The English Department has seven majors: applied English (culture and translation), applied English (IT), applied English (port foreign affairs translation), domestic service (foreign affairs), community management and service (foreign affairs) and cultural market operation and management. There are four teaching and research sections: English Language and Culture Teaching and Research Section, Community Management Teaching and Research Section, Library and Archives Management Teaching and Research Section, and Basic English Teaching and Research Section (mainly responsible for teaching basic English and public English in many departments of East Language Department, West Language Department and Media Department).
For many years, the English Department has always put the improvement of teaching quality at the top of all its work, and made it its highest mission to train high-level English talents for the country. Since its establishment, the Department has trained nearly 5,000 qualified English professionals for the country, and many students have become the backbone of foreign enterprises, foreign trade, tourism, translation, teaching and other fields. Not only that, graduates go abroad for further study or employment every year. In the case of a sluggish job market, the employment rate of graduates is still as high as over 90%.
The English Department gave full play to the role of the second classroom and implemented three major projects: reading project, pronunciation project and morning reading project. Plan activities according to different stages of students' learning, such as English calligraphy contest, English speech contest, translation contest, interpretation contest, English drama contest, etc., to stimulate students' interest in learning and promote the development of students' comprehensive quality. The preschool education department has three major directions: bilingual education, early education and kindergarten management, with nearly 1,000 students. Preschool education is one of the key majors of the college. 20 1 1 approved the project of "central financial support for higher vocational schools to improve the development ability of professional service industry" to focus on the construction of majors.
Since it was upgraded in 2002, the college has set up bilingual kindergarten teacher classes in the form of school-enterprise cooperation, and started the exploration of preschool education specialty construction. In 2005, preschool education was formally established and enrollment began. With the participation of more and more outstanding talents and the maturity of specialty construction and teacher construction, the scale of preschool education specialty is expanding. Up to now, the college's preschool education major has delivered more than 0/000 qualified graduates to the society. The Department of Preschool Education currently has 3 1 staff, mainly graduates from Shaanxi Normal University, Qinghai Normal University, Tianjin Foreign Studies University, Northeast Normal University, Jilin University, Harbin Normal University, Changchun Normal University, xi Foreign Studies University, Nanjing Normal University, Yanshan University, Hebei Polytechnic University, Hebei Normal University and Hebei University, including 7 graduate students and 2 master students. Among the in-service teachers, 4 have full senior titles, 6 have deputy senior titles, 15 have intermediate titles and 6 have junior titles. At the same time, many industry experts and first-line professional teachers are invited to participate in professional construction and part-time classes and teaching guidance inside and outside the school. The pre-school education department has dozens of pre-school education training rooms, such as Montessori education training room, Orff music training room, teacher skill manual training room, digital piano training room, teacher skill dance training room, student piano skill training room, and more parent-child training rooms, painting training rooms and other education and teaching training rooms are under construction. In addition, the Department of Preschool Education has established teaching and research practice bases in the whole province and Beijing, with nearly 20 provincial and municipal demonstration kindergartens. The pre-school education department has a national-level excellent course and a college-level excellent course. Teachers of our department have presided over or participated in more than 50 national or provincial scientific research projects; Participate in the preparation and publication of more than ten monographs and teaching materials; More than 200 papers have been published or won prizes. In the future, we will make full use of resources inside and outside the school in accordance with market rules, strive to change educational concepts, constantly improve teaching methods, highlight teachers' nature and professionalism, and pay attention to cultivating practical, compound and high-quality preschool education talents. The Department of Primary Education has six majors: English education, English education (direction of family education tutor), Chinese education, mathematics education, modern educational technology and art education (direction of calligraphy and art), with more than 200 students 1.200. There are 33 full-time teachers in the department, including 2 professors, 4 associate professors and 7 lecturers. The teaching staff has rich teaching experience, strong sense of responsibility and teaching and scientific research ability, enjoys national high-quality resources 1 courses, and has a number of provincial and municipal topics, and is equipped with a special comprehensive language training room and a microteaching room for teachers' skills.
As the oldest and most influential English education major in the college, the graduates trained over the years have achieved excellent results and outstanding abilities, which have been widely praised by employers and the employment situation is gratifying. Since 20 13, in order to meet the needs of basic education talents, our department has added four majors: Chinese education, mathematics education, modern educational technology and art education (calligraphy art direction), aiming at cultivating talents with broad foundation, strong ability and high quality who are competent in basic education and related fields. Adhering to the concept of vocational education characterized by foreign languages and oriented to employment, the whole department constantly adjusts the talent training scheme, strengthens the cultivation of students' practical ability, makes full use of the resources of off-campus training bases, strengthens foreign learning exchanges, improves teaching methods, and highlights the normal and professional characteristics to better cultivate qualified talents for regional economic development. Department of International Business is a teaching institution related to modern business and service industry established by our college on the basis of successfully establishing business English and other majors. Our department is a concrete manifestation of our college giving full play to its own English teaching advantages and combining the internationalization characteristics of modern commerce and service industry; It is also a practical measure to grasp the pulse of the market and cultivate senior foreign-related compound business talents in line with international standards.
The Department of International Business has ten majors, more than 2,200 students and more than 50 teachers. Adhering to the concept of "market demand-oriented, capacity-building as the center", the Department of International Business is committed to cultivating applied international business service and management talents who meet the requirements of China's economic and social development, have strong modern consciousness and innovative spirit, master systematic international business theoretical knowledge, business rules, service norms and international trade practices, have strong ability to use foreign languages and information technology, and can directly participate in international competition and cooperation.
Our department adopts the mode of "broad foundation, flexible module" and "big business, subdivision" in specialty setting and curriculum system, which has better adapted to the changes of the market and the demand of the market for talents. Through the alliance with enterprises and industry associations, our department vigorously expands students' professional skills and realizes the integration of study, internship and employment.
The Department of International Business adheres to the teaching philosophy of "taking students as the center and taking practice as the main line" and strengthens the cultivation of students' practical ability and innovation ability. For this purpose, the International Business Department has specially built a number of training rooms for logistics, business, management, ERP, marketing and accounting, with a professional laboratory area of several hundred square meters and software and hardware equipment worth several million yuan. Students have made great achievements in professional practical skills, and won numerous awards in the national vocational college entrepreneurship skills competition "enterprise management sandbox simulation competition" and the secretarial skills competition of vocational colleges of the Ministry of Education.
The college has also vigorously carried out international cooperation and exchanges, and established a student exchange program with the Dominican University of California. The college pays attention to scientific research and social services, with outstanding achievements. All teachers have published more than ten books and textbooks and hundreds of academic papers.
The mission of international business department: students become talents and teachers grow up.
Development Strategy of International Business Department: Innovative Teaching Open Thinking
Culture of international business department: sincerity, trustworthiness, honor and responsibility.
Motto of international business department: put yourself in others' shoes and build a world of trust.
The Western Language Department of Hebei Foreign Language Vocational College mainly trains foreign language talents with high political literacy, solid language foundation in Russian, German, French and Spanish, proficient language application ability, strong intercultural communication ability, strong innovation ability and practical work ability. The Department of Western Languages now offers four majors: Applied Russian, Applied French, Applied German and Applied Spanish. There are 20 classes with more than 650 students.
The Department of Western Languages has a stable team of young and middle-aged teachers with high academic qualifications, strong scientific research ability and high teaching level, including 20 full-time teachers, 6 external professors, 5 foreign teachers and 8 teaching and student management personnel. Among the school teachers, there are 4 associate professors, 4 lecturers 1 1 person, 5 teaching assistants and 5 doctors 1 person. Two of them are studying for doctoral degrees in universities at home and abroad. In teaching, all majors in the Western Language Department emphasize the cultivation of practical language application ability, attach importance to the effectiveness of classroom teaching, actively promote the development of practical teaching, and comprehensively improve the quality of education and teaching.
A large number of graduates of western languages are employed overseas. Dozens of them have worked in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, France, Algeria, Congo and other countries and regions. Western language graduates have broad employment prospects. Founded in 2004, the Department of Oriental Languages offers four majors: Business Japanese, Applied Japanese, Applied Korean and Applied Arabic. Business Japanese and applied Japanese majors cultivate compound professionals who have a high level of Japanese and can use Japanese to engage in foreign-related work such as interpretation and translation in various industries; Applied Korean majors cultivate applied talents with solid Korean foundation, innovative spirit and practical ability, which can meet the needs of social development and be competent for foreign trade; Applied Arabic majors train export-oriented and practical talents who master the basic skills of Arabic listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation, and can skillfully use Arabic.
The East Language Department has a strong faculty, high academic qualifications, high level and high quality. At present, there are Japanese teachers 1 1 person, 9 Korean teachers, 3 Arabic teachers, including professors 1 person, 2 associate professors, and 6 people who have returned from studying in Japan and South Korea and obtained doctoral and master's degrees. At the same time, we have hired 6-7 foreign teachers from Japan, Korea and Egypt for many years to offer courses such as conversation. In addition, front-line managers with rich practical experience are hired from foreign-funded enterprises in China as off-campus practice instructors.
Oriental Language Department pays attention to the cultivation of students' practical ability and school-enterprise cooperation, and has established more than ten practice bases, involving foreign-funded enterprises, joint ventures, high-end hotels, tourism and other industries. The Tourism Department of Hebei Foreign Language Vocational College was established in 2005, which is one of the main departments established by our college according to market demand. At present, there are seven majors in hotel management (foreign direction), exhibition planning and management, tourism management, travel agency management, performing arts (for civil aviation), tourism English and tourism Japanese, with more than 1 100 students. After several years of careful construction, hotel management (foreign-related direction), tourism English and performing arts (civil aviation direction) have become the characteristic majors of our college. Graduates majoring in hotel management (foreign-related) are engaged in service, foreman and supervisor in the front office, housekeeping department, catering department, recreation department, public relations sales department, business center and human resources department of international foreign-related hotel enterprises such as Beijing, Xiamen and Qinhuangdao. Students majoring in flight attendants are engaged in flight attendants, air security, security inspection and VIP services in eight major domestic airlines, and the treatment is good. In September 2009, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance approved Tourism English as a major in the vocational education training base supported by the central government.
Since its establishment, the Tourism Department has always adhered to the road of combining school with enterprise, combining work with study, and combining theory with practice. Signed school-enterprise cooperation agreements with dozens of hotels, travel agencies and tourist attractions at home and abroad, providing theoretical and practical guidance for the formulation of professional training programs, creating a stable platform for students' practical teaching activities such as professional probation and training, and providing technical support and human and material support for the construction of training bases in schools. In addition, combined with the advantages of our college and according to the market situation, we also set up order education, strong alliance and school-enterprise cooperation to cultivate applied talents.
Tourism department pays close attention to teaching management, carries out teaching research and reform, and establishes a working process-oriented teaching system according to students' reality. The teaching quality has been further improved by establishing a simulated training room and an off-campus training base. Excellent results have been achieved in the hotel senior waiter certificate, English TOEIC bridge, computer NIT, BOEC oral English and other exams. National excellent courses 1 door, provincial excellent courses 1 door, and four college-level excellent courses.
"erudite, dedicated, honest and diligent" is the motto of our department. Our department pays attention to cultivating students with wide knowledge, active service consciousness, good cultural accomplishment, flexible adaptability and skilled service skills, and pays more attention to cultivating students' political and ideological quality and professional ethics. After completing the theoretical study at school, students are organized to practice in foreign-related hotels, travel agencies and aviation enterprises under the leadership of professional teachers, so as to increase their talents in practical jobs, complete their last year's studies and achieve zero-distance employment. According to 20 14 statistics, the employment rate of hotel management graduates is above 97%, and the employment rate of other majors is also increasing year by year.
The Department of Tourism has a group of teachers who are dedicated and love students and have a good style. At present, there are 49 full-time and part-time teachers, including 15 teachers with senior titles, 32 teachers with postgraduate education or above, and they are studying for doctors 1 person. More than 80% of them are qualified teachers with double qualifications. Many teachers have studied or worked in the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea and other countries. In addition, foreign teachers are hired to take oral English classes all the year round, industry experts from tourism enterprises and institutions are hired to take practical teaching classes for a long time, and special lectures are held regularly.
Under the leadership of the college, all the teachers and students of the tourism department are full of enthusiasm, forge ahead, strive for perfection and are determined to strive for greater achievements. The Media Department of Hebei Foreign Language Vocational College was established in 2006, with six majors: hosting and broadcasting, TV program production, film and television animation, photography and video technology, news editing and production, network and new media communication. The school has set up training bases such as TV studio, recording studio, nonlinear editing room, animation training room and studio, and has 30 high-definition cameras, 30 professional cameras, high-definition mobile guiding system, 3D virtual studio system, professional rocker arm, camera rail car, mixer and switcher, with a total value of more than 3.6 million yuan.
There are 3 full-time teachers 13, including 3 professors and 3 associate professors. Hosting, radio and television program production was jointly established by our institute and Qinhuangdao Radio and Television Station in 2006. In addition to adhering to the traditional courses of related majors, the Department of Media has also set up new courses related to the development trend and trend of the media industry. In teaching, we adhere to the principle of combining theory with practice. In addition to some excellent teachers in our department, we also hired many first-line professional technicians from Qinhuangdao Radio and Television Station, Beijing Perfect Power Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing Zhengtongyi Technology Co., Ltd. to undertake corresponding courses, which comprehensively improved students' practical operation and application ability.
The Media Department has a 19 off-campus internship training base. Students' internships and internships are arranged in various positions in the off-campus internship training base, and experienced teachers are responsible for internship guidance. The practice training base selects several graduates from our department every year and actively recommends graduates to the national media industry for employment.