Major higher educational programme
Field of study: 035700.62 Linguistics.
Specialty: Theory and methodology of teaching foreign languages and cultures.
Degree: bachelor.
Study mode: full-time.
The period of study specified by the Federal State Educational Standards of Higher
Education is 4 years.
The study load of the bachelor’s programme specified by the Federal State Educational
Standards of Higher Education is 240 ECTS points.
The programme is meant to develop the students’ faculties in the fields of
 organization of information searching activity aimed at improving professional skills in
the field of methodology of teaching;
 intermediation in the field of intercultural communication;
 application of modern techniques, organizational forms and technologies of mentoring,
teaching and assessment of the quality of teaching results.
The list of courses included in the curriculum of 035700.62 Linguistics. Specialty: Theory
and methodology of teaching foreign languages and cultures.
Fundamental courses:
History
Semester: 1
ECTS points: 3
Hours: 108
The course aims to give students an understanding of the most important stages in the
Russian history, essence of the key historical phenomena and processes.
The objectives of the course are to familiarize students with the key facts, phenomena
and processes within the main periods of Russian history from ancient times to the present; to
give students an understanding of the historical methodology and chronology etc.
Philosophy
Semester: 3
ECTS points: 3
Hours: 108
The course aims to give students a comprehensive understanding of philosophy as a
separate area of intellectual culture and theoretical research.
The objectives of the course are to familiarize students with the peculiarities of the
subject and methods of philosophy, specific character of philosophic theory; to consider the main
stages in history of philosophy; to reveal the content of the main philosophic issues and
categories.
Russian Language and Speech Culture
Semester: 1-2
ECTS points: 9
Hours: 324
The course aims the improvement of communicative competence of students necessary
for successful fulfillment of social and cultural communication.
The objectives of the course are the acquisition of the main concepts, essence of
phenomena and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: speech culture, standard,
communicative, ethic components of the speech culture; linguistic and communicative
competence, standard language, language norm, types and kinds of language norms,
communicative features of speech, functional styles of language and speech etc.
Information Technologies in Linguistics
Semester: 4
ECTS points: 4
Hours: 144
The course aims the development of student's ability to use methods of related sciences,
computer programs, educational software, dictionaries, and systems of computer translation and
computer technologies in linguistic research.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, the essence
of phenomena and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: simulation, spectrum
analysis, computer linguistics, language model, data base.
Ancient Languages and Cultures
Semester: 1-2
ECTS points: 6
Hours: 216
The course aims the comprehension of ideas of the antiquity as the foundation of the
whole of the European civilization, knowledge of the history of emergence and development of
Latin, peculiarities of its phonetic, morphological, syntactical structure, and also development of
skills of reading Latin sources in the original with a dictionary.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, phenomena
and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: factors influencing the development of a
language and culture; methods of studying ancient languages; material and intellectual culture of
the peoples -- bearers of ancient cultures.
Elective courses:
Pedagogics and Psychology
Semester: 2
ECTS points: 5
Hours: 180
The course aims the development of student's readiness for independent thinking and
foreseeing consequences of his/her actions, for adequately assessing his/her possibilities, finding
optimal ways of transferring the synthesis of psychological and pedagogical possibilities into the
professional sphere of activity.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, phenomena
and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: «learning», «education», «mentoring»,
«development», «personality», «communication», «cognitive processes», «educational systems»
etc.
Linguodidactics
Semester: 5
ECTS points: 2
Hours: 72
The course aims training students for conducting practical and research and
methodological kinds of professional activities in different professional spheres, and also for
doing research, namely: identifying and critical analysis of specific problems of intercultural
communication influencing the efficiency of intercultural and inter-language contacts.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, phenomena
and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: linguodidactics as the general theory of
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teaching foreign languages, language personality as the key category of linguodidactics,
communicative competence, intercultural competence, dialogue of cultures in teaching language
and culture, levels of language competence and their conceptual bases, text/discourse as an
object of communicative activity of a man, models of describing language and speech in
educational purposes, language policy, language education at the present stage of society
development.
Fundamentals of Rhetoric
Semester: 5
ECTS points: 2
Hours: 72
The course aims the development of students' professional competences that involves:
enhancement of students' level of speech culture; acquisition of skills of using various linguistic
means for attaining the most efficient result in the specific situation of speech communication;
development of skills of correct design and organization of public speech; acquisition of
techniques of academic rhetoric.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, phenomena
and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: antique rhetoric canon, neorhetoric, theory
of linguistic manipulation, efficiency of communication, communicative competence,
communicative stance, communicative equilibrium, communicative barriers, verbal and nonverbal ways of linguistic manipulation, rules of efficient argumentation.
Multimedia Technologies in Teaching Foreign Languages
Semester: 4-5
ECTS points: 4
Hours: 144
The course aims the development of student's ability to integrate computer educational
and reference software in the course of teaching a foreign language, and also to create original
multimedia resources. This ability is considered as an integral part of professional competence of
future linguists.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, essence of
the phenomena and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: multimedia, multimedia
educational means, computer as an instructional medium, simulation, and use of various data
bases in teaching foreign languages.
Electronic Linguistic Resources
Semester: 4-5
ECTS points: 4
Hours: 144
The course aims the development of students' body of theoretical perceptions of the
concept of the language as an information model of reality; training professionals capable of
independently solving different linguistic tasks with the help of modern computer technologies.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, essence of
the phenomena and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: «Electronic Linguistic
Resources»: stages and ways of development of computer expert and educational systems in
linguistics and sphere of education; classification and area of application of information and
information-searching systems; the notion of data bases and their classification; data bases of
electronic linguistic resources (on-line dictionaries, glossaries etc.)
Introduction in the Study of Language
Semester: 1
ECTS points: 3
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Hours: 108
The course aims the development of students' understanding of the general picture of the
present state of the Study of language, of the body of the most important scientific linguistic
concepts, approaches, issues and methods of modern linguistics.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, phenomena
and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: determining the place of linguistics within
the system of scientific knowledge of a human; determining the language system as the most
important sign system within semiotic research; studying social and territorial differentiation of
languages; studying the language's servicing the society.
General Linguistics
Semester: 6
ECTS points: 3
Hours: 108
The course aims the development of students' understanding of the general picture of the
present state of the Study of language, of the body of the most important scientific linguistic
concepts, approaches, issues and methods of modern linguistics.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, phenomena
and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: determining the place of linguistics within
the system of scientific knowledge of a human; studying the connection between the language
and thought; determining the language system as the most important sign system within semiotic
research etc.
Safety of Living
Semester: 1
ECTS points: 2
Hours: 72
The course aims the development of an understanding of the indissoluble unity of
efficient professional activities and the requirements to safety and security of a man,
development of skills of safe behavior in every-day life and in emergencies.
The objectives of the course are to provide students with the knowledge allowing to
make decisions on the protection of production staff and population from possible consequences
of accidents, disasters, elemental calamities; to learn the methods of forecasting emergencies and
preventing their negative consequences; to familiarize students with the injurious effects of
elemental calamities, large-scale production accidents and disasters with discharge in the air of
radioactive substances and chemically hazardous substances, modern means of destruction.
Practical Course of the First Foreign Language
Semester: 1-8
ECTS points: 59
Hours: 2124
The course aims the acquisition of skills of intercultural communication in its linguistic,
subject and activity forms taking into consideration the stereotypes of thinking and behavior in
the cultures of the languages studied.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts making up the
content of the subject: phonological, lexical, grammatical phenomena and regularities of the
studied language as a system.
Practical Course of the Second Foreign Language
Semester: 3-8
ECTS points: 38
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Hours: 1368
The course aims the acquisition of skills of intercultural communication in its linguistic,
subject and activity forms taking into consideration the stereotypes of thinking and behavior in
the cultures of the languages studied.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts making up the
content of the subject: phonological, lexical, grammatical phenomena and regularities of the
studied language as a system; determining the area of practical application of acquired
knowledge, skills and abilities in the professional activities of a future specialist.
History of Language and Introduction in Specialized Philology
Semester: 7
ECTS points: 2
Hours: 72
The course aims the acquisition of knowledge of the peculiarities of formation and trends
of development of the language system, stages of language development, evolution of forms of
language functioning.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, essence of the
phenomena and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: external and internal history of
language; synchrony and diachrony; periodization of the history of language; evolution of forms
of language functioning; historical phonetics etc.
Lexicology
Semester: 4
ECTS points: 4
Hours: 144
The course aims the development of students' perception of the lexical and semantic
system of the language and its role in performing expressive, communicative and pragmatic
functions of the language.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, phenomena
and ideas making up the content of the subject: ways of development of the language's lexis;
rules of word combination; types of word meaning: grammatical, lexical, denotative \
connotative etc.
Theoretical Grammar
Semester: 6
ECTS points: 5
Hours: 180
The course aims the acquisition of the heritage of the Russian scientific thought aimed at
solving general humanitarian and universal tasks; acquisition of the principles of thinking, an
ability to analyze, generalize the information, to set aims and choose ways of attaining them,
acquisition of the principles of oral and written speech.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, essence of
the phenomena and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: grammatical category;
grammatical form and meaning; lexical and grammatical word classes; paradigmatic and
syntagmatic relations; predicativeness and modality of a sentence; levels of syntax; notion of
valency.
Theoretical Phonetics
Semester: 3
ECTS points: 3
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Hours: 108
The course aims the comprehension of the necessary amount of information about the
phonetic structure of the language, about processes and trends present in the phonetics of the
modern English language, which will allow to create a solid base for understanding and efficient
use of the acquired knowledge at the subsequent stages of studying.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, phenomena
and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: phoneme and its difference from a sound,
different approaches to the classification of phonemes, position and combinatory changes of
phonemes, the issue of a syllable, stress, intonation.
Stylistics
Semester: 7
ECTS points: 4
Hours: 144
The course aims to develop students' professional competences which involves:
enhancement of the students' level of speech culture; development of an ability to apply the
whole body of stylistic devices used as language markers of different functional styles;
acquisition of the main techniques and skills of stylistic analysis of units of language and speech
within the system of functional styles of modern German language.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, phenomena
and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: style, functional style, style features and
style elements, absolute and context stylistic meaning, stylistic connotation, means of
figurativeness, figures of speech, characterological lexis, composition and speech forms.
Introduction in the Theory of Intercultural Communication
Semester: 5
ECTS points: 3
Hours: 108
The course aims training students to perform intercultural communication in the general
and professional spheres of communication.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, essence of
the phenomena and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: communication, intercultural
communication, culture, worldview, values, enculturation, acculturation, primary and secondary
linguistic personality, nominative and discursive strategies of a linguistic personality,
intercultural understanding, stereotypes, interaction of cultures etc.
Educational Anthropology
Semester: 4-5
ECTS points: 5
Hours: 180
The course aims the development of students' professional competences, a
comprehensive understanding of a human being in the anthropologization of modern scientific
cognition and humanization of the social progress, development of a readiness to think
independently and to foresee the consequences of one's own actions, to adequately assess one's
own possibilities, to find optimal ways of transferring the synthesis of psychological and
educational possibilities into the professional sphere of activities.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, essence of
the phenomena and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: «anthropology»,
«educational anthropology», «human», «child», «organism», «mind», «development of a man as
species», «development of a child», «mentoring», «child as an object and subject of mentoring
and culture», «space and time of human development», «culture», «development of a man in the
culture» etc.
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Theory of Teaching Foreign Languages in a Secondary School
Semester: 3-7
ECTS points: 9
Hours: 324
The course aims the development of students' scientifically justified understanding of the
character and specific features of professional activities of a foreign language teacher;
acquisition of professional knowledge and skills; students' familiarization with the theoretical
foundations of learning a foreign language.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, phenomena
and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: foreign language as a study subject within
the system of linguistic education; theory of teaching foreign languages as a study, scientific and
practical subject; aims, content, principles, means, modern technologies of teaching foreign
languages in a secondary school etc.
History and Culture of the Second Foreign Language Country
Semester: 7
ECTS points: 3
Hours: 108
The course aims the development of a body of knowledge, realia and terms within
each topic for the development of students' background cultural competence and for performing
successful intercultural interaction; development of a vision of the cultural and historical
perspective of development of the society in the countries of the second foreign language, culture
and language, way of life and traditions.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, essence
of the phenomena and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: main historical stages of
development of the countries of the languages learned: periods of ancient, medieval, modern and
recent history, first references of the country in question, the society and culture of ancient
peoples of the countries in question; historical development of the cultural heritage of the
countries in question; the main concepts, notions, realia and terms of country studies;
peculiarities of cultural life in the spheres of education, science, arts in different periods of
development of the countries in question etc.
Fundamentals of the Theory of Second Foreign Language
Semester: 7
ECTS points: 3
Hours: 108
The course aims the acquisition of knowledge in the sphere of the history of language,
theoretical phonetics and grammar, lexicology and stylistics, in particular, perceptions of
historical conditions of language development, criteria of periodization and characteristics of the
main periods etc.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts,
phenomena and ideas making up the content of the subject: periodization of the history of the
English language; main trends of the historical development of phonemic system, grammar
structure and vocabulary; the notion of orthoepy, regional and social variations; phonemic
composition of the language; allophonia etc.
Culture of Foreign Speech (first foreign language)
Semester: 2
ECTS points: 9
Hours: 324
The course aims the acquisition of skills of oral and written communication within the
context of native and foreign culture, and also development of general, linguistic, pragmatic and
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intercultural competences promoting the formation of students' professional skills along with
other subjects.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, essence
of the phenomena and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: intercultural competence
and its components; verbal and non-verbal behavior, kinds of verbal and non-verbal behavior;
common communicative situations.
History and Culture of the First Foreign Language Country
Semester: 3
ECTS points: 3
Hours: 108
The course aims the development of a body of knowledge, realia and terms within
each topic for the development of students' background cultural competence and for performing
successful intercultural interaction; development of a vision of the cultural and historical
perspective of development of the society in the countries of the foreign language in question,
culture and language, way of life and traditions.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, essence
of the phenomena and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: main historical stages of
development of the countries of the languages learned: periods of ancient, medieval, modern and
recent history, first references of the country in question, the society and culture of ancient
peoples of the countries in question; historical development of the cultural heritage of the
countries in question.
Practical Grammar of the First Foreign Language
Semester: 2-3
ECTS points: 9
Hours: 324
The course aims the development of students' skills of intercultural communication in its
linguistic, subject and activity forms taking into consideration the stereotypes of thinking and
behavior in the cultures of the studied languages.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, phenomena and
lead ideas making up the content of the subject: noun; article; pronoun; adjective; adverb; verb;
verb tenses; syntax.
Written Communication (first foreign language)
Semester: 2-3
ECTS points: 9
Hours: 324
The course aims the acquisition of the main discourse ways of realization of
communicative aims in the written speech, acquisition of characteristic aspects of official,
neutral and inofficial registers in written communication, culture of written foreign speech, and
also a skill to apply etiquette formulas of speech communication in written communication.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, phenomena
and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: communicative competence and its
components (linguistic competence, sociolinguistic competence, sociocultural competence,
strategic competence, discourse competence, social competence), foreign written speech etc.
Practical Grammar of the Second Foreign Language
Semester: 4-8
ECTS points: 12
Hours: 432
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The course aims the development of students' skills of intercultural communication in its
linguistic, subject and activity forms taking into consideration the stereotypes of thinking and
behavior in the cultures of the studied languages.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, phenomena and
lead ideas making up the content of the subject: noun; article; pronoun; adjective; adverb; verb;
verb tenses; syntax.
Written Communication (second foreign language)
Semester: 4-8
ECTS points: 12
Hours: 432
The course aims the acquisition of the main discourse ways of realization of
communicative aims in the written speech, acquisition of characteristic aspects of official,
neutral and inofficial registers in written communication, culture of written foreign speech, and
also a skill to apply etiquette formulas of speech communication in written communication.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, phenomena
and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: communicative competence and its
components, foreign written speech, classification of functional types of written text etc.
Instructional Media in Teaching Foreign Languages
Semester: 6
ECTS points: 3
Hours: 108
The course aims the comprehension of the body of instructional media of professional
activities of a foreign language teacher.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, essence of
the phenomena and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: communicative competence
and its components, content, principles, methods and media of teaching a foreign language,
classification of instructional media, conceptual bases of a textbook of a foreign language,
techniques of analysis of instructional media etc.
Methodology of Teaching Country Studies
Semester: 6
ECTS points: 3
Hours: 108
The course aims the development of students' scientifically justified perception of the
character and specific features of professional activity of a foreign language teacher in the
sphere of country studies and acquisition of professional knowledge and skills; familiarization of
students with the theoretical bases of teaching country studies; development of students'
understanding of the essence of the processes of teaching and learning country studies and
specific character of the processes within a specific stage of learning a foreign language.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, essence of
the phenomena and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: regularities of development
of an ability for intercultural communication; strategies of teaching background lexis,
untranslatables within the spheres of communication and the themes for each particular stage of
studies; specific aspects of use of linguistic and cultural studies comments and references;
technologies of teaching verbal and non-verbal ways of socio-cultural behavior etc.
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Methodology of Foreign Language Self-learning
Semester: 7
ECTS points: 3
Hours: 108
The course aims the development of students' professional competences, extension of the
scope of methodology knowledge, development of skills and abilities of foreign language selflearning due to comprehension of the current media of self-learning of foreign languages
promoting both the enrichment of one's own communicative experience in learning languages
and the further multiplication of the experience in the course of the future educational activities.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, essence of
the phenomena and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: concept «self-learning»,
«self-learning of foreign languages»; historical stages in the development of theory and
methodology of self-learning of foreign languages; notion «media of self-learning of foreign
languages» etc.
Fundamentals of Research Activity
Semester: 7
ECTS points: 3
Hours: 108
The course aims the acquisition of the fundamentals of organization and conducting
research activities in the sphere of professional interests of the future graduates.
The objectives of the course are revealing the essence of the main concepts, essence of
the phenomena and lead ideas making up the content of the subject: «research activity»,
«methodology of research».
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