Dean: Wang Ying (MA/Associate Professor)
Deputy Dean: Zhou Rong (MA/Associate Professor), Liu Shoujun (PhD/Associate Professor)
Tel: 0086-511-88781194
Office: Z208 (Dean's Office)/ Z401 (Teachers' Office)
E-mail: jdryx@hotmail.com
Overview:
The Japanese Department housed by the School of Foreign Languages is one of the first new departments established immediately after the founding of Jiangsu University in 2001. In 2002 the Department of Japanese took in its first batch of 4-year undergraduates. In 2005 it began to recruit postgraduates majoring in “Linguistics and Applied linguistics”. The Japanese Department has a young and middle-aged faculty with plentiful teaching experiences, excellent teaching quality, and devoted to a fairly complete range of research orientations. Currently it boasts 14 full-time teachers, including 1 professor, 3 MA supervisors, 6 associate professors, 4 PhDs and 10 master's degree holders. 6 faculties of the Department have obtained their doctor’s or master’s degrees in the national universities of Japan. The rest teachers also have studied for a period of time in Japan. Now there are 2 teachers pursuing their doctorate degrees respectively in China and Japan. In addition, the Department hire 3-4 teachers from Japan regularly each year.
The Japanese Program is aimed at cultivating qualified interdisciplinary career-oriented senior Japanese talents with a good comprehensive quality, a broad international vision, and a strong sense of innovation and practical ability, with a solid foundation in basic Japanese skills and an in-depth understanding of Japanese history, society, culture and others, and adept at the comprehensive use of Japanese language, the appreciation of Japanese literature, and the intercultural communication in Japanese and well equipped with professional knowledge of teaching, research, translation, business, management and so on. These Japanese talents are expected to work competently at the posts or in the fields of educational institutions, joint ventures, international trade, tourism services and others.
The Japanese Program enrolls about 55 undergraduates each year, and the current students add up to around 220. Through a study of the basic theories and knowledge of Japanese language, literature, history, politics, economy, diplomacy, social culture and others, our students will receive a good professional training in Japanese listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation, become fairly skillful at the multi-lingual word processing that involves the Japanese language on computer and the internet, grasp certain research methods and the professional capability and cultural quality for the posts of teaching, translation, business, management and others. The key courses for Japanese majors are as follows: Basic Japanese, Intermediate Japanese, Advanced Japanese, Audio-Visual-Oral Japanese, Translation Theory and Practice, Japanese Writing, Japanese Linguistics, History of Japanese Literature, An Overview of Japanese Society & Culture and so on. By attaching great importance to undergraduate teaching work, paying close attention to the training of students’ basic skills and their quality education, and highlighting the practical aspect of professional knowledge, the Japanese Department has achieved good teaching results. In recent years, the Japanese majors have got good grades in the Test of Japanese for Japanese Majors Band-4 and Band-8. The cumulative pass rate of our students is over 97% of the Test of Japanese for Japanese Majors Band-4 .
In order to improve the comprehensive use of the Japanese language of the Japanese majors and to create a colorful environment for their Japanese learning, the Japanese Department has actively arranged for our students to participate in Japanese competitions of all kinds and at all levels. They have got excellent results in these contests, including in the “Casio Cup” Film and TV Dubbing Competition of Jiangsu Colleges and Universities, Japanese writing and speech contests, the Haiku Contest in China, etc. In particular, in the 8th Haiku Contest in China, students from the Japanese Department of Jiangsu University won the only grand prize, as well as 8 of the 14 outstanding prizes in a row, which are the best results in the competition history of the Japanese Department.
We regularly invite domestic and foreign scholars to give lectures and do academic exchanges at the School. We have long carried out academic exchanges and cooperation with Japanese institutions of higher learning, including Kyoto University, Hiroshima University, Mie University, Doshisha University, Ryukoku University, Yamanashi Aiwa College and others. Each year we send outstanding students to study abroad in Japan, having created a “Three (Overseas Internship, Study, and Work) in One” Talent Cultivation Model in collaboration with Kyushu Foreign Language Academy and others. In addition, the Japanese Department has organized the “Jiangsu University Sino-Japanese Friendship Delegation” in collaboration with the Foreign Affairs Office of Zhenjiang City and their biannual visits to Japan have helped promote the friendly exchanges between the city of Zhenjiang and the city of Tsu, Mie county. In addition, the Japanese Department lays great stress on the innovation & entrepreneurship education of the Japanese majors. We have established the “AEON & Jiangsu University Employment Training & Entrepreneurship Base” in collaboration with Aeon East China Commercial Co., Ltd. to actively explore the cultivation of professional and innovative Japanese talents.
In recent years, the Japanese undergraduates have fared well in graduation and degree conferring rates, with the former always at 100%, and the latter not less than 94%. The Japanese graduates have been widely employed, enjoyed a high competitiveness at the job market, and have been universally acclaimed by their employers. Their major employers come from foreign affairs offices, foreign trade enterprises, educational institutions, international travel agencies, etc. More and more students of ours are pursuing further studies at renowned universities both in China and abroad, such as Shanghai Foreign Studies University, Guangdong Foreign Studies University, Sichuan Foreign Studies University, Renmin University of China, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Kyoto University, Nagoya University, Kyushu University, Tokyo Gakugei University, Mie University and so on. .
Appendix:
Faculties of the Japanese Department
Professor: Wang Baotian
Associate Professor: Wang Ying, Zhou Rong, Lu Xueying, Zhao Kangying, Dai Lin, Liu Shoujun, Liu Lin (appointed in advance)
Lecturer: Yao Weijie, Liu Jing, Quan Xiaojing, Cao Yajie, Wang Hailian
Assistant Professor: Sun Qian