Founded in 1972, the Department of English is one of the earliest of its kind in China. It was designated as a National Distinctive Program in 2010 and recognized as a pilot reform program by both Hunan Province and the Ministry of Education in 2012 and 2015, respectively. Its primary discipline, Foreign Languages and Literature, is a Flagship Discipline of Hunan Province. The program was selec...

Founded in 2010, the Spanish major has enrolled full-time undergraduate students since 2011 and graduate students since 2017. The first-level discipline for Spanish is Foreign Languages and Literature, which is a flagship discipline in Hunan Province. Currently, the program has nine full-time teachers (including one foreign teacher), four of whom hold doctoral degrees and two are master's advis...

The College Foreign Language Education Center consists of four teaching and research sections and has a total of 117 full-time faculty members, including 10 professors and 51 associate professors. Among them, 22 faculty members hold doctoral degrees.The Center is responsible for providing foreign language instruction for undergraduate and postgraduate students from non-language majors across th...

Founded in 1972, the French major is one of the earliest French undergraduate programs in science and technology universities in China. In 1979, CSU began to enroll master’s students in French language and literature and was authorized to confer master’s degrees in 1986. It was approved as a Provincial First-Class Undergraduate Program in 2020. The first-level discipline for French is Foreign...

The Japanese program was founded in 1985 and was authorized to confer a Master's degree in Japanese Language and Literature in 2007. Its primary discipline, Foreign Languages and Literature, is a Flagship Discipline of Hunan Province. In 2021, 2022, and 2023, it was ranked among Tier-A programs in Shanghai Ranking's Best Chinese Subjects for three consecutive years and has been designated as a ...