Tianjin Foreign Studies University
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Introduction to Tianjin Foreign Studies University
Tianjin Foreign Studies University (天津外国语大学, website) is an institution of higher learning with a complete range of major foreign languages. The predecessor of the university was Qinhuangdao Foreign Language College established in 1964, and later renamed Hebei Foreign Language College and Tianjin Foreign Language College. In 1974, the school was restored and renamed Tianjin Foreign Languages Institute. In the same year, students were enrolled in English, Japanese, French, Russian, Spanish and other languages. In 2010, it was renamed Tianjin Foreign Studies University with the approval of the Ministry of Education.
The university has two campuses, Fifth Avenue and Binhai, with a total area of 464218.7 square meters. The three courtyards of the Wudao Campus are located in the historical and architectural cultural tourism area of Tianjin (Machang Road, Munan Road, Zhengzhou Road). The Binhai Campus is located in the Dagang Higher Education Ecological Park in Binhai New Area, with beautiful scenery and beautiful lakes.
The university currently has 58 undergraduate majors. Among them, there are 35 foreign language and literature majors (33 foreign languages), Chinese language, journalism and other literary majors, and 23 majors in economics, management, law, education, art, and engineering. There are 5 national-level characteristic majors, 5 national-level undergraduate major comprehensive reform pilot projects, 7 national-level first-class undergraduate major construction sites, and 4 Tianjin municipal-level first-class undergraduate major construction sites. Twelve undergraduate courses in Tianjin’s offline, online and offline hybrid, social practice first-class undergraduate construction courses were approved.
The employment rate of university graduates has remained at a high level for many consecutive years. Nearly 50,000 outstanding alumni are active in various fronts including diplomacy, foreign trade, news, finance, legal affairs, and education, and are well received and welcomed by employers. Established 75 practice bases with Fortune 500 companies such as FAW Toyota and Samsung Electronics, including multiple overseas practice bases such as Phoenix Satellite TV America. Students have repeatedly achieved good results in various professional competitions across the country.
Tianjin Foreign Studies University has established the Institute of Translation and Intercultural Communication (under the jurisdiction of the Central Document Translation and Communication Collaborative Innovation Center, the Central Translation Bureau Central Document Translation Research Base, the Foreign Language and Literature Culture Research Center, the Language Symbol Application Communication Research Center, and the Comparative Literature Research Institute , European and American Institute of Cultural Philosophy), National and Regional Research Institutes [Subject to Korean Peninsula Center (Northeast Asia Center), Latin American Research Center, Russian Research Center, Ukrainian Research Center, Portuguese Research Center, French Research Center], “One Belt One Road” “Tianjin Strategic Research Institute has basically established an international characteristic scientific research platform system serving the development of the country, Tianjin and the school.
The university adheres to the road of international education, actively serves the “Belt and Road” initiative, and has established friendly cooperative relations with more than 220 universities and educational institutions in more than 30 countries around the world. In 2019, the school was approved to cooperate with Bulgaria to run an undergraduate education project. The school accepts “Chinese Government Scholarships”, “Confucius Institute Scholarships”, and “Tianjin Municipal Government Scholarships” foreign students, and has a “Tianjin Foreign Studies University Freshman Scholarship for International Students in China”, which accepts nearly 2,000 long-term and short-term students from more than 60 countries around the world every year International students come to the school to study for undergraduate, master, doctorate or short-term study. Relying on the good cooperative relationship with foreign universities and cooperative education programs such as “2+2”, “3+1”, and “4+1”, as well as the joint training of master’s and doctoral programs, and Hanban student Chinese teacher volunteer programs, etc. A large number of students are sent to study and exchange abroad every year. The school actively implements the strategy of Chinese culture going out. It has successively established 9 Confucius Institutes in cooperation with universities in South Korea, Portugal, Russia and other countries. It has been awarded the honorary title of “Advanced Confucius Institute” by Hanban several times, and has been awarded the Global Confucius Institute twice. Advanced Chinese partner colleges.
Tianjin Foreign Studies University currently has 9 Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers, Tianjin Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Center (construction project), 3 sets of international standard simultaneous interpretation lecture halls, 7 languages and 11 sets of international satellite TV reception systems and covers two campuses Campus computer network. The school is rich in learning resources. The library on the two campuses covers an area of more than 23,000 square meters, and has a collection of 7.38 million books (including Chinese, English, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Thai, Burmese, etc.). Books and paper books), more than 1,600 kinds of Chinese and foreign newspapers and magazines, 88 document types, languages and disciplines covering a relatively comprehensive Chinese and foreign database; collection of nearly 20,000 Chinese and foreign documents published in the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century There are more than 520 kinds of Western rare books, gifts from celebrities, thread-bound books in the late Qing Dynasty, and sinology-related documents, which have important historical and cultural value, academic data value and artistic appreciation value. The school has complete sports facilities, with standard sports fields, football fields, tennis courts, basketball courts, volleyball courts and other sports facilities, a comprehensive gymnasium of more than 10,000 square meters, and modern sports venues such as swimming pools and fencing halls.
Teaching Program
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