1. College profile
1.1 Introduction to the College
Historical evolution: The College of Liberal Arts began as an English teacher class in 1978. In 2006, it was officially established as the School of Language and Culture (now known as the School of Liberal Arts), with a talent training system integrating undergraduate and master's degrees. Over the years, the college has been adhering to the school-running philosophy of cultivating Chinese and foreign language and literature talents with an international perspective and humanistic spirit, and has trained nearly 6,000 language talents. The college has an English department, a Japanese department, a Chinese department and a public English teaching department. It has a provincial-level experimental teaching demonstration center for languages in Jiangsu Province, 18 teaching and research practice bases and innovation bases. It has set up 5 undergraduate majors and 4 master programs (two first-level master programs of foreign language and literature and Chinese language and literature; two professional master programs of Master of Translation and Interpretation (MTI) and Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages). At present, there are more than 1,000 students of various types, including more than 100 international students studying Chinese in our school. The college has good cooperative relations with famous universities in the United States, Britain, Japan, Korea, Australia and other countries.
Major setting: The college currently has 5 undergraduate majors (8 research directions) -- English, Japanese, Translation, Chinese Language and Literature, and International Chinese Education, namely: English (business English & scientific English), Japanese (language and literature & comprehensive application), translation, Chinese language and literature (cultural creativity and communication & secretarial and cultural service), and international Chinese education (Chinese-English & Chinese-Japanese). According to the 2017 China University Rankings, the strength level of the college's literature category is A, ranking 47th in China and 6th in Jiangsu Province. The English major is a first-class undergraduate major in Jiangsu Province, and the translation major is the first undergraduate major in translation studies in Jiangsu Province, and it is also a first-class undergraduate major in China.
Faculty team: There are more than 120 full-time teachers and more than 50 teachers with senior titles. There are also 15 part-time professors and 7 foreign teachers. Among the full-time teachers, 48% have doctoral degrees, and 42% have international education background.
Scientific research: In recent years, the college has published more than 1,550 academic papers; undertaken more than 425 scientific research projects, including more than 130 high-level projects (42 at the national level and 98 at the provincial and ministerial level); published more than 80 books; and won more than 40 scientific research awards item. It has a number of powerful university-level scientific research institutions and academic teams such as the Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Language and Literature and Research Institute of National and Regional Cultures.
Teaching level: No matter in the CET-4 or CET-6, or the CET-4, CET-8, Japanese N1 and other exams for English majors, the pass rate of students is much higher than that of similar universities. The teachers of the college won 2 special prizes in the College English Comprehensive Group and Audio-visual Group of the 7th Foreign Education Society Cup National College Foreign Language Teaching Competition in Jiangsu Division, and 1 second prize and 1 third prize in the national finals. The college has hosted 86 edu
Talent training: The students have a solid professional foundation, strong practical ability, and high comprehensive quality, and are highly praised by the receiving units for employment and further education. Many students go to Edinburgh University, Manchester University, Osaka University, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, Nanjing University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Shanghai Foreign Studies University and other famous universities at home and abroad for further study. The college has a stable international cooperation mechanism with many famous universities in Britain, the United States, Japan, Korea and other countries. The rate of students going abroad is over 11%. Zeng Chen, a student majoring in translation, was admitted by the University of Bath.
cational reform projects, won 74 various teaching achievement awards, published 29 textbooks and more than 150 teaching and research papers, undertaken 11 national-level and 32 provincial-level practical innovation projects for college students, and won 4 provincial-level excellent graduation thesis awards and other honors.
Advantages and features: 1. The college has deep internationalization and close cooperation with many foreign universities and scientific research institutions; 2. Ii has interdisciplinary development of language and literature and deep integration of Chinese and foreign languages and cultures; 3. It focuses on improving students' comprehensive quality and professional skills training and strives to cultivate compound talents with international vision, humanistic feelings, solid foundation, wide knowledge and strong ability. In addition, the college has established education practice and employment bases in many news, culture, education, and enterprise units in the province. The training center of the college was selected as one of the top ten education bases by the China Language Resources Development and Application Center to carry out the qualification training examination for teachers of Chinese as a foreign language.
1.2 Current Leaders
Dean, Prof. Zhao Xia: Presided over the administrative work of the college; In charge of personnel, finance, and discipline construction.
Secrerary of the CPC committe, Guo Yu: Presided over the work of the party committee of the college; In charge of party building, publicity, customs work committee, ideology and comprehensive governance, graduate student enrollment and employment.
Vice dean, Prof. Chu Qinghua: In charge of undergraduate professional teaching (English, translation, Japanese, Chinese language and literature, international Chinese education), Chinese language examinations, construction and training of test centers.
Vice Secrerary-of-the-CPC-committe, Wu Pengfei: In charge of student management and ideological politics (including trainees), enrollment, employment, Communist Youth League, and trade union work; assisting the management of party building and comprehensive management.
Vice dean, Prof. Du Yusheng: In charge of scientific research, postgraduate teaching, archives management; assisting discipline construction and talent work.
Vice dean, Prof. Zheng Youqi: In charge of the teaching of public basic courses, the construction and management of language laboratories and reference rooms, the construction and training of foreign language examinations and test centers, and international exchanges and cooperation.
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