Cultivation goals: To cultivate high-quality, applied English professionals with solid basic English language skills, broad international vision, comprehensive comprehensive qualities, and outstanding cross-cultural business communication and communication abilities. Students mainly learn basic knowledge and theories of English linguistics, literature, translation studies and related majors, master English listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation skills, obtain comprehensive training in work literacy in international business, translation, teaching and management, etc., and have relatively good skills. Strong cross-cultural writing, translation and communication skills.
Main courses: Basic language skills courses (Basic English, Advanced English, English writing, English speaking), Linguistics, Literature courses (Introduction to English Linguistics, Introduction to English Literature), Translation Studies courses ( Interpreting skills and practice, translation theory and practice, consecutive interpretation, computer-assisted translation), related professional courses (Introduction to International Business, International Trade Practice, Educational Psychology).
Graduation destination: (1) Continuing studies: Famous overseas universities for students include University College London, University of Manchester, and University of Newcastle in the United Kingdom, Columbia University, New York University, and University of Rochester in the United States, and Australia’s The University of Sydney, the University of Queensland, the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong have further education rates of over 30%. (2) Employment destination: The year-end employment rate of English majors is stable at around 98%. More than 50% of graduates are employed in economically developed areas such as the Yangtze River Delta, mainly in foreign-related enterprises, institutions and government departments engaged in international business, foreign affairs and foreign language education. Some of the employment units include CCTV International, A.O. Smith, Anheuser-Busch InBev, PetroChina, Sinotrans, Industrial Bank, Bank of Nanjing, New Oriental Education Technology and Wuxi Xishan Middle School in Jiangsu Province.