The History Department of Sun Yat-sen University is the key major of the school, and it was established with the establishment of the school. With a long history and deep foundation, the employment prospects are still good.
The history department of Sun Yat-sen University was founded in 1924, which is one of the earliest departments of Sun Yat-sen University. The founders of modern historiography, such as Chen, Gu Jiegang, Cen, Liang and Liu Jie, have all taught in this department, laying a profound academic foundation for this department.
The Department is a national base for talent training and scientific research in basic disciplines of humanities and social sciences, and has the right to award doctoral and master's degrees in three first-class disciplines: history, world history and archaeology. The professional direction of the doctoral and master students that can be recruited covers all majors under the discipline of history, and there are postdoctoral mobile stations in more than one discipline established by the state.
History major is a famous major in Guangdong province, and ancient history and modern history are national key disciplines. In addition, the historical anthropology research center based on the history department is the key research base of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, and the cultural heritage research base is the national research innovation base of humanities and social sciences.
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The department has a strong faculty, with 47 teachers, including 25 professors (including 22 doctoral supervisors), including distinguished professor, the first Changjiang scholar in history, seven national trans-century talents and talents in the new century.
Two deputy directors and members of the history teaching steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, and three foreign professors from the United States, Japan and Russia. The department has a high level of teaching and scientific research, and won the second prize of national excellent teaching achievement and the second prize of provincial excellent teaching achievement.
Modern history, ancient history and introduction to history are national excellent courses, while ancient social and economic history is the key construction course and excellent course in Guangdong Province. A number of research achievements have won provincial and ministerial awards for outstanding scientific research achievements, and some research achievements rank first at home and abroad.
Scholars in this department have made great achievements in research and formed a profound and distinctive academic tradition, making this department a famous academic center at home and abroad. Teachers in this department pay attention to teaching, are strict with students, tolerant and considerate, and teachers and students complement each other.