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Briefing
on College of Foreign Languages
College of Foreign Languages, Shanghai University
aims at training qualified personnel of foreign languages
characteristic of inter-disciplinary and applied abilities
who are fit for the social and economic development
of Shanghai Municipality. The College, composed of the
English Department, the Applied English Department and
the Japanese Department, has about 800 undergraduates
majoring in English and Japanese and offers courses
in English, Japanese and other foreign languages for
nearly 20 thousand non-foreign language majors ( including
undergraduates, master and doctoral candidates) on campus.
In addition, it is authorized to confer master degrees
in linguistics and applied linguistics as well as in
the English language and literature. In the courses
of the discipline construction, it has developed a system
of inter-disciplinary modules in the fields of commerce,
secretarial work,economicmanagement,law,foreign language
and literature education.
The College has about 200 teaching staff, among whom
30% are professors and associate professors. It has
two affiliated research centers:
the Popular Foreign Literature Research Centre and Translation
Research Centre, and is accredited to edit Shanghai
Journal of Translators for Science and Technology, one
of the core periodicals in foreign language research
in China.
In both Band Four and Band Eight of Test for English
Majors organized by the State Education Commission,
the English majors have reached the standards set for
the nation-wide Grade A colleges and departments of
foreign languages in the past ten successive years.
In each of the performance tests jointly sponsored by
China International Exchange Foundation and Japan International
Education Society, over 98% of the Japanese majors have
done very well all these years.
Importance is attached also to the exchanges with other
universities at home and abroad. The College is an executive
member of China Foreign Languages College and University
Coordination Council. It is tied up with the universities
in the United States, Japan and Finland. There are long-term
programmes in academic studies, language learning and
teaching and exchanges of teachers and students with
City University of New York, Japan's RYUKOKU University
and KYOTO University.
Mao Zhong-ming, born in 1952, Associate Professor,
is now Dean of Foreign Languages College, member of
the editorial board of Shanghai Journal of Translators
for Science and Technology, and of the Journal of Teach
Yourself English..
Graduated from Warwick University in U.K. in 1986 and
awarded an ME, Mr. Mao was once Chair of Industrial
Foreign Trade Department of Engineering College, Shanghai
University; Vice Dean of School of Economics and Management,
Shanghai University; Director of Foreign Affairs Office,
Shanghai University.
Major academic research fields: Translation
Main publications:
The Practice of Management (translation)
Successful Stress Management (translation)
How to Pass Marketing (second level) (proofreading and
revising)
How to Pass Marketing (third level) (proofreading and
revising)
How to Pass Customer Service (third level) (proofreading
and revising)
Recipient of the honor of "National Model Teacher"
, 1989
ICC International Conference
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