Introduction

English major was set up in 2005. Every year students from different parts of the country come here to study English as their major, for the college has built up a team of qualified teachers with advanced teaching facilities. The college obtained 1 provincial-level teaching award and approved to construct 1 provincial-level experimental teaching demonstration center. The college aims at fostering applied and interdisciplinary talents with all-round development to meet the needs of regional economy and society, who have basic English knowledge and are skillful in using the language, who have comprehensive ability of discovering, analyzing and solving problems and work as interpreters, translators and negotiators in foreign affairs office, trade sectors, and even culture and education departments.  

Objectives

To master one or two foreign languages and are able to communicate in English with English speakers.  

To be familiar with linguistics, both Chinese and English culture,  bilingual-translation and business and are capable of dealing with foreign trade, foreign affairs and language services.  

To know the English development and master computer and information science in the Age of Big Data, know about the latest knowledge about Methodology, have both English and Chinese competence and are capable to get new knowledge and information by their own.  

To know about the national policies and regulations on diplomacy, foreign affairs, business and cultural exchange, and are capable to explore literature, process information and analysis by synthesis by using modern information technology.  

To know about English politics, economy, history, culture and etiquette, and have capability of innovation, independent thinking and critical thinking.  

Main Courses

Basic English, English Listening Comprehension, Oral English, English Reading, English Writing, Advance English, A Survey of English-speaking Countries, English-Chinese/Chinese-English Translation, English Business Correspondence and Documents Making, Simultaneous Interpretation, Tourism English, EST(English for science and technology), Service Outsourcing English, Logistics Forwarder English, The Second Foreign Language ( French, German, Japanese)

Features

The Department of English has Network Teaching Platform and the International Language and Culture Practice Teaching Center. It focuses on ideology and morality and work ethics, trains students' professional competence and vocational ability, and tries to gear the objectives to social demands, arrange curriculum system with a view to students' professional capability and focuses on both quality-oriented education and certificate-oriented training.

The department has set up a curriculum system based on general education and professional education, which follows the principle of language application and focuses on developing students' capability in linguistics, literature, business and translation. It also tries to combine the teaching in classroom with practice outside campus to cultivate the students' comprehensive qualities.

 Outlook

With the globalization of economy and internationalization of market, the language services are developing rapidly. Multi-skilled students are in great need in many fields such as education, tourism, communication, mass media, logistics, and conference exhibition.