In recent days, the application of Zhong Fangrong, a girl from Leiyang, Hunan, to the Department of Archaeology at Peking University, has continued to arouse social concern and heated discussion. On the evening of August 4, Xiaoxiang Morning News interviewed Professor Shen Ruiwen, vice president of the School of Archaeology and Arts of Peking University. He was about to become the class teacher of the 2020 class. He congratulated Zhong on his choice of ideals and introduced the prospects of undergraduate graduates in this major in recent years. He believed that during the learning process, for those who like (archaeology), they would enjoy it and not change their enjoyment."
Coincidentally, he will serve as the head teacher of Zhong
Regarding the hot search of Zhong's application for the archaeology major of Peking University, Shen Ruiwen admitted: "It's both surprising and not surprising." He thanked all sectors of society for their attention and said that this "is just a student filling out application forms according to his preferences."
Shen Ruiwen introduced that Peking University School of Archaeology and Arts grew up with Chinese archaeology, and the history of Peking University archaeology is almost as long as the history of Chinese archaeology. The Chinese Studies Department of Peking University, founded in 1921, is the predecessor of the archaeology major. By 1952, the first archaeology major among the universities in my country, the Archaeology Department of Peking University, was officially established. By the time of 1952, the first archaeology major in the Department of History of Peking University. By now, the School of Archaeology and Arts of Peking University has formed a discipline system with Chinese archaeology, cultural heritage protection technology, and scientific and technological archaeology as the pillars and foreign archaeology as the supplement, and has established a teaching system with field archaeology as the core. Teach the fields and cultivate people in practice. It is reported that the institute has won 33 "Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries in the Country" over the years, ranking first among universities in the country.
Coincidentally, Shen Ruiwen is in charge of the teaching work of the college. According to the arrangement, he will be the head teacher of the 2020 freshman class. Regarding the meeting between teachers and students not long later, Shen Ruiwen revealed that he wanted to tell Zhong Fangrong: "I wish her good results and sincerely chose her ideals. As the head teacher, I hope she can work with everyone to study and live calmly in our big family, soar freely in Yanyuan, and let her dreams fly."
revealed: He once admitted the highest score candidate, and his employment situation has been very good in previous years
At the same time, Shen Ruiwen also paid attention to the hot discussions on the Internet, saying that the focus of netizens' controversy is still on employment. So, what is the enrollment and employment status of Peking University’s archaeology major in recent years?
It is reported that the annual undergraduate enrollment base of Peking University’s School of Archaeology and Arts is 40. Regarding high-scoring candidates like Zhong, Shen Ruiwen introduced: "Class Zhong is just one of the many high-scoring candidates that our college has recruited over the years. Previously, our college had recruited two highest scores in liberal arts, one was Zhang Chi, the highest score in Hebei Province in 1981 (now the director of our college’s credit committee), and the other was Li Baoping, the highest score in Inner Mongolia in 1991, and now works in the UK." Among the 2016 undergraduates who graduated this year, there were also high-scoring students such as Yang Zhuzi, the fifth place in liberal arts in Hunan Province and Lu Minshen, the 10th place in liberal arts in Anhui Province.
As for the admission and employment of undergraduate graduates, Shen Ruiwen said: "The employment situation in previous years is very good." He introduced that in recent years, most undergraduate graduates have chosen to continue their studies, and more than 50% of students choose to study in China. Among this group of students, a large majority of students who are qualified to be admitted to this college or sister colleges and other scientific research institutions to continue to pursue master's and doctoral degree students. About 20% of students choose to study abroad. Their main admission institutions are world-renowned universities such as Princeton University , Harvard University , and Oxford University .
In addition, about 20% of students choose to find employment every year, and the units that are employed are also more diverse, including cultural relics management departments, archaeological units at all levels, museums, publishers, newspapers and others (such as companies, enterprises), etc.
Share: Archaeology makes my life full and glorious
It is worth sharing that Shen Ruiwen was admitted to the Department of Archaeology of Peking University in 1991. He recalled: "I am a relatively calm person. I read books at home. Naturally, I like history and archaeology, and academic research." Regarding the controversial "money" path among netizens, Shen Ruiwen admitted: "I really didn't think that it would be good if I could pass the exam."
Not only that, in many people's impression, archaeological learning is a hard and boring process. How do you feel about real archaeological learning? Shen Ruiwen said bluntly: "I think any professional or specialized learning may be hard and boring to the outside world. For the parties involved, they must go through a process of long-term diligence accumulation. "But in this process, he believed that for the people in the game he liked, "only, he would only enjoy it, and not change it."
Shen Ruiwen took himself as an example and said that almost thirty years have passed, "archaeology has truly become a part of my life, and I can't get rid of it." Now, I think it makes my life full and glorious, which is what many people dream of."
In recent years, more and more parents have begun to take their children to museums to learn about cultural relics and history. In this regard, Shen Ruiwen believes that this should be facilitated by the development of the country's comprehensive national strength at this stage. He also talked about a phenomenon that made archaeologists please: "Our college has discovered many good seedlings who like archaeology through holding summer camps, and many of them have successfully been admitted to our college and embarked on the road of archaeological research. "
Regarding the current stage of archaeological study and research, Shen Ruiwen believes that on the one hand, the need of national cultural strategy provides opportunities for development for archaeological disciplines; on the other hand, the application of multidisciplinary methods in archaeology has given traditional archaeological data more research aspects, making traditional archaeology vibrant again. With the vitality of
, Shen Ruiwen also felt that his mission was on his shoulders: "The national economic and cultural construction requires a large number of archaeological talents, and we also need to increase efforts to carry out discipline publicity, so that more people can understand archaeology and participate in the archaeological and cultural heritage cause. ”
Xiaoxiang Morning News reporter Li Nan
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