The school is a comprehensive research-oriented national key university focusing on humanities and social sciences directly under the Ministry of Education, and one of the key universities built by the Ministry of Education and the Beijing National "985 Project" and "2 1 1 Project". The school has 17 members of the Sixth the State Council Academic Degrees Committee and members of the discipline appraisal group, and 14 professors were elected to the Social Science Committee of the Ministry of Education, ranking among the top universities in China. The School of Foreign Languages of China Renmin University was founded in 20011,formerly known as the Department of Foreign Languages of Renmin University. The School of Foreign Languages has seven departments/teaching departments, including English Department, Russian Department, Japanese Department, German Department, French Department, College English Teaching Department and Postgraduate English Teaching Department, which undertake the training of foreign language professionals and foreign language teaching in all departments of the school. The School of Foreign Languages also has the following research institutions: Australian Research Center, German Research Center and Japanese Humanities and Social Sciences Research Center, which are engaged in cross-cultural and transnational academic research and exchanges.
The School of Foreign Languages has a strong faculty, with full-time teachers 1 18, including 56 teachers (including professors 16, associate professors 2 1 and lecturers 19). There are 62 foreign language teachers in the school. As of September 2009, the College has hired more than 30 foreign experts and scholars from Britain, the United States, Australia, Germany, Russia, Japan, France and other countries, including Japanese education expert at Taisho University, visiting researcher at australian academy of the humanities and David Walker (professor), an academician of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Since the new century, the college has continuously increased the training and introduction of talents, and the overall level of the teaching staff has been continuously improved. Among the teachers, more than 70% have the experience of studying or visiting abroad; More than 90% of teachers have postgraduate degrees, among which more than 54% of professional teachers have obtained doctoral degrees, and a considerable number of teachers are studying for doctoral degrees.
The Department of Foreign Languages was founded in February, 1988. In addition to offering public extracurricular courses in five languages for the whole school, five undergraduate majors in Russian, English, Japanese, German and French have been offered. The School of Foreign Languages was established in 200 1, with five undergraduate languages, English, French, German, Japanese and Russian, at 1987, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005 and 20/kloc-0 respectively. On February 20 1 1, he was awarded the first-class doctoral degree in foreign languages and literature. English language and literature, Japanese language and literature, and German language and literature are three two disciplines doctoral authorization points. In the autumn of 20 12, doctoral students in English language and literature were recruited, and in 20 14, doctoral students in German language and literature were recruited. The main research directions of foreign languages and literature are foreign literature, foreign culture, foreign linguistics and translation theory and practice. There are 780 full-time students in the School of Foreign Languages, including 6 12 undergraduates, 0/43 postgraduates and 25 second-degree students.
In recent five years, teachers of Foreign Languages Institute have published nearly 800 papers in various journals, including 650 core journals. In the past five years, all kinds of books 172 have been published, including 24 monographs, 36 translations, 59 textbooks, 37 editors and 6 reference books 16. In the past five years, our institute has undertaken 78 scientific research projects at all levels, including 6 national social science fund projects. Some published monographs and national planning textbooks for the 11th Five-Year Plan were included in the third issue of "2 1 1 project" of China Renmin University.
The School of Foreign Languages has always attached importance to exchanges and cooperation with overseas universities and academic institutions. At present, it has established academic exchanges, teacher exchanges, exchange of foreign students and other cooperative relations with dozens of foreign institutions of higher learning, such as Darville College of Arts and Sciences in Ohio, Melbourne University in Australia, Waseda University in Japan, Meiji University in Japan, Leipzig University in Germany, Tubingen University in Germany, Stuttgart University in Germany, Humboldt University in Germany, Lyon III University in France, Moscow State University in Russia and Pushkin Russian Institute, and carried out a series of key exchange and cooperation projects, and hosted or hosted them.