BA and MA Programs
The school has two departments; English and Japanese. English department’s major program is Modern English. Students are trained in listening, speaking, reading and writing. During the first and second years, the students are also required to study Chinese language and composition in order to improve their Chinese writing skills, and during their third and fourth years they are required to take up a second language.
Degree requirements: four years of study with a
minimum of 150 credits, which are distributed as follows:
Required courses for majors:
- Comprehensive English
- Extensive Reading
- Listening Comprehension
- Conversational English
- Practical English Grammar
- English Composition
- Translation
- Methodology of English Teaching
Electives for majors:
Category 1:
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Linguistics
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Introduction to Linguistic Phonetics
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Lexicology, The Science of Grammar
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Rhetoric History of English Language
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Applied Linguistics
Category 2:
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Literature
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Brief Introduction to Euro-American Culture
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History of British Literature
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History of American Literature
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English Fiction
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English Poetry
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English Drama
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Prose Reading
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English Literary Criticism
The department is equipped with a language lab and applicable media. Since 1980, the department has invited a number of foreign faculties from the United States, Great Britain, Canada and Japan. Some of the Chinese faculty has been sent abroad to study in the United States, Canada, Singapore, England and Japan.
Shanxi Normal University is a progressing school. It has a bright future.