Career guidance event “Country Studies”

On April 5, the department held an online career guidance event.

It was an incredibly interesting event🔥 based at the Department of Business Foreign Languages and Translation of the National Technical University “KhPI” – a meeting between first-year students majoring in ‘Translation’ and prospective applicants as part of a class on the subject “Country Studies”

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From this event, applicants were able to gain:

– a priceless opportunity to communicate directly with first-year students and ask questions about studying our specialty that interest you;

– a unique opportunity to ask questions to the founder of our department and a translator with many years of experience, Prof. Badan A.A., and the departmental curator of the Kharkiv-Oxford project, Prof. Akopyan N.M.;

– see with their own eyes how classes are held in our specialty and become part of this process;

– learn a lot of fascinating local history information about Great Britain in an interesting way with elements of gamification and visualization;

– have a great time in the friendly atmosphere of a community of like-minded people who are passionate about English-speaking culture;

– play Kahoot “How much do you know about Great Britain?”, win and receive a prize.

The event lasted approximately 60 minutes and took place on the Microsoft Teams platform.

After the event, the department received several positive reviews:

“A very cool event! As a future applicant, I was interested to see how the class was conducted and to play Kahoot! I will attend such events in the future.”

Sincerely, Viktoria Oleksandrivna Ilnytska, student of Shakhtar Lyceum No. 5, class 11, Dnipropetrovsk region

“This was the first adult event about education that I attended. At first, I was worried that it would be difficult and uninteresting. But in fact, everything was clear and easy to understand. I especially liked the students’ presentations and the Kahoot game.”

Anastasia Voronko, student of class 7A, Kharkiv Lyceum No. 109