TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC VĂN HÓA HÀ NỘI

HANOI UNIVERSITY OF CULTURE

1. Address: 418 Đê La Thành - Đống Đa - Hà Nội
Tel:
   (844) 3851.1971 ; 3851.8059 ; 3851.8071
Fax:
  (844) 3514.1629
Email: daihocvanhoahanoi@gmail.com
Web: www.huc.edu.vn



Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism, Mr. Hoang Tuan Anh,
visited Hanoi University of Culture, 200
9


 

2. Profile of the University:

Hanoi University of Culture (HUC) was established on 26/3/1959, in 134/VH-QD Decision of the Ministry of Culture (now Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism). In the process of developing, the university has spent periods as follows:

* Period 1: From 1959 to 1960

HUC was named “School of Culture Officials”. Mission of the school was improving knowledge, politics and specialist skill to culture cadres.

* Period 2:  From August 1960 to 1977

The school was renamed to “Junior college of cultural theories" by 127/VHQD Decision of the Ministry of Culture.

* Period 3: From 5th September, 1977 to 1982

The college was upgraded to “College of cultural specialist” in 246/CP Decision of Prime Minister, with function of training cultural specialists.   

* Period 4:  From 4th September 1982 to present

Again, the college was upgraded to Hanoi University of Culture by 228/TC-QD Decision of Prime Minister. The university’s functions are training staffs working in cultural fields and culture organisations such as library, museum, publisher, cultural tourism and cultural activities organizing.

3. Function of the University

Like other universities, Hanoi University of Culture implements two main functions: Training and researching.

Training Function


• Graduate level: 
o Training time: 4 years
o Type of training:

§ Full time

§ Part – time

o Degree: Bachelor of Culture  

o Training fields: 

§ Museum studies

§ Issuing and Publishing

§ Ethnical culture management

§ Arts and Culture management:

· State management of Culture 

· Arts management   

· Music education 

· Advertising of Fine art  

§ Cultural tourism: BA. of Tourism guide

§ Library - Information 

§ Culture studies

§ Theory of composing, arguing and reviewing in literature 

· Postgraduate level: 

o Master:

§ Training time: Full time 2 or 3 years (periodic training) 

§ Degree:  Master of Arts

§ Training fields: 

· Library science

· Culture studies 

. Culture management 

o Doctor level:  

§ Training time: 5 years for researchers having BA. Degree and 3 – 4 years for whom having Master degree.

§ Degree: Doctor

§ Training fields 

· Library science

· Culture studies 

· Short-term Training: 

o Time:  From 1 week to 6 months (depending on each class)

o Issuing certification

o Training fields :  Some specialties and special subjects of Higher education level     

Function of Science research: Includes research direction:  

o Library science 

o Policy and Culture Management 

o Museum studies  

o Business in Publishing product  

o Tourism science

o Culture of Ethnic minority 

o Culture studies 

o Arguing, reviewing literature  

o Modern culture 

o Cultural heritage   

o Culture sociology

o World Culture 

4.  Number of students (year 2007 – 2008)

Graduate full time students     :         3.796

Graduate part – time students :         3.150

Postgraduate students             :         317

Total                                        :         7.263

5. Staffs, lecturers and researchers of the HUC (2008): 280, include:

* Classification follows academic  

Associate professor       : 10

* Classification follows degree:

Ph.D.          :                  32
MA             :                   108
Bachelor     :                  120

Other level:                              28

* Classification follows scale of employees:

o Lecturer: 140 people, includes

Senior lecturer:              33

Lecturer:                        97

Assistant professor:       10

o Staff: 137 people, includes

Senior expert:                3

Expert:                           32

Senior researcher:                    2

Researcher:                              17

Senior library employee:         1

Library employee:                   16

Others:                           66

6. Some achievements of the university

* As the largest university of the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism, 50 years have gone, the university has succeed in training 10 thousands culture cadres working over the country. Almost culture staffs working for central and local culture agency were/are students of Hanoi University of Culture. Of those, many people are leader or manager, keeping important role in government agencies and Information – Culture institutes. Remarkably, many culture cadres of Lao and Cambodia have been students at Hanoi University of Culture.     

* The university has co-operated with many foreign universities and prestigious science organization, associated, deployed a lot of effective co-operation activities in researching and training.

* Postgraduate level was formed in 1991 with major in Information – Library science and Culture studies, to meet requirement of qualification improvement of thousands of culture cadre trained by the university ago. Until now, in postgraduate level, HUC has trained more than 200 masters for these majors.  

* The university has promoted science researches. Many science conferences on national and entire branch scale have deployed even in the war period. The university’s research subjects approach basic argument of traditional culture, and assist to research on modern culture.    

* Student’s science research has been developed strongly. There are researches of students awarded “Researching on science by student” prize. The university has awarded constantly certificate of merit as “Well-achieved in movement of researching on science by student” for 2 years by the Ministry of Education and Training.   

* Because of these achievements, Hanoi University of Culture has achieved many Certificates of merit and three Labour medals: 3rd class Labour medals (1984), 2nd class Labour medals ( 1989), 1st class Labour medals and 3rd class independent medals (2004).

7. Development orientation for future

HUC is continuing to maintain the education cooperating in science research; to expand scale, to improve quality of training and science research; to make all effort to become one of large research center in culture and in management studies and culture specialist in particular.

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Hanoi University Of Culture
Address: 418, La Thanh Street - Dong Da District - Hanoi - Vietnam
Tel: (84-4) 8511971 * Fax: (84-4) 5141629 * E-mail: daihocvanhoahanoi@gmail.com