Atmospheric Science The predecessor of the Atmospheric Science major is the Meteorology major founded in 1971. After 40 years of development and improvement, there were a lot of professionals in the field of atmospheric science who graduated from this major. The department of atmospheric science built up the comprehensive talent cultivation system awarding bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees. There are 1 undergraduate major of atmospheric science, 2 degree authorization points of masters on Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, and 1 degree authorization point of doctors on Meteorology. Atmospheric Science is the only provincial key discipline with degree authorization point of doctors on Meteorology and degree authorization point of masters in Southwestern China, meanwhile, the brand discipline in Yunnan province and the state-level characteristic discipline. The department owns the only Ozone surface-based observing station of WMO among Chinese universities. Furthermore, the department has the climate research center for southeastern Asia, Atmospheric Physics Laboratory, Atmospheric Environment Laboratory, Atmospheric Circulation Numerical Simulation Laboratory, Satellite Ground Station for MODIS, Meteorological Internship Station, Surface-based Automatic Meteorological Observing Station, Comprehensive Laboratory for Earth Sciences and many practice bases(Kunming, Chenggong, Yuxi and Chuxiong, etc). The department of Atmospheric Science has abundant researches concerning low latitude plateau climate change and the atmospheric environment and regional response, etc. Up till now, 3 research directions of global climate change and and regional response, atmospheric trace elements and their environmental effects, and mountain climate and geological meteorological disasters have developed with distinguished features, which has great influence on relevant fields both domestically and internationally. There are 19 faculty members in total, 5 professors(3 of them are doctoral supervisors), 2 associate professors. Moreover, there are more than 10 guest professors, part-time master’s and doctoral supervisors from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, and Weather Bureau of Yunnan province. In the past 5 years, faculty members of the department undertook more than 20 research projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and 3 research projects based on "973" Program and more than 10 research projects supported by Yunnan Natural Science Foundation, publish more than 100 academic essays and 6 coursebooks and academic books, and won 3 ministerial Natural Science Award and Technological Progress Award. In the past 10 years, the employment rate and the rate of postgraduate entrance examination were all in high levels. Many graduating students succeeded in matriculation to masters or doctors in the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, CAS, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Beijing Normal University, Nanjing University, Lanzhou University, Sun Yat-sen University, Ocean University of China, Yunnan University, etc. Other graduating students became researchers or workers in different provincial meteorological, environment-protecting and educational departments and technical backbones in the army. The rate of graduating students’ matriculating to masters or doctors have kept roughly 50% in recent years, which ranked high among majors in Yunnan university. With the great demand for professionals in the field of Atmospheric Science growing steadily, this major shows good employment prospects. The employment rate of graduating students keeps stably more than 95% and even reaches 100% in most years. At present, this major promotes two kinds of talent-cultivation model, elite students' class and ordinary students’ class. Elite students’ class is set up together with the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, whose aim is to select excellent students from the originally enrolled students and students from relevant science majors, and implement a higher cultivating standard and the flexible teaching methodology. The talent-cultivation is achieved together with the Institute of Atmospheric Science, CAS. Elite students' class comply with the theory-based model while ordinary students’ class comply with the application-based model. Educational Goal: Elite students’ class requires solid foundation for math, physics and chemistry, a higher level of English and more capability of computer science. Students should love the research into Atmospheric Science and master the research methods on Atmospheric Science. Students are cultivated to gain innovative thoughts and become excellent undergraduates in this field. Elite students’ class can provide graduating students who want to further their study with abundant knowledge reserves, great capability of research and huge potential of further development. Ordinary students’ class focuses more on the stronger practical ability. Students are required to masterly research into meteorological problems with professional knowledge and computer science. Ordinary students’ class can provide expertise for modern meteorological operational work and relevant administration work. Main disciplines: Atmospheric Science, Environmental Science Study Duration: 4 years Degree Conferred: Bachelor of Science Major subjects: Advanced mathematics, probability and mathematical statistics, method of mathematical physics, basic mechanics, theoretical mechanics, fluid mechanics, college chemistry, foundations for atmospheric dynamics, computing method, numerical weather forecast, modern meteorological observation, atmospheric physics, synoptic meteorology, meteorological statistical forecast, radar meteorology and satellite meteorology. Occupational Direction: Elite students’ class has more chances for students to become recommended exam-free postgraduates. Those who acquire the qualification for exam-free postgraduates can further their study in Yunnan University, the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, or other relevant postgraduate education units. The graduating students were employed mainly in those provincial departments of Meteorology, environmental protection, civil aviation and education to do research on Atmospheric Science, do meteorological operational work or engage in weather forecast in the army. Geophysics The department of Geophysics in Yunnan University was founded in 1975, which was the third one cultivating professionals of geophysics after Peking University andUniversity of Science and Technology of China. In 2000, the department acquired master’s degree authorization on Solid-earth Geophysics. In 2011, the department acquired master’s degree authorization of first-level discipline on Geophysics. In the past 40 years, more than 1000 students graduated from this department became professional talents in the field of geophysics(68 of them are postgraduates), which was the embodiment of the successful talent-cultivation model. The annual number of graduating students is less than 100 and most of them choose to further their study, so the employment prospects of the graduating students are very optimistic. Since 2008, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS has set up the Geophysics Motivational Scholarship and Geo-science climbing scholarship to award excellent student in the department of Geophysics and Geology. At present, the department build up Digital Seismological Laboratory, Geomagnetism and Geo-electricity Laboratory, Ultrasonic Modeling Laboratory and Gravity Laboratory and equip with the digital seismograph, broadband digital seismograph, digital high-density electrical instrument, ultrasonoscope and High Performance Computer Cluster. Moreover, many other teaching and scientific researching devices like ground penetrating radar and tunnel engineering advanced detectors are under construction with approval. At present, there are 16 faculty members in the department where younger teachers under 50 years old all have the masters’ degree or higher ones. 5 of them are professors, 3 associate professors, 8 doctors, 2 young academic leaders and 3 overseas returned intellectuals. Through joint efforts of different generations of faculty members in the department, research directions of seismology and physics of the earth's interior, geomagnetic and physics of the high altitude, earth dynamics, and engineering seismology were formed step by step. Since 2008, faculty members of the department have undertook 17 research projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)(one of them is the core project), 8 research projects supported by Yunnan Natural Science Foundation, 1 subtopic in a “973” program and 2 international cooperation projects. Meanwhile, more than 30 high-level academic essays were published in SCI publications and ministerial Natural Science Award and Technological Progress Award were given for 5 times. In recent 3 years, many graduating students succeeded in matriculation to masters or doctors in the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS, the Institute of Geophysics, the Institute of Earthquake Prediction and the Institute of Geology in Seismological Bureau of China, Peking University and Yunnan University, etc. Other graduating students were all employed by those Public Institutions. Most of them became researchers or operational workers in provincial Seismological Bureau or Bureau of earthquake prevention and mitigation while others were distributed to work in the provincial Survey and Design Institutes, all of whom were highly praised by the employers. Among all majors in Yunnan University, the employment rate and the rate of postgraduate entrance examination were all in high levels. In the mean time, faculty members in the department positively devoted themselves to the earthquake prevention and mitigation in Yunnan province. They did seismic safety evaluation for the tallest building in Yunnan province, the door of East Asia(350m tall). Furthermore, they did the phase-2 seismic zoning for Chenggong, undertook the tunnel advanced detection of highways in Yunnan province and evaluated the construction quality of railway tunnels, which had achieved prominent economic and social effects. The total project funds reached 21.642 million RMB. Educational Goal: Students in this major should have solid foundation for mathematical basic theories and professional knowledge on geophysics, and basic skills of putting geophysical knowledge and computer science in to practice with good scientific literacy and professional competence. Students are cultivated to become professional talents for geophysical departments or researching talents for relevant institutes. Through systematic learning of maths, physics and other relevant professional knowledge, students can acquire the skill of detecting the earth’s interior structure using modern computing technology. A lot of teaching practice makes students capable of clearing interpreting the relationship among the earth’s interior structure, crustal movement and earthquakes. The graduating students have the broad geophysical knowledge system and a good ability of refreshing their knowledge., which are beneficial to the development of geophysics. Main disciplines: Geology, physics Study Duration: 4 years Degree Conferred: Bachelor of Science Major subjects: Advanced mathematics, mechanics, thermology, general physics experiment, theoretical mechanics, electromagnetics, general geology, method of mathematical physics, elasticity mechanics, seismic digital signal processing, electrodynamics,geomagnetism,gravity, Seismology, geoelectrics, geophysical observation, seismic safety evaluation. Occupational Direction: Most graduating students were distributed to provincial Seismological Bureau to do geophysical work while few of them chose to further their study abroad. This department has already been the professional talents’ training base for all levels of seismological departments. In 2007, China Seismological Bureau signed the agreement on cooperation according to its current talent demand. In that situation, so many graduating students became the leader or key member of all levels of seismological department. In the past 5 years, the graduate employment rate were all more than 90%. Physical Geography and Resource Environment There are now 11 faculty members in the department, in which 6 have the doctoral degrees and 4 have the masters’ degrees. 2 of them are professors(researchers), 7 of them are associate professors and 2 of them are lecturers(experimenters). The department has 3 authorization points of masters’ degree on human geography, physical geography and land resource management and owns Laboratory for physical geography, Laboratory for digital earth and remote sensing, the Karst environment Laboratory, the Quaternary environmental Laboratory, and Laboratory for measurement and maps. The department has built up good relationship with foreign educational and researching institutions. Domestically, the theory of developing management and relevant application fields have prominent advantages. Researches on land resource development and management, water resource utilization, plateau and mountain hazards and karst landform, etc are widely carried out and series of scientific expedition in western China are in progress. In recent years, faculty members in the department undertook many state and provincial researching projects and social service projects, whose achievements were fruitful. Previous graduates were employed in those provincial land, surveying and mapping and environmental protection departments, all kinds of resource management institutions and relevant research institutions, universities and public institutions to work on researching, teaching, planning and management, etc, which were widely praised. The graduate employment rate in recent years kept stably more than 90% while the rate of postgraduate entrance examination reached 50%. Educational Goal: This department is based on the earth's surface features and changes, digital management of natural resources and evaluation and protection of environment and aims at cultivating students to have the solid basis for mathematical physics and to acquire fundamental theoretical knowledge and research methods. With strict training in scientific thinking and professional skills, students are required to skillfully master the 3S technology and to gain the ability of doing the innovating research, under the situation of which can they engage in natural geographical process, management for natural resources, researches on environmental changes and environmental protection in educational institutes, relevant governmental departments and public institutions. Main disciplines: Geography, environics Study Duration: 4 years Degree Conferred: Bachelor of Science Major subjects: geology and geomorphology, weather, climate and hydrology, plant-soil geography, human geography, economic geography, cartography, introduction to remote sensing, general chemistry, introduction to environmental science, fundamentals of ecology, principle of geographical information system, introduction to resource science, environmental project and geographical research methods. Selective courses are offered from the directions of Digital management and utilization of resources and Environmental quality assessment and protection. Occupational Direction: Land,surveying and mapping and environmental protection departments, all kinds of resource management institutions and relevant research institutions, universities, consulting companies in relevant fields, non-governmental organizations or other governmental departments and public institutions. Human Geography and urban Planning There are now 14 faculty members in the department, including 3 professors, 9 associate professors and 2 lecturers(experimenters). 5 of them have doctoral degrees while 4 of them have masters’ degrees. The department has 3 authorization points of masters’ degree on human geography, physical geography and land resource management and owns Laboratory for human geography, Laboratory for digital earth and remote sensing, regional planning Laboratory, drawing room, and Laboratory for measurement and maps. The department has built up good relationship with foreign educational and researching institutions. Domestically, the theory of developing management and relevant application fields have prominent advantages. Researches on land use planning and management, urban system planning, industrial layout and development, and urban-rural planning and management, etc are widely carried out. In recent years, faculty members in the department undertook many state and provincial researching projects and social service projects, whose achievements were fruitful. Previous graduates were employed in those provincial urban-rural planning and management and environmental protection departments, all kinds of resource management institutions and relevant research institutions, universities and public institutions to work on researching, teaching, planning and management, etc, which were widely praised. The graduate employment rate in recent years kept stably more than 80% while the rate of postgraduate entrance examination reached 40%. Educational Goal: Students are required to gain fundamental theories, knowledge and skills on Human Geography and Urban Planning, innovative thinking and practical ability. With strict training in scientific thinking and professional skills, students should base their academic thinking on macro-view and medium-view regional planning and land use planning and management, and skillfully manage the professional skills of applications of GIS and RS, urban-rural planning and designing, and land evaluation and planning, etc, under the situation of which can they engage in urban-rural construction and regional development planning and land use and planning in educational institutes, relevant governmental departments and public institutions. Main disciplines: Geography, planning science Study Duration: 4 years Degree Conferred: Bachelor of Science Major subjects: geology and geomorphology, weather, climate and hydrology, plant-soil geography, human geography, economic geography, cartography, introduction to remote sensing, principle of geographical information system, regional analysis and planning, principle of urban-rural planning, land use and planning. Selective courses are offered from the directions of urban-rural planning and land resources and planning. Occupational Direction: Urban-rural planning and designing institutions, urban construction and management department, research institutes, educational institutions, decision-making advisory institutions, land assessment institutions, cultural and religious management department, non-governmental organizations or other governmental departments and public institutions. Geographical Information System There are 11 faculty members in the department, including 3 professors, 2 associate professors, 4 lecturers and 2 teaching assistants. 4 of them have doctoral degrees while 7 of them have masters’ degrees. The department has 2 authorization points of masters’ degree on cartography and geographical information system and regional economics and owns geography comprehensive Laboratory, Laboratory for digital earth and remote sensing and Laboratory for measurement and maps. Geographical information system, abbreviated as GIS, is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographical data. Students are cultivated to have academic accomplishment on GIS. During the 4-year study, students are required to do both indoor scientific experiments and outdoor field practice. Students should have good scientific accomplishment, fundamental skills on GIS applications, research and development, and primary ability to teach, research, develop and manage. Graduates of this major should acquire fundamental theories and knowledge on geography, computer science, GIS, cartography, GPS and remote sensing, etc, and basic methods of GIS development. Furthermore, graduates should learn more about fundamentals of adjacent disciplines like geography, resource environment and urban-rural planning, environmental science, computer science andsurveying and mapping engineering, etc, and know more about the theoretical frontiers, application prospects and the latest development trend of geographical information industry, under the situation of which should graduates gain the ability for experimental design, experimental conditions creation and conclusion, result organization, essay writing and academic communication participation. Graduates of this department have a wider choice for jobs and can do geo-information relevant management, application, research and development work in urban construction, land, environment, traffic, population, statistics, government, military, trade departments, state oriented enterprises, IT corporations, information centers and research institutions. In recent three years, graduating students succeeded in matriculation to masters in the Chinese Academy of Science, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Wuhan University, Chinese Eastern Normal University, Nanjing University, Nanjing Normal University and Yunnan University, etc. The graduate employment rate in recent years kept stably more than 95% while the rate of postgraduate entrance examination reached or exceeded 40%. Educational Goal: Students are required to gain fundamental theories, knowledge and skills on geographical information system, remote sensing, global positioning system, computer processing and information mining, system design and integration, and spatial analysis. Graduates should learn more about the frontiers, the applications and the development prospects in the fields of GIS, RS and GPS. With strict training in scientific thinking and professional skills, students should gain sufficient ability of scientific researching and become the senior talents combining theories and applications of resources, environment, human geography, society and economics, etc. Main disciplines: Geography, cartography and computer science Study Duration: 4 years Degree Conferred: Bachelor of Science Major subjects: Cartography, surveying and mapping, introduction to remote sensing, principle of geographical information system, data structure, remote sensing digital image processing, spatial analysis, principle of database, programming with C#, programming with Java, GIS secondary development, principle and application of GPS and integrative practice for 3S techniques. Occupational Direction: Research institutions, universities, urban, regional resource management, agriculture, environment, traffic, population, land, housing estate, public security and state defense relevant departments. Geology The predecessor of geology department is the department of mining and metallurgy founded in 1923. After the institutional adjustment in the 1950s, the department of mining and metallurgy was independent into relevant departments in Kunming University of Science and Technology, and Changsha Institute of Mining. In 2008, geology major was reconstructed into the department of geology, the aim of which was to respond the request of strengthening the geological work. The department has the geology undergraduate major and the authorization point of masters’ degree on environmental geology. The department started to receive undergraduates on geology in 2009 and postgraduates on environmental geology in 2016. There are 15 faculty members in this department, including 2 professors and 3 associate professors. 13 of them have doctoral degrees, in which 1 of them was the innovative talent in Yunnan Province while 2 of them were the candidates of the young and middle-aged backbone teachers' training program. In the past 3 years, faculty members of the department undertook 4 research projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2 open fund projects of national key Laboratory, 1 major special project of Yunnan provincial department of education, 6 projects of special national geological survey and other social service projects, publish more than 10 academic essays and 2 academic books, and done many scientific research and social service work on mineral geology, hazardous geology, remote sensing geology and Stratigraphy and Paleontology. This department has already built the Laboratory for general geology, geological specimen showcase, Laboratory for Mineralogy, Laboratory for Petrology, microscopy Laboratory, Laboratory of Mineral Deposit, Tectonic Geology Laboratory, Laboratory of Paleontology and Geochronology, Remote Sensing Geology Laboratory and Laboratory of surveying and mapping, etc. Since 2010, the department has continuously bought reflection-transmission polarizing microscope, stereo-microscope, polarizing microscope, rock cutting machine, lapping machine, polishing machine, microdrilling system, Cooling-Heating Stage and Hot Stage, etc, and built Rock and Mineral Preparation and Analysis Laboratory. Now, Fluid Geochemistry Laboratory and Quaternary Dating Laboratory, etc are under construction. The department owns the researching institutions of Remote Sensing Geological Center, Plateau Mountain Hazard and Environment Research Center and Institute of Geology, etc. Furthermore, the department signed the agreement on field teaching practice base with public institutions and mining enterprises like Yunnan Provincial Geological Survey Institute, Yunnan Gold Group Co., Ltd. Beiya Branch, Yunnan Institute of Geological Engineering Survey (Southwest Yunnan Earthquake Emergency Prevention and Control Center) and Tengchong Volcano Geopark, etc. The practice bases are located throughout Dali, Lijiang, Tengchong, Yuxi and other places. Knowledge and ability that graduates from this major should acquire are as follows. (1) Master the basic theory and knowledge of mathematics, physics and geology, etc. (2) Grasp the basic work methods and skills such as land survey and regional geological survey, microscopic and field identification of rocks and minerals, acquisition and preparation of paleontological samples, analysis and preliminary identification, geological structure analysis and master the general techniques and methods of Data collection, processing, comprehensive research and interpretation of the results on geophysics, geochemistry, remote sensing geology and the ability to solve the problem of geological disasters, geological engineering, seismic safety evaluation and geological resources assessment, etc. (3) Learn more about the frontier theory, application prospects and the latest developments of modern geology. (4) Master the basic methods of data query and obtaining access to information and gain the ability for experimental design, experimental conditions creation and conclusion, result organization, essay writing and academic communication participation. The graduates of this department succeeded in matriculation to the masters in Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Institute of Geo-mechanics, China Earthquake Administration, University of Geology of China (Beijing), Central South University, Northwest University, Chengdu University of Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhejiang University and Canada Fanshawe College, etc, the rate of which reached or exceeded 50%. Other graduating students chose to do research or operational work in provincial Geology and Mineral Resources, seismology, land and education departments. Graduates of this department have strong practical, innovative ability and abundant professional knowledge, who are widely praised by the employers. Educational Goal: Students in this major should have solid foundation for mathematical theories, acquire fundamentals and researching methods on modern geology ,and have the solid foundation for geology and the abundant knowledge. Graduates should be geological talents to gain the ability of researching, teaching and management with the spirit of innovation and hard-work, and the good scientific and humanism qualities. Main disciplines: Geography, cartography and computer science Study Duration: 4 years Degree Conferred: Bachelor of Science Major subjects: (1) Basic disciplinary courses: advanced mathematics, general chemistry, mechanics, electromagnetism, thermology, introduction to earth science. (2) Specialized key courses: crystallography and mineralogy, sedimentary petrology, crystal optics, magmatic petrology, metamorphic petrology, tectonic geology, paleontology and geohistory, geomorphology and Quaternary geology, study of mineral deposit, geochemistry and hydrographic engineering and engineering geology. (3) Specialized elective courses: fundamentals of surveying and mapping, principle of geographical information system (together with experimental courses on MAPGIS), regional tectonics, remote sensing geology, environmental geology, plate tectonics, assessment of geological hazards, seismic safety assessment and Mineral Exploration, etc. Main practical teaching parts: Experimental courses and practical field practice are included. The former one consists of experiments for introduction to earth science, general physics experiments, general chemistry experiments, crystallography and mineralogy experiments, sedimentary petrology experiments, magmatic petrology experiments, metamorphic petrology experiments, tectonic geology experiments, and paleontology and geohistory experiments. The latter one is made up of the first-year geological knowledge practice in Dali and Tengchong, the second-year practice geological mapping in Chenggong Yangzong lake, the third-year integrated practice of research and production and the practice of graduating thesis. Occupational Direction: Research institutes, universities, public institutions and administrative departments of geological mineralogy, metallurgy, constructing materials, petroleum, coal, material, environment, basic engineering and tourism development, etc. |
