About the department

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT

Since 2022, the department is headed by  Professor, Doctor of Science Tetyana Sergeyeva. The activity of the department, first of all, is based on a systematic approach to the implementation of the tasks of reforming Ukrainian education in general and the university in particular.

The reforms of Ukraine, the purpose of which is integration into the European educational space, have defined the role of the Cross-Cultural Communication and Foreign Languages Department, which should ensure the communicative competence of modern specialists, scientists and public figures. Therefore, the department is open to new, actively uses the experience of interdisciplinary relations and international cooperation, seeks to develop not only in the pace of society, but also in advance, in order to influence the development of students as agents of positive change.

Scientific and pedagogical staff of the department

22 lecturers
1 professor, doctor of sciences: Tetyana Sergeeva
1 professor, PhD: Oleksandr Tomilin
7 PhDs :

Olena Zemliakova, Iryna Kompaniiets, Victorya Larchenko,

Natalya Turlakova, Larysa Pavlova, Tetiana Poliakova,

Liudmyla Salionovych, Kateryna Khyzniak, Olga Chernenko

History of the department

The Cross-Cultural Communication and Foreign Languages Department was established in 2004. In 2009 it became part of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Economics, Management and International Business as a general department for teaching students foreign languages. The staff of the department successfully prepares students to participate in competitions, contests and scientific conferences.

In the period from 2004 to 2022, the department defended 7 candidate theses for obtaining the scientific degree of candidate of philological and sociological sciences, and also published 2 collective monographs, 7 educational and methodological manuals, 60 scientific articles in specialized Ukrainian and foreign publishing houses.

The complex scientific topic of the department is the topic “Modern social communications”. Within the framework of this topic, scientific research is carried out in the following directions:

  • scientific, professional and intercultural communication;
  • modern methods of teaching a professionally oriented foreign language;
  • peculiarities of teaching communicative cycle disciplines;
  • Distance Learning;
  • Internet communications.

The department pays special attention to the study of problems of electronic professional communication (in particular, on the Internet), as well as features of distance and mixed learning through social media.

International cooperation

The department created a network of international partnerships, which involved more than 20 foreign universities, organizations and professional foundations, mainly in the framework of joint development and implementation of international projects under the schemes of the TEMPUS, ERASMUS MUNDUS, ERASMUS+, HORIZON programs. Building and maintaining a network is painstaking work that takes time and cannot happen immediately. To form stable and effective relationships, it is necessary to earn trust, and it appears with direct contact in joint activities. As a result, the international reputation of the project team is formed. The department is an effective and efficient leader of this strategy, which gives hope that the team carrying out international activities meets the challenges of modern education at the international level and is able to successfully develop and manage an international project.

Disciplines taught by the department for majors:

“Foreign Language”

017 Physical culture and sports

051 Economy

054 Sociology

071 Accounting and taxation

072 Finance, banking and insurance

073 Management

075 Marketing

076 Entrepreneurship, trade and exchange activity

101 Ecology

105 Applied physics and nanomaterials

113 Applied Mathematics

121 Software engineering

122 Computer science

123 Computer engineering

131 Applied mechanics

133 Industrial engineering

141 Power engineering, electrical engineering and electromechanics

142 Energy engineering

144 Thermal power

145 Hydropower

151 Automation and computer-integrated technologies

152 Metrology and information and measurement technology

153 Micro- and nanosystem technology

161 Chemical technologies and engineering

171 Electronics

172 Telecommunications and radio engineering

241 Hotel and restaurant business

242 Tourism

263 Civil security

273 Railway transport

281 Public administration

292 International economic relations

“Second foreign language”

073 Management

293 International Economic Relations

 

“Theory and practice of translation”

292 International Economic Relations

 

“Foreign language in the specialty” (master’s programs)

122 Computer Science

123 Computer Engineering

 

“Foreign language for communication in the scientific and professional environment”

PhD applicants