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The Tsinghua Academy Class of World Literatures and Cultures is an undergraduate English-language program co-founded by the Institute for World Literatures and Cultures and the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University. Its aim is to inherit and develop Tsinghua University’s intellectual tradition of “connecting the East and the West, bridging the past and the present, and intertwining humanistic and scientific ideas.” The program nurtures students with canons of world literatures, teaches them about in-depth knowledge of histories of different civilizations, and guides them to explore the clashing, changing, and fusions of different national cultures, languages and societies, so that they can inherit Chinese cultural tradition while making meaningful innovations of it and grow to become new generations of learned scholars who could carry on the historical responsibility to develop Chinese humanistic studies in global environment. The IWLC undergraduate program puts special emphasis on the overall improvement of students’ English language ability and their multilingual awareness and capabilities. At the same time, based on the extensive reading of classics in the humanities, the program seeks to expand students’ cultural visions and deepen their critical thinking. The goal of the IWLC undergraduate program is to discover and cultivate new generations of scholars who possess outstanding potential in language learning, who are committed to scholarly research and critical thinking in the long term, as well as to discover advanced talents and cultivate their mastery of fluent English and other languages, sophistication in cross-national, cross-regional and cross-cultural studies so as to meet the strategic demands posed by the development of China’s higher education and the nation’s strategic requirement.

Enrollment began in the spring of 2015 with admission of 10 students from Mainland China. The program enrolled 13 students in 2016, 15 students in 2017, and 13 students in 2018. From 2018 onwards, the enrollment scale of the Class of World Literatures and Cultures will be around 15 students each year.

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2018 IWLC Class 

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2017 IWLC Class 

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2016 IWLC Class 

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2015 IWLC Class 




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