Postgraduate entrance examination subjects for the major of cultural relics and museum studies

School major:

Basic academic system: four years | Enrollment target: | Educational background: technical secondary school | Major code: 060104

Cultivation objectives

Cultivation Objectives

Training Objectives: This major cultivates students with basic theories and basic knowledge of cultural relics and museology, who can work in government cultural relics management agencies, various museums or exhibition halls, cultural relics and archaeological research institutions, and Comprehensive talents engaged in cultural relics and museum management and research in enterprises, institutions or fields such as press, publishing, education, etc.

Cultivation requirements: Students in this major mainly learn the basic theories and basic knowledge of cultural relics and museology, receive basic training in comprehensive knowledge and skills such as history, archaeology, art and technology, and have the ability to study cultural relics and museums and Basic qualities of cultural and museum management.

Graduates should acquire the following knowledge and abilities:

1. Master the basic theories, knowledge and skills of cultural relics and museology, and have a certain understanding of related humanities, social sciences and natural sciences;

2. Basically master the main types of cultural relics and examples of important cultural relics at home and abroad;

3. Have the basic ability to identify, analyze and evaluate cultural heritage;

4. Be familiar with national cultural relics work guidelines, policies and regulations, and understand international regulations on cultural relics and museum management;

5. Understand the role of museums in the management of human cultural relics and natural relics, as well as traditional methods and modern scientific and technological knowledge in the repair and preservation of cultural relics;

6. Master the basic methods of literature retrieval and data query, and have certain critical thinking skills.

Main disciplines: cultural relics, museology, archeology, and history.

Core courses: Introduction to Cultural Relics, Introduction to Museology, Museum Practice, Introduction to Major Categories of Cultural Relics, Cultural Relics and Archaeological Technology, Cultural Relics Protection Management, General Introduction to Archeology, Chinese History, and World History.

Main practical teaching links: social survey, business internship, academic year thesis, graduation thesis, reading report, academic frontier lecture, college student scientific research project establishment, etc.

Length of study: four years.

Degree awarded: Bachelor of History.

Professional ability requirements

Professional ability requirements

Main content of professional teaching

Main content of professional teaching

《 "Introduction to Museology", "Museum Display Design", "Museum Collection Management", "Museum Management", "History of Material Culture", "Cultural Anthropology", "Introduction to Cultural Relics", "Cultural Relics Management and Regulations", "Cultural Relics and Archaeological Technology", "Fundamentals of Cultural Relics Protection"

Professional (Skills) Direction

Professional (Skills) Direction

Museums and cultural relics halls: display design, collections Management, cultural relic identification, and cultural relic protection.

Examples of vocational qualification certificates

Examples of vocational qualification certificates

Examples of continuing study majors

Employment direction

Employment Directions

Employment directions and employment prospects for cultural relics and museology majors

Government cultural relics management and research institutions, various museums and display and exhibition units, archaeological departments, cultural relics and art business units, Listing and protection of cultural relics, museum management and research in tourism departments, press and publishing and educational units; identification, evaluation and protection of cultural relics in public security, customs, commodity inspection, auction and pawn shops, jewelry shops, etc.

Corresponding occupations (positions)

Corresponding occupations (positions) Other information:

There are three subjects in the preliminary postgraduate entrance examination for cultural relics and museums, namely ideological and political theory, foreign language, and business courses, comprehensive literature and comprehensive studies. The content of the re-examination is related to the major you applied for and the school, and the school determines the scope and form of the examination. The Master of Cultural Relics and Museums (M.C.H.M), which belongs to the category of history, is a degree type established by the country to meet the demand for high-level, applied professionals in the development of cultural relics and museums in the new era. In recent years, various universities have trained and transported a large number of high-level applied talents to the cultural and museum industry, providing human resource support for the development of my country's cultural and museum industry. According to the professional directory of Yanzhao.com, there are 50 colleges and universities recruiting postgraduate students majoring in cultural relics and museums in 2022. At present, the training methods for Master of Arts and Ph.D. in various universities generally adopt the method of combining on-campus study and professional internship, adhering to the combination of theory and practice, and attaching great importance to case teaching and practical teaching. Practical and academic activities are conducive to broadening the horizons of students majoring in cultural studies and promoting students to actively understand the progress of the subject. Practical teaching forms include cultural relic protection and scientific and technological archeology experimental courses, field excavations and surveys, museum exhibition practices, etc.