英語系創建于2005年,設有英語本科專業,英語專業是我校建立較早的專業,2019年被遴選為海南省應用型轉型試點專業。
辦學十余載,培養了一批從事翻譯、教學、外貿、外事、國際商務和管理等工作的具有創新精神、實踐能力和人格健全的服務海南自貿港建設的復合性、應用型人才。
師資力量
職稱結構、學歷結構、年齡結構和學緣結構比較合理。目前英語系有16名專業教師(含外教3人),博士4人,碩士12人,其中教授3人、副教授6人。師資隊伍力量比較雄厚,教學和科研能力比較突出。近年來,教師團隊在翻譯學、語言學、文學、外語教學等領域研究成果豐碩,近五年獲批國家社科基金、教育部和省社科基金項目多項,在國內外核心期刊發表高水平論文多篇,著作多部,獲省級教學成果一等獎等多項教學獎勵。
多元培養模式
以“課堂教學+專家講座+校外實習實訓”等多種培養方式,提供豐富的個性化教學環境,學生可根據自身能力與興趣選擇輔修課和通識課;創設專業實踐活動和豐富多彩的第二課堂活動,培養并提升學生運用知識、團隊合作、公共演講、戲劇展演和實踐創新等綜合能力素質;冬季短學期為學生提供來自國內外知名學者、專家的高端學術講座,在導師的指導下學生可組團申報國家級、省級大學生創新創業項目,并進一步參加全國創新創業大賽;通過Work & Travel USA美國實習項目、美國紐約圣約翰大學、香港中文大學等暑期游學項目以及與三亞市政府部門、旅游單位等26個海內外實習實訓基地合作,為學生提供國際會議、賽事志愿者服務機會,例如“博鰲亞洲論壇”、“ABB國際汽盟電動方程式錦標賽”等,廣泛開展學術類、文化類、實踐類創新創業活動,全面培養學生綜合實踐能力。
培養目標
致力于培養服務自貿港建設的具有英語基本功扎實、文學文化素養良好、思辨能力較強,并且有創新精神、實踐能力、人格健康的復合性、應用型英語人才。
英語專業畢業生廣受社會歡迎,近三年畢業生平均就業率為97%,約55%的畢業生在國際商務領域就業,約30%的畢業生在教育、培訓領域就業。建院以來已有近百名畢業生在包括中山大學、上海對外經貿大學、香港中文大學、利物浦大學、曼徹斯特大學等國內外大學繼續深造。
Introduction to the Department of English
The Department of English was founded in 2005 with an English undergraduate major program, whichwas an earlyprogramestablished in our university and was selected as an application-orientedrestructuring pilotprogram in Hainan Province in 2019.
The Department of English has been operating for more than ten years and has trained a group ofinter-disciplinaryand application-oriented talents with innovative spirit, practical ability anddecent personality who are engaged in translation, teaching, foreign trade, foreign affairs, international business and management to serve the development of Hainan Free Trade Port.
Faculty
The professional title structure of the teaching staff,thestructure ofacademic degrees,theage structure anddistribution of teachers’ graduate schools are relatively reasonable. At present, the Department of English has 16full-time teachers (including 3 foreign teachers), among whom4 have PhDs and 12 haveaMaster’s Degree, three are professors and six are associate professors. The Department of English has agood strong faculty strength and outstanding teaching and research capabilities. In recent years, the faculty team has made fruitful research achievements in the fields of translation, linguistics, literature, foreign language teaching, etc. In the past five years, they have been awarded many projects by the National Social Science Foundation, the Ministry of Education and the Hainan Provincial Social Science Foundation, and have published many high-level papers in core journals at home and abroad,publishedmany books, and won many teaching awards such as the First Prize of Hainan Province for Teaching Achievement.
DiversifiedTalents Training Modes
The Department provides a rich personalized teaching environment with various training methods such as “classroom teaching +colloquium Series+ off-campus practicum”, and students can choose minors and general courses according to their own abilities and interests. It organizes professional practice activities andvaried extracurricular activities to cultivate and enhance the students’ comprehensive ability and quality such as knowledge application, teamwork, public speaking, drama performance and practical innovation. It provides students with high-level academic lectures from renowned scholars and experts at home and abroad during the short winter semester, and under the guidance of supervisors, students can form groups to apply for national and provincial student innovation and entrepreneurship projects and further participate in national innovation and entrepreneurship competitions. Through the Work & Travel USA internship program, the summer study tour program at St. John’s University in New York and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the cooperation with 26 internship training bases at home and abroad such as government departments and tourism units in Sanya, as well as volunteer service opportunities for international conferences and events, such as “Boao Forum for Asia” and the ABB International Formula Electric Championship, students can also participate in a wide range of academic, cultural and practical innovative and entrepreneurial activities to develop comprehensive practical skills.
Educational Objectives
It is committed to cultivatinginter-disciplinary and application-oriented English talents with solid fundamental English skills, good literary and cultural literacy, strong thinking ability, innovative spirit, practical ability, anddecent personalities to serve the construction ofHainan FreeTradePort.
English major undergraduates are widely welcomedinto society, with an average employment rate of 97% in the past three years. About 55% of the graduates are employed in the field of international business, and about 30% are employed in the field of education and training. Since its establishment, nearly 100 graduates have pursued further studiesin domestic and international universities, including Sun Yat-sen University, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics,theChinese University of Hong Kong,theUniversity of Liverpool, andtheUniversity of Manchester.