Sichuan International Studies University (四川外语学院) is a public university located in Chongqing

Chongqing

Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the...

 , China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

.

Foreign languages offered in the college include Russian

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

, English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

, French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

, Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

, German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

, Korean

Korean language

Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...

, Japanese

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

 and Arabic

Arabic language

Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...

 . A number of non-language specialties have been added to its curriculum, such as law, journalism, Chinese

Chinese language

The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...

 as a foreign language, advertising, and tourism management. Six master degree programs have been offered, namely, Russian Language and Literature, English Language and Literature, French Language and Literature, German Language and Literature, Japanese Language and Literature, Comparative Literature

Comparative literature

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 and World Literature

World literature

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. It is the only university specialized in foreign language studies in the Southwest region of China.
The total student body amounts to 11,000, including foreign students and short-term students. The institute was founded as Russian Training School of Southwest Military University of PLA

People's Liberation Army

The People's Liberation Army is the unified military organization of all land, sea, strategic missile and air forces of the People's Republic of China. The PLA was established on August 1, 1927 — celebrated annually as "PLA Day" — as the military arm of the Communist Party of China...

in May 1950.

Location

SISU main campus is located in ShaPingBa district of Chongqing, near the beautiful Gele Mountain by Jialing River with a total area of 770,000 square meters. (construction area is about 230,000 square meters) Due to its wonderful surrounding and contribution it makes to this area, this college has been granted the title of "garden-like unit" of Chongqing by local government.

Student

Majority of students are from liberal arts background in middle school. Out of 12,000 current-enrolled students, there are about 8000 are 4-year or 3-year undergraduate students, 2500 are in adult and continuing education programs, rest are in short-time training program.

Main Academic Departments

• International Students' Department
• Postgraduate Department
• Graduate Institute of Interpretation & Translation
• English Department
• International Cultural Exchanges College
• Department of English Language & Culture
• International Business School
• School of Journalism and Communications
• Department of Russian
• Department of French
• Department of German
• Department of Spanish
• Eastern Languages College
• Department of Chinese Language & Literature
• College of Applied Foreign Languages
• Department of Physical Education
• Department of Social Sciences
• Adult Education Institute
• Intensive Language Training Center

External links

• Official web-site(Spanish, English, French and Chinese)

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