Faculty of Social Informatics

Social informatics is a new discipline created to respond to the rapidly developing modern advanced information society. The advent of the advanced information society is causing major changes in all areas of our society, from the way we work and study, to the state of politics and economy, and the behavior of consumption and leisure. In order to understand this change in a multifaceted and comprehensive manner and to solve the various problems that arise there, the existing subdivided disciplines cannot cope with it.

This faculty has specialists in various fields such as information science, humanities, social sciences, and environmental sciences. Then, each expert is searching for a comprehensive solution that overlooks all the problems of the advanced information society while utilizing each other's knowledge and cooperating with each other.

首都体育学院is the only higher physical education college in Beijing. In 1960, it was transformed into Beijing Normal University of Physical Education. In 1962, it was merged into Beijing Normal University. In 1979, the Beijing Normal University of Physical Education was restored. In 2000, it was renamed the首都体育学院. In 2020, according to the classified development plan of Beijing's public universities, our school was identified as a "high-level characteristic university".

The school has 8 teaching units, including the School of Physical Education and Training, the School of Sports Science and Health, the School of Martial Arts and Performance, the School of Management and Communication, the School of Leisure and Social Sports, the School of Continuing Education, the School of International Education, and the School of Marxism, as well as sports labor. Two directly affiliated research institutions, including the Intelligent Research Institute and the Sports-Medical Fusion Innovation Center. Physical education, sports training, physical training, sports human science, sports rehabilitation, social sports guidance and management, leisure sports, sports tourism, martial arts and traditional national sports, dance performance, journalism, public service management, sports economy and management 14 undergraduate majors including e-sports sports and management. Among them, 5 majors are national first-class majors, 2 majors are national characteristic majors, and 4 majors are Beijing first-rate majors. The school has 2 national teaching teams, 2 national quality courses, 1 national quality resource sharing course, 2 national first-class courses, 20 national planning textbooks, and 1 national off-campus practice education base for college students.