English Southwest Jiaotong University

Overview

At present, the bachelor’s degree program of English Language and Literature at Southwest Jiaotong University ranks top 10% among all the universities and colleges in China. The program aims to cultivate both academic English talents and inter-disciplinary talents. Since 2016, more than 50% of graduates of the program have continued to pursue the master’s degree offered by top universities in China, the UK or the USA. Other graduates work in many fields such as education or foreign trade.

Objectives

This program aims to equip its undergraduate students with a good command of English language and literature, and, in particular, the competence in academic English reading, writing, and research. It cultivates both academic English talents and inter-disciplinary talents who have humanistic quality, a high level of competence in English, critical and creative thinking and capacity for further studies.

The graduates of this program should be equipped with proficient skills in English listening, speaking, reading, writing, translating and interpreting, with comprehensive mastery of the knowledge about British and American literature, linguistics, English-speaking nations and regions, and Chinese and western culture, with necessary understanding of basics in natural sciences, and with acquisition of the second foreign language, social adaptability and cross-cultural communication ability.

Academic English graduates of this program are expected to pursue their further studies. They are either involved in English master programs such as language and literature, language education, interpretation, and translation, or in other programs of such humanities and social sciences as law, economy, management and accounting.

Inter-disciplinary English graduates, with proficient language skills both in English and Chinese, are expected to work in China or foreign countries in such fields as business, administration, education, and foreign affairs. Some of them, who receive university-based training of project contracting and management, are capable of handling interpretation, translation, bidding, and file management in high-speed railway and transport agencies.