The Faculty of European Languages and Cultures (FEULC), established in 1965, was one of the earliest faculties of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. Its current specialties include French, German, Spanish, Russian, and Italian.
The Faculty of European Languages and Cultures has a staff of professors and scholars with master's degrees or above who own rich teaching and academic experience. The Faculty aims to cultivate and develop graduate and postgraduate students who, besides their major language, have a good command of English coupled with capabilities of cross-cultural communication and professional knowledge in such fields as economy, management and informatics. In addition, the Faculty is in charge of the second foreign language teaching of students of other departments of GDUFS.
Graduates from this faculty have an employment rate which reached 100% in 2004, 98% in 2005, and 100% again in 2006. Graduates hold positions in government, travel agencies, universities, etc., as well as in fields such as interpreting, teaching, management and scientific research. Some choose to further their education abroad.
The Faculty of European Languages and Cultures enjoys a close international or interschool cooperative relationship with a great many universities and institutes of such countries as France, Germany, Russia, Spain, Cuba and Italy. Students of this faculty have the opportunity to study abroad via the system of these interschool cooperative relationships.