Institute of History
☉ Colleges & Program Overview
About
This institute was established in 1 st August 1985 as the first research institute of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. It started with MA program with the PhD program added in 1996.
Our teaching and research focuses on two themes, which are “Changes and Exchanges of Civilization since the Early Modern Period” and “Religion, Science, Technology, and Medicine”.
Our MA Program has two divisions.
Division A: “Changes and Exchanges of Civilization since the Early Modern Period”,
includes the fields of the History of Ideas, Economic History, the History of Society and Culture, the History of Art, Modern China and Foreign Cultures, Monsoon Asia and Multi-Cultures, etc.
Division B: “History of Science and Technology”,
includes the courses of the History of Science, the History of Technology, the History of Medicine, the History of Sericulture, the History of Handicraft, Material and Immaterial Cultural Heritages, History of Exchanges of Science and Technology between China and the West, Internet Communication, and Museology.