General Information

Founded nearly 30 years ago, the English Department at Tongji University is equipped with abundant faculty, reasonable subject arrangement and sound training system. It has now established comprehensive training levels offering degrees from bachelor to doctor including both academic degree and professional degree. It’s entitled to grant master and doctoral degrees in foreign language and literature and professional master's degree in translation, and it has set up a postdoctoral research center.

According to the “Evaluation Report of Chinese Universities and Disciplines”, the English major of Tongji University was rated as a 5-star major (top level). Our training program is highly appraised by the Teaching Steering Committee of Foreign Language and Literature Major of the Ministry of Education. The achievements of ideological and political education in professional courses and teaching reform has been reported and affirmed by authoritative media including CCTV News Broadcast, Liberation Daily, Xinmin Evening News.

Objectives

The Department of English aims to lay a solid foundation for students’ language competence, enhance their abilities to think critically and enrich their knowledge in cultural values. The department provides students with opportunities to appreciate and explore literature creatively so as to guide its students to deepen their understanding in Chinese and English cultures. The department is also dedicated to developing talents with social responsibility.

About the Program

Main Courses:Introduction to British and American Literature, Introduction to Linguistics, Introduction to Translation, Chinese Civilization, Western Civilization, Multicultural Communication, Leadership and Decision-making, Multiculturalism and Global Governance, China's Foreign Discourse Construction, Comparison of Chinese and Western Thinking, Language Innovation, Media Literacy, Critical Thinking and Moral Reasoning.

Our department is equipped with personalized classrooms for small-class teaching. For students of the English major, we have set up a curriculum system that combines courses on basic skills, disciplinary knowledge and general education, aiming to lay a solid theoretical foundation for students and cultivate their practical ability, critical thinking and international horizons. We have organized various activities and competitions for students to improve their language and comprehensive abilities. Our students have won many awards in the “21st Century Cup” National College English Speaking Contest and the national cross-cultural ability competition for college students, and various other competitions. The excellent rate and the passing rate of TEM-4 and TEM-8 rank high among universities in China.

International Collaborations

The Department of English provides students with a bounty of academic visit opportunities.

1.The Department has set up exchange programs with many renowned universities in the United States, Britain, Canada and South Korea.

2.The academic ties between Tongji University and other foreign universities offer students more opportunities to study in European and American countries.

Graduate Prospects

Graduates of the English Department have a good social reputation with the employment rate among the highest in the university. The starting salary of graduates ranks first in the School of Foreign Languages. The fields of employment cover foreign affairs, finance, law, education, culture, and media, with employers from international organizations, central enterprises, large multinational corporations and public institutions.

Employers include Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Embassies or Consulates, Bank of China, HSBC, Commercial Vehicle Technology Center of SAIC Motor, SAIC Motor Commercial Vehicle Co., Ltd., China Eastern Airlines Co., Ltd., Ernst & Young (China) Co., Ltd., PwC Zhongtian Accounting Firm, Unilever (China) Investment Co., Ltd., Continental Automotive Holding (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., etc.

Foreign Universities for further study include Stanford University, University of California (Berkeley), Columbia University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Leicester, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Bonn, University College London, etc.