The major of International Economics and Trade, founded in 2000, can be traced back to Department of Foreign Economic and Trade, Jimei Finance College. It was entitled as characteristic major in Jimei University, it started to enroll postgraduates in 2012, and enroll the international students from “the Belt and Road” countries in 2015. So, the cultivation system is marked by multi-levels -- undergraduates (bilingual teaching), second bachelor’s degree, international students，MIB and academic master's degree.
Education Objective
The program revolves around the rules and common practices in international trade and import and export process; it constructs a curriculum of practices of international trade, taking into account the new formats of digital trade, conducting training of the international trade on simulation software. So, the program aims to cultivate internationalized talents and business professionals of new type. The students will be brought up with “Sincerity and Perseverance”, rich cultural background and sense of social responsibility. The program offers systematic theories, professional skills so that the students get the hang of international trade operating mechanism, new economy, new technologies and business models. This program will enable them to use modern research methods, and to conduct cross-cultural communications.
The students cherish innovative spirits, entrepreneurship awareness and international perspective, able to be competent of the positions in relevant businesses, government agencies and research institutes. In a word, with the program, the students will be application-oriented, multi-discipline and innovative professionals.
To be concrete, professional training in international economic and trade system to grasp the fundamentals of economics and theories of international economics, master the rules and practices in international trade. The students will learn foreign trade policies ,regulations and international trade process; they will acquire basic operating skills, able to complete the full-set of international settlement documents; they will be able to communicate in English freely and good at computer operating; they will have the ability to conduct social surveys, statistical analyses and management with the help of sophisticated methods. They are expected to have good ability of study, high adaptivity to different working environments.
The graduates can be qualified to have a work position in the relevant international trade institutions and financial institutions. They can also be qualified to work in governmental agencies, research institutions, or to carry on their further education for M.A. and even PH.D degree both at home and abroad. Five to ten years after their graduation, they will be able to either get a higher academic degree or became the backbones of the institutions they serve.
Characteristics of the Majors
This program is designed to be Xiamen-based, serve the cross-straits economic zone, gear to the world situation, cultivate the applied and innovative personnel with economics theories and trade skills. The major turns to good account long-standing humanistic accumulation of Commercial Specialties, Jimei School.
1、Two-wheel-driven strategy of traditional international trade and Cross-border E-commerce. Adding to what the program has achieved over the years, it goes further to correspond to the new trend of information technology, the development of digital trade and business mode. The major aims to cultivate high-level inter-disciplinary personnel that deal with social change.
2、Innovating multidimensional teaching models, laying emphasis on innovative personnel cultivation. There are 6 dimensions—teaching, teaching research, hardware laboratory, software laboratory, school-enterprise cooperation and cognitive process. Through practical trainings on classes, practical training, comprehensive practical training and off-campus training, the teaching mode integrates all the factors of innovative education and practice training, forming a training program for the all-round development of the students.
3、School-enterprise cooperation and inter-disciplinary cooperation foster the fusion of production, education and collaborative education. With Alumni enterprise resources and over ten practice bases for trade and cross-border E-commerce co-established with state-owned enterprises and industrial parks, the program caters to the need of local, industrial and regional development. Resorting to the discipline of information engineering technology, the program develops senior professionals mastering the skills for current international trade and cross-border E-commerce, and thus it contributes to the industrial upgrading of the region.
The Teaching Staff
The department has an experienced teaching faculty of academically high standard, among whom, supervisors of Master and PH.D, teachers with senior professional titles and the ones with PH.D taking up over 30%. There are 2 part-time professors of Incentive Plan for Minjiang Scholars from Nankai University and Beijing Normal University. Thus, four teams have been formed: international economics teaching squad, international trade practice squad, cross-border E-commerce squad and international business teaching squad. So far, the faculty has assumed some national, provincial and local projects.
Core Courses Description
Specialized Core Courses:
Basic courses for economics, International Economics (Micro and Macro), Econometrics, International Trade, International trade Practice, Foreign Trade of China, International Payments and Settlements(bilingual),International Commercial Law, Marketing,International Service Trade
Compulsory Courses:
Courses for international trade: International Marketing(bilingual), Business English Writing, Business English Speaking, Import and Export Trade Simulation Teaching, International Trade Regimes , International Investments, International Cargo Transportation, International Business, Innovation and Intellectual Property Protection and etc.
Courses for cross-border E-commerce: International Marketing(bilingual), Business English Writing, Business English Speaking, Cross-border E-commerce Practice, Cross-border E-commerce Simulation Teaching, Digital Trade Rules, Cross-border E-commerce Logistics and Warehouse Management, Innovation and Intellectual Property Protection and etc.
Practical Teaching
There is an integral laboratory of traditional international trade and Cross-border E-commerce, allowing 600 students practice on the computers each time. And there are 4 practice-oriented courses for the students: Import and Export Trade Simulation Teaching,Cross-border E-commerce Simulation Teaching， Scenario Planning of International Trade Practice, Economic Analysis of Application Software and Innovation and Entrepreneurship Exercise . The cumulative time for centralized practical teaching comes to 23 weeks.
Career Prospect
In the context of the deepening of globalization and the boom of digital economy, personnel applicable for international business affairs is in great demand. Fujian, as the forefront of reform and opening-up policy, is now fully integrating itself into the national “Belt and Road” Initiative. With the building of China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone, the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Core Area, Pilot Area for Cross-strait Communication and Cooperation, Fujian keeps strengthening her advantages of opening-up to the outside world. There will be a sharp increase in high-level inter-disciplinary professionals of international trade. The program is promising and the graduates will surely have bright future
嘉庚财经
手机版
当前位置：