The School of Humanities and Foreign Languages (SHFL) was established in April 2025 through the merger of the original School of Humanities and the School of Foreign Languages. It consists of seven teaching organizations: the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, the Department of International Chinese, the Department of English, the Department of College English, the Department of French Teaching, the Center for College Students’ Art Education, and the Speech Lab. It also includes more than 10 research institutions and platforms, such as the Zhejiang Institute of New Media for Government Affairs, the Provincial Language and Script Promotion Base, the Provincial Social Science Popularization Demonstration Base, the Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Teaching Base, the University Student Cultural Quality Education Base, the Romania (Black Sea Rim Countries) Research Center, the Center for Translation Study, the Foreign Language Education Institute, the Institute of Applied Linguistics, and the Institute of Literature and Culture Studies.
SHFL offers two undergraduate programs and one graduate program. It serves as a key academic unit for the disciplines of “Foreign Language and Literature” and “Chinese Language, Culture, and Communication” at the university. As a key component of the university’s internationalization strategy, the school provides Chinese language and culture courses for international students, offering both long-term and short-term programs.
SHFL has extensive cooperation and exchange with universities in the UK, the US, Japan, Romania, and other countries, with frequent exchanges of faculty and students. Opportunities for students to study abroad have been increasing, including summer courses at the University of California, Los Angeles, study tours at the University of Hertfordshire (UK), undergraduate and postgraduate programs at the University of West Scotland (UK), exchange programs at the University of Southern Queensland (Australia), Babes-Bolyai University (Romania), Chosun University (South Korea), Sakura University (Japan), the University of Macau, and others. Graduate students are actively volunteering for the Chinese Language and Culture Center, with more than 100 volunteers successfully dispatched. SHFL has signed agreements to jointly build a “Language Bridge” practical base with MySchool in Oman and recently signed cooperation memorandums with the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Troy University in the US.
SHFL is committed to fostering a first-class academic environment. Many students have been awarded the university’s highest honor, the “Outstanding Student Scholarship”, and multiple classes receive the annual “Exemplary Class for Academic Excellence” title. In recent years, its postgraduate admission rate has steadily increased, and its graduate employment rate has remained close to 100%.
