School of Politics & Administration

The School of Politics and Administration of South China Normal University was established in July 2000. It was composed by former department of politics and law, former department of ideological education, former institute of philosophy, and former group of moral education. Now there two department of political education, department of political science and administration, department of Marxist theory.

There are strong teaching staff of 82 among the total staff of 96 in the school. There are 16 professors, and 24 associate professors. Most teaching staff have doctoral degree or master's degree. Now,there are 630 undergraduate, 155 graduate and 11 doctoral students.

Since 1996, the teachers in our school undertook 8 projects of China's Foundation of Social Sciences, 17 projects of Guangdong Province and Ministry of Education, and got 15 awards of country-level and province-level. We published 81 academic books, 8 translation books, nearly 100 textbooks, and 1082 papers, including 168 papers in authoritative academic journals.Since 1996, we held 4 international academic monographic conferences, and 8 national academic monographic conferences.

Our School keeps a good academic relationship with foreign universities, such as Harvard University, Boston University, University of Hawaii, Oxford University, E de Provence (France), University of Alberta (Canada). And we keep a good academic relationship with universities in Taiwan and Hong Kong, such as City University Of Hong Kong, Danjiang University, Taiwan Normal University. We also keep a good academic relationship with famous universities and institutes in mainland China. We sent more than 100 of our teachers as visiting scholars to national and international universities, and invited 70 senior visiting scholars from China and other countries.

There are modern offices of 1200 square meters and a library of 360 square meters in our school. There are 100 thousand books and 300 kinds of periodicals in Chinese and foreign languages in the library. And there are a modern lecture hall and a working hall with multi-media. A big electronic reading room will be built soon.