Brief Introduction
ⅠHistory
The School of Psychology initially constructed in April 2007 and was formally founded in September 2008. The School has doctoral program in basic psychology, center for post-doctoral studies in psychology altogether the first-level discipline master degree of psychology. Besides, the School is the first teaching and research unit with qualified professional teaching abilities consisting undergraduates, masters, doctoral students and post-doctoral students. The school began with Department of Social Education in the National Chung Cheng University in 1941. In 2008, the School of Psychology was established on the basis of the Psychology Research Institute and the primary psychological discipline of College of Education. After more than 70 years ups and downs and hard-working exploring, psychological workers from generation to generation keep in mind the motto of Jiangxi Normal University which is "Pacific to Ponder, Persistent to Perform; Upright to Behave, Upstanding to Learn", and adhere to the concept of “Quantity, Talent, Innovation, Culture and Harmony, which can contribute to college”. Also, they carry on passing the flame of remembrance onto the next generation, make great efforts to be the first and keep pace with the times. Hence, psychological disciplines continue to develop forward. Especially in the past 10 years, the construction and development of psychology have made considerable progress and gained extraordinary achievements.
ⅡDiscipline construction
The College puts the development of psychological disciplines as the top priority work. Based on a high starting point, the College aims at the forefront of world psychology research, and keeps connotation construction, scientific development and continuous innovation in mind. We also join hands and work hardly, so we accumulate a solid academic foundation and create a number of influential domestic professional brands. Besides, some of our research fields have ranked the national and international leading list. Psychology is regarded as a discipline which is developed preferentially and is supported prevailingly by school. Besides, basic psychology and applied psychology are regarded as the provincial key disciplines by the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education. In addition, psychology specialty is identified as a branded major of undergraduate in colleges and universities in Jiangxi Province; “Psychological statistics and measurement” led by Professor Dai Haiqi, “Reasoning Psychology” led by Professor Hu Zhujing and other professional directions have an important impact on the domestic and international areas; Chinese core journals, the source journals of CSSCI that is “Exploration of Psychology” has an important position in the domestic and international psychology.
Ⅲ Scientific Research
The academy has undertaken around 100 projects in recent years, among which there are around 20 national projects and around 30 ministries entrusted projects from Central Committee, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Personnel and Office of Chinese Language, etc. We have around 200 papers published in core academic journals. The paper called Psychological Measurement has been rated as the national quality course; the course called Psychology has been rated as provincial quality resource sharing course by Jiangxi Province Undergraduate University. Psychological Statistics edited by Hu Zhujing and Psychological and Educational Measurement Version Three edited by Dai Haiqi have been listed as the second batch of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan national planning teaching material of the undergraduate university. The subordinate units of our academy include: the first grade associations like Jiangxi Psychological Society and Jiangxi Social Psychological Society; four institutions directly under the school such as the Psychological Research Institute, the Institute of Psychological Technology and Applied Research, the Institute of Basic Education Quality Monitoring and Evaluation, Jiangxi Normal University, and the editorial department of the New Psychological Exploration; a provincial key research base of Humanities and Social Sciences as well as an academic level research center.
Ⅳ Faculty
At present, there are five academic teams in School of Psychology, including Brain and cognitive, Psychological statistics and measurement, Mental health and clinical psychology, Psychological development and education, and Social and economic psychology. The structure of our staff is very reasonable. Including 50 faculty members of which 11 people have senior professional title, and 90% of full-time teachers have a doctoral degree. There are 5 doctoral supervisors. And two teachers enjoy the governmental subvention, and two teachers enjoy the provincial government special allowance.
Ⅴ Personnel Training
1.Bachelor
(1)Psychometrics
Psychometrics is a field to study the psychological problems combining with applied mathematics and statistical methods. It is the most important discipline to ensure the scientificity of psychological research design, data acquisition and data analysis. Currently, the methods of acquiring research data in psychology include traditional questionnaire method, interview method, cognitive behavioral experiment method and cognitive neuroscience method, all of which require to be supported by psychometrics in the processing of design, implementation, and analysis of result. Also, the students in the direction of psychometrics should master the basic theory, methods and skills of psychological research design, model constructing and data processing, and have practical skills of computer programming with basic statistical methods. Besides, psychometrics can provide preparation for improving the level of psychological research, better being in line with the study of postgraduate stage in psychology, and having the ability to obtain an employment directly after undergraduate graduation.
(2)Applied Psychology
Currently, there are two directions of Applied psychology major that are Psychologic health and psychologic counseling as well as Human resource management and personnel assessment.
Major orientation of Psychologic health education and psychological counseling is to cultivate relevant talents respectively. Students in this direction should know basic theory, methods and skills of psychologic health education,master basic theory, methods and skills of psychological counseling, as well as have command of basic theory, methods and skills of individual counseling and group counseling.In addition, they should know the latest development trends and application prospects of psychologic counseling.
Students whose major orientation is Human resource management and personnel assessment should have the following professional knowledge and capabilities:
1. Master the basic theory of psychology, management and human resource management and personnel assessment;
2. Master the basic skills of human resource management and personnel assessment;
3.Understand the latest developments and application prospects of human resource management and personnel assessment.
2. Master
(1)Academic Master
The training objective is to master high-level professionals with the professional ability of the basic theory of psychology, professional knowledge and empirical research methods, as well as the relevant statistical measurement methods. And students can do researches with comprehensive analysis, data processing and computer application ability. There are nine research directions-- the Psychological statistics and measurement, Cognitive psychology, Psychological theory and history, Personality psychology, Educational psychology, Mental health and counseling and others. Then these professional people not only can undertake the relevant professional teaching and research work in the institutions of higher learning, and in scientific research institutes, but also they are fit for engaging in Human Resources Management in government agency, enterprises and institutions. Also they can work in all levels of schools, such as mental health education and psychological counseling work. And they can provide advisory services for school education and family education, as well as they can do some things for the development of psychological applications.
(2)Applied Psychology
The training objective is to master high-level and applied talents who can meet the requirements of the various professional areas in society, and can be occupied in a certain occupation with the necessary psychological skills. There are three research directions: Mental health and psychological counseling, Social psychology and human resource management, and Psychological measurement technology application etc,. The talents of Applied Psychology can undertake works in some fields as follows: mental health and psychological counseling, emotional regulation and training, psychological crisis intervention and defense, disaster relief and psychological rehabilitation, education for children and adolescents and special staff, family and vocational counseling, organizational behavior management, human resources management, advertising planning, pressure management, marketing management, personnel selection and assessment, large-scale examination development and scale compilation, as well as development for question bank and adaptive test. And they must know how to solve practical issues in works.
(3)Major of Mental Health Education
To master talents with professional knowledge of mental health education and modern educational concepts, and new ideas, new content and new methods of curriculum reform in basic education. To ensure these talents can undertake these works easily, such as mental health education teachers with high-quality or psychological consultation teachers in primary and secondary schools, and management talents who engage in the work of the education and teaching, ect.
3. Doctor
There is only one major--Basic Psychological Studies-- during doctoral phase. There are three research directions: Psychological statistics and measurement, Cognitive psychology, and Personality psychology. In order to cultivate these high-level talents who can master the forefront of psychological science, as well as the modern theory and skills of psychology. The talents in this major are suitable for teaching in institutions of higher learning, and engaging in scientific research institutions, government agencies, press and publication, general hospitals, joint ventures, foreign-related hotels. And they can be occupied in a variety of management, research and practical work in various types of public relations departments in enterprises, advertising companies, as well as marketing research departments.
Ⅵ Social Work
1. Deepen exchanges and cooperation, and enhance the level of undergraduate education. School of Psychology also cooperate actively with the famous universities in China to carry out a project about personnel training exchanges. In 2016, School of Psychology reached a cooperative intention on the undergraduate exchange with Beijing Normal University. We have sent two undergraduates to School of Psychology at Beijing Normal University School to study for one year.
2. Establish some practice bases with others. Jiangxi Normal University actively encourages School of Psychology to communicate and cooperate with administrative organs, public institutions, enterprises and other different entities through a variety of ways. To establish some practice bases which can accord with students’ professional characteristics respectively. And to build a number of practical education bases which are extensive, influential and stable. School of Psychology established practice bases with 12 units together, for example, Jiujiang Vocational College, Yichun College at Gao'an Branch, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Affiliated Middle School of Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang Prison and so on.
3. Establish counseling room with others. The leaders of School of Psychology are very positive and initiative. They use social resources adequately. And they established a psychological counseling room with Nanchang Procuratorate together in 2016. The counseling room can be used to counsel on-site or remotely.
Ⅶ International Cooperation
We pay attention to different types of students’ overseas exchange and learning needs positively. And we provide school funding for overseas exchange students. So that students can expand their studies further in foreign universities. We have a Sino-foreign educational cooperation program approved by Ministry of Education. That is, a joint training master's cooperation project with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, known as the "public ivy" in the United States.
A list of discipline & major of School of Psychology
No. | Category of discipline | Discipline | Code | Program Name | Level | Years | Introduction |
1 | Pedagogy | Psychology | 071101 | Psychology | Bachelor | 4 | Including two research directions: Mental health education and Psychological counseling. Its duration is 4 years, and these students graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree. |
2 | Pedagogy | Psychology | 071102 | Applied Psychology | Bachelor | 4 | To meet the requirements of the various professional areas of society, with a certain occupation in the necessary psychological skills of high-level, applied expertise. Including three research directions: Mental health education and Psychological counseling, Social psychology as well as Psychological measurement technology application etc. |
3 | Pedagogy | Psychology | 045116 | Major of Mental Health Education | Master | 3 | To train talents with professional knowledge of mental health education and modern educational concepts, and new ideas, new content and new methods of curriculum reform in basic education. To ensure these talents can undertake these works easily, such as mental health education teachers with high-quality or psychological consultation teachers in primary and secondary schools, and management talents who engage in the work of the education and teaching, etc.. |
4 | Pedagogy | Psychology | 040200 | Academic Master | Master | 3 | To master high-level professionals with the professional ability of the basic theory of psychology, professional knowledge and empirical research methods, and the relevant statistical measurement methods. And students can do researches with comprehensive analysis, data processing and computer application ability. Including nine research directions-- the Psychological statistics and measurement, Cognitive psychology, Psychological theory and history, Personality psychology, Educational psychology, Mental health and counseling and others. |
5 | Pedagogy | Psychology | 045400 | Applied Psychology | Master | 3 | Including three research directions: Mental health and psychological counseling, Social psychology and human resource management, as well as Psychological measurement technology application ect. |
6 | Pedagogy | Psychology | 040201 | Basic Psychological Studies | Doctor | 3 | Including three research directions: Psychological statistics and measurement, Cognitive psychology, as well as Personality psychology research. In order to cultivate these high-level professionals who can master the forefront of psychological science, as well as the modern theory and skills of psychology. |
A list of bachelor course of School of Psychology
No. | Code | Course Name | Level |
1 | 250231 | Psychological statistics | Bachelor |
2 | 250384 | Psychometrics | Bachelor |
3 | 249056 | Psychological evaluation of geodesy | Bachelor |
4 | 249125 | Mental discipline mathematical basisⅠⅡ | Bachelor |
5 | 249031 | Talent assessment practices | Bachelor |
6 | 250272 | Cognitive psychology | Bachelor |
7 | 250053 | History of psychology | Bachelor |
8 | 250201 | Bachelor | |
9 | 250202 | Bachelor | |
10 | 249089 | Specialty English | Bachelor |
11 | 249117 | Physiological psychology | Bachelor |
12 | 249023 | Evolutionary psychology | Bachelor |
13 | 250208 | Experimental psychology | Bachelor |
14 | 249117 | Physiological psychology | Bachelor |
15 | 256946 | Human anatomy and physiology | Bachelor |
16 | 250060 | Research methods of psychology | Bachelor |
17 | 249014 | Research methods of psychology | Bachelor |
18 | 249093 | Eye Movement technique and psychological research | Bachelor |
19 | 249006 | Bachelor | |
20 | 250429 | Bachelor | |
21 | 250201(2) | Bachelor | |
22 | 001011 | The psychological quality and life development | Bachelor |
23 | 250357 | Educational psychology | Bachelor |
24 | 249013 | Teachers' psychological research | Bachelor |
25 | 249011 | Learning psychology and learning guidance | Bachelor |
26 | 249017 | The special children's psychological development and education | Bachelor |
27 | 250205 | Bachelor | |
28 | 250378 | Bachelor | |
29 | 249049 | Cognitive developmental psychology | Bachelor |
30 | 249033 | Developmental and educational psychology | Bachelor |
31 | 250597 | The contemporary middle school students psychological | Bachelor |
32 | 249007 | Middle school students' mental health and education | Bachelor |
33 | 250055 | Personality psychology | Bachelor |
34 | 250210 | Counseling psychology | Bachelor |
35 | 250211 | Psychotherapeutic approach | Bachelor |
36 | 250220 | Abnormal psychology | Bachelor |
37 | 249016 | Psychiatry | Bachelor |
38 | 250056 | Clinical psychology | Bachelor |
39 | 249035 | Psychotherapy practice | Bachelor |
40 | 250059 | School psychologist | Bachelor |
41 | 249036 | Psychological consultation and diagnosis technology | Bachelor |
42 | 249027 | Practices for psychological counseling and therapy | Bachelor |
43 | 249060 | Overview of psychological counseling and therapy | Bachelor |
44 | 249009 | Problem diagnosis and intervention of students | Bachelor |
45 | 249024 | Youth deviation behavior of counseling and therapy | Bachelor |
46 | 249064 | Psychological crisis intervention and trauma counseling | Bachelor |
47 | 259073 | Criminal psychology | Bachelor |
48 | 249094 | Clinical application of psychological test | Bachelor |
49 | 249062 | Bachelor | |
50 | 249028 | Health psychology | Bachelor |
51 | 249048 | Positive psychology | Bachelor |
52 | 249084 | psychology of emotion | Bachelor |
53 | 250228 | Market research | Bachelor |
54 | 002907 | Managerial psychology | Bachelor |
55 | 249082 | Advertising and consumption psychics | Bachelor |
56 | 250214 | Social psychology | Bachelor |
57 | 249034 | Personality social psychology | Bachelor |
58 | 249025 | Occupational psychology | Bachelor |
59 | 258327 | Human resource developing and managing | Bachelor |
60 | 249066 | Staff motivation and training | Bachelor |
61 | 249067 | EAP(employee assistance program) | Bachelor |
62 | 249083 | Bachelor | |
63 | | psychology of commonly used software applications | Bachelor |
64 | | Preschool children's mental health and counseling | Bachelor |
65 | | Adolescent psychology and personality education | Bachelor |
66 | | Employee recruitment and selection | Bachelor |
A list of the master course of School of Psychology
No. | Code | Course Name | Level |
1 | 00920017 | Research projects in social psychology (Academic degree) | Master |
2 | 00920007 | Multivariate analysis and design of experiment (Academic degree) | Master |
3 | 00920008 | Item response theory (Academic degree) | Master |
4 | 00920009 | Cognitive diagnosis theory and technology( Academic degree) | Master |
5 | 00920016 | Personality psychology (Academic degree) | Master |
6 | 00920044 | Modern measurement software applications (Academic degree) | Master |
7 | 00920043 | Advanced statistical software applications (Academic degree) | Master |
8 | 00920002 | Modern psychology theory and system (Academic degree) | Master |
9 | 00920005 | Thinking psychology research (Academic degree) | Master |
10 | 00920006 | Cognitive neuroscience (Academic degree) | Master |
11 | 00920004 | Cognitive psychology (Academic degree) | Master |
12 | 00920013 | Education psychology and its new development (Academic degree) | Master |
13 | 00920015 | Learning psychology research (Academic degree) | Master |
14 | 00920012 | Sexual psychology (Academic degree) | Master |
15 | 00920014 | Developmental psychology and its new development (Academic degree) | Master |
16 | 00920047 | Cognitive developmental psychology research (Academic degree) | Master |
17 | 00920048 | Study of social development of psychology (Academic degree) | Master |
18 | 00920045 | Clinical and health psychology research (Academic degree) | Master |
19 | 00920046 | Psychological counseling theory and technology (Academic degree) | Master |
20 | | Human resource management research methods (Academic degree) | Master |
21 | | Personnel assessment design and implementation (Academic degree) | Master |
22 | | Organizational behavior (Academic degree) | Master |
23 | | New development in social psychology (Academic degree) | Master |
24 | | Cultural psychology (Academic degree) | Master |
25 | | Senior psychological statistics (Academic degree) | Master |
26 | | Professional English (Academic degree) | Master |
27 | | Learning evaluation studies (Academic degree) | Master |
28 | | Psychological measurement (Academic degree) | Master |
29 | | The basic theory of psychology research (Academic degree) | Master |
30 | | The history of western psychology (Academic degree) | Master |
31 | 0093113 | Management psychology (Professional degree) | Master |
32 | 0093206 | Senior psychological statistics (Professional degree) | Master |
33 | 0093208 | Senior psychological measurement (should be hear) | Master |
34 | 0093114 | Human resource management (Professional degree) | Master |
35 | 0093115 | Marketing and advertising psychology (Professional degree) | Master |
36 | 0093211 | Developmental psychology project (Professional degree) | Master |
37 | 0093402 | The practice of applied psychology (Professional degree) | Master |
38 | 9993201 | Education practice (Professional degree) | Master |
39 | 0093102 | Advanced statistical software applications (Professional degree) | Master |
40 | 0093116 | Multivariate analysis (Professional degree) | Master |
41 | 0093118 | Cognitive diagnostic technology (Professional degree) | Master |
42 | 0093117 | Modern measurement theory and applications (Professional degree) | Master |
43 | 0093203 | Psychological measurement and evaluation (Professional degree) | Master |
44 | 0093103 | Primary and middle school students' psychological problems and counseling (Professional degree) | Master |
45 | 0093207 | Senior psychology research methods (Professional degree) | Master |
46 | 0093210 | Applied psychology (project Professional degree) | Master |
47 | 0093201 | Introduction to the psychological health education (Professional degree) | Master |
48 | 0093202 | School psychological counseling method and technology (Professional degree) | Master |
49 | 0093204 | Mental health education curriculum and teaching (Professional degree) | Master |
50 | 0093205 | Mental health education frontier studies (Professional degree) | Master |
51 | 0093105 | Primary and middle school students' abnormal psychology and crisis intervention (Professional degree) | Master |
52 | 0093110 | Personality psychology (Professional degree | Master |
53 | 0093111 | Psychological counseling and therapy (Professional degree) | Master |
54 | 0093112 | Clinical psychological assessment and diagnosis (Professional degree) | Master |
55 | 0093209 | Social psychology (project Professional degree) | Master |
56 | | Microteaching (Professional degree) | Master |
57 | | Education practice (Professional degree) | Master |
58 | | Professional English (Professional degree) | Master |
59 | | Adolescent psychological development and education (Master of Education cognition) | Master |
60 | | Education psychology (Master of Education) | Master |
61 | | Abnormal psychology and health psychology (Master of Education) | Master |
62 | | Psychological method and SPSS software application (Master of Education) | Master |
63 | | Personality psychology (Master of Education) | Master |
64 | | Psychological tests and diagnostic skills (Master of Education) | Master |
65 | | Adolescent sexual counseling (Master of Education) | Master |
66 | | The theory and method of psychological counseling (Master of Education) | Master |
67 | | Psychological counseling skills (Master of Education) | Master |
68 | | Mental health counseling teaching design and case analysis (Master of Education) | Master |
A list of the doctor course of School of Psychology
No. | Code | Course Name | Level |
1 | | Marxism and ideological trend of contemporary society | Doctor |
2 | | First foreign language | Doctor |
3 | | Cognitive psychology research | Doctor |
4 | | Modern research data analysis method | Doctor |
5 | | The personality theory research | Doctor |
6 | | Organizational behavior research | Doctor |
7 | | Intelligence psychology research | Doctor |
8 | | Modern surveying research | Doctor |
9 | | The personality theory application research | Doctor |
10 | | Brand of psychological research | Doctor |
11 | | The principle of cognitive psychology | Doctor |
12 | | Psychological statistical studies | Doctor |
13 | | Senior psychology research methods | Doctor |
14 | | Personality psychology theory and application research | Doctor |
15 | | Second Foreign Language | Doctor |
16 | | Higher statistical studies | Doctor |
17 | | Modern surveying and artificial intelligence research | Doctor |