Department Director:
Elena Museanu, PhD. Associate Professor
Phone: +4-0372.120.168
1B Expozitiei Blvd., Bucharest, Sector 1, C Building, 3rd floor, room 310
The
Department of Foreign Languages commits to allow the management of the
Romanian-American University to plan, organize, coordinate and control the foreign language teaching within this institution.
The main interest of the
Department of Foreign Languages is to ensure unitary and effective quality foreign language teaching, as well as the involvement of the department teaching staff in all fields of scientific research
and in very close relation with the activity of all other academic and management departments within the university.
The main activities of the
Department of Foreign Languages within the
Romanian-American University are the following:
carrying out high quality foreign language teaching;
drawing up curricula for all foreign languages;
drawing up and publishing foreign language courses;
carrying out teaching staff assessment;
ensuring continuous improvement of the teaching methods, as well as professional training for the teaching staff;
supporting the scientific research activity established by the research programs of all departments, faculties and by the university;
organizing intensive foreign language courses for students and administrative staff by their request;
controls during foreign language teaching lectures and seminars;
analyses carried out on the results obtained by the students after sitting for a foreign language exams;
carrying out consultations in foreign languages;
taking part in the selection committees whenever students are tested for obtaining a scholarship abroad;
taking part in all the activities organized by the university and by all those faculties to which the teaching staff in the Department of Foreign Languages belong;
taking part in ensuring the material basis of the Department of Foreign Languages (by sponsorship, donations, or personal contributions);
submitting reports related to the activity of the Department of Foreign Languages to the management of the faculties and of the university;
ensuring liaisons with institutions and organizations that are committed to the promotion of foreign language teaching both in our country and abroad (British Council, the Cervantes Institute, etc.);
taking part in international and European programs which promote excellence in foreign language teaching and collaborating with both domestic and foreign universities;
At present, the
Department of Foreign Languages of
Romanian-American University operates with many members of faculty, working on a full-time or collaboration basis, Ph.Ds., Ph.D. candidates or MA graduates
who teach courses in English, Spanish, French and German.
The
Department of Foreign Languages fully comprises the foreign languages teaching staff, in a double subordination: a hierarchical one towards the department and school where the professor is enrolled, and a functional
subordination towards the
Department of Foreign Languages.
The members of the
Department of Foreign Languages have devised and updated textbooks for teaching English at the five economic faculties and the Law School. The teaching materials are constantly improved each
academic year. The
Department of Foreign Languages supported by the University management has concluded collaboration agreements with European and American universities in foreign language teaching and
undergraduate and teacher mobility. The
Department of Foreign Languages maintains an ongoing collaboration with the British Council and Cambridge University in order to promote modern English teaching techniques
and courses.
To support undergraduates who wish further assistance in foreign languages, the
Department of Foreign Languages organizes intensive paid courses in English, Spanish, French and German for any person interested in such
classes. The intensive foreign languages courses are organized according to proficiency levels and, at the end, candidates receive nationally recognized certificates according to the European Framework of Reference for Languages.
For further information please contact the
Department of Foreign Languages.
Any other foreign languages intensive course, organized both for the university students and people outside the institution are organized by the
Department of
Asian Studies of the
Romanian-American University, through the
Romanian-Japanese Studies Centre, the
Romanian-Korean Studies Centre or the
Romanian-Chinese Studies
Centre:
- Chinese language
- Japanese language
- Korean language
