The School of Foreign Languages (SFL) of Ludong University was founded as the English Faculty in 1963, renamed English Department in 1971, Department of Foreign Languages in 1994 and attained the present name in March 2002.
SFL presently has a teaching staff of 111 members, including 8 professors and 39 assistant professors, 16 of whom have Doctoral Degrees. The school has 4 members of the college-level young and middle-aged academic backbone leaders; it has 5 international teachers. The school now has an enrollment of 1298 students, of whom 1106 are full-time undergraduates and 192 are postgraduates.
SFL presently has 5 departments: English Department, Business English Department, French Department, College English Department and Department of Public English for Graduates. The school has the authority to confer master’s degrees in the first-level discipline of Foreign Languages and Literature; 2 professional degrees: Master of Translation (English) and Subject Teaching of English. The school takes on the teaching duties for undergraduates, postgraduates, and double majors in the university. The English Major of SFL is rated as a brand major of Shandong Province. It is awarded as a first-class undergraduate major in Shandong Province and in China. English Language and Literature is one of the key disciplines in Shandong Province during the 11th Five-Year Plan Period and a special key discipline provincially during the 12th Five-Year Plan Period.
SFL has excellent teaching conditions, modern facilities such as advanced language labs, audio-visual labs, simultaneous interpretation labs and multi-media classrooms (for micro-teaching, BEU, freight forwarding, etc.) and a rich collection of books and audio-visual materials. The school has built a state-level demonstration center for experimental teaching. The “Applied Foreign Language Talents Training Base” in SFL has been appointed as a Humanistic Science Research Base of Shandong Province. The school has a research center to study the cooperation between Shandong Province and France. Many courses of SLF have been identified as excellent courses (such as Introduction to European Culture, Selected Readings of English Newspapers and Journals) and first-class courses (such as Advanced English, Translation and Practice) of Shandong Province.
SFL has actively carried out international exchanges and cooperation, and has established joint training and exchange programs for undergraduates and masters with more than 10 universities in the United States, Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand and other countries. Recently, the school has sponsored “The 12th National Symposium on Translation of Classical Books”, and hosted the “Belt and Road and Sino-Foreign Cultural Exchange Academic Seminar”, “The Seminar on the Communication of Traditional Chinese Culture in the Korean Peninsula under the Background of the Belt and Road”, and other academic conferences, which have had a wide impact in the academic world.
SFL has made remarkable achievements in promoting teaching by scientific research, serving the major national strategies and regional economic and social development. Its scientific research strength ranks top among universities in Shandong Province. By now, the school faculty has been hosting 7 research projects supported by the National Social Science Fund, and over 18 projects of Shandong provincial social science programming. 48 articles have been published on SSCI and CSSCI periodicals, in addition to 96 academic books. The aforementioned publications have won 4 provincial prizes.
Adhering to the principle of “promoting learning through competition, promoting teaching through competition and promoting capacity through competition”, SFL takes the reform and development of education as the main line, the moral curriculum as the guide, and the training and competition as the starting point to comprehensively improve the teaching ability and teaching proficiency of all the staff. In recent years, nine teachers have won awards in national teaching competitions and 11 in provincial teaching competitions. Among them, our teachers won the first prize in the “Teaching Star” national finals held by FLTRP in 2019, the provincial first prize in the 6th Shandong Province Young College Teachers’ Teaching Competition, and the first prize in the National Finals of the SFLEP National Foreign Language Teaching Contest in 2025.
SFL now has 147 party members, including 60 faculty members and 87 student members. It has 5 party branches, including 3 staff branches and 2 student branches. Now, SFL is fully implementing the Party's educational policy, adhering to the socialist orientation in school running, fulfilling the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, and training socialist builders and successors who are well-developed in morals, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and work. The school is striving to contribute to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
