Department of World Literature and Foreign Languages

Bachelor’s Degree Programmes

• 6-05-0231-03 Language Support of Intercultural Communication
• 6-05-0232-04 Romance and Germanic philology
• 6-05-0231-01 Modern Foreign Languages (Russian, English) for foreign students

Master’s Degree Programmes

• 7-06-0232-02 Literature Studies
• 1-08 80 02 Theory and Methods of Education and Upbringing (Specialization: Foreign Languages)
• 1-08 80 02 Theory and Methods of Education and Upbringing (Specialization: Russian as a foreign language)

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
• Teaching Russian as a foreign language

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"

• DAAD: German Academic Exchange Service
• The Goethe-Institute in Minsk
• Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Belarus
• Embassy of the United States of America in Belarus
• Embassy of Sweden in Belarus
• Centre for International Studies
• Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Institute of Art and Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Memsource Company (Czech Republic)
• Center of Open Education in the Russian Language of Tula State Pedagogical University named after Lev Tolstoy (Russia)

Partnership with universities and higher schools

• University College of Teacher Education - Carinthia (Klagenfurt, Austria)
• D'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy)
• Stockholm University (Sweden)
• SRH University Heidelberg (Germany)
• Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA, USA)
• University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, USA)
• Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University named after N.A. Dobrolyubov (Russia)
• Termez State University (Uzbekistan)
• Daugavpils University (Latvia)

International projects

• Journalistic competition "Polotsk writes for Friedrichshafen" (together with the interregional newspaper of Baden-Württemberg "Sud-Courier", DAAD and the public association "Circle of Friends of Polotsk")
• Educational and methodological project "Early learning of the German language" (with the Goethe-Institute in Minsk)
• German Weeks at PSU (with DAAD and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Belarus)
• Educational project "German Language Teaching" (with D'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara)
• Joint project for the study of Swedish and Russian (with Stockholm University)
• Country studies project "Getting to know our world" (with scientists, graduate students and journalists from Africa, Asia, South America, North America and Europe)
• Cultural and educational project "NOVA - a look at us" (with Northern Virginia Community College)