Department of Scientific Socialism was evolved from the teaching and research division of scientific socialism which was founded by the political department of Central of China Normal University in June, 1978. It was taken the lead by professor Gaoyuan、professor Lihuibin、professor Yanghongyu with carrying out the study of Scientific Socialism. Edited by professor Gaoyuan, ‘The Scientific Socialism’, as the core professional publication of China, is renamed “The Studies in socialism”. It was in the 6th Of the Marx doctrine of discipline from the CSSCI (2014-2015) the journals list. In 2001, the major of scientific socialism and international communism movement was listed in the national key discipline. There are 7 Existing full-time teachers, including
4 professors, 2 associate professors, and 9 in-service teachers, 11 retired teachers. With a doctoral and a master, the main research directions are the theory of socialism, contemporary world socialism, and socialist realistic problems in scientific research.
Recent years, three PhD theses won the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertations and 9 PhD theses won the Hubei province Excellent Doctoral Dissertations. Our graduates are all over the enterprises and institutions, government agencies, universities etc. among them, there are a plenty of powerful person in the society, such as Professor Mou Chengwen, who was called “the folk scholar” by the mass media and Ruan Chengfa, the Wuhan City party secretary, and so on.Nowadays, the Discipline construction and the personnel training are the main target of The Scientific Socialism Academy. In the next 5 years, we are striving to become ‘’the domestic first-class, internationally influential, complete, adequate funding, personnel training quality high" academic research institutions.
