Besides academic research, members of the department are also engaged in various social services, such as compiling local history, business history, and community investigation, etc. The undergraduate and postgraduate students organized their own student unions separately. Students of the department are quite active at sports, and have won a lot of trophies at various athletic meeting. Since the founding of the department in 1968, there have been more than two thousand students graduated. Some of them are still studying for higher degrees, home or abroad, while others work in various kinds of jobs, including professors, researchers, teachers, businesspersons, reporters, and even signers, etc.
Unemployment is a rare phenomenon among graduates of the department.
Military Training, Physical Education, Courses on General Education, General History of China, World Civilizations, Introduction to Historical Methodology, Contemporary China, World Civilizations since 1870, Historiography, Introduction to Computer Science and Data Processing. E History by Nation Germany, United States of America. E Others History of Chinese Historiography, History of Western Historiography, Selected Readings in Chinese History.