郑州大学新闻与传播学院简介

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Brief Introduction of School of Journalism & Communication

    The School of Journalism and Communication of Zhengzhou University came into being in June 2004. Its predecessor, the Department of Journalism of Zhengzhou University, was the first founded advanced teaching institution in Journalism in Central China in April 1984. In fact, in order to meet the tightening social needs , Zhengzhou University began its efforts in Journalism teaching in 1976, and enrolled more than 80 students that year, who, therefore, became the first ones trained professionally in this field in the history of advanced education in Henan province. In 1982, under the commission of the Publicity Departments of Qinghai province and Henan province, it started a 2-year training program for journalism cadres. In April 1983, authorized by the Education Ministry of State, the Department of Chinese in this University set up journalism as a major, and began to enroll 4-year undergraduate in July the same year. From April 1984 when the Department of Journalism was set up, after twenty years’ efforts , the department has grown into the School of Journalism and Communication, which now has three undergraduate programs, namely, Journalism, Journalism of Radio & Television, Advertising Studies, and two professional programs: Announcing & Hosting, Editing & Publishing. The school can offer complete master’s degree programs in this field covering Journalism and Communication. It is now a comprehensive academic base, combining teaching with research, and has fostered over 10’000 graduates up to the present time.
   At present, the school has over thirty full-time teachers, among them, there are eighteen professors and associate professors, twelve postgraduate mentors, 70% of them have doctor’s degree or master’s degree.  The School of Journalism and Communication has more than 600 undergraduates, about 100 postgraduates. It has an Information Center, housing over 70’000 books, and a reference room for teachers and students, an electronic reading room, a comprehensive photographic laboratory, an electronic editing laboratory, an announcing & hosting studio, a radio & television laboratory, an advertisement design laboratory and a multi-media laboratory. In addition, it has one key research base, Mu Qing Study Center, open to nationwide academicians, and a Study Center for Media Development, four research institutes named Advertisement and Media Economy Institute, Media and Social Development Institute, Culture Communication Institute, Editing & Publishing Institute. These years, the faculty has been keeping exploring and widening the ways of running it and have kept progressing.
  The school now has two co-constructing partners: Henan Daily Group and Henan Bureau of Broadcast Film and Television. The notion of pursuing high quality teaching and high level research has been well put across the whole teaching staff. According to incomplete statistics, teachers in this school have published over 10 books, compiled more than 20 textbooks, published over 500 articles, among which more than 200 were printed by key journalism periodicals. With a capable teaching staff, a well academic structure and a good learning atmosphere, actually, the school has taken up an outstanding feature in the field and its disciplines have run top the same kind in central China. In the future, the school will surely strive forward to achieve a better academic structure and a better teaching and research atmosphere and to make the teaching staff improve more than ever both in diploma and ability. The School of Journalism and Communication of Zhengzhou University is always ready to provide more excellent talents in journalism and communication for the society.