According to the overall training goal of Peking University as a comprehensive research university, the college determines the school-running goal. Cultivate students to master a foreign language, have strong language skills such as listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation, be proficient in using a second foreign language, master basic knowledge of literature, history, culture, politics and economy in the foreign language destination country (or region), and have strong cross-cultural communication skills; Can adapt to the requirements of diplomacy, international cultural exchange, foreign-related enterprise management, news, publishing, foreign language teaching and research on foreign-related issues, and become an outstanding talent with social responsibility and international vision. After strict training, students should have full potential, become high-quality talents who play an important role in their own professional fields, and push their fields to the forefront of their own industries or disciplines.
In order to achieve the above goals, the college has formed a set of ideas for talent training. The main contents are as follows: starting from the goal of building a world-class university, making full use of Peking University's multi-disciplinary resources and cultivating foreign language professionals in this environment; Strengthen professional backbone basic courses, increase professional courses and elective courses, and encourage students to take high-level general courses in the whole school; According to different language majors and students' interests, students are approved to study for double degrees or minor majors in accordance with the relevant regulations of the school; Strive to cultivate a new generation of foreign language professionals with good humanistic quality, innovative spirit and multidisciplinary knowledge base.
The college offers a large number of courses for students. Taking the first semester of 2005-2006 as an example, the courses offered are as follows: 1) 223 specialized foreign language courses, of which11required courses and 76 elective courses; (2) 8 elective courses with 937 students; (3) There are 23 minor courses, with 3 12 students majoring in French, German, Japanese and Spanish; (4) Five research courses; Five summer courses (July-August 2006); (6) There are many college English courses, with 54 19 students.
In 2004, the English-Japanese-Russian Department of Peking University Foreign Studies University won the second prize of Beijing Teaching Achievement for four achievements: College English Teaching Supported by Network Technology, Japanese Intensive Reading for Senior Students (1-3), Intensive Reading Teaching Reform for English Majors in Grade One and Grade Two, and Teaching Reform for Russian Basic Stage. In 2005, College English was rated as a national excellent course.
Peking University of Foreign Studies offers 30 basic courses recognized by the school, including English intensive reading, English-Chinese, Chinese-English translation, English writing, general linguistics, English literature history and selected readings, American literature history and selected readings; Basic Russian, Russian literature and selected reading; German intensive reading, literature history of German-speaking countries, selected reading; French intensive reading, French literature and culture; Spanish intensive reading, Spanish and Latin American literature and culture; Basic Arabic, Arabic-Islamic culture; Basic Japanese, Japanese literature and culture; Basic Korean, Korean (Korean) culture; Basic Persian; Basic Filipino; Basic Indonesian; Basic Hindi; Basic Burmese; Basic Mongolian; Basic Thai; Basic urdu; Basic Hebrew; Basic Vietnamese.
Beijing Foreign Studies University has abundant resources to offer general education courses for the whole school, and has offered 34 courses, including an introduction to eastern religions. History of oriental literature; Oriental culture; Ancient near east civilization; Ancient oriental scientific and technological civilization; An overview and introduction of the Bible; Comparison between Chinese and Western cultures; Introduction of western academic essence; Western literary theory in the twentieth century; Introduction of western culture; Foreign literature in the 20th century in movies: Indian religion; History of Sino-Japanese cultural exchange; Special topics on Japanese culture and art; Arab literature, culture and the world; Arab Islamic culture; Islamic art and aesthetics; Introduction to American studies; China's human geography in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China: biographical literature: a study of modern figures; Russian art history; Miracle of diversity: Brazilian culture; Australian society and culture; Appreciation of Shakespeare's famous plays: an overview of western language, literature and culture; A contrastive study of English and Chinese; 6. Translation; Advanced English reading; Advanced English-reading and writing; American English pronunciation; Advanced English listening skills; Applied and creative English writing; A guide to European and American poetry in the twentieth century; Selected readings of famous British and American poems.
The College English Teaching and Research Section of the English Department of the College is responsible for English teaching for non-English majors in the whole school. Teaching services are provided for 4500 ~ 5500 undergraduates each semester, with about 35 students in each class. * * * provides 160 ~ 200 classes, which is one of the largest basic courses in Peking University. Peking University of Foreign Studies also offers minor majors in Japanese, French, German and Spanish for all undergraduates. Elective courses such as college French, college German, college Russian and college Japanese are also offered every semester, and elective courses such as Arabic, Portuguese, Indonesian, Hindi, Vietnamese, Persian, Bengali, Latin and Sanskrit are offered irregularly.
Foreign experts from Peking University Foreign Studies University offer many distinctive courses. For example, Jennifer Candor, a foreign teacher majoring in Filipino, directed and organized students to rehearse the famous Philippine epics Lam-ang and Florante in Laura, which not only improved students' professional foreign language level, but also enabled them to have a deeper understanding of Filipino culture. Joseph graves, an American professional director, actor and playwright, has offered "English Drama Practice Course" in the English Department of Peking University Foreign Studies University since 2002. Every year, several American professional directors, lighting designers, fashion designers and stage designers are invited to teach with him, so that students can perform plays with professional standards. At first, the course was limited to English majors, and now it is open to the whole school; Not only in Peking University Centennial Lecture Hall and other school theaters, but also in Beijing People's Arts and other professional theaters, it has achieved good social effects. This course has been performed in Shakespeare's play The Tempest (2003), American playwright Wilder's Our Town (2004), American playwright O 'Neill's play Ah, Deserted (2005), Italian drama The Deer King (2005), and American musical The Violinist on the Roof (2006). This course combines drama education with English education, which makes a useful attempt for humanities education in universities and has a positive impact on several key universities in Chinese mainland and important universities in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
In addition to attending classes in schools, the college also attaches importance to international experience in the process of student training. The international experience in the process of training refers to that students study and live in the target country of professional language for a period of time during their school days, which not only improves their language level, but also gains a specific understanding of the society, history and culture of that country. Students' study in foreign universities is included in the training plan, teachers guide course selection, require students to take exams, and grades and credits are converted according to regulations. Forms include national public schools, inter-school exchanges, summer courses and personal contacts.
College attaches great importance to the internationalization of education and training process from the height of cultivating innovative talents and scholars with broad international vision in the new century. Create various conditions to encourage students to gain foreign academic experience in various ways during their studies. Taking the situation of international students in the 2006-2007 academic year as an example, 53 students were funded by the National Fund for Studying Abroad. Participate in the inter-school exchange program 16 person-times; 16 summer course short-term teaching practice abroad; Participated in 22 academic conferences or friendly activities in language-speaking countries through other means. The above figures account for 52% of the students in the same grade. Various international exchange programs include:
Since 2003, the English Department has started an undergraduate teaching exchange with davidson college. The students selected to study in this school undertake the teaching of Chinese courses while studying English courses. They gained academic influence and increased their practical ability. After graduation, they all entered the postgraduate stage. According to the inter-school exchange and cooperation agreement between our school and Paris Institute of Political Science and Lausanne University in Switzerland, about 8 third-year undergraduate students participate in the exchange program every year. In 2006, the National Fund for Studying Abroad sent people to study abroad. They were satisfied with the performance of Peking University Foreign Studies University 10 students (including 9 undergraduates) studying in Cuba, and spoke highly of their Spanish level. In addition to sending outstanding students to study abroad, the Japanese Department has been inviting students from Wenjing University in Japan for a two-week teaching internship in the first year since 1992. Japanese students attend classes and carry out cultural exchange activities with our students after class, which not only improves students' Japanese level, but also carries out cultural exchanges, with excellent results and is welcomed by Chinese and Japanese students. The two sides have held two international seminars in our school with the theme of discussing teaching methods. Since 2002, students majoring in Filipino, Burmese, Urdu, Thai, Vietnamese and Persian in the East Language Department have organized students to visit and study in the best universities in the language target countries during the summer vacation, and determined a set of curriculum plans suitable for students' abilities. In addition to classroom teaching, we also arranged a wealth of investigation activities, so that students have sufficient time to contact and understand the society and culture of the destination country.
The college has a strict postgraduate training mechanism to train high-quality postgraduate students. The English Department has implemented a new doctoral training system and abolished the fixed position of doctoral supervisors. All formal teachers with doctoral degrees can guide doctoral students. Other departments of the college have extended the qualification of doctoral tutor to associate professor. Liu Yang's doctoral dissertation directed by Professor Wang Fengxin of English Department and Wang's doctoral dissertation directed by Professor Wang of East Department were selected as national excellent doctoral dissertations.
The college attaches great importance to mastering language tools and offers a large number of language courses. At the same time, a large number of ideological and cultural courses with high research content have been set up to cultivate students' comprehensive thinking ability in foreign languages.
In order to ensure the quality of courses, the college attaches great importance to the construction of teaching materials. In 20001-2003 and 2003-2005, 42 kinds of textbooks were approved in two batches, and 33 kinds of textbooks were approved at the school level in the last three years. The college strives for more funds to compile and publish more teaching materials with better quality and greater influence. Since 2004, the Institute has edited and published various teaching materials 100. The History of Russian Literature, Linguistics Course (Revised Edition), Contemporary Pragmatics and French Course I and II were rated as excellent textbooks for Beijing higher education in 2004. College English course (volume 1-6), introduction to western literature, Thai course (volume 1-4), introduction to systemic functional linguistics, Vietnamese course (volume 4), new oral English course for English majors (volume 1-4), comprehensive English course, selected reading of American poetry, German literary novels, etc.
The college will, as always, attach importance to the construction of teaching materials. Twenty-nine kinds of textbooks have been approved in the 11th Five-Year National Textbook Plan for General Higher Education (as shown in the following table).