The School of Humanities is currently the only faculty of humanities among higher institutions in Shenzhen. The School aims to provide an all-round education to produce well-rounded and innovative talents with solid professional foundation and passion for practice, research and application.

The School of Humanities was previously called the School of Liberal Arts, which was expanded from the Chinese Department founded by Yue Daiyun and Hu Jingzhi in 1984. The Chinese Department was also one of the earliest departments established by Shenzhen University.

Since its founding, the School has grown rapidly. Now we offer three undergraduate programs, namely Chinese Language and Literature, Philosophy and History, two first-tier discipline master's degree programs in Chinese Language and Literature and Philosophy, one professional master's degree program in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages and one first-tier discipline PhD program in Chinese Language and Literature. Our master’s degree programs cover 16 disciplines including Ancient Chinese Literature, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Literature and Art, Comparative Literature and World Literature, Marxist Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy and Foreign Philosophy. Additionally, the School has opened the interdisciplinary “Chinese Classics Elite Class” for all majors.

The School also has a library which contains more than 60,000 books and a Chinese Literature and Language Information Processing Experimental Teaching Center.

Currently, the School has a total graduate enrollment of more than 1000 undergraduates and 200 graduate students. The School boasts an accomplished faculty comprising teachers with high quality and international dimension. We have 75 full-time faculty members, including 4 distinguished professors, 19 full professors and 26 associate professors, 60% of whom hold senior titles. All the newly hired teachers hold PhD degrees from famous universities at home and abroad. Not only have our faculty made outstanding achievements in traditional fields such as literary aesthetics, ancient Chinese literature and Chinese philosophy, but they have also distinguished themselves in emerging areas such as neuroscience philosophy and dyslexia. In recent years, our faculty members have published more than 100 academic monographs and over 300 research papers in core journals including Social Science in China, Literary Review and Philosophical Research. The School has undertaken 27 national, ministerial and provincial projects and won 26 awards at ministerial and provincial levels and above.