Program Overview

Master's Programs in Russian/Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language

The educational program is focused on mastering the skills of teaching Russian as a foreign language, Russian literature, and regional studies of Russia. Foreign students master the Russian language in depth, study the theory of translation, and master the skills of everyday and scientific communication in Russian.

Full Description of the Educational Program

• Degree awarded: Master's degree
• Duration of study: 2 years (full-time education)
• Language of instruction: Russian
• International students preferably have a level of Russian B2 (TRKI-TORFL-2)

Students study Russian philology in its various aspects, methodology, and practice of independent research activities in the field of linguistics and linguodidactics. They acquire linguodidactic knowledge, skills, and practical experience necessary for teaching Russian to foreign students and students. Graduates of this program work both in Russia and abroad - in language centers, schools, and universities, travel companies, diplomatic and trade missions.

Advantages of the Program

The Russian language department for foreign students is the only one in this specialization in the Ural-Siberian region. The program has a number of advantages:

• Comprehensive development of methodological skills for teaching Russian as a foreign language
• Improving the skills of practical Russian language proficiency
• Possibility to choose the studied disciplines
• Real intercultural communication in mixed groups with foreign students and continuous pedagogical practice

Curriculum

• Actual problems of studying the Russian language system
• Business communication
• Business foreign language
• Foreign language
• Information Technology
• Communicative competence and its components
• Communication technologies
• Mass communication
• Intercultural communication
• Methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language
• Methodology of linguistic research
• Scientific communication
• Research work
• Scientific linguistic seminars
• Problems of studying text and discourse
• Problems of studying the functioning of the Russian language in various areas of communication
• Professional and personal self-development
• Speech as a means of influence
• The specifics of learning Russian as a foreign language
• Philology in the system of modern humanitarian knowledge

Opportunities after Graduation

The professional activity of graduates is connected with:

• Teaching Russian as a foreign language in the system of higher, secondary, and additional education in Russia and abroad
• Development of modern methods and innovative technologies
• Cultural and speech adaptation of foreigners in the language environment
• Work in the State Testing Centers for TORFL-TORFL
• Research work in the field of comparative linguistics and linguoculturology
• Educational, expert, and advisory activities in the field of intercultural communication and migration policy
• Project and translation activities in the field of culture, management, and media

Internship

As part of the bilateral agreements concluded, students from UrFU partner universities located in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and other countries study at our department. The curriculum includes the following disciplines: practical grammar, speaking practice, listening comprehension, practical phonetics, reading, writing. For students of higher levels, classes are also held, the purpose of which is to expand their understanding of Russian culture: linguoculturology and precedent texts of Russian culture.

Price

• For citizens of the Russian Federation and neighboring countries: 150,300 RUB
• For citizens of distant foreign countries: 195,000 RUB

Head of the Program

Spiridonov Dmitry Vladimirovich, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor