Founded in May 2008, the School of Media and Art consists three undergraduate majors: Animation, Digital Media Art, Art and Technology. Six graduate majors: Digital Media, Sculpturing, Chinese Painting, Film Directing, Broadcasting Hosting and Animation. Also includes a 3+1 Chinese-Foreign cooperation in running schools in Digital Media Art.
School of Media and Art has already set up a rational, creative team to teach and research and gather a team of well-known artists. The school has more than 50 research staff members, including 16 associate professors, 10 staff members with doctor degree, more than 30% of the tutors have overseas teaching experience. Our teaching staff members have animation, digital media art and exhibition design expertise.. At the same time, the school recruits famous artists, such as Weishan Wu, Jirao Lin, Ping Gu, Yingjie Song, Dingzhen Zhu, Qiang Tang, etc to join the graduate teaching.
Our staff members pay attention on how to improve the manipulative ability for students and actively construct the quality assurance for practical teaching. Due to the schools attempts in recent years, in 2015 the school was approved from the Digital Creative Practical Education Centre of Jiangsu, constantly strengthen the system, and strive to create a high-quality practical teaching platform. School of Media and Art has already established Meteorological Animation Teaching Platform. It affords the pedagogical tasks of Digital Media Art. School of Media and Art has also established specific laboratories and media rooms to support the international teaching collaboration.
School of Media and Art has 16 laboratories which have large interactive touch screens, 3D projector NEC PA550W, graphics workstation IBM XEON X5450, single-lens reflex camera 5DMarkIII, sound console Yamaha 01V96VCM, condenser microphone NeumannU87Ai, etc. Total value is about 4.5 million. The laboratory configuration has a high level in digital media, CG and Exhibition.
At the same time, the school enhances the practice bases out of the campus. Our school has the long-term stable collaborative relations with Nanjing Original Force computer animation company, Perfect Power (Nanjing branch), Jiangsu Hua Bo Creative Industry Co. Ltd. and Jiangsu play group, Jiangsu Province Meteorological practice base film and Television Centre, Nanjing Yan gushing Technology Co. Ltd, Huafeng meteorological media group, altogether about 20 practice bases. These high quality education resources provide a good basis for our students to learn occupational skill knowledge, work experience and requirements for future employment.
The school insists the principles of "Art Blending with Science and Technology, Professional Skill Suitable with Marketing” for purpose. For years, the school has been working in accordance with the educational philosophy of rigorous scholarship and commitment to serving the society, maintaining a up-to-date knowledge of the development of animation and digital media and arts around the world, enforcing exchanges with leading institutes in the same field and companies at home and abroad and building a healthy academic atmosphere for cultivating talents.
