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FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

History of the faculty

E. I. Makovskaya was the first dean of faculty. In the Forties, not just highly qualified teachers, but outstanding original personalities, intelligent, highly educated people were working at faculty. These include the Head of the Department of French fr om 1950 to 1954 V. M. Grinevich, who has graduated Sorbonne University and awarded with the medal "For Valorous Work in Patriotic War", N. Ya. Mandelstam who knew English, Ancient Greek, Latin and Sanskrit, M. M. Bikkel, who perfectly owned Romanian, German, French and English languages.

Many nice pages of history of the faculty are connected with names of P. F. The Hague, V. I. Bogodist, R. R. Krylova, T. V. Smirnova, who at different times have been deans of faculty.

Modern conditions of training

     The faculty trains teachers of a foreign language and translators. Now 710 students study at faculty. At faculty training of bachelors and masters on a budgetary and extra budgetary basis in the Pedagogical education direction and training of specialists on a paid basis in the Translation and Theory of Translation direction is conducted. In 2016 the postgraduate study on the "Literature of the People of the Countries of the Abroad" profile began work (the research supervisor professor, the Doctor of Philology Loshakova G. A).

STRUCTURE

The dean of faculty of foreign languages is Candidate of Philology, associate professor Irina Ivanovna Grebyonkina.

The faculty consists of two departments: English (the head of the department — Candidate of Philology, associate professor Tatyana Aleksandrovna Zolotareva), the romano-German languages (the head of the department — Candidate of Philology, associate professor Olga Anatolyevna Rtishcheva.

TEACHERS

Training of future teachers of a foreign language and translators is carried out by staff of highly skilled teachers, many of them have passed a training abroad. The faculty has 32 candidates of Sciences, Doctor of Philology, 8 faculty members engaged in dissertation research.

scientific activity

Faculty of Foreign Languages has established itself as a scientific linguistic center, actively working in many directions and creating their own scientific schools. The oldest of them is school of sciences of V. I. Bogodist "Statistic-linguistic analysis of the text". In 1997 V. I. Bogodist was recognized by the Cambridge university as "The person of year" in the field of the humanities. At faculty research work on the subject "Research of Ethnocultural Styles of Communication in Various Genres and Spheres of Communication" is continued, which head is the associate professor of English, Candidate of Philology Yu. A. Lobina. At faculty annual international scientific and practical conferences of young scientists became traditional.

THE INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

International cooperation and development of the academic mobility of teachers and students are priority activities of faculty of foreign languages. The faculty has the established relations with various international educational funds and Embassies of Germany, France and the USA Faculty of foreign languages signed association agreements with Fransh-Konte university and Charles Nodie's lyceum in Dol (France). Teachers and students of faculty annually win grants and grants of the German service on exchange of the academic personnel of DAAD, cultural center of Goethe and Embassy of France in the Russian Federation, having an opportunity to pass a training in Germany and France. Together with the German cultural center of Goethe at faculty thematic youth events are held. Students of the German department leave to Germany for passing of a training at language school Language coach institute. Students take a training course, communicate with native speakers in an unofficial situation and get acquainted with sights of the cities of Germany. The collaboration of the Department of French with the French Embassy was the establishment at the Faculty of "French resource center", which aims are to promote the French language in our region. Opening of the center gave to students the chance to participate in tenders, to leave on training to France and to take the international examinations in DELF/DALF French. In 2017 opening of UNESCO department "Title languages in cross-cultural educational space" is planned.

STUDENT LIFE

Life of students is not only lectures, seminars, course and examinations. From the first days of training at university students have an opportunity to show their talents and abilities, participating in the traditional student's competitions "Competition of First-year Students", "Student's Fall" and "Student's Spring".

 "The festival of languages" takes place on the basis of faculty. More than 20 languages of the world are presented on the festival. Pupils of schools of the city, students of higher education institutions and representatives of various nations participate in an international closing concert of the festival.

Fans of theater, masters of transformations can show the actor's talent in the theatrical company created by department of French.

"Week of English" is the bright event uniting all students of the English department. For this time the faculty turns into a workshop of talents, the shooting stage, the arena of competitions of intelligence. One of good faculty traditions is participation in an intellectual game "What? Wh ere? When?".

Training at faculty of foreign languages is an opportunity to get classical education, to realize the creative potential, to plunge into the world of fascinating discoveries of a student time.

Contacts of dean's office

Address: Room 7, 3/2, Karamzin Lane.

Phone: (8422) 44-30-73.

E-mail: [email protected].