The School of Chinese Language and Literature (SCLL) was evolved from the Chinese Teaching and Research Office and the Chinese Language Group in the 1950s. In December 1998, the former School of International Exchange merged with the School of Chinese Language, and thus a new School of International Exchange came into birth. In 2006, it was renamed the School of Chinese Language and Literature (the School of Chinese Language for short). Now the School is composed of three departments, namely the Department of Chinese, the Department of Teaching Chinese as A Second Language and the Chinese Training Center, as well as several research institutes including the Information Center for International Chinese Language Studies and the Research Center for Comparative Literature and World Literature. There are two academic journals launched by the SCLL: International Chinese Language Teaching, published by the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press quarterly, and Humanities Series, published by the SCLL itself annually. The School of Chinese Language has set up two majors for undergraduate programs (Teaching Chinese as A Foreign Language and the Chinese Language and Literature), four majors for graduate program (Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Comparative Literature and World Literature, Ancient Chinese Literature and International Chinese Language Teaching), as well as one major for doctoral program (Comparative and Intercultural Studies). The disciplines of Teaching Chinese as A Second Language and Comparative Literature embody distinct characteristics. At present, the SCLL has more than 1,000 students in total and over 800 are foreign students.

 

Faculty

The SCLL has 75 full-time teachers including 33 professors and associate professors, and over 70 part-time instructors.

 

School of International Business (SIB) is one of the youngest and the most vigorous schools in Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU). Its mission is to offer students a highly enriching and rewarding multi-disciplinary learning experience with its excellent business-related courses and the best English language teaching in China, and thus help ensure their success as future managers and executives in the globalized economy. SIB’s economics and management courses have been included by the Education Ministry of China in the nation-wide 211 Project, which aims to support a hundred most important universities in China.

 

The teaching staffs in SIB have expertise in economics and management theories and practice as well as a good command of English. All of them have been awarded master’s of doctorate degrees by prestigious universities in China. 70% of them have also been awarded degrees, received training, or undertaken academic research in overseas universities or institutions.

 

Six undergraduate majors are available at SIB, namely: International Economics and Trade, Finance, Business Administration, E-commerce, Management Information System, and Accounting. It now also offers graduate program in Foreign Affairs (International Economics-oriented).

 

SIB is also committed to exploration and research in economics, management, business English and other related areas. It already boasts several research institutions---Finance and Securities Research Center, China Center for Management Studies, Research Center for World and Regional Economies, Research Center for Business English Teaching, Center for Cross-cultural Management Studies. It contributes greatly to the innovation of economics and management theories in China and is actively involved in various academic events both as an initiator/ organizer and a participant.

 

Faculty

Currently there are about 60 instructors in SIB, including 3 professors, 12 associate professors, 35 lecturers and 5 teaching assistants. Among them, 16 have PhD degrees (including 4 post-doctors) and 14 are working on doctoral programs. All the teaching staff are graduates from well-known domestic or foreign universities, and 80% of them have study or research experiences overseas. Of the business instructors, in particular, 83.3% are either doctoral-degree holders or working on doctoral programs at the moment.

 

 

 

The School of Asian and African Studies (originally the Department of Asian and African Languages) was founded in 1961. At present, the school has set up 17 majors in foreign languages: Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian, Burmese, Thai, Malay, Indonesian, Sinhalese, Korean, Turkish, Swahili, Hausa, Hindi, Urdu, Hebrew, Persian and Tagalog. Therefore it boasts the longest history and most disciplines in foreign languages nationwide. With the approval of the Ministry of Education, its predecessor, the Department of Asian and African Languages established the National Non-Universal Languages Undergraduate Personnel Training Bases in 2001, and was listed into “the Project of Higher Education Reform in the New Century”. The MOE and the Beijing Municipal Government have approved the construction of characteristic discipline in the School of Asian and African Studies respectively in 2007 and 2008. Besides, there are several research centers in the School of Asian and African Studies, such as the Research Centers for Southeastern Asian Studies, Southern Asian Studies, Western Asian and African Studies and Korean-North Korean Studies.

 

The School has a strong faculty team with lots of teaching experiences and enthusiasm for the instruction of non-universal languages. Now the number of the instructors is forty-five, among whom professors and associate professors account for 40%. Apart from seven to eight visiting foreign experts, there are also a number of domestic and foreign specialists and scholars invited to work as a visiting professor. The School is specialized in the teaching and research of Asian, African languages and literature, cultural studies, and translation theory and practice.

 

 

 

The School of Russian Studies (SRS) was founded in 1996 and evolved from the Department of Russian of BFSU. Until now, the SRS has set up two majors for undergraduate program and the research fields of its graduate program range from Russian Linguistics, Russian Literature, Russian Social and Cultural Studies, Russia’s Diplomatic and International Issues to Translation (including interpretation and simultaneous interpretation). At present, 275 undergraduate students, 64 graduate students, 16 doctoral students and 7 postdoctoral students are studying at the School of Russian Studies. The faculty team is made up of 21 members, among whom 6 are doctoral tutors, 10 professors (including doctoral tutors) and 11 associate professors. Twelve faculty members have obtained PhD degrees and the teacher-student ratio is approximately 1:14.

 

 

The School of International Relations (SIR) was founded in September, 2006. It is a newly established school full of vitality and potentials. The SIR has established the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Institute of International Studies. Especially, it has been working on improving the teaching process with its own characteristics and fully exerting its teaching advantages. The traditional teaching model with mono-subject has been abolished and the SIR has adopted a new guideline that attaches equal importance to certain research fields and foreign languages. Now there are over 200 full-time graduate and undergraduate students studying at the SIR, aside from 100 students pursuing a dual bachelor’s degree. The number of full-time instructors and researchers is now 20. They are three professors (researchers), nine associate professors (associate researchers) and eight faculty members with an intermediate professional title. The teacher-student ratio is approximately 1:12.

 

 

 

On the basis of the former Department of European Languages, the School of European Languages and Cultures (SELC) was founded on September 21, 2007. Mr. Chen Haosu, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee, Chairman of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, Chairman of the China-EU Association, is now working as an Honorary Dean of the School.

 

The SELC has established the Department of the Central European Languages, the Department of the Southeastern European Languages and the Department of the Northwestern European Languages, and it instructs 15 languages including Polish, Czech, Romanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Serbian, Croatian, Finnish, Slovak, Dutch, Greek, Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic. In addition, the Research Center of Central and Eastern Europe and the Research Center of Finland represent the teaching and research institutes with the most European non-universal languages in China.

 

The history of the SELC dates back to the 50s last century. The establishment and development of its predecessors, namely the Department of Polish and Czech, the Department of Polish, Czech and Romanian and the Department of the Eastern European Languages, are closely related to the diplomatic, economic and cultural developments of the country. Under the leadership of the Party and Administration at BFSU, many senior teachers worked very hard and cultivated a number of much-needed professionals over periods. Many graduates have become diplomats and experts, and have been playing a significant role in promoting foreign relations and advancing China’s reform and opening up. Not only have they achieved great success, but they have also won international reputation and served as role models for young students.

 

The SELC has devoted itself to textbook and dictionary compilation, literary translation and academic researches. With the spirit of exploration and innovation, the SELC has achieved fruitful success. Many distinguished disciplines have gradually taken shape and a number of influential translators, literary researchers and language teachers have emerged from the school. The former Department of Eastern European Languages began to set up graduate program in 1984. Since 1998, it has developed graduate and doctoral programs on European Languages and Literature, which covers not only every major inside the department, but also some majors in other departments like Italian, Swedish and Portuguese. In 2001, as an Eastern European Languages Group, the whole department was listed into the National Non-Universal Languages Undergraduate Personnel Training Bases by the Ministry of Education. As one of the first faculties, the SELC has begun with the construction of characteristic discipline in 2007, with the approval of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance.

 

The mission of the SELC is to cultivate talents, to pursue regional studies, to promote Chinese internationally and to intensify cultural interactions between China and the Europe.

 

In the academic year 2008-2009, the SELC has 279 undergraduate and graduate students in total.

 

At present, thirty-five members are working on the staff team. There are five professors, eight associate professors, thirteen instructors and seven assistant professors. Additionally, fifteen foreign experts and four visiting professors are invited to work at the SELC, under the framework of relevant agreements.

 

 

The Law School of BFSU began to enroll undergraduate students majored in jurisprudence in September, 2001. Nowadays, the Law School has 189 undergraduate students majored in jurisprudence, and established three teaching and research offices: public law and legal theory, international law and comparative law as well as the judicature. Apart from them, there are also a Research Center on Anglo-American Laws and a Research Center on Legal English. The Law School has set up the major jurisprudence for the undergraduate program, and the students can also pursue a dual bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature. Since 2006, the Law School has been approved to confer a master’s degree in International Law. Besides, the Joint Center for China-US Policy Studies, which is co-organized by Beijing Foreign Studies University, Peking University and Cornell University, is located in the Law School.

 

Now the faculty team of Law School is made up of 10 full-time law teachers, over 20 tutors outside the Law School and 3 foreign teachers. Moreover, there is a group of academic advisors working as part-time teachers for the Law School as well.

 

 

 

The predecessor of the School of English and International Studies (SEIS) was the Department of English, founded in 1944. The SEIS takes the lead to confer the PhD degree in English and construct the characteristic discipline in Beijing. Moreover, the discipline of English Language and Literature has been ratified as a National Key Discipline and the whole school was granted as National Outstanding Teaching Team. Over a half century, many excellent diplomats, scholars and media elites have graduated from the SEIS. There are three departments in the SEIS, namely the Department of English, the Department of International Journalism and Dissemination and the Department of Translation, as well as eleven research centers: Research Center for English and American Literature, Research Center for Linguistics, Research Center for Translation, Research Center for American Studies, Research Center for British Studies, Research Center for Australian Studies, Research Center for Canadian Studies, Research Center for Irish Studies, Research Center for Chinese-American Literature, Research Center for International Dissemination and Research Center for Intercultural Studies. Research fields of the English Language and Literature as a National Key Discipline are as follows: 1) English Literature Studies; 2) Linguistics and Teaching English as A Second Language; 3) Comparative Studies on English and Chinese as well as Translation Studies; 4) Studies on English-speaking Countries. The SEIS has always attached great importance to international exchanges, so it has maintained good and long-term cooperation with lots of universities and academic institutes in Great Britain, U.S.A, Australia and Canada.

 

Now, the SEIS has 13 PhD qualified tutors, 19 professors and 38 associate professors. There are 61 teachers with a PhD degree, which accounts for 63% of the overall teaching staff.

 

 

Introduction

The Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation (GSTI) was established in 1994 and its predecessor was the Training Department of the United Nations’ Interpreters that was founded in 1979. Now the GSTI has set up graduate programs such as simultaneous interpretation between English and Chinese, and multilingual simultaneous interpretations (French/German/Russian plus English and Chinese). Meanwhile, the GSTI also enrolls doctoral students in the research fields like Translation Studies and Linguistics. At present, there are over 140 graduate and foreign students studying at the GSTI. Most of the foreign graduate students come from Canada, France, Russian, Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan areas. The faculty team is made up of 18 full-time professors, associate professors and instructors, as well as 3 part-time professors inside BFSU and 2 visiting professors outside BFSU. The teacher-student ratio is approximately 1:10.

 

 

The discipline of Japanese Language and Literature at BFSU has been ratified as a Key Discipline in the National 211 Project. In 1987, it began to develop graduate program and the Center was accredited by the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council to confer a PhD degree in December, 1993. Currently, the Center has set up curriculums for both graduate and doctoral programs. Furthermore, the graduate courses can be divided into five research fields: Japanese Language, Teaching Japanese as A Second Language, Japanese Literature, Japanese Cultural Studies and Japanese Social and Economic Studies. Since its establishment over 20 years ago, the Center has cultivated more than 900 graduate, doctoral students and instructors in the fields of Teaching Japanese as A Second Language and Japanese Studies. As high-level and quality professionals in the sections of education, research and international communications, many graduates have made considerable contributions to advancing China’s modernization, promoting the exchanges on culture and education between China and Japan, and developing a friendly Sino-Japanese relationship. Beijing Center for Japanese Studies adopts an education model featuring Sino-Japanese collaboration on cultivating talents. Once the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education, Mr. Zhang Xinsheng pointed out that the Center should be regarded as a role model in carrying out successful cooperation on education between China and Japan.

 

The Center has a strong faculty team with 14 full-time teaching staff. All of them are high-level professionals with a PhD degree or PhD qualified tutors. There are six PhD qualified tutors, seven professors, five associate professors and two instructors. Annually, the top 10 famous Japanese scholars in the Japan Foundation are invited to teach at the Center. Besides, the Center has invited three renowned Japanese scholars to work as Special Advisor.

 

 

Postgraduate programmes

1)      Post-doc programme

2)      PhD programme

3)      MA programme

4)     Visiting scholar programme

5)      International exchange programme (PhD level)

6)      International exchange programme (MA level)

 

Staff and research interests

 

 

 

 

 

The Department of Japanese was evolved from the discipline of Japanese, set up by the School of Foreign Affairs in 1956. At present, the Department of Japanese has two teaching levels—undergraduates and graduates. There are four majors: Japanese language, Japanese literature, Japanese society &culture and Translation. The Department of Japanese has 291 undergraduate students, 6 foreign students included, 50 graduate students and 6 doctoral students. The Department of Japanese has maintained communication with lots of universities such as Waseda University, Aoyama Gakuin University, Rikkyo University, Daito Bunka University, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, Kobe Shoin Women's University, Nagasaki Junshin University, Asahi University and so on. There are 22 teachers, including 6 professors, 11 assistant professors and 5 lecturers. In addition, 2 Japanese experts and a number of foreign teachers are invited to work at the Department of Japanese every year. The teacher-student ratio is approximately 1:12.

 

 

Two disciplines constitute the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, namely Spanish and Portuguese. The discipline of Spanish was established in 1952. It began to enroll graduate and doctoral students in 1979 and in 1996 respectively. The department set up the discipline of Portuguese in early 1960s and the Research Center for Portuguese in 1991. Both disciplines have maintained good cooperation with foreign partners. Currently, there are 2 doctoral tutors, 3 professors, 8 associate professors, instructors and assistant professors, as well as 2 foreign teachers in the discipline of Spanish. As for the discipline of Portuguese, the faculty team is made up of 3 associate professors, 3 instructors and assistant professors as well as 1 foreign teacher.

 

 

The Department of French established the majors French and Italian in 1950 and 1962 respectively. Now there are totally 342 undergraduate students, 43 graduate students and 8 doctoral students majored in French. There are abundant books, audio and video learning materials in the department, and all of the classrooms are equipped with multi-media teaching facilities. The French Department has set up the Center of French Learning Materials, the Research Center for Swiss Studies, the Research Center for Canadian Studies and the Research Center for Quebec Studies.

 

The Department of French has a strong faculty team in the disciplines of language, literature and translation. Besides, the department abounds in talents and professionals in Simultaneous Interpretation, International Politics, EU Law and Foreign Language Instruction. At present, the number of the faculty members is 31, including 5 professors, 14 associate professors. All of the young instructors has a master’s degree or above. Moreover, 3 long-term French experts and 2 short-term lecturers are invited to work at the Department of French every year.

 

The Department of Arabic was evolved from the discipline of Arabic set up by the School of Foreign Affairs in 1958. In 1981, the Department of Arabic came into birth. In 1980, it took the lead to develop graduate program for Arabic Language and Literature in China, and was also the first faculty to enroll doctoral students in Arabic Language and Literature nationwide in 1986. In 1992, it was approved to enroll postdoctoral students in Arabic Language and Literature. Moreover, it was ratified as a Key Discipline in Beijing in 2002. Six years later, it was granted as the Excellent Key Discipline in Beijing and the characteristic discipline by the Ministry of Education. In 2008, the department was awarded as the Outstanding Teaching Team in Beijing. The courses offered by the Department of Arabic has shifted from pure Arabic Language and Literature to the current Arabic Language, Literature, Social and Cultural Studies, Economy and Trade, as well as Politics and Diplomacy.

 

Now the teaching staff of the department consists of sixteen teachers. Among them, six are professors (including PhD qualified tutors), and another six are associate professors. Seven of the faculty members have a PhD degree.

 

The Department of German was founded in March, 1950. At present, there are 2 majors in the department: German Studies and Swedish Studies. The discipline of German Language and Literature is able to confer the master’s degree and the PhD degree. It has been ratified as a National Key Discipline by the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council, and established 6 majors for graduate program (German Literature, German Linguistic, Translation Theory and Practice between German and Chinese, German Diplomacy and Economy, Intercultural and Economic Communication and Teaching German as a Second Language), and 4 majors for doctoral program (German Literature, German Linguistics, German Diplomacy and Economy, Intercultural Studies). Now there are in total 462 students in the Department of German.

 

Now the Department of German has 42 teachers, including 10 professors, 7 associate professors, 2 German experts and 1 Swedish expert. The teacher-student ratio is approximately 1:11.

 

Introduction:

The Training College has inherited the excellent traditions of foreign languages instruction of BFSU. In the meanwhile, with innovative teaching concepts, it has been consistently broadening its horizons and adjusting its strategies, so as to optimize the allocation of the education resources, to launch various teaching programs, and to establish open and practical teaching mechanism.

 

The Training College adopts an international-oriented strategy and follows a principle of instructing Chinese and introducing the Chinese culture to the world. For years, it has been engaged in cultivating the international professionals who are fluent in Chinese and familiar with Chinese culture, with the goal of strengthening cultural exchanges between China and other countries in the world.

 

Features

 

The Training College has a strong faculty team. All the instructors possess the qualification of teaching Chinese as a second language. Besides, the Training College organizes Chinese culture activities regularly and takes the students to visit the places of interest in China.

 

Information about the faculty

The Training College has a strong faculty team. All the instructors are qualified to teach Chinese as a second language. Not only are they dynamic and innovative individuals, but they also have lots of teaching experiences and are good at various teaching methods to enhance the students’ Chinese capability.