Name: Zan Yulin  

Gender: Female  

Ethnicity: Han  

Native place: Shiyan, Hubei Province  

Education: Ph.D. (graduate)  

Title/Position: Associate Professor, Master's Supervisor  

Research field: Youth Ideological and Political education  

Department: Teaching & Research Section for Introduction to Basic Principles of Marxism  

E-mail: zanyulin@scut.edu.cn  

Academic Record  

Sep. 1996 – Jul. 2003  Central China Normal University – B.A. (Jul. 2000) and M.A. (Jul. 2003) in Ideological and Political Education (Law)  

Sep. 2003 – Jul. 2006  Sun Yat-sen University, School of Education – Ph.D. in Ideological and Political Education (Law)  

Jul. 2015 – Jul. 2016  Visiting Scholar, South Dakota State University, USA  

Professional Experience  

Jul. 2006 – present  Faculty member, South China University of Technology  

Teaching  

Undergraduate general courses:  

- Introduction to Basic Principles of Marxism  

- Situation and Policy  

- Marxist Theory and Practice  

Postgraduate electives:  

- Selected Readings of Marxist Classics  

- Economic Philosophy  

- Youth Ideological and Political Education  

Awards  

- Second Prize, Guangdong Provincial Young-Teacher Classroom Teaching Contest for Ideological and Political Courses (Sep. 2010)  

- Second Prize, Teaching Skills Competition for Young Teachers of Ideological and Political Theory Courses in Universities across Three Provinces (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan)(Oct. 2010)  

- Second Prize, Guangdong Provincial Micro-Lesson Competition for Ideological and Political Courses (Dec. 2014)  

Research  

Focuses on youth Ideological and Political education.  

Has published dozens of papers in journals such as China Youth Studies, Leading Journal of Ideological & Theoretical Education, Studies in Ideological Education, and Education Review.  

Monograph: Online Groups (People’s Publishing House, 2014); contributor to several other books.  

Principal investigator of projects funded by the Ministry of Education’s special fund for Ideological and Political work, MOE humanities & Social Science planning program, Guangzhou Philosophy & Social Science Planning, and Guangdong Provincial Department of Education.  

Academic affiliations: None