A while ago, in an online forum, some netizens talked about the English major of Chongqing University. Everyone agrees that this major is excellent. To this end, let's talk about the English major of Chongqing University.
The English major of Chongqing University has a rich accumulation, and its founding history can be traced back to 65438-0932, Department of Foreign Languages, College of Literature, Chongqing University. 1952 For many colleges and universities, it was a year of life and death, sharing weal and woe, and teachers of foreign languages departments were transferred to the Foreign Languages Department. In the year of reform and opening up, we began to recruit English majors. At the beginning of this century, two powerful schools of architecture merged into Chongqing University, and one of them, chongqing jianzhu university English major, joined in, making the English major of Chongqing University stronger.
As the saying goes, with a profound historical background, the development of major English majors in recent years is unstoppable, with only peaks and no valleys. In 2007, it was listed as the first batch of specialty with advantages and characteristics in Chongqing. 20 15 was selected as the characteristic specialty construction project of "three special actions" plan of Chongqing undergraduate colleges; 20 14-20 15, 20 18-20 19 were listed as "five-star" majors in the Evaluation Report of China University and Discipline. 20 19 was selected as the first batch of national first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites. It's quite soaring, is there wood?
In terms of talent training, English majors pay attention to the coordinated development of "knowledge, quality and ability" and implement a personalized research-oriented, compound and international talent classification training model. As a result, Chongqing University has established a three-dimensional curriculum system with English skills, English literature, English culture, English-Chinese translation, English linguistics and Chinese and Western cultures as core modules. At the same time, this major also has the main platform courses for English, Japanese and German majors in Foreign Languages Institute, and courses for English majors and master's majors, which ensure the quality of personnel training in depth and breadth.
There is a saying: what you get on paper is always shallow. Major English majors pay attention to the combination of the first classroom teaching and colorful second classroom language practice. Drama performance, speech contest, debate contest, writing contest, model United Nations, college students' liberal arts forum, scientific research and training programs ... all kinds of practical methods have become good ways to cultivate students' independent thinking and problem-solving ability.
It is worth mentioning that the English major of Chongqing University still has a complete "international norm". At present, Major has established friendly cooperation, academic exchanges and joint training programs with well-known universities in Britain, the United States, Australia, Canada and other countries and regions. The proportion of graduates studying in famous universities at home and abroad is high, and the employment rate is high. And because of its high comprehensive quality, it is widely welcomed by employers.
Of course, as an institution of higher learning with a history of nearly 100 years, Chongqing University has many specialties.