SCHOOL OF MARXISM
SCHOOL OF MARXISM
School of Marxism, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) serves as the university’s main front for studying, researching and disseminating Marxism. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the School gives full play to the role of ideological and political theory courses as key courses for fostering virtue through education and the guiding role of Marxist theory as an academic discipline. It strives to cultivate socialist builders and successors with firm ideals and convictions and profound devotion to the country, providing solid theoretical support and talent pool for comprehensively building a great modern socialist country and realizing the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation.
The School currently has 17 full-time teachers for ideological and political theory courses, including 1 Distinguished Chair Professor, 3 Professors, 8 Associate Professors and 5 Assistant Professors/Lecturers, plus 8 administrative and support staff. A high-caliber faculty team for ideological and political teaching has taken initial shape. In addition, the university’s General Education Teaching Group is responsible for labor education, general growth education, national defense and military theory education, and practical ideological and political courses.
The School delivers compulsory and elective courses for all undergraduates, including Ideology, Morality and the Rule of Law, Outline of Chinese Modern History, Principles of Marxism, Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought and the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, Introduction to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and Situation and Policies. For master’s students, it offers Introduction to Dialectics of Nature and Theory and Practice of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. For doctoral students, it provides Contemporary Chinese Marxism.
In 2024, the School established the Research Center for Innovative Practice of Chinese Modernization in Shenzhen.
Looking ahead, the School of Marxism at SUSTech is striving to build a nationally first-class and world-renowned hub for Marxist teaching, research and theoretical outreach.