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In recent years, the pace of teaching reform in colleges and universities has accelerated gradually, and many new teaching achievements have been produced in the reform. The new development of discipline construction in colleges and universities, such as the construction of new liberal arts, has injected new impetus into the in-depth development of teaching reform in colleges and universities (Snyder & Raichle, 2012). With the rapid development of information technology, sophisticated technology is gradually applied to all fields of society (Rüegg, 2004). Now, we should (a) combine the characteristics of professional teaching content and fostering student growth, (b) make full use of digital technology, (c) explore effective strategies to promote teaching activities under the new situation, (d) realize the effective integration of “digitalization,” “intelligence,” “humanistic culture” and “specialization” in history teaching, and (e) meet the requirements of college teaching reform, especially the construction of new liberal arts.
Because of its own characteristics, history has become the focus of educational development in China. Higher requirements are put forward for the combination of digital technology and information. It is an important stage for college history majors to improve their academic literacy. Students are in the process of development of the times, and the knowledge they receive at school should also be reformed (Hildebrandt, 2010). Therefore, the development of history majors in colleges and universities is in a critical period in which opportunities and challenges coexist. The setting of the history major in Chinese universities is shown in Table 1.
Table 1.
Interpretation of history major
| Professional code | 01, 0601 |
| Award a degree | Bachelor of history |
| Courses | Main disciplines: Major courses of history—General History of China, General History of the World, Introduction to Historiography, Chinese History, History of Western Historiography, General Archaeology, Historical Geography, Ancient Chinese, Introduction and Selected Reading of Chinese and Foreign Historical and Cultural Classics, Chinese dynastic history, etc. The main practical teaching links: including visits, social surveys, and social welfare activities, etc., are generally arranged for about 10 weeks. |
| Similar majors | Archaeology, museology, ethnology, cultural relics protection technology |
| Training objective | This major trains historical professionals with certain basic Marxist theoretical literacy and systematic professional basic knowledge, and potential for further training, as well as applied and compound senior professionals who can engage in practical work in state organs, cultural and educational undertakings, press and publication, cultural and cultural archives, and various institutions. |
| Training requirements | Students of this major mainly study the basic theory and knowledge of historical science, are trained in the basic historical facts and historical research of Chinese history and world history development and have the basic ability to engage in professional work. |