Department of World Literature and Foreign Languages
Specialities
Bachelor’s Degree Programmes
- 6-05-0231-03 Language Support of Intercultural Communication
- 6-05-0232-04 Romance and Germanic philology
- 6-05-0231-01 Modern Foreign Languages (Russian, English) for foreign students
Master’s Degree Programmes
- 7-06-0232-02 Literature Studies
- 1-08 80 02 Theory and Methods of Education and Upbringing (Specialization: Foreign Languages)
- 1-08 80 02 Theory and Methods of Education and Upbringing (Specialization: Russian as a foreign language)
Postgraduate Education
- 10.01.03 World Literature
Retraining
- 1-02 0371 Foreign Language
- 1-21 06 74 Modern Foreign Language (Specialized Translation)
Joint Programmes
- Master's Degree Programme in Literary Studies with Termez State University (Uzbekistan)
- Bachelor's degree programme "Foreign Languages (Russian, English)" with Navoi State Pedagogical Institute
Scientific Activities
Scientific fields
- Literary Studies
- Communicative and gender linguistics
- National literature and its individual representatives in the regional, national, European and world literary, historical and cultural context
- Comparative literary studies in the regional, national, European and world literary context
- Folklore and literature in the regional, national, European and world literary context
- Multilevel analysis of a literary text as a methodological issue
- National and cultural component in literature and language and the specifics of its teaching
- Teaching Russian as a foreign language
Scientific School
"Historical and contextual method in the study of world literature" created and developed by Doctor of Philology, Professor A. Gugnin.
Students’ scientific clubs
- Creative laboratory for the creation of the literary almanac "Литературный объект ИФФ"
Seminars, conferences, exhibitions held by the department
- International scientific and practical seminar "Cultural ties between France and Belarus in the manuscript heritage of the 18th - early 20th centuries" (6 May 2016)
- International Scientific Conference "Gender and issues of communicative behavior (27-28 Oct 2016)
- International Scientific Conference "Revolutions and Civil Wars in World Literature" (26-27 Oct 2017)
- International seminar "Localization of the user interface and creation of translation scripts" (Leipzig University, PSU, DAAD, 9-13 Sept 2019)
- International Scientific Conference "World Literature Development: Intersections, Ties, Intermediaries" (15-16 Oct 2020)
- International scientific and practical seminar "The level concept of Russian language proficiency as a foreign language in the system of Russian and Belarusian higher education"
- International Scientific Conference "National character and ways of its embodiment in culture and language in a multicultural environment"
- Annual Student Scientific Conference of Polotsk State University
Branches of the Department
- State Educational Institution "Polotsk State Gymnasium No. 1 named after F. Skaryna"
- State Educational Institution "Polotsk School No. 18 named after E. Polotskaia"
International Partnership
- DAAD: German Academic Exchange Service
- The Goethe-Institute in Minsk
- Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Belarus
- Embassy of the United States of America in Belarus
- Embassy of Sweden in Belarus
- Centre for International Studies
- Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Institute of Art and Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Memsource Company (Czech Republic)
- Center of Open Education in the Russian Language of Tula State Pedagogical University named after Lev Tolstoy (Russia)
Partnership with universities and higher schools
- University College of Teacher Education - Carinthia (Klagenfurt, Austria)
- D'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy)
- Stockholm University (Sweden)
- SRH University Heidelberg (Germany)
- Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA, USA)
- University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, USA)
- Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University named after N.A. Dobrolyubov (Russia)
- Termez State University (Uzbekistan)
- Daugavpils University (Latvia)
International projects
- Journalistic competition "Polotsk writes for Friedrichshafen" (together with the interregional newspaper of Baden-Württemberg "Sud-Courier", DAAD and the public association "Circle of Friends of Polotsk")
- Educational and methodological project "Early learning of the German language" (with the Goethe-Institute in Minsk)
- German Weeks at PSU (with DAAD and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Belarus)
- Educational project "German Language Teaching" (with D'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara)
- Joint project for the study of Swedish and Russian (with Stockholm University)
- Country studies project "Getting to know our world" (with scientists, graduate students and journalists from Africa, Asia, South America, North America and Europe)
- Cultural and educational project "NOVA - a look at us" (with Northern Virginia Community College)
Head of the Department,
PhD in Philology, Associate Professor
PhD in Philology, Associate Professor
Telephone: +375 214 42 87 03,
+375 214 45 81 28
Address: 4 Streletskaya Str., Polotsk, Room 201
E-mail:
+375 214 45 81 28
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