45.04.01 Philology (Russian as a Foreign Language)

Major: Russian as a Foreign Language

Level: Master’s degree

Duration of training: 2 years

Degree certificate: Master’s degree

Mode of study: Full time

Language of study: Russian

Programme manager: Elena Kharchenko, +7(351)272-31-31, kharchenkoev[at]susu[dot]ru.

Description of the educational programme

The program aims at training highly qualified and competitive specialists in philology, teaching Russian as a foreign language, and scientific research activities.

Holders of the master’s degree can work in the professional field of Russian as a foreign language, language system and methods of teaching Russian, creation of tests in Russian as a foreign language, and fundamentals of scientific research.

This is a practically oriented course. All master’s students are engaged in research projects, participate in conferences, and write research papers. They also have teaching practice, which allows them to prepare and teach lessons in groups of foreign students with different levels of Russian. This program covers important professional subjects on the methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language, on the modern Russian language, on the fundamentals of test theory and practice of testing, on linguistic culturology, and ethnopsycholinguistics, etc.

Graduates of this program are in-demand professionals in various fields due to their high level of training in teaching Russian as a foreign language, skills of scientific work and its presentation. Masters of philology can always find a congenial employment: in education (teacher of Russian as a foreign language) and science (linguist researcher), in the field of intercultural communications, in large government institutions and business corporations with big document flow, in the editorial board of publishing houses and media, in communication media (press secretary), and in business (guide, translator or interpreter).

The scope of professional activity includes teaching Russian as a foreign language, philological research, intercultural communication, writing and editing media texts.

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