Program Overview

Foreign Languages and Literatures Program

The Foreign Languages and Literatures Program at Shanghai Jiaotong University offers master's and doctoral degree programs. The program was authorized to offer master's degree programs in 1985 and doctoral degree programs in 1993. A postdoctoral center was established in 2003. The discipline is the key discipline of SJTU 211 and 985 projects, with strong teaching faculty of 20 professors and 50 associate professors.

Program Education Objectives

After graduation from the Translation and Interpreting program, the graduates are expected to:

• Have deep understanding of the subject, and understand the status quo, world trends and the frontiers of academic research;
• Be able to conduct research with academic or practical value, and show innovation in academic achievements;
• Have a perfect command of 1 foreign language and preferably excellent command of another foreign language.

Main Research Fields

Not specified in the provided content.

Study Duration and Credit Requirements

• Study duration: 2.5 years (full time)
• Total credits: ≥30 (credits of degree courses ≥19)
• In principle, master courses should be completed within the first year.

Courses

The following courses are offered:

Degree Courses

• The Theory and Practice of Socialism in China (2 credits, Spring/Fall, Compulsory)
• The Theory of Social Science in Marxism (1 credit, Spring/Fall, Compulsory)
• Literature reading and academic report (2 credits, Spring)
• Second Foreign Language (Japanese) (2 credits, Spring/Fall, Compulsory)
• Second Foreign Language (German) (2 credits, Spring/Fall, Compulsory)
• Second Foreign Language (French) (2 credits, Spring/Fall, Compulsory)
• Academic English Writing (2 credits, Fall, Compulsory)
• Introduction to Linguistics (2 credits, Fall, Compulsory)
• English Literature (2 credits, Fall, Compulsory)
• American Literature (2 credits, Fall, Compulsory)
• Language Testing (2 credits, Fall, Compulsory)
• Semantics (2 credits, Fall, Compulsory)
• Second Foreign Language (English) (2 credits, Spring/Fall, Compulsory)
• Japanese Classical Literature (2 credits, Fall, Compulsory)
• Japanese Syntactics (2 credits, Fall, Compulsory)
• Second Language Acquisition (2 credits, Spring, Compulsory)
• Semantics (German) (2 credits, Fall, Compulsory)
• Pragmatics (German) (2 credits, Fall, Compulsory)
• Textual Linguistics (German) (2 credits, Spring, Compulsory)
• Syntactics (2 credits, Fall, Compulsory)
• Narratology (2 credits, Spring, Compulsory)
• Japanese Translation Theories and Practice (2 credits, Fall, Compulsory)
• Pragmatics (2 credits, Fall, Compulsory)
• German Sociolinguistics (2 credits, Fall, Compulsory)
• Introducing Japanese Linguistics (2 credits, Fall, Compulsory)
• An Introduction to Contemporary Japanese Literature (2 credits, Fall, Compulsory)
• Contemporary Foreign Literature Criticism (2 credits, Fall, Compulsory)
• Introducing Translation Studies (2 credits, Spring, Compulsory)

Non-degree Courses

• Intercultural Communication (2 credits, Spring)
• British Romantic Poetry (2 credits, Spring)
• Afro-American Literature (2 credits, Spring)
• 20th-Century British and American Fiction (2 credits, Spring)
• Comparative Studies of Chinese and English Poetry (2 credits, Spring)
• 19th-Century British and American Proses (2 credits, Spring)
• Sociallinguistics (2 credits, Spring)
• Syllabus Design (2 credits, Spring)
• Selected Readings of English and American Literature (2 credits, Spring)
• Academic Communication (2 credits, Spring)
• Cognitive Linguistics (2 credits, Spring)
• An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics (2 credits, Spring)
• Sino-Japanese Comparative Literature (2 credits, Spring)
• Discourse Analysis (2 credits, Spring)
• Western Classics (2 credits, Fall, Compulsory)
• Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology (2 credits, Spring)
• Psycholinguistics (German) (2 credits, Spring)
• Translation Theories and Criticism (German) (2 credits, Fall, Compulsory)
• Translation Practice (German) (2 credits, Spring)
• Corpus Linguistics (2 credits, Spring)
• Stylistics (2 credits, Spring)
• An Introduction to Contemporary Japanese Literature (2 credits, Spring)
• Study and Criticism of Chinese and Western Translation Theories (2 credits, Spring)
• Women’s Literature and Gender Studies (2 credits, Spring)
• Systemic Functional Linguistics (2 credits, Spring)
• Narratology (2 credits, Spring)
• An Introduction to Contemporary German Literature (2 credits, Spring)
• German Academic Writing (2 credits, Spring)
• German Syntactics (2 credits, Spring)
• Japanese Stylistics (2 credits, Spring)
• A Study of Japanese Classic Poems (2 credits, Spring)
• Translation Culture Studies (Japanese) (2 credits, Spring)
• Japanese Literature Criticism Theories (2 credits, Spring)
• The Study of Second Language Acquisition (Japanese) (2 credits, Spring)
• English Teaching Methodology (2 credits, Spring)
• Introducing Comparative Literature (2 credits, Spring)
• Forensic Linguistics (2 credits, Spring)
• Statistics in Linguistics (2 credits, Spring)

Mid-term Evaluation

The mid-term evaluation of masters should be completed within the first month of the third semester. Mid-term evaluation requirements include:

• Have proper learning attitude
• Pass all required courses
• Attain the required credits (both total credits and degree course credits) with an average credit of degree courses above 2.00
• Work orderly and smoothly with the dissertation

Dissertation Proposal

Following the mid-term evaluation, the master-degree dissertation proposal should be completed before the end of the third semester in accordance with SJTU Master Program Regulations.

Dissertation

See SJTU Dissertation Regulations.

Published Papers

Students should have at least 1 paper published in official journals.