Dalian Foreign Affairs University is committed to cultivating compound applied talents with profound humanistic quality, outstanding professional expertise, comprehensive information technology ability and international communication ability. Carefully arranged courses such as humanities, computer and foreign languages are the general courses of the whole school, aiming at improving the basic quality of each student to meet the needs of modern society and have the competitiveness of general industries. The school strives to make most students of all majors have high English and computer application ability.
● School motto: "Think independently and learn independently"
Advocate active learning spirit and innovative spirit. While imparting knowledge, teachers guide students to know the value of knowledge, learn learning methods, form study habits, and expand students' awareness and ability of independent innovation. The school requires students to develop the habit of extensive reading and active thinking, actively participate in academic discussions, and strive to significantly improve their autonomous learning ability and innovation ability through school study, so as to lay the foundation for long-term lifelong learning in the future, so as to adapt to the characteristics of accelerated knowledge update and continuous expansion of knowledge fields in modern society and make innovations and achievements in their respective professional activities.
● Course selection system-choose courses suitable for your development aspirations and teachers you trust.
The elective system is implemented, and nearly 240 courses such as software engineering, network engineering, information economy, art design, modern communication, enterprise management, market development, law, international economy, tourism economy and foreign languages are offered for students to choose. The course selection system independently developed by the school can accommodate more than 5000 people to choose courses online at the same time each semester. Students don't have to decide their final major at the beginning of enrollment, but only need to consider whether the school's professional system covers their own development intentions. Then, according to the order of general courses, professional basic courses and professional courses in the whole school, choose the courses that suit your development aspirations and teachers you trust. Among all courses, general courses account for about 39%, professional basic courses account for about 15%, professional courses (including graduation design) account for about 39%, and elective courses account for about 7%. This course structure aims to train students to become modern talents with solid foundation, broad caliber, long-term development potential and diversified development prospects.
● Credit system-students and parents are the biggest beneficiaries.
Implement a complete credit system, replace rigid teaching plans and academic systems with flexible teaching plans and academic systems, and replace course arrangement with course selection. Students arrange their own study plans according to their abilities and interests, and can even change majors at any time. Students' major choice is realized through elective courses, and students can change their majors by changing elective courses at any stage of school study. The implementation of the credit system has also improved the transparency of tuition fees. Every credit is clearly marked, and students who have completed the lowest total credits can even graduate ahead of schedule. So students and parents are the biggest beneficiaries.
● A strong team of teachers
The construction of teaching staff adopts a combination of full-time and part-time jobs. The main teachers in the school include senior scholars with many years of working experience in colleges and universities, experts with rich experience in related industries, masters and doctors trained by domestic universities and outstanding talents who have returned from studying abroad. Among them, 20% teachers have senior professional titles and above, and nearly 60% teachers have doctoral and master's degrees.
● Moral education tutor-the harbor of students' mind
Moral tutorial system replaces the management system of class teacher. Select excellent teachers as moral education instructors for students, and assume the responsibility of ideological education and behavior guidance for students. This structure of moral education tutor team not only makes students willing to communicate their ideological puzzles and difficulties in life with teachers, but also effectively communicates their learning problems, thus organically combining teaching with educating people. Students can also choose their own moral education teachers and conduct two-way evaluation with moral education instructors.
● Comprehensive teaching effect evaluation system
Multi-angle and multi-dimensional teaching effect evaluation system. Horizontally, with the guidance of strengthening students' autonomous learning ability and integrating theory with practice as the main line, teachers' teaching process and teaching effect are assessed in real time through teaching syllabus, teaching plan, handout, teaching and graduation design guidance, and the teaching quality is effectively improved. Vertically, the evaluation of teaching effect is carried out step by step. The school evaluates the college, the college evaluation department, the college and the department evaluate the teachers, and the teachers evaluate the students. The school trade union will evaluate the teaching management effect of the school again and gradually improve the teaching and management of the school.
● Reform the graduation design, promote the teaching of specialized courses and enhance the competitiveness of employment.
Carry out the teaching reform of graduation design-change the graduation design from the next semester of grade four to the first semester of grade three, which runs through the learning process of professional courses. The school expects that through the reform of graduation design, students can choose courses with purpose and direction, promote the study of professional courses, and cultivate students' autonomous learning ability and practical ability; Improve the quality and level of graduation design works and enhance employment competitiveness.
● Modern management platform
Encourage students to organize themselves, educate themselves, serve themselves and manage themselves. The school independently developed a variety of management software and established an information management system covering the whole school. Student files, course selection fees, accommodation and meals, borrowing books, achievement awards, etc. Are all managed online. Through the school website, parents can keep abreast of students' school situation.
● Colorful campus cultural activities
Carry out a variety of campus cultural activities, form literary societies such as music associations and dance associations, organize sports societies such as basketball teams, football teams, aerobics and taekwondo, and regularly hold literary performances, computer competitions, English competitions, calligraphy competitions, speech competitions and various sports competitions, which are well received by students. The school makes full use of Dalian's rich social and cultural resources, invites successful people from all walks of life such as economy and culture to give lectures, and organizes students to participate in activities organized by Dalian TV and other institutions, so that students can broaden their horizons, increase their knowledge and better understand the society. In order to expand the idea of running a school, the school has repeatedly exchanged visits with Lynn University in the United States and Thoreau University in India, reaching a long-term exchange intention.
Since its establishment, Dalian Foreign Affairs College has been exploring a new talent training mode and adhering to the school-running goals of serving the society, employment-oriented, survival by quality and development by innovation. The enterprising Dalian foreign affairs personnel will carry forward the past in the torrent of teaching reform and become the mainstay of the builders of comprehensive private universities in the new era.