The School of Foreign Languages has been working hard to build a high-level disciplinary platform, with the right to grant first-level doctoral degrees in foreign languages and literature and the right to grant first-level master’s degrees in foreign languages and literature. She also has five second-level master’s programs including applied linguistics, English language and literature, Japanese language and literature, Russian language and literature, and translation. In 2013, the first double-degree master’s program jointly run by Chinese and foreign universities was approved by the Ministry of Education. The college currently has two undergraduate majors in English (a key major in Jiangsu Province) and Japanese, with nearly 600 students, including 363 undergraduate students and 210 graduate students.

Now the School boasts a faculty of 111 full-time teachers, including 10 full professors, 53 associate professors, 3 doctoral supervisors, 35 master’s supervisors, 1 winner of the National Award for Great Teachers, 1 winner of the Provincial Award for Great Teachers, 1 teachers selected into the Top-Level Talents Program 333 of Jiangsu Province, and 4 selected into the Outstanding Young Teachers Program of Jiangsu Province. Furthermore, the School engages nearly 20 preeminent experts and scholars both at home and abroad as part-time or visiting professors. Almost all faculty members have either studied or taken refresher courses overseas.

The School, adhering to the three basic functions of a university, i.e., “nurturing talents, pursuing scientific research, and serving society”, has been increasingly influential in the foreign language area with its achievements over years. The School, committed to the nurturing of high-quality and inter-disciplinary talents with a Chinese mind and global vision, has brought up quite a few internationally prestigious scholars, experts and senior professionals in the past hundred years. In recent years, in response to national strategies, it is further devoted to the nurturing of talents in line with national and local demands and the gap of professionals in domestic and foreign markets, which has won acclaim of both peers and the industry with competitive advantages through cooperation with relevant enterprises and industries. In addition, the School, offering English, Japanese, German, French, Russian and Latin courses to non-language majors of SEU as their first or second foreign language, has been among the best and set an example nationwide in terms of its innovation-oriented teaching mode and achievements in talent nurturing, and has thus won quite a few national and provincial-level teaching achievement awards. Likewise, scientific research of the School has also been fruitful. Four research orientations are identified with strong disciplines of SEU, namely, foreign language education and learning science, foreign literature and arts, Asian Pacific language policies and language planning, and translation studies. The recent years has witnessed a significant growth in its research funds, successive success in the application for major projects, and a yearly increasing number of high-quality papers, which contributes potentially to social economy.

At present, professors of the School hold important social positions such as chairman of Jiangsu College Foreign Languages Teaching & Research Association; the School also serves as one of the national foreign language test centers for CET-4 and CET-6 oral examinations, Japanese Language Proficiency Test, IELTS and TOEFL, among others.

Looking into the future, we will uphold our tradition of excellence and in the meantime accelerate our reform. We will work closely together for a sound and sustainable development in our contribution to the goal of building Southeast University into a world-class university.