The Department of Liberal Arts, established in 2020, is a new department for teaching and research, as part of the CAD’s efforts to promote the construction of ‘new liberal arts’ and develop interdisciplinary integration.

It mainly offers 4 general courses (‘Traditional Chinese Opera’, ‘Chinese Spoken Drama’, ‘Foreign Theatre’, and ‘Introduction to Art’) to all the undergraduates at the Academy. It also offers such public electives as ‘Intensive Reading of Scripts’, ‘Introduction to Anthropology’, and ‘Feminine Literature and Culture’. At the same time, it works with the Faculty Affair Office to co-hold ‘Lecture Series on Humanities’, in which scholars from home and abroad are invited to share their academic achievements with the teachers and students at the CAD.

The Department is under continuous self-improvement of its planning and construction to better serve the undergraduate education, disciplinary construction, and public welfare.