Basic Curriculum Structure
The curriculum comprises the following components: Key Seminars, Major, Mago-Lego, Internship, and Final State Examination. These components include courses for all students and courses for specific tracks, or specializations.
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; comparative typology of English and Russian; history of linguistic studies, etc. First-year students can pick three of these research seminars. Translators and interpreters pick only one research seminar and take two compulsory ones. Linguistic researchers pick two research seminars and take one compulsory seminar.
- Research Seminars "Foreign Language Teacher's Continuing Professional Development," "Translation," "Translinguistics and Transcultural Communication," and "Trends in Linguistic Research in a Multidisciplinary Context."
- Research 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)
· 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 Studies of Discourse (Track "Linguistic Research in a Modern Interdisciplinary Context")
- Pragmatics of Intercultural Communication (Track "Intercultural Communication in a Global Information Space")
- Recent Advances in Linguistic Studies of Discourse (Track "Linguistic Research in a Modern Interdisciplinary Context")
Elective Components (Major)
This unit is being reviewed now.
MagoLego
This component includes courses from all over HSE University. You can pick a course close to your specialization, e.g. Intercultural Mediation, or different from your specialization, e.g. Economics, Programming, Sociology, etc.
Some MagoLego courses offered by the School of Foreign Languages in 2024-2025
English Literature in 20-21 Centuries
Language and Culture (Second Foreign Language)
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")
Introducing Inter- and Cross-Cultural Communication
Introduction to Translating and Interpreting
Fundamentals of Teaching Foreign Languages
Research English for Graduate Students
Language and Culture (Second Foreign Language)
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")
Introducing Inter- and Cross-Cultural Communication
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
Each year, the curriculum is amended a bit to reflect important field and educational develoments and meet students' needs better.
You can access the current cirricula in the form of pdf-files here.