Basic subjects
Russian, Classical/Ancient Languages, Modern Russian, History of Russian Literature, History of World Literature, Theory of Literature, Linguistics (Introduction to Linguistics; General Linguistics), Foreign Language, University-Wide Disciplines ("History", "Economics and Law", "Philosophy", "Introduction to Project Activities", "Security Vital Activity", "Physical Culture and Sports").
Specialized subjects
Russian Russian Dialectology, Introduction to Slavic Philology, Slavic language (Polish), Second Slavic language, Old Slavic language, History of the Russian language, History of Slavic Literatures, History of Russian literary criticism, Stylistics and rhetoric, Practical course on orthology, stylistics, proofreading and the basics of text editing.
Program Overview
The program allows students to study defunct languages like Greek and Latin, old Slavonic languages, Slavic languages like Polish and Serbian and Bulgarian. It also offers courses in English, French, and German as part of the "Foreign Language" and "Foreign Language for Business Communication" disciplines.
Program Benefits
The program's competitive advantages are seen in the developed material and disciplines for student education. Students get knowledge in core subjects like linguistics. It allows them to work with texts of all levels of complexity in Russian and European languages including defunct languages. They also study Russian and foreign literature.
The educational program is based on not only language subjects but also on a range of theoretical disciplines related to key interdisciplinary concepts in humanity. The classes are organized in this way so that students can learn different tips to analyze and interpret texts. Moreover, students are able to put what they've learned during their study into practice.
Prospects. Career & Employment
Graduates of the Russian Philology program can work in mass media, book publishing, journalism, or online education. The students' creative and technological activity includes developing and implementing concepts and projects, creating texts of different types and purposes, editing, preparing for publication, proofreading and communicating with the audience.
Graduates work in the field of social and cultural relations (as a speechwriter etc.); in official and public organizations that are related to the preservation, dissemination and development of the Russian language. Our experts know how to improve public policies related to the modern Russian language. You can find work in the field of cultural and social companies. This includes public and state organizations, museums, libraries, cultural centers, travel agencies, and archives. The work of these organizations today in Russia depends on preserving historical events and developing cultural identity. You can work in science and higher education institutions etc. In schools, lyceums and gymnasiums that focus on broad humanitarian education. You can teach Russian language, literature, and foreign language.
Why is it important to pursue a higher education?
The students of the program study languages through different practices like speaking, listening, writing, reading and how languages have changed over time. Students will learn about fiction and folklore. They will study its history and theories which exist in different countries and regions with their own peculiarities and features.
They also study to analyze written, oral, virtual and other types of texts. Virtual texts can include hypertexts and text elements of multimedia objects. Finally, students learn about different ways of communicating like oral, written and virtual communication.