Basic Curriculum Structure
The curriculum comprises the following components: Key Seminars, Major, Mago-Lego, Internship, and Final State Examination
Key Seminars
- Adviser's Seminars for each specialization, or track, for first- and second-year students
Key Seminars
- Adviser's Seminars for each specialization, or track, for first- and second-year students
- Research Seminars on language, linguistics, and intercultural communication, e.g. language for specific purposes; linguistic personology; stereotypes in professional intercultural communication; axiological linguistics; etc. First-year students of any specialization can pick two of these research seminars
- Project Seminars "Foreign Language Teacher's Continuing Professional Development," "Translation," "Translinguistics and Transcultural Communication," and "Trends in Linguistic Research in a Multidisciplinary Context."
- Project Seminars "Foreign Language Teacher's Continuing Professional Development," "Translation," "Translinguistics and Transcultural Communication," and "Trends in Linguistic Research in a Multidisciplinary Context."
Major
Compulsory courses
· English for the Current Social Agenda
· Second Foreign Language (German, French, Spanish, Italian, or Chinese)
· Text: Creating, Interpreting and Editing
· Foreign Language Teaching to Younger and Adult Learners in Different Contexts (Track "Foreign Language Teaching")
- English-Russian Translation and Interpreting (Track "Modern Translation and Interpreting Studies")
- Pragmatics of Intercultural Communication (Track "Intercultural Communication in a Global Information Space")
- Recent Advances in Linguistic Theory (Track "Linguistic Research in a Modern Interdisciplinary Context")
- English-Russian Translation and Interpreting (Track "Modern Translation and Interpreting Studies")
- Pragmatics of Intercultural Communication (Track "Intercultural Communication in a Global Information Space")
- Recent Advances in Linguistic Theory (Track "Linguistic Research in a Modern Interdisciplinary Context")
Elective Components (also MagoLego)
· English Literature since 1950s
· British and American Cinema, Radio and Television
· Communication Practice in the Second Foreign Language (German, Spanish, Italian, French)
· Language and Culture (Second Foreign Language)
· English-Speaking Countries after World War II
- ICT in Teaching Foreign Languages (Track "Foreign Language Teaching")
- Foreign Language Assessment (Track "Foreign Language Teaching")
- Scientific and Technical Translation (Track "Modern Translation and Interpreting Studies")
- Translation of Business Documentation (Track "Modern Translation and Interpreting Studies")
- Modelling of Intercultural Dialogue (Track "Intercultural Communication in a Global Information Space")
- Intercultural Mediation (Track "Intercultural Communication in a Global Information Space")
- Rendering (Track "Linguistic Research in a Modern Interdisciplinary Context")
- Communication in Academic Settings (Track "Linguistic Research in a Modern Interdisciplinary Context")
- ICT in Teaching Foreign Languages (Track "Foreign Language Teaching")
- Foreign Language Assessment (Track "Foreign Language Teaching")
- Scientific and Technical Translation (Track "Modern Translation and Interpreting Studies")
- Translation of Business Documentation (Track "Modern Translation and Interpreting Studies")
- Modelling of Intercultural Dialogue (Track "Intercultural Communication in a Global Information Space")
- Intercultural Mediation (Track "Intercultural Communication in a Global Information Space")
- Rendering (Track "Linguistic Research in a Modern Interdisciplinary Context")
- Communication in Academic Settings (Track "Linguistic Research in a Modern Interdisciplinary Context")
MagoLego
· Introducing Inter- and Cross-Cultural Communication
- Introduction to Translating and Interpreting
- Fundamentals of Teaching Foreign Languages
- Research English for Graduate Students
- Introduction to Translating and Interpreting
- Fundamentals of Teaching Foreign Languages
- Research English for Graduate Students
Professional and Research Internship
- Science and Research Internship as part of Advisors' Seminars
- Project
- Work Experience/professional Internship
- Master's Thesis/Dissertation