商务英语专业现有专职教师24人（其中教授3人、副教授7人，博士4人、在读博士4人），均具有硕士以上学历及海外留学或访学经历。此外，每年聘请英语国家外教2-3人。近年来英语系共获批各级各类科研项目30多项，其中省部级项目18项；发表学术论文60余篇，其中核心期刊以上论文20余篇；出版专著、译著及教材10部；获得校级教学成果奖6项，市厅级及以上科研成果奖10余项。
培养目标
商务英语专业属于英语类专业，培养既具有扎实的英语语言基础并能够熟练使用英语，又具备基本商务知识、并能在国际商务活动中使用英语进行商务活动的应用性英语人才。本专业具有跨学科特点，采用英语语言与商务复合的英语人才培养模式。以英语、经济学基础、工商管理、国际商法等学科为基础，突出以英语作为主要语言的商务知识应用与实践、跨文化商务交际能力的应用型英语人才培养特色。
专业特色
以跟进式人才培养体系及能力导向为指导，以英、汉语言技能与中外文化为根本，以国际商务理论与实践课程以及海外/校外学习为特色， 在强化学生听、说、读、写、译等英语技能的同时，传授与国际商务相关的经济学、管理学、法学等学科基本知识，培养学生具有跨文化商务交际能力的复合型、应用型英语人才。
主要专业课程
综合商务英语、商务英语读写、商务英语听说、高级英语、商务翻译、经济学基础、跨境电子商务、国际传播学、跨文化交际导论等。
就业方向
毕业生将在下列单位就业与自我发展：银行、保险、金融机构、海关、边防、政府、新闻出版、教育、科研的外事部门等，涉外企业如国际贸易、进出口贸易公司以及外资企业、三资企业、民营企业、跨国公司中国分公司、境外中国公司、涉外宾馆、商场等的国际商务部门，主要从事商务谈判、翻译、涉外文秘和管理、商务服务等工作。
The English Department of Zhou Youguang School of Languages and Cultures was founded in 2000 and it began to recruit undergraduate students in the same year. So far over 1200 students have graduated from this department. The employment rate is close to 100 % each year. There are 27 full-time teachers who have either studied in, or conducted substantial academic visits to English-speaking countries. Their professional titles are those of lecturer and above. Among them, there are 5 professors and 5 associate professors; all hold either Masters or Doctoral advanced degrees. Every year, two or three native English-speaking teachers are contracted to teach in the English Department.
The courses offered vary based on the students' professional development preferences, whether this be towards an English language and literature direction, or an employment-oriented business English direction. Graduates mainly find jobs in fields such as foreign affairs, economics, culture, press and publication, tourism, education and other departments involving the use of translation, secretarial, management and teaching skills.
The English Department has undertaken and completed 38 research projects granted by different levels of authority. Among them, 7 are of ministerial and provincial levels. There have been 46 papers published in various fields such as linguistics, language teaching, translation studies and business English. Students in this department have opportunities to study abroad. Many students have won prestigious awards in various competitions involving English reading, writing, translation, interpretation and debate.
