College of Humanities and Foreign Languages of Xi'an University of Science and Technology was established in April 2011.The College descended from Foreign Language Teaching and Research Office of Basic Studies Department of Xi'an University of Science and Technology ( formerly Xi'an Mining Institute)Over 5 decades of development see the establishment of the Foreign Languages and Literature Department in May 2000, and the establishment of the College of Foreign Languages in June 2008 which later became the College of Humanities and Foreign Languages after being merged with formerly College of Humanities and Social Sciences.The College offers four undergraduate majors, including English, Chinese Language and Literature, the Science of Law, and Political Science and Administration Science, and has two master's degree programs, including Marxist Theory and State Governance and Master of Translation (MTI).
The College has set up Political Science and Administration Science Department, Law Science Department, Chinese Language and Literature Department, English Department, College English Teaching Department I, College English Teaching Department II, Graduate Student Foreign Language Teaching and Research Office, Practical Training Center, Public Art Teaching and Research Office, Foreign Language Training Center, and Reference Room among others.There are 131 faculty members, including 116 full-time teachers, 7 laboratory teachers and 8 administrative staff.Among them, there are 8 professors, 29 associate professors, 106 full-time teachers with doctoral and/or master's degrees, 10 teachers who have returned to China after studying abroad, and 4 foreign teachers.The team of teachers is basically well-structured when it comes to professional title, education background, and distribution of graduation schools.The College is mainly responsible for the teaching and scientific research in relation to humanities and social sciences and the teaching of foreign languages including English, Japanese and Russian for all undergraduates, master students and doctoral students of the University.
The College offers 16 language laboratories, including 1 simultaneous interpretation room, 9 multimedia language laboratories, 5 cloud network digital language laboratories, 2 foreign language radio stations, 1 recording studio and 1 foreign language reference room.There are nearly 5,000 sets of listening materials for professional and non-professional students, more than 3,000 sets of books, 47 kinds of original English periodicals, 45 kinds of books, and more than 1,200 sets of VCD and DVD film and television materials.
The College actively implements the Party's educational policy. Zeroing on cultivating high-level, high-quality and capable talents who can apply what they have learned, the College is keen on innovation when it comes to the management of teachers, the settings of curriculum and the way of cultivating talents. The College further shifts educational thoughts, updates educational concepts, deepens the reforms in education and teaching, strives to improve study style and teaching style, and makes teaching and management standardized and science-based, creating fertile soil for training high-level and high-quality talents, and cultivating a group of experts who have both ability and integrity and are able to put what they have learned into practice.
