Wang Weiwei, Guangzhou University of Foreign Studies and Business

The Consecutive Interpretation course is a MOOC developed by Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, a national high-quality online open course, and a first-class national undergraduate course. This course was launched for the first time in a Chinese university MOOC on February 1, 2018. The teachers are Yu Yi, Ouyang Qianhua, Wang Weiwei, Xu Yi, and Fu Ai.

1. School Introduction

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, referred to as Guangdong Foreign Studies University, is located in Guangzhou, known as the "Flower City". The school was selected into the "2011 Plan" and "Asia University Student Exchange" "Collective Action Plan", it is one of the 19 universities in the world that provides high-end translation talents to the United Nations. It is a key university in Guangdong Province for international talent training, foreign language culture, and international strategic research in South China.

2. Faculty

Since the founding of the school, famous teachers such as Liang Zongdai, Gui Shichun, and Li Xiaoju have gathered in the school to teach and study, and have accumulated rich spiritual and cultural wealth for the school. The school currently has a total of 1,980 faculty and staff and 1,326 full-time teachers, of which 50.98 are professors and associate professors, and 92.91 have a master's degree or above.

Among the teaching team, there is 1 member of the Discipline Evaluation Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, 16 members of the Professional Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, 2 people selected for the National Cultural Famous Persons and the "Four Batches" Talent Project, and 2 people selected for the "Four Batches" Talent Project. There are 2 leading talents in philosophy and social sciences of the Ten Thousand Talents Plan, and 4 national candidates selected for the "New Century Hundreds and Thousands of Talents Project".

School teaching construction and discipline construction:

Teaching construction:

There are 2 national-level professional comprehensive reform pilots and 14 provincial-level professional comprehensive reform pilots. There are 8 national-level characteristic major construction sites, 18 provincial-level characteristic major construction sites, and 3 provincial-level key majors. ***There are 26 foreign languages, making it the school with the most foreign languages ??in South China.

The school was granted the right to confer master's degrees in 1981 and the right to confer doctoral degrees in 1986. It was the first institution to obtain the right to confer master's and doctoral degrees after the restoration of the postgraduate system in China. The school currently has 1 national key discipline and 7 provincial key disciplines.

Discipline construction:

The school has 1 national key discipline, 7 provincial key disciplines, and 2 key construction disciplines in the third phase of Guangdong Province’s “211 Project”. It has 1 postdoctoral research station, 1 first-level discipline doctoral program and 11 second-level discipline doctoral programs, 10 first-level discipline master's degree programs and 35 second-level discipline master's degree programs, and 7 professional degree master's degree programs.