majors, and other majors independently, and conditionally take other minors to achieve personalized and diversified development of students.

The college is surrounded by convenient transportation, and the teaching buildings, laboratory buildings, Sunac Building, library, museum, student dormitory buildings, student canteens, bathrooms, water rooms and other learning and living facilities are complete, and the learning environment is further optimized. Looking ahead to the "14th Five-Year Plan", the School of Applied Arts and Sciences of Beijing Union University will rely on its disciplinary research strength that integrates arts and sciences, give full play to its geographical advantage of being located in the core area of ​​Zhongguancun Science City, integrate and innovate, play a role in the integration and innovation of culture and technology, be based in Haidian, serve the capital, connect with the world, and deeply integrate into Beijing, implement the "four centers" urban strategic positioning and the construction of an international first-class harmonious and livable city, so that high-quality, compound applied talents can confidently move from here to the capital and to all areas of social and economic construction across the country.