Department of World Literature and Foreign Languages

Bachelor’s Degree Programmes

• 6-05-0231-03 Language Support of Intercultural Communication (English, German)
• 6-05-0232-04 Romance and Germanic philology
• 6-05-0231-01 Modern Foreign Languages (English, Chinese; English, German; German, English)

Master’s Degree Programmes

• 7-06-0231-01 Linguodidactics
• 7-06-0232-02 Literature Studies

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 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

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 18^th - early 20^th 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

• State Educational Institution "Polotsk State Gymnasium No. 1 named after F. Skaryna"
• State Educational Institution "Polotsk School No. 18 named after E. Polotskaia"

• Centre for International Studies
• Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Partnership with universities and higher schools

• Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University named after N.A. Dobrolyubov (Russia)
• Termez State University (Uzbekistan)

International projects