Department setting of Xi University for the Aged

The general school has five departments, including painting and calligraphy department, vocal music department, instrumental music department, literature department and comprehensive department, with more than 40 courses and more than 200 classes. The academic system is divided into six months, one year and two years. In order to cultivate high-level artistic talents, the school has also established a painting and calligraphy institute, an art institute and a photography association, a literary salon and a gourd silk association. It has opened up an endless platform for students to further their studies. Each specialized course is 2 hours per semester 16 weeks, once a week 1 time.

In order to improve the teaching quality, the school hired nearly 100 retired professors, experts and social celebrities with profound academic attainments and rich teaching experience, and hired some young and middle-aged professors and experts to teach part-time according to actual needs. According to the characteristics of individual cultural foundation, physiological and psychological differences and diversified needs of elderly students, teaching methods such as "intensive teaching, more practice, intuition and interaction" are adopted to combine knowledge, interest and practicality to arouse students' enthusiasm. At the same time, get out of school, give full play to the waste heat and serve the society.