| School of Foreign Languages (FLS) of CCNU was found in 1924, which was originally the English Department of Huazhong University. Currently the School has seven teaching units (including English Department, Russian Department, Japanese Department, French Department, Translation Department and General English Department) and seven research institutes/centers (including Institute of Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Institute of Japanese Culture, Institute of Korean Culture, Translation Studies Center, Research Center of Language Teacher Education, Research Center of English Literature, and Teaching and Research Center of College English). Now the School has over two thousand students studying at different levels, and a teaching and administrative team of two hundred-odd members, among which 28 are professors, 63 are associate professors, and 9 are doctoral supervisors. For the past several years, the rate of students who passed the postgraduate program entrance examination has been staying around 30%, and the rate of students who took jobs right after graduation has been exceeding 96%. The School has been developing rapidly in discipline construction. Right now, it has six undergraduate programs (namely English, Russian, Japanese, French, Korean and Translation) as well as two doctoral programs (namely English Language and Literature, and Comparison between Chinese and Foreign Languages). Meanwhile, the School is authorized to confer master’s degrees of Category I discipline in Foreign Language and Literature, and has run such master’s programs of Category II discipline as English Language and Literature, Russian Language and Literature, Japanese Language and Literature, French Language and Literature, and Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. Moreover, the major of English, which was among the first batch of majors approved by the Ministry of Education as characteristic discipline construction program, stands out as the only quality brand undergraduate program in foreign languages in Hubei, and English Language and Literature is the sole key English discipline in Hubei. The School runs nationally such journals as Foreign Language and Literature Research, English Journal for Middle School Students, and Russian for Middle School Students. At the same time, the School is the co-producer (the other producer being the School of Chinese Language and Literature) of Foreign Literature Studies, an authoritative key journal in literary studies. The School is equipped with advanced teaching and studying facilities. The digital classrooms not only have multi-media equipment, but are also able to retrieve audio materials and internet resources from the controlling center of the School. The satellite receiver installed by the School can receive programs of five languages from seven channels, which provide students with live TV programs in the classrooms, thus realizing the modernization, digitalization and networking of teaching. The School also owns a simultaneous interpretation conference room, a CAT lab, a simultaneous interpretation teaching/training lab, a multi-functional auditorium, and a courseware studio, which all guarantee the first-class standard of its teaching condition. |