Research direction and undergraduate courses in recent three years
Professor Ning Weiwei, the main founder of the Psychological Research and Consultation Center of Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU), has successively served as the Director (department-level) and the Secretary of the Party Branch (department-level) of the Center. At present, Prof. Ning is a professor, master’s supervisor and academic leader of the Center, a professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Marxism, SWJTU,a member of thePsychology Discipline Teaching Steering Committee forColleges and Universitiesof the Ministry of Education (MOE) and Chairman of thePsychology Discipline Teaching Steering Committee for Sichuan Colleges and Universities. Devoted to teaching and scientific research for nearly 37 years, Prof. Ning always makes teachers’ morality and work style a top priority, stays true to his original aspiration of teaching and educating people, carries out the mission of strengthening moral education, and cultivating people conscientiously. For example, he has made great efforts in theguidance for psychology discipline’s construction, poverty alleviation, Wenchuan earthquake relief, Lushan earthquake relief, and psychological assistance for the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus Prof. Ning has consecutively won many awards, including “Famous Teacher in Sichuan Province”, “Excellent Teacher of iCourse in 2016” and “Excellent Society Worker of All-China Federation of Social Sciences”. He was awarded the “Top Ten Excellent Communist Party Member of SWJTU” and was selected as the “Model around Us” by SWJTU in 2019. In March 2020, Prof. Ning’s story was reported in detail by the “Expert Style” column on the official website of Department of Human Resources and Social Security of Sichuan Province.
Prof. Ning has presided over a number of projects and won awards at different levels: in 2010, “Construction of the Innovative System for Mental Health Education in Colleges and Universities in the New Century”,the first prize of Sichuan Provincial Teaching Achievement Award; in 2014, “Comprehensive Improvement of Undergraduates’ Psychological Quality, Construction of the Leading Innovative Demonstration System for Mental Health Education in China”, the second prize of National Teaching Achievement Award and the first prize of Sichuan Provincial Teaching Achievement Award; in 2018, “Combination of Comprehensive Improvement and Personalized Education, Construction of the Six-Level Linkage Innovative Demonstration Mechanism for Mental Health Education in Colleges and Universities”, the second prize of Sichuan Provincial Teaching Achievement Award. Prof. Ning launched and advocated the “3.25” (which sounds similar to the Chinese words “Shan Ai Wo” and symbolizes “being good at loving yourself”) Campus Culture Cultivation and Education System in China. In 2017, he won the special prize of National Campus Culture Construction Achievement Award. In 2017, Chen Baosheng, Minister of MOE, visited the demonstration center for investigation and highly appreciated the “Five-Sphere Demonstration System for Mental Health Education” proposed by Prof. Ning. The system, centering on the modules of “classroom teaching, crisis intervention, experimental training, psychological culture and social service”, honors the idea of “putting students first, inspiring potential, developing sound personality and stimulating all-round development”, which has helped to realize the overall efficiency of “refining disciplines, building teams, cultivating talents and serving the society”, promoting the organic integration of SJWTU’s psychological education and ideological and political education. In December 2019, “Construction of Five-Sphere Innovative Demonstration Mechanism of Psychological Education in Colleges and Universities in the New Era” headed by Prof. Ning was approved in the Excellent Projects of Ideological and Political Work in Colleges and Universities by the Department of Moral Education of MOE.
Prof. Ninghas hosted many national-level excellent courses, including the national-level excellent course “Youth Psychology”, national-level excellent resource sharing course “Youth Psychology”, national-level video open course “Disaster Education Psychology”, national-level excellent online open course “Contemporary Youth Psychology Series (I) (II) (III)”, “Approaching Psychology”, “Exploring Psychology” and other “golden courses”, thus forming a mental health education course cluster with more than 30 courses. Among them, “Contemporary Youth Psychology Series (I) (II) (III)”, “Approaching Psychology” and “Exploring Psychology” have been included in the “xuéxí qiángguó” learning platform, serving more than 90 million Party members in China.
Prof. Ning has presided over more than 10 entrusted projects and educational reform projects in the national, provincial and ministerial level and has published over 10 monographs and over 29 papers. He has been actively implementing the poverty alleviation campaign - “Wisdom & Ambition Support” and psychological assistance and psychological counseling for COVID-19 prevention and control and has edited and published thePsychological Assistance Handbook for Schools and Communities in Responses to COVID-19 Epidemic, which has been extensively reported by People’s Daily and other media. He has made achievements in“Disaster Psychological Education Series” localization and won the second and third prizes of Sichuan Provincial Excellent Achievement Award in Social Sciences” (ranking first in 2009 and 2014), filling in the research gap of “Disaster Psychological Education” localization in China.
The main courses of Prof. Ning in recent three years are as follows:
The first semester of the academic year 2017-2018: the core course “General Psychology II” (34 credit hours); the second semester of the academic year 2017-2018: the core course “General Psychology I” (51 credit hours); the first semester of the academic year 2018-2019: the core course “General Psychology II” (34 credit hours); the second semester of the academic year 2018-2019: the core course “General Psychology I” (51 credit hours); the second semester of the year 2019: the core course “General Psychology I” (51 credit hours); the first semester in the year 2020: the core course “General Psychology II” (34 credit hours); the first semester in the academic year 2019-2020: the core course “Introduction to Psychology I” (51 credit hours); the second semester in the academic year 2019-2020: the core course “Introduction to Psychology II” (34 credit hours).
