Department of Art Theory

Cultural Industry Management

Cultural Relics Restoration and Protection

The Department of Art Theory was set up in 2013 by the Teaching and Research Section of Historical Theory and the major of Cultural Industry Management, which were affiliated to Department of Video Art and the Department of Commerce respectively. The department owns the major in cultural industry management with orientation to the art brokerage. In addition, it has added the direction of cultural relic restoration and protection. As a teaching and scientific research unit, the Department of Art Theory integrates arts and science as well as theory and practice, aiming to cultivate cultural management and research talents.

Taking the development of versatile talents with broad humanities foundation as its training objective, the Department of Art Theory requires its students to learn and master the compulsory basic courses and professional basic courses. In addition, the main courses for students include culture industry management, culture communication, introduction to art, western economics, art management, folklore, culture investment, introduction to culture broker, introduction to cultural heritage, archaeology, etc. Furthermore, the courses are complemented with internship and practical training, including entrance education and military training, cognition practice, social investigation, cultural market research, cultural relics restoration and protection, graduation field work and graduation thesis writing, etc.

The Department of Art Theory currently employs 11 full-time teachers, including associate professors, lecturers and teaching assistants, all of whom hold doctoral or master degrees. In addition, a number of professors have been employed from College of Economics and Management, College of Mathematics, College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, College of Materials Science and Engineering and other related discipline of Taiyuan University of Technology to carry out professional teaching and research with experts hired from the teaching and research institutes throughout the country, such as Peking University in cooperation with Shanxi Provincial Bureau of Cultural Heritage.

The Teaching and Research Section of Historical Theory of Department of Art Theory is designed to be responsible for the teaching tasks of art history and art theory in the School of Art, and to carry out relevant scientific research. Several papers and related monographs have been published in national core journals such as World Fine Arts and Decoration and journals included in CSSCI. It also has presided over and participated in provincial scientific research projects. As a new discipline in China, cultural industry management originally established in 2004. To follow the trend of education, the college had the first batch of the major in cultural industry management with orientation to the art brokerage in 2010. In both teaching and learning in education, this direction has also achieved great successes, which has been approved to host various provincial soft science projects, and is steeping towards higher achievements. Supported by the college, cultural relics restoration and protection direction has established Taiyuan University of Technology "Art Heritage" Research Center and "Cultural Heritage Restoration and Protection of Innovation Base", which are the talents training and scientific research in teaching and practice completed by our department in cooperation with researchers of relevant disciplines from College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, as well as Shanxi Provincial Bureau of Cultural Heritage and Peking University.