Additional Programs
Special Course for the foreign students:
Strategies and Methods in Teaching Russian (elementary level).
You can choose a two-year term course (ordinary program) or a one-year term course (intensive program). On graduation from the university the special certificate is awarded. The certificate allows to teach Russian in non-academic groups (circles, commerce courses, etc.).
Special seminars:
- Reading with comments the science-fiction and professional texts.
- Russian Scientific style: spoken and written speech.
- Practical stylistics of Modern Russian.
- Practical phonetics of Russian with elements of phonostylistics.
- The main features of the professional language (Humanities and Natural Sciences).
- The languages of Mathematics and Physics.
- Russia today: politics and economics (newspaper materials).
- The main features of the journalese language.
- Analytical reading (Russian literature of XIX-XX c.).
- Analytical reading (texts about the history of Russia).
- The business language and the modern business speech.
- The language of business papers (documents).
- Russian phraseology in the modern speech.
- Lexical substandards of the modern spoken Russian language.
- The Russian speech etiquette.
- Metaphor and meaning.
- The Russian mentality in everyday life and in culture (traditional and present day view).
- Russian Orthodox feasts.
- The history of the St. Petersburg University and the Philological Faculty.
- Translation: theory and practice (English, German, French, Spanish, Czech and Bulgarian).
The Department organizes special seminars on the different topics upon the request of the students.
