The school of foreign studies Northwestern Polytechnical University has a long history, profound humanistic heritage, significant achievements in talent cultivation, and distinctive features. In 1957, the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Office was established under the Basic Course Department. In 1985, the Foreign Language Department was founded, and in 2013, the School of Foreign Languages was officially established. As early as 1984, the master’s degree program of foreign linguistics and applied linguistics was established, which is the first master's degree program with the right to grant the second-level discipline of "foreign linguistics and applied linguistics" in Northwest China. Since 1993, we have been admitting undergraduate students majoring in English. In 2000, we were approved for a master's program in "German Language and Literature." In 2002, we began admitting undergraduate students majoring in German. In 2010, we were approved for a Master of Translation professional degree program. In 2011, we were granted the authority to confer master’s degrees in "Foreign Languages and Literatures" as a first-level discipline. In 2021, we established a second-level discipline doctoral program in “Marxism Studies Abroad,” and in 2023, we were approved for a first-level discipline doctoral program in “Foreign Languages and Literatures.”

The college currently has 1 doctoral program, 4 master's programs, 2 undergraduate majors, 1 minor, and 2 micro-majors. In 2020, the English major was selected as a national first-class professional construction point, and in 2021, the German major was selected as a first-class professional construction point in Shaanxi Province. The school has 4 stable second-level discipline directions: comparative literature and cross-cultural studies, foreign linguistics and applied linguistics, translation studies, and national and regional studies. We have 1 national excellent teaching team, 2 excellent teaching teams in Shaanxi Province. It has platforms such as High-level International Talents Training Innovation Practice Base, a Shaanxi Province liberal arts teaching demonstration center, Jordan Research Center (recorded by the Ministry of Education as a country and regional research center), The Belt and Road Initiative Intercultural Research Institute, a Model United Nations Innovation Practice Base, and Corpus Linguistics Laboratory. It currently has the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (with the Institute of Foreign Languages and Literatures, English Teaching and Research Office, German Teaching and Research Office, and MTI Education Center), the College English Teaching Department (with the First College English Teaching and Research Office and the Second College English Teaching and Research Office), and the Graduate Public Foreign Language Teaching Department.

The college insists on taking discipline construction as the traction, continuously increasing the introduction and cultivation of talents. There are currently 96 full-time teachers, including 14 professors, 70 associate professors, and 57 doctoral and master's supervisors; 1 distinguished professor appointed by the Ministry of Education, 2 members of the Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, 4 Baosteel Outstanding Teachers, 1 national engineering master English expert, 1 person in the Shaanxi Province "six batches" of talents, 1 person in the Shaanxi Province Special Support Plan for teaching leaders, 4 Famous teachers in Shaanxi Province, 1 person in the Shaanxi Province Humanities Talent Plan, and 2 members of the Shaanxi Province Teaching Guidance Committee. The college has hired 2 visiting professors, 3 lecture professors, 2 advisory professors, and 1 distinguished researcher from well-known universities at home and abroad through an honorary academic title system.

The college continuously deepens educational teaching reform and has achieved fruitful teaching results. Since 2009, the College has been awarded three second-class prizes for excellent teaching achievements at the national level; approved 1 national excellent course, 1 national excellent resource-sharing course, and 2 national first-class online courses, in addition to 8 provincial-level courses. In the past five years, it has undertaken more than 40 provincial and ministerial-level projects such as the National Social Science Fund; approved 6 provincial and ministerial scientific research awards; applied nearly 20 provincial and ministerial results, published more than 400 high-level papers in internationally renowned journals; and published more than 80 monographs and textbooks.

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