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What is the nature of the School of Foreign Languages of Sichuan University? Public or private?
The Foreign Languages Department, the predecessor of the School of Foreign Languages, was founded in 1896, which has gone through more than a hundred years. The School of Foreign Languages has two teaching units, namely, the Foreign Languages Department of the University and the Foreign Languages Department, and seven scientific research and foreign affairs service institutions, including the European Research Center, the American Research Center, the Canadian Research Center, the Japanese Cultural Research Center, the French Cultural Research Center, the Asia-Pacific Economic and Cultural Development Center and the Multimedia Teaching and Research Office. There are nearly 200 faculty members in the hospital, including more than 800 graduate students, undergraduates and junior college students. The Department of Foreign Languages has three undergraduate majors in English, Japanese and Russian, and three master degree programs in English, Japanese and Russian. It trains dozens of master students and more than 200 junior college students every year. The Foreign Languages Department of our school undertakes the foreign language teaching for more than 30,000 graduate students and junior college students. The Sichuan Foreign Language Teaching Research Association and the College English Examination Office of the Sichuan Provincial Education Commission are also located in this college.

The college has a strong faculty, including professors 14 and associate professors 59. Teachers in the whole hospital have published a large number of monographs, teaching materials and translations in teaching and scientific research activities, and achieved fruitful results. The college has successively edited and published research papers such as Foreign Language Teaching and Exploration, Foreign Language and Literature, American Cultural Studies, Foreign Language Teaching and Research, Window of Foreign Literature, and English and American Language Teaching. The college has frequent academic exchanges with international friends and scholars from Hong Kong and Taiwan. Famous professors from the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, Russia, Japan and other countries come to the college to teach or give lectures. College teachers received nearly 6.5438+0.5 million yuan for various kinds of overseas funds, and went abroad to give lectures, visit or further study 100. The college has also been approved by the state to cooperate with the French government in running schools.

While improving the level of teaching and scientific research, the college constantly updates teaching equipment and improves the conditions for running schools. At present, the college has an audio-visual laboratory that can accommodate nearly 400 people, with complete audio-visual equipment and rich video materials. The proposed satellite ground receiving system is being accelerated. The college also established the largest "dog food and male Japanese culture database" in Southwest China. The college has a postgraduate library, an art research center library, a Russian reading room, a Japanese reference room and a student lending room. * * * owns more than 200,000 books in Chinese, English, Russian, Japanese, French, German, Spanish and Esperanto, among which a considerable number of books in English, Japanese, Russian and Spanish are the latest overseas editions.

The college has always attached importance to cultivating good teachers' morality and rigorous style of study, paying attention to cultivating students' comprehensive and solid professional knowledge and basic skills, striving to cultivate students' logical thinking and organizational ability, and paying close attention to the cultivation of students' comprehensive quality.

department of foreign languages

The history of the Department of Foreign Languages can be traced back to the Western School of Sichuan Chinese and Western School founded by 1896. After that, he went through Sichuan Tibetan Language School (1906), Sichuan Provincial Government Dialect School (1907), Sichuan Special Language School (191year) and English Department of Foreign Literature College of National Sichuan University (1year)

Ba Jin, a famous writer, 19 19 to 1923 studied in Sichuan Public Foreign Language School, the predecessor of the Department of Foreign Languages. In the first half of this century, famous scholars in foreign languages and literature, such as Zhu Guangqian, Xie Wenbing, Zhou, Bian, Qian Gechuan, Rao Mengkan, Luo Niansheng, Gu Maochang, Zhou, Shi Pu, taught in the Foreign Languages Department. They argue that the purpose of education "is not only to train a skill, especially to cultivate a very upright and considerate person;" Not only in imparting knowledge and skills, but also in cultivating talents and talents, we should be perfect and cultivate a sound scholar style, which has created a simple and rigorous style of study for the Foreign Languages Department of Sichuan University.

Occupational characteristics

English major

Main courses: basic English, listening, conversation, extensive reading, practical phonetics, grammar, vocabulary, English-Chinese translation, writing, interpretation, history of British and American literature and its selected readings, English literature, American literature, overview of English-speaking countries, audio-visual, computer application, foreign trade English correspondence, business English, etc.

Russian major

Main courses: basic Russian, audio-visual speaking, extensive reading, Russian-Chinese translation, Russian reference books and literature retrieval, writing, foreign affairs and foreign trade application, newspaper reading, Russian information, Russian culture, Russian-Soviet literature history, Russian science and technology, literature introduction, computer application, etc.

Japanese major

Main courses: practical courses, intensive reading, audio-visual speaking, extensive reading, writing, translation, Japanese literature history, Japanese newspapers and periodicals, Japanese seminars, Japanese film and television, selected reading of ancient Chinese, Japanese grammar, scientific Japanese, business Japanese, computer application, etc.