About the College

The College of Arts strives to consolidate the teaching foundation and closely link with off-campus training bases to improve the quality of education. There are more than 40 full-time teachers, including 3 with senior titles, 3 with associate titles, 78% of teachers with master’s degree or above, and 10 part-time teachers from industry enterprises, so the dual-teacher structure and team advantages are remarkable. It has won the honors of municipal high-quality courses, excellent teaching team, excellent teaching teachers and excellent teaching achievements of Shanghai higher vocational institutions. The college is actively building the ‘comprehensive innovative teaching and practice platform for art majors’ and ‘cultural and creative conversion workshop’, and the teaching and training sites and conditions of each major have reached the first-class level of similar institutions in China. In recent years, the college has attached importance to the cultivation of students’ vocational skills and innovation ability, and won many national, provincial and municipal awards in professional skills competitions, winning 9 national first prizes, 13 national second prizes, 5 national third prizes, and more than 200 municipal comprehensive awards.

The college strives to consolidate the teaching foundation and closely link with off-campus training bases to improve the quality of education. There are more than 40 full-time teachers, including 3 with senior titles, 3 with associate titles, 78% of teachers with master’s degree or above, and 10 part-time teachers from industry enterprises, so the dual-teacher structure and team advantages are remarkable. It has won the honors of municipal high-quality courses, excellent teaching team, excellent teaching teachers and excellent teaching achievements of Shanghai higher vocational institutions. The college is actively building the ‘comprehensive innovative teaching and practice platform for art majors’ and ‘cultural and creative conversion workshop’, and the teaching and training sites and conditions of each major have reached the first-class level of similar institutions in China. In recent years, the college has attached importance to the cultivation of students’ vocational skills and innovation ability, and won many national, provincial and municipal awards in professional skills competitions, winning 9 national first prizes, 13 national second prizes, 5 national third prizes, and more than 200 municipal comprehensive awards.

   The college vigorously carries out the construction of courses related to excellent Chinese traditional culture, and has built the ‘Master Studio of Intangible Cultural Heritage Jinshan Peasant Painting’ and the ‘Workshop for College Students’. In 2018, the college was awarded the titles of ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage Education and Inheritance Demonstration Base’ and ‘Traditional Skills Inheritance Demonstration Base’ by the Ministry of Education, and has integrated the intangible cultural heritage into the art design curriculum of college students. The college also carries out extensive international exchange activities, such as ‘4+1 undergraduate program’ and ‘3+2 college program’ with Baekseok University in Korea and the University of Barcelona in Spain, and provides students with a variety of opportunities to study abroad and to upgrade from junior college student to university student.