College of Languages and Cultures(CLC）was established on July 4th, 2017 on the former Chinese Department and the Foreign Language Department.It boasts the largest number of teachers and students in Ningde Normal University. There are 94 staff, including 4 professors, 20 associate professors, 2 foreign teachers and 4 PhD holders. More than 70 teachers have master degrees and above, which accounts for 88% of full-time teachers. There are 35 classes with more than 1,300 full-time students .
Currently the college has six units: English Department, Business English Department , Chinese Language and Literature Department , Internet and New Media Department, Public Foreign Language Teaching Center, Preparatory Class for Ethnic Groups,and runs 4 undergraduate majors: English, Business English, Chinese Language and Literature, Internet and New Media. CLC owns five research platforms: the She Ethnic Culture Research Center of the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Base of Fujian Province, the Ethnic Cultural Exchange and Hands-on Base Across the Taiwan Strait by Fujian Provincial Education Bureau, the She Ethnic Culture Research Base for University-Enterprise Cooperative Teaching in Fujian Province, Ningde Theoretic Research Base on the Ethnic Work of Fujian Provincial United Front Theoretic Research Association, Ningde Ethnic Theory Research Base of the Research Society of Fujian Province, and the Collaborative Innovation Center on the She Ethnic Ecological Culture Research in Ningde, as well as one research center: Ningde Cultural Research Center. The College has established facilities like the Apple Non-linear Editing Laboratory,Virtual Studio, Photography Training Room, Language Laboratory, International Trade Training Room, Interpreting Room, Simulation Negotiation Room, and 25 training bases outside the university.
The college attaches great importance to the construction of teaching projects. So far there are 2 shared provincial excellency courses, one university-level cultural and creative industrial group, 2 university-level distinctive disciplines, 8 university-level excellency courses, 4 core courses of quality education in the teaching reform program, 16 university-level teaching reform projects, 2 teaching achievement awards and 2 university-level teaching teams.
Meanwhile the college also attaches great importance to the internationalization of the faculty. Over the past few years, more than 30 young teachers were sent to the United States Australia, Britain, Singapore, Japan and other countries for academic training, research and studies. They actively expand educational cooperation with countries along The Belt and Road. The teachers have won the first, second and third prizes of the “FLTRP”Star Teacher Contest for six times, and the “Danqing Award”of the First Fujian Provincial Calligraphy Exhibition Contest as well as the second and the third prizes of Fujian Provincial Teaching Competition for young teachers twice, and the second and the third prizes of Fujian Provincial Classic Poetry Recitation Contest twice. For the students,they also excelled in the “FLTRP” English Contest,“Outlook" English Talent Competition, Fujian Provincial “Challenge Cup”Competition, Fujian Provincial Classical Poetry Recitation Contest, Fujian Provincial Standard Chinese Character Writing Contest,National Teaching Skills Contest for Teachers Training University Students.
At present, the college has gained great advantages with their highlight in the study of the Ethnic She Culture, local culture research and international publicity of Ningde through translation. In recent years, the teachers have published more than 30 monographs and translated works, edited and co-edited more than 20 textbooks, published more than 200 essays in various-level academic papers, undertaken 4 general projects of National Social Science Fund, 2 projects of the Ministry of Education and National Language Committee,8 projects of Fujian Provincial Social Science Fund, as well as more than 100 projects at municipal(bureau) level and university level. Based on the construction of different disciplines, the college has strengthened the features of teacher cultivation, and trained many professional teachers and various talents of nearly 10,000 persons for Ningde City and the surrounding areas. CLC has made outstanding contributions to professional training of talents and the local compulsory education services.