• Bilingual Education Models
• Business Communication
• Communication in the Context of Culture
• Comparative Aspects of Human Resource Management
• Comparative Education
• Cross-Cultural Communication: Critical Incidents and Cases
• Educational Management
• Gender Cross Cultures
• Human Rights in Russia
• Information Technologies in Translation
• International Finance
• Introduction to Russian Law
• Mathematical Statistics for Business and Economics
• Networks and Telecommunications
• Organizational Psychology
• Project Management in Culturally Diverse Settings
• Social Work
• Technical Translation

One credit has 36 hours, of which 18 are contact ones. 

Bilingual Education Models

2 cr., Fall term

Course aim: To form the scientific idea of bilingual education models.
Course objectives:
-   analyze the practice of bilingual education in the context of world tendencies;
-   compare national and international practice of bilingual education;
-   create the optional education course with the bilingual education technologies.

Business Communication

3 cr., offered on request

Course Aim:  To develop the skills required to effectively speak, write, listen, and interact in a business environment by understanding communication concepts.
Course Objectives: Upon completion of course, students should be able to:
- understand and apply the principles of effective verbal and nonverbal communication;
-   produce professional quality business documents (i.e. letters, memos, reports);
-   participate effectively in a group to solve problems, make decisions, and complete assignments;
-   deliver an effective persuasive oral presentation using appropriate visual aids and technology;
-   understand and use on-line resources for communication and research.

Communication in the Context of Culture

2 cr., Spring term

Course aim: To form the adequate idea about the peculiarities of intercultural communication in accordance with the basic notions of intercultural communication theory.
Course objectives:
-   develop the understanding of essence and major issues of intercultural communication;
-   develop cultural sensibility, ability to the correct interpretation of concrete manifestation of communicative behavior in different cultures;
-   form practical skills of communication with the representatives of different cultures.

Comparative Aspects of  Human Resource Management 

3 cr., offered on request

Course aim: To provide the students with the differentiated knowledge in the field of HRM, balancing theory and empirical research with problems and projects involving actual experience.
Course objectives:
-  set up the conditions for achieving a new level of apprehension and understanding of major concepts and basic notions of HRM;
-  develop the students’ critical thinking, reflective reasoning  and ability to perceive, to interpret, and to apply the results of research findings in the field of  HRM;
-  compare national and international practice of HRM.

Comparative Education

 3 cr., Fall term

Course Aim: To form the students’ critical thinking in the sphere of knowledge about the development of contemporary education.
Course Objectives:
–  study the major tendencies and consistent patterns of world educational process;
–  introduce the students to the peculiarities of development of systems of education in different countries;
–  form the ability to compare, analyze, single out the positive and negative features of national and foreign systems of education;
–  form adequate, critical and tolerant attitude to the foreign pedagogical practice;
–  make the future teachers take into consideration the latest achievements of world education and strive.

Cross-Cultural Communication: Critical Incidents and Cases 

3 cr., Fall term every year

Course Aim: to form the understanding of intercultural communication difficulties arising from communication between people of different cultures and subcultures, and possible ways to overcome them.
Course Objectives: 
-   to provide the necessary knowledge and skills of successful interaction with other cultures;
-   to generate a sufficient level of cultural and intercultural competence to effective cross-cultural communication;
-   to study types, forms, shapes, patterns, and structural components of intercultural communication;
-   to master methodological tools of communicative behavior;
-   to develop the features of communicative behavior in all spheres life;
-   to apply the methods of intercultural communication.

Educational Management 

3 cr., offered on request

Course Aim: To enlarge the students’ knowledge in the contemporary theoretical perspective and social and economic dimensions of education in general and educational management in particular, in order to promote professional competence of postgraduate students and to provide the theoretical basis for their own research in the field.
Course Aims: To provide students with a critical understanding of:
- different theoretical positions in the field of education and educational management;
- social dimension of educational problems;
- existing relationships between education and the economy in a changing society.
Learning Outcomes:
As a result of the development of this critical understanding, students will be better able:
-  to identify and clarify the justification for education that comes from a host of fields;
-  to debate the social issues of equality, freedom and democracy in educational context;
-  to reflect on the macroeconomic and labor market impact of education and on various imperfections education attenuates or reinforces;
- to strengthen a theoretical basis for one’s own research.

Gender Cross Cultures 

2,5 cr., offered on request

Course Aim:  To explore gender roles as patterned by different cultures
Course Objectives:
 –   contrast  the biological, psychological, and social origins of sex  and gender role differences across cultures in order to evaluate the effects of power differences on sex and gender relations;
–   see and empathize with systems of sex and gender oppression to promote equality across person and place. 

Human Rights in Russia 

offered on request

Course Aim: The course describes main doctrines of Human Rights, their classification and controversy, touches upon the issue of universality of human rights and problems of cultural and legal relativism
Course Objectives:
- To explain role  of  Human Rights in the legal and political system of the Russian Federation
- To form knowledge of the  legal instruments of  human rights protection
- To improve  students  skills to apply Human Rights law 

Information Technologies in Translation 

 4 cr., offered on request

Course Aim: The discipline is designed for presenting the basic methods of personal computer and information technology usage for the purposes of translation of special literature in the field of their professional activity.
Course Objectives:
–   acquiring of knowledge of using IT in translator profession;
–   acquisition of skills of using electronic dictionaries, translation memory bases, machine translators and other IT recourses for translation;
–   learning the methods of information seeking in the Internet;
–   mastering of the techniques of text massifs processing and formatting.
Prerequisite: Information science.

International Finance 

10 cr., Fall semester

Course Aim: To give the information about the influence of globalization on the different sectors of economic, and provide the fundamental knowledge in the framework of Multinational corporation activities, international markets and institutions operation, foreign investment analyses. 
Course objectives:
–  provide an understanding of influence of the process of globalization of economy upon regions, markets and merchandise, service and trade; of the development of the financial markets; of the major financial instruments and of the development of the multinational enterprises;
–  provide an understanding of how to measure and manage translation and transaction exposure, how to create and manage of international portfolio investment.

Introduction to Russian Law 

offered on request

Course Aim: To represent an examination of the legal system of the Russian Federation, hierarchy of the sources of Russian Law, Russian judicial system; and describe main principles and structure of Russian Criminal and Civil Law and procedure, including examining of some particular cases and also provides an overview of constitutional law and the protection of civil rights in Russia.
Course objectives:
-   form basic knowledge of Russian law, legal profession and education;
-   develop the skills required to effectively use norms of Russian Law and interact in legal or business environment concerning Russia.

Mathematical Statistics for Business and Economics 

4 cr., offered on request 

Course Aim:  To develop the knowledge of methods to collect, analyze and interpret data.
Course Objectives: The course objectives include mastering of the following basic statistical procedures:
–   fundamentals of statistical data analysis;
–   methods of organizing, picturing and summarizing information from data;
–   parametric and nonparametric tests of hypotheses;
–   analysis of variance;
–   correlation and regression;
–   design and analysis of experiments.
Prerequisite: High school algebra.

Networks and Telecommunications

Course Aim:  To acquire actual knowledge about the technology of computer network construction. Educational and methodical materials are provided by the international program “Cisco Networking Academy”.
Course Objectives:
-  to practically study instruments for developing networks and also hardware of small office – home office networks;
-  to develop practical skills needed to maintain network infrastructures as entry networking technicians.

Organizational Psychology 

3 cr., offered on request

Course Aim: To provide the students with the differentiated knowledge in the field of Organizational Psychology, balancing theory and empirical research with problems and projects involving actual experience.
Course objectives:
- broaden the professional competence concerning the behavior in environments created by manufacturing, commercial, industrial, governmental, and other work-oriented organizations;
- set up the conditions for achieving a new level of appreciating and understanding concepts and basic notions of Organizational Psychology.

Project Management in Culturally Diverse Settings 

3 cr., offered on request

Course Objectives: This course is designed to provide students with a greater understanding of the application of modern project management techniques in educational institutions. Special emphasis will be placed on the issues of cultural diversity and their effect on education projects.
Course objectives:
–   teach the scientific principles of PM;
–   demonstrate the application of these principles to problems faced by educational organizations;
–   stimulate students’ understanding of and interest in the field of educational PM.

Social Work 

2 cr., Spring term

Course aim: To form the idea of specific and general principles of social work in the world countries.
Course objectives:
-  compare theoretical and practical approaches to social work in the context of different cultures;
-  analyze the practice of social work arrangement in the context of world tendencies;
-  compare national and international practice of social work. 

Technical Translation

 4 cr., offered on request

Course Aim:  To teach the basic techniques and methods of translation of technical and special literature.
Course Objectives:
–   acquiring of knowledge of translation peculiarities of engineering and special texts;
–   learning lexical and grammatical characteristics of special literature;
–   acquisition of translation skills and experience on the basis of IT recourses;
–   expansion of corresponding vocabulary.
Prerequisite: Information technologies in translation, Information science