Chinese Ethnic Nationalities Program
Central University for Nationalities
27 Zhongguangcun South Avenue
Beijing, PRC 100081
Foreign Affairs Office
Tel: 011-86-10-6893-3980
Fax: 011-86-10-6893-3982
Official site:
http://www.cun.edu.cn/
Unofficial site (English):
http://www.nol.net/~cevin/CUN/index.html
Introduction and History
The Central University for Nationalities (CUN), located in the western suburbs of Beijing, is recognized as one of the most prestigious higher learning institutions for the education of and about ethnic minority nationalities in China. It is the only higher education institution in China where all ethnic groups are represented in its faculty and student body, and the only university of its kind that is listed in the top 100 national key universities under the 211 project.
The forerunner of CUN was the institute for Ethnic Minorities, formed in Yan-an in October 1941. On June 11, 1951, the Central Institute for Nationalities (CIN) was officially established. On November 30, 1993, the Central Institute for Nationalities further changed its title to the Central University for Nationalities.
For celebrating the 50th anniversary of CUN in June 2001, Ex-Premier Zhu Rongji brought forth, on behalf of the Central Government, a new development goal: To construct and develop CUN into one of the top-tier universities in the world for ethnic education. In June 2002, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Education, and the Beijing Municipal Government signed collaboratively the Agreement on Jointly Constructing the Central University for Nationalities, which has accelerated the development of CUN to a new stage.
Education & Research
After more than 50 years of construction and development, CUN has become a comprehensive research university with humanities as its main focus and ethnic studies as its unique characteristic, while providing courses covering the disciplines of liberal arts, history, philosophy, economics, administration, law, sciences, engineering, medicine, and pedagogy. It provides multiple levels of education, including undergraduate, graduate and leadership training programs.
CUN has more than 400 professors and associate professors, as well as 300 strong lectures. CUN has, as a key research center for issues regarding ethnic minorities in China, contributed greatly to the formation of national policies towards ethnic minorities and satisfactory settlement of ethnic issues. CUN scholars have contributed to influential research on the identification of different ethnic groups, the implementation of its regional autonomy policies, social history of ethnic minorities, and social reform in minority areas.
CUN has a student body of 13,000. Of all
the full-time students, 70% have minority
backgrounds. Up to now, more than 60,000
students have graduated from CUN and
become the backbone for the construction
of the nation; 80 have become leaders in
provincial, municipal or autonomous regional
governments, with some becoming national
leaders, and 8,500 working as leaders at or
above the county administrative level.
The CUN library has a collection of over 1,300,000 books. It has the largest collection of books on ethnic minority languages and characters, as well as documents on ethnological studies among university libraries in China. The university's Ethnic Museum has a collection of more than 30,000 precious cultural relics relating to ethnic minorities in China that are of great value for teaching, research, and exhibition purposes.
The Central University for Nationalities Press is one of the pivotal publishing houses throughout the country in the publication of textbooks, teaching materials, and monographic works on ethnological studies. The Journal of the Central University for Nationalities and the periodical titled Ethnic Education Research are tow national core publications edited and published by CUN Press, and are delivered throughout the country and abroad.
At present, CUN has 15 subordinate schools, 13 departments and 4 instructive divisions, 61 undergraduate specialty programs, 38 master degree programs and 17 doctoral programs. There is one national primary discipline doctorate degree conferring subject area (Ethnology) at CUN.
Schools and Departments:
- School of Economics
- Department of Economics
- Institute of Ethnic Minority Economies
- School of Administration
- School of Law
- School of Chinese Ethnic Minority
- Languages and Literature
- School of Musicology
- School of Fine Arts
- School of Dance
- School Ethnology and Sociological Studies
- Department of Ethnology
- Division of Theories and Policies Towards Ethnic Minorities
- School of Tibetology
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences
- School of Science and Engineering
- School of Foreign Languages
- School of Continuing Education
- International Institute of Chinese Languages and Cultures
- School of Literature and Mass Communication
- Department of Education
- Department of Philosophical and Religious Studies
- Department of History
- Department of Physical Education
- Division of Preparatory Training Programs
- Division of Marxism and Leninism Education
Bachelor Degree Programs:
- Philosophy
- Economics
- Money and Finance
- Education
- Physical Education
- School of Chinese Ethnic Minority Language (Korean) and Literature
- School of Chinese Ethnic Minority Language (Mongolian) and Literature
- School of Chinese Ethnic Minority Language (Uyghur, Kazakh, and Kirghiz) and Literature
- Advertising
- Russian
- Korean
- History
- Ethnology
- Information and Computing Sciences
- Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
- Electronic Information Engineering
- Optical Information Science and Technology
- Automatization
- Pharmaceutical Engineering
- Biotechnology
- Environmental Science
- Preventive Medicine
- Business Administration
- Marketing
- Financial Management
- Tourism Management
- Politics and Administration
- Composition Techniques and Theories
- Fine Arts
- Dance
- Dance Choreography
- Religious Studies
- International Economy and Trade
- Law
- Ideological and Political Education
- Traditional Ethnic Sports
- Chinese Language and Literature
- Journalism
- English
- Japanese
- Chinese as a Foreign Language
- Sociology
- Museology
- Statistics
- Applied Physics
- Communication Engineering
- Physics
- Computer Science and Technology
- Bioscience
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Tibetan Medicine
- Accounting
- Human Resource Management
- Public Administration
- Administrative Management
- Musicology
- Music Performance
- Painting
- Artistic Design
- Art Education
- Dance Performance
Master Degree Programs:
- Marxist Philosophy
- Chinese Ethnic Minority Arts
- Public Administration in Ethnic Minority Regions
- Religious Studies
- History of Chinese Ethnic Minorities
- Tibetology
- Scientific Socialism and International Communist Movement
- Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
- Ethnic Law Studies
- Chinese Ethnic Minority Economies
- History of Particular Subjects
- Folk-Custom Studies
- Anthropology
- Basic Mathematics
- Journalism
- Regional Economics
- Enterprise Management
- History of Ancient China
- Dance
- Ethno-Sociology
- Chinese Philosophy
- Fine Arts
- Education of Chinese Ethnic Minorities
- Economic Law
- Archeology and Museology
- Ethno-National Politics
- Political Economics
- Chinese Ethnic Minority Languages and Literature
- Marxist Theories and Policies towards Ethnic Minorities
- Sociology
- Principles of Education
- Chinese Ancient Literature
- Ethnology
- Biology
- Constitution and Administrative Law
- Administrative Management
- Historical Documents
- Comparative Education
Doctoral Degree Programs:
- Religious Studies
- Chinese Ethnic Minority Economies
- Anthropology
- History of Chinese Ethnic Minorities
- Ethno-National Politics
- Ethno-Sociology
- Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
- Chinese Ethnic Minority Languages and Literature
- Marxist Theories and Policies towards Ethnic Minorities
- Folk-Custom Studies
- History of Particular Subjects
- Chinese Ethnic Minority Arts
- Public Administration in Ethnic Minority Regions
- Tibetology
- Education of Chinese Ethnic Minorities
- Ethnic Law Studies
- Ethnology