Basic introduction Chinese name: mbth, University of Mineo: Universidade do Minho Founded: 1973 Category: comprehensive university scale, Chinese teaching, teaching equipment, teaching tasks and school scale. University of Mineo has two campuses, the main campus is in Braga, northwest Portugal, and the branch campus is located in Gimard &; Atilde 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. On 199 1, the Faculty of Literature of the University of Minio started to open an "open class of China language and culture", lasting 2 hours a week. Open classes include Chinese characters, calligraphy, modern Chinese grammar, listening and speaking and China folk culture. 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 opened the master course of Sino-Portuguese cross-cultural studies (Estudos Interculturais Portuguê s/Chinê s: Traducao, Formacao e Comunicacao Intercultural), which is the first and only master major related to Chinese in Portugal. Not only for Chinese majors whose mother tongue is Portuguese, but also for Portuguese majors whose mother tongue is Chinese. Teaching equipment The Oriental Language and Culture Center has a Chinese library with a collection of nearly 65,438+00,000 books and audio-visual products. 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. Teaching tasks At present, national public course teachers in China mainly undertake oral class teaching in three grades, with 8 class hours per week; In addition, it also undertakes the teaching of weekend tourism Chinese courses in Confucius Institute; In addition, there are two and a half hours a week to discuss grammar with Louis. Weekly 12 class hours. At present, the textbooks used by senior one and senior two students are "A Quick Introduction to Spoken Chinese" and "A Quick Introduction to Spoken Chinese" published by beijing language and culture university, while senior three students use "Speak Chinese". In addition to these textbooks, teachers will also prepare some textbooks in combination with the curriculum.