The University of Minio has two campuses, the main campus is in Braga, northwest Portugal, and the branch campus is located in Gimard? The Art College is located in the main campus.
There are about 16000 students in the University of Minio, including 1900 graduate students. Teachers 1200, of which 850 have doctoral degrees; There are 600 administrative and technical personnel.
The Faculty of Literature of the University of Mino was founded in 199 1? China language and culture open class. , 2 hours a week, open classes include Chinese characters, calligraphy, modern Chinese grammar, listening and speaking, China folk culture, etc. At that time, there were three levels for students and the public at the University of Minio to choose freely. At that time, 80 freshmen were enrolled every year.
65438-0997 The Oriental Studies Center was established in the College of Literature to teach Chinese and Japanese languages and cultures. The center continues to offer China language and culture open classes, and at the same time, it has added Japanese open classes. When the center was founded, it also offered a two-year elective course of Sinology. The Chinese class of the elective course of Chinese studies is 8 hours per week. The courses taught include elementary Chinese, including Chinese characters, reading, calligraphy, phonetics, grammar, China culture, and special lectures on China history, ideological history, geography, society, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan issues.
In September, 2004, Oriental Language and Culture Center opened the undergraduate course of Oriental Studies, and Chinese became a specialized course for undergraduates. Facing the enrollment of all Portugal and northwest Spain. The undergraduate course is mainly in Chinese, with 8- 12 class hours per week; Japanese is a minor course, with 2-4 class hours per week. After graduation, students get a bachelor's degree in Oriental Studies.
In September 2009, the Oriental Language and Culture Center set up a master's course in Sino-Portuguese cross-cultural studies (Estudos Interculturais Portugu? s/ Chin？ S: Traducao, Formacao e Comunicacao Cultural), the first and only master's major related to Chinese in Portugal, enrolls not only Chinese majors whose mother tongue is Portuguese, but also Portuguese majors whose mother tongue is Chinese.
The Oriental Language and Culture Center has a Chinese library with nearly 65,438+00,000 books. Most of them are books donated by Hanban and the headquarters of Confucius Institute, including textbooks, reference books, linguistics books and literature, culture and art books. At present, the library is doing the classification and cataloging of teaching AIDS, and is ready to open them to students in the future.
The Oriental Language and Culture Center has two computers, a video recorder and a satellite TV (which can receive Chinese programs). Enjoy multimedia voice lab and other office equipment (copier, Internet, communication equipment, etc. ) Cooperate with the Faculty of Arts of Minio University.