School of Japanese Studies

Founded in 1964, School of Japanese Studies is the largest Japanese education and training base outside Japan. It is also a model Japanese teaching unit in Liaoning Province. It offers both four-year and five-year programs including Japanese language and culture, computer science, international trade, tourism, Japanese & Korean bilingual education, Japanese and English bilingual education, and advanced translation. It has been authorized to grant Master’s Degrees. With over 2400 undergraduates and 150 postgraduates, it ranks the first among Japanese teaching institutions in China in terms of enrollment. It has six research institutes specializing in the study of Japanese poetry, comparative linguistic study between Chinese and Japanese, Japanese culture, and Japanese education. It also has a pre-departure training base attached to the Ministry of Education for Chinese scholars who intend to do research or further their study overseas.

Its graduates are noted for their Japanese proficiency.

It has enjoyed marvelous strength in oral Japanese teaching for over 40 years, and the students have excelled in international tests and a variety of contests.

It boasts an excellent faculty, and all of them have overseas study or working experiences.

Most of the course books are written by its faculty, and many of them are in extensive use in other universities.

Curriculum:

Basic courses: Basic Japanese, Japanese Listening, Oral Japanese, Survey of Japan, Extensive Japanese Reading etc.

Advanced courses: Advanced Japanese, Translation between Chinese and Japanese, Simultaneous Interpreting, Japanese Literature, History of Japanese Literature, Writing, Japanese Culture, Japanese Grammar, the Study of the Japanese Language, An Introduction to Japanese Business, Business Correspondence, etc.