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About the School
I. Brief
Introduction
School of Foreign Languages,
originally named Foreign Language Department, was
founded in April, 2001. It consists of the First and the
Second College English as well as the Japanese Teaching
and Research Sections. In accordance with the
requirements of course construction, Foreign Language
Department was renamed School of Foreign Languages in
March, 2005. The School consists of the following seven
Teaching and Research Sections: English Major Teaching
and Research Section, English Major Basic Course
Teaching and Research Section, the First College English
and the Second College English Teaching and Research
Sections, English Audiovisual and Verbal Teaching and
Research Section as well as Japanese Teaching and
Research Section. The School has two majors, English and
Japanese respectively; it is responsible for English and
Japanese teaching as well as languages as a second
course, offering foreign language optional courses,
including Japanese, German and French. Furthermore, it
also offers courses for non-English majors all over the
university.
II Features and Requirements of the Major
1.A Good Command of Foreign Languages
During the first and the second
years, education mainly attaches importance to the
following basic skills—listening, speaking, reading, and
writing as well as translating and interpreting with the
purpose of developing students’ comprehensive abilities.
Thus, in the course of education, courses like
Integrated English/ Japanese, Listening, Spoken English,
Reading and Writing, Translating and Interpreting are
very much strengthened. These courses all last for three
semesters. In terms of the teachers of these courses,
the School has some excellent teachers and teaching
competition winners to teach integrated English;
foreigners to teach Spoken English. The School has
offered second classes aimed, to create a good foreign
language-learning environment, organizing teaching
practice activities regularly such as “ English Zone”, “
Foreign Language Arts Festival”, “ Foreign Language
Karaoke Competition”, “ Big Hands with Small Hands” and
so on; and to offer more opportunities for students to
improve their English and the comprehensive abilities.
2.Familiarity with Economy and Trade
Based on the university’s
International Economic and Foreign Trade Courses, School
of Foreign Languages has offered the following courses:
Business English, Courses related with international
trade theory and practice. Meanwhile, the School
encourages students to learn courses in other Schools.
There are already 73 students having obtained their
second degrees in the majors like Accounting, Finance,
Law, and Computer. This is aimed to produce students
with interdisciplinary knowledge and well-rounded
abilities.
3.Emphasis on Humanism
English/Japanese majors have quite
a lot of foreign literature and culture courses like
Selections of English and American Literature, General
Survey of English and American (Japanese) Culture,
History of British Literature, History of American
Literature, Japanese Literature, Introduction to Western
Culture and so on to improve students’ humanism.
On the one hand, School of Foreign Languages makes full
use of the careful and proficient teachers to help
students establish a solid foundation in the first and
second years. Meanwhile, the School employs credit
system. This is a flexible way with modern management
characteristics. So for these third year students and
fourth year students, they have courses like
Translation, British and American Literature, and
Linguistics, as well as diverse optional courses.
Furthermore, the School allows some top students to
select other economic courses from the other schools or
departments. All this makes students have higher
linguistic ability and be familiar with economic
affaires. This not only offers them opportunities to
become qualified talents to meet the society’s demands,
but also benefit their job-hunting as well as high-level
development.
III. Aims of School of Foreign Languages
Aims of talent cultivation are: to
produce students with interdisciplinary knowledge and
well-rounded abilities, solid foreign language
fundamentals, wide range of knowledge, deep major
understanding and abilities, and practical abilities.
Aims of cultivation are: to
emphasize bachelor education; and to actively create
environment for postgraduate development.
Aims of service are: to base
itself on Shandong; to welcome the whole
China; and to help Shandong
economic development, offering particular service for
some departments and companies touching upon foreign
affairs, foreign economy, foreign trade as well as
teaching and research.
2.Goals of Development
Managing to establish a blueprint
based on English major and coordinate with Japanese, and
German language development.
Making great efforts to
obtain the authorization of “ English Linguistics and
Literature” and “Foreign Linguistics and Applied
Linguistics” during “the 11thh Five-year Plan” period. |
