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Foreign Languages Department was founded in 1984 as the former Tourism Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Section. There are 5 majors established by now, namely, Tourism English, Business English, Tourism Japanese, Applied Korean and Applied Russian.
Foreign Languages Department has a teaching team with considerable expertise, strict discipline, full diligence, great enthusiasm and persistent creativity. Currently, there is a faculty composed of more than 60 teachers including 1 professor, 1 doctor, and 30 more teachers with equivalent to or higher than associate professor level, 90% of whom are double-qualification teachers. Moreover, there are 10 foreign experts from Australia, America, Korea, Japan and Ukraine. At present, Foreign Languages Department has a full-time enrollment of over 1,300 students.
With a market-oriented perspective and focus on students’ language basic knowledge, major directions and all-around development, Foreign Languages Department is committed to cultivating special appliance-typed talents with high-quality, multiple skills, international vision, spirit of innovation, and capacity of practice. They are educated to meet the demands of social and economic development, and be capable of working in tourism, trade, and business circles.
Centered on education for international talents, Foreign Language Department actively advocates internationalized vocational education, establishing co-operation with colleges and universities in Japan, Korea, Ukraine, Hong Kong, and Macau. Every year, excellent students will be selected to have more than half a year further education at brother institutions abroad, where they can directly pursue bachelor’s degree or master’s degree by means of “2+2” and “3+2” programme.
Foreign Language Department places great importance on extracurricular activities. Various kinds of activities are conducted with combination of classroom teaching and major study, namely, English Star, Oral Vocational English Contest, Korean Speech Contest, Japanese Culture Festival, Communication between Chinese and Japanese Youth, Summer Foreign Languages Festival, English Corner and so on, which provide students with opportunities of putting their language knowledge into practice. Many students of our department have won fairly good achievements in East-China area, provincial and municipal-leveled foreign languages contests.
Conforming to a harmonious, diverse and inclusive development concept, Foreign Language Department has cultivated graduates with strong language foundation，excellent personal integrity and practical working attitude. Many of them have gained high praise of their employers and have already become the backbone members.
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