College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU), an international university, is the mere one of its kind in China mainly responsible for the tasks of teaching the Chinese language and culture to both foreign students and Chinese students. The College of Humanities and Social Sciences & the College of Teachers’ Training plays a very important role in BLCU, due not only to the strong teaching force, mature and peculiar educational modes for undergraduates, postgraduates and other high-level talents, but to such majors as teaching Chinese as a second language that owns a leading position in China.

The college comprises the following units: the Department of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL), the Department of Chinese language and Literature, the Department of Art, the Department of Social Sciences, the editorial department of Chinese Culture Research, the Chinese Culture Research Institute, the Sinology Research Institute, the UN Research Center, the Qu Yuan Association, etc. Of the staff members, 89% have either full professorship or associate professorship, and 21 ones have doctoral degree. Working together with the full-time teaching staff are several retired professors. The research and publications of the staff have exerted much influence in the academic circles.

Orientated around the established educational aim, the college has been upholding the strategy of refined cultivation, developing the features and advantages and practising the educational modes of interconnecting the varied majors and programs. It has fostered a large number of excellent professionals for both China and the world. In addition to strengthening the foundations of each major, the college has provided for students a vast platform to develop themselves fully. The students have their own literary societies, saloons and magazines such as Lai Yuan and Voice of Literature as well as newspapers such as Lai Yuan.A