From April 11 to 12, the 18th National Forum of Deans/Department Heads of English Majors convened in Qingdao, Shandong. Jointly hosted by the Advisory Board of Foreign Language and Literature Teaching under the Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, and Shanghai International Studies University, and organized by Ocean University of China’s School of Foreign Languages and Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, the forum explored six themes: professional building and curriculum reform, faculty development, digitalization, cross-cultural communication, and talent cultivation.

Professor Huang Chi, Dean of Foreign Language School of CUIT, was invited as the sole representative of STEM universities to deliver a keynote report titled “English Major Curriculum Reform in the AI Era: Crisis and Opportunity”. Addressing three structural crises facing traditional foreign language disciplines, Huang Chi proposed three reforms based on our university’s first-class course development experience: establishing a “intelligent literacy + humanistic core” curriculum integrating technology with humanities; creating blended-reality language practice environments using AI for personalized teaching; and reshaping faculty roles to provide enhanced support for student critical thinking and interdisciplinary project design.