ABOUT US

I. Survey

Founded in 1999, we currently have faculty members of 65, including 3 professors, 12 associate professors, of whom 3 hold a doctoral degree and 25 master degree. In addition, we have invited Prof. Sun Zhili and Prof. Zhang Guangjun, doctoral tutors from Luoyang PLA Foreign Languages Institute, as our guest professors. Devoted vigorously and meticulously in edu-cation, our staff members have made great achievements both in language instruction and academic research.

We offer 3 undergraduate programs for 637 students across the country: English program, Korean program and Chinese program. In English program, students are offered two course modules: English plus Korean, a bilingual module, and English plus translation/business English. For Korean students, modules of Korean plus English, and Korean plus business are offered. Chinese program offer 2 bilingual modules: Chinese plus English, and Chinese plus Korean.

The department can well meet the needs of instruction equipped with excellent educational facilities, including 11 digital language labs with a total capacity of more than 912 seats, and a collection of over 8,000 books in our reference room.

In recent years, with the increase of international exchanges, more students from our department have the opportunites to go abroad as exchange students for study or practice.

II. Our specialites and achievements

1. Korean program

Korean program has made fruitful achievements ever since her establishment in 2004. For example, 95 percent of the stu-dents from Korean program can pass the “Intermediate Korean Examination” and 90 percent can pass “Advanced Korean Examination” annually held by Korea . In the “2007 Sino-Korea Science-Technology Fair”, the students who volunteered in interpreting were highly praised for their excellent performance by Korean guests. Upon graduation, more students obtain work compared with other programs of the University.

2.“College English” and “Englsih-Chinese Translation”: Excellent Courses of the University

“College English”, a public English course for all students of the University, was named “Excellent Course” for its out-standing teaching reform in course structure, content, device and pedagogics in 2006. This year, another course, “English-Chinese Tran-slation”, has been rated “Excellent Course” for its teaching quality.