Faculty of Russian Philology

Duration: 4 years (8 semesters)

Full-time program

This programme is aimed at training teachers of Russian language and literature, who can carry out professional activities in educational institutions of different levels: pre-school, general and professional education. The graduates successfully solve pedagogical, project and cultural-educational professional tasks in the field of education and science.

Main subjects studied:

• Methodological-pedagogical module (methodology of teaching Russian language and literature, pedagogy);
• Linguistic module (modern Russian language and its system);
• Literary studies module (history and theory of literature);
• Culture of speech;
• Slavic mythology;
• Theory and Practice of Speech Communication;
• World Art Culture; National Art Culture; Russian Culture; Latin;
• Language; Theory and Practice of Speech Communication; World Art Culture;
• National Literature; Contemporary Problems of Modern Literature;
• Contemporary Problems of Modern Literature;
• Literary analysis of literary texts;
• Creative Writing and Literary Editing;
• Children’s literature in school and family reading;

Types of professional activity:

Teaching in primary and secondary schools, research work, administrative and office work, assistant to the head of an organisation.

Duration: 4 years (8 semesters)

Full-time program

Graduates are able to work as teachers of Russian language and literature, including — with children whose native language is not Russian, as well as to apply philological knowledge in the system of supplementary education in work with foreigners/migrants of different ages in the process of their linguistic and cultural adaptation, and with Russian-speaking children and adults in cultural-educational activities.

Main subjects studied:

• Methodological-pedagogical module (methodology of teaching Russian language, literature and Russian as a foreign language, pedagogy);
• Linguistics module (modern Russian language and its system);
• Literature module (history and theory of literature);
• Introduction to linguoculturology;
• Latin language;
• Fundamentals of Russian literature;
• Linguistic bases of the description of Russian as a foreign language;
• Foreign language in professional activity;
• Organisation and conduct of cultural and educational events;
• Interpreting in front of a foreign audience;
• Methodical support of work with gifted children;
• Modern technologies of supplementary education.

Types of professional activity:

Work as teachers of Russian language and literature, including — with children whose native language is not Russian, as well as to apply philological knowledge in the system of supplementary education in work with foreigners/migrants of different ages in the process of their linguistic and cultural adaptation, and with Russian-speaking children and adults in cultural-educational activities.

Duration: 4 years (8 semesters)

Full-time program

The programme is aimed at forming knowledge of theory, methodology and history of the Russian language and literature, which are necessary for carrying out professional activity in the sphere of education, science, culture, art, mass communication, editorial-publishing activity.

Main subjects studied:

• Linguistics module (modern Russian language and its system);
• Literary Studies Module (History and Theory of Literature);
• Basics of sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics;
• Art and World Literature;
• Russian art and culture;
• The linguistic personality of authors of various types of texts;
• Contemporary trends in Russian linguistics;
• Stylistics and culture of speech;
• Practical principles of literary editing and proofreading;
• Classical and modern texts of Russian literature and literature of the peoples of Russia’s near abroad;
• Russian literature abroad;
• Contemporary problems of modern Russian literature.

Types of professional activity:

The objects of professional activity of the graduates are languages, literary criticism, literary criticism, oral folk art in their theoretical and practical, socio-cultural and regional aspects.

Duration: 5 years (10 Semesters)

Full-time program

The programme provides graduates in Applied Philology with the necessary skills to work in various fields of communication, advertising, public relations, translation, editing and publishing, and literary editing.

Main subjects studied:

• Linguistic module (modern Russian and its history from a pragmatic point of view);
• Literary studies module (development of Russian and foreign literature, literary theory);
• Cognitive studies in linguistics;
• -Applied psycholinguistics;
• Functional stylistics;.
• Urbanism of the modern city;
• Applied Discursology;
• Principles of philological hermeneutics;
• Principles of literary editing and proofreading;
• Creative Writing;
• Literature and Cinematography;
• Problems of modern neology;
• Functional characteristics of secondary texts.

Types of professional activity:

Graduates will also have the knowledge and skills to work as teachers in educational institutions at different levels, and will be able to successfully carry out both research and applied professional tasks.Main subjects studied:

Duration: 2 years (4 semesters)

Full-time program

This is the only Master’s programme at Kuban State University devoted entirely to the study of fiction in its historical development, genre identity and pragmatic use.

The aim of the programme is to train a master’s student capable of extensive analytical work. All practical exercises are devoted to scientific reading, interpretation of literary texts and their interpretation in different traditions.

The main aim of the programme is to create a personality who has knowledge of the key themes of Russian and foreign literature, who is able to produce oral and written texts that are in demand in various professional fields.

Main subjects studied:

• Poetics of Russian foreign literature;
• Didactics of the fictional text;
• Russian Poetry: History and Modernity;
• Modern Novel: Foreign and Russian;
• Semantic dominants of a work of fiction;
• Folklorism in Russian Literature;
• Religious and philosophical problems of world literature;
• Typology of Realism in Modern Russian Prose;
• The poetics of Western drama.

Duration: 2 years (4 semesters)

Full-time program

The title of the Master’s Degree reflects its pedagogical specificity in the context of modern philology.

The Master’s programme is aimed at Russian literature as a key discipline in the education of schoolchildren and students, at training specialists in teaching Russian as a foreign language, at gaining new opportunities in the international field of philology.

The pedagogical aspect of the programme is closely linked to the managerial aspect: graduates become not only teachers, but also managers of educational structures.

Main subjects studied:

• Modern methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language;
• Current problems of teaching literature in schools and universities;
• Didactics of fictional texts;
• The latest methods of linguistic analysis in the practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language;
• Preparation of students for final exams and intellectual competitions in literature;
• Philology in the system of modern humanitarian knowledge;
• Principles of university teaching of linguistic disciplines.

Types of professional activity:

Research in the field of philology, teaching in higher education institutions, provision of oral and written business communication, including international interaction.

Duration: 2 years (4 semesters)

Full-time program

The programme offers a great opportunity to combine the analytical and pragmatic vectors of modern philology.

The text is a key concept in this educational project and is explored in its various functional aspects: fiction and science, journalism and the Internet, the spoken and the written, the analysed and the constructed, the classical and the marginal.

This programme aims to master two key skills in the field of philology: students learn to understand any text and to produce a text according to certain genre rules.

Students will be able to interact freely with the various entities of textual reality, going beyond proofreading and editing to grasp the philosophy of the text.

Main subjects studied:

• Textual theory as a linguistic discipline;
• Literary text and current issues in comparative cultural studies;
• Proofreading and editing different types of texts;
• Scientific text: semantic and stylistic varieties and modes of production;
• Text as a reflection of the national world view;
• Linguistic personality and its manifestation in written and oral communication;
• Pragmatics and rhetorical presentation of texts;
• Internet discourse: types of network texts.

Fields of research: — Interpretation of linguocultural information of literary texts; — Methodological bases for the improvement of the Russian language teaching system; — Subjective factor: ways of representation at different levels of the linguistic system; — Study of Kuban dialects in three integrative aspects: structural-typological, pragmatic and lexicographic.

Conferences: International conference «Continuity and Discreteness in Language and Speech» (since 2007); All-Russian Scientific Conference «Research Paradigms in Modern Philology» (since 2008); International conference «Current Problems of Modern Philology: Theory, Practice, Prospects of Development» (since 2016); All-Russian conference «Science and Creativity of Young Researchers: Results and Prospects» (since 2016).

Fluency in two foreign languages, in addition with a wide range of linguistic competences, allows the graduates to continue their research activities and open career prospects in secondary and higher education, management and business (intercultural communication manager, translation of expert opinions, political communication strategy development, drafting of public speaking texts, etc.), IT sphere (data architect, Big Data analyst).

Fields of research: — Semiotics of modern discourses; language in intercultural communication; — Cognitive studies in linguistics; — Sociolinguistic/psycholinguistic aspects of linguistics; — Fiction as an object of linguistic analysis; — Lexicography and terminography; — Linguoculturology; — linguoconfessiology.

Conferences: Inter-University conference «Current Problems of Modern Linguistics and Literary Criticism» (2016); International conference «Current Problems of Modern Philology: Theory, Practice, Prospects of Development» (since 2016); All-Russian conference «Science and Creativity of Young Scientists: Results and Prospects» (since 2016).

Since the 1990s, the Department has been actively involved in cultural and educational projects within the framework of the partnership between Krasnodar and Karlsruhe. Contacts with the Krasnodar-Karlsruhe Friendship Society are actively developing. Since 2006, a two-year educational programme «European Business School» has been implemented in cooperation with the Walter Eucken Business School.

In 2013 the Department established the Regional German Education Centre RDAZ, a partner of the Goethe Institute in the field of international certification examinations and German language courses.

Fields of research activity: — Research into the linguistic foundations of the functional-semantic description of Russian as a foreign language and the linguistic-methodological foundations of teaching Russian as a foreign language; — Theoretical and applied issues of linguoculturology, including the regional component; — Analysis of the toponymy of Krasnodar region; — Development of problems of intercultural communication; — Modernisation of testing technologies, including in the practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language; — onomastics; — Language policy.

Conferences: International conference «Russian language and culture — bridges of cooperation» (2016); International conference «Current Problems of Modern Philology: Theory, Practice, Prospects of Development» (since 2016); All-Russian conference «Science and Creativity of Young Researchers: Results and Prospects» (since 2016); International conference «Dialogue of Languages and Cultures: Experiences, Innovations, Prospects» (since 2021); International online conference «Topical Issues of Linguistic and Didactic Testing» (from 2021); International conference «Pushkin’s Holiday of Russia» (2022).

Research interests include

• Text and discourse theory;
• Linguopragmatics;
• Theory of intertextuality;
• Optimisation of the foreign language teaching process;
• Communication theory: intercultural communication, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics;
• Innovative Information Technologies and Linguistic Communication Methods.

As part of the University’s cooperation with foreign universities, students have an opportunity to spend a semester at the University of France — Bordeaux III, named after Michel de Montaigne. Students can also prepare for international examinations in French.

Fields of Research: — Literary works and aesthetic concepts; — Artistic structure of the works of Russian writers; — Comparative and historical studies of literature; — typological commonalities and uniqueness of national manifestations; — Russian classical literature and its leading national-historical ideas; — History and theory of literature of the XX-XXI centuries, its traditions and innovations; — Folklore studies.

Conferences: All-Russia conference «Classical heritage of Russian literature and modernity: concepts, interpretations, experiments of textual analysis» (2011, 2013, 2016); International conference «Current Problems of Modern Philology: Theory, Practice, Prospects for Development» (since 2016); All-Russia conference «Science and Creativity of Young Researchers: Results and Prospects» (since 2016); International conference «Literature and Re-Revolution» (2017); International conference «Jubilee: Questions of History, Poetics and Interpretation of Russian Literature» (2015, 2019); International conference «Dostoevsky in Russian and Foreign Literature (on the 200th Anniversary of the Writer)» (2021).

Science is an integral part of the work of the Department. Our teachers participate in international symposia of young scholars in Byzantine and Neo-Hellenistic studies, conferences of teachers of classical languages and translation theories and practices, seminars and round tables on teaching Greek as a foreign language. The Department organises international conferences on Hellenistic Studies and cooperates closely with leading Greek universities and educational centres (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greek Language Centre (Thessaloniki)), as well as with Moscow State University and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Areas of Research: — The reception of ancient and biblical images and plots in twentieth-century literature; -Mythologism and intertextuality in modern literature; — The influence of religion and philosophy on literature; — Comparative analysis of works of Russian and foreign literature.

Conferences: Inter-university conference «American Literature: Poetics and Didactics» (2015); International conference of research and practice «Hamlet and Don Quixote in Russian and foreign literature» (2016); International conference «Current Problems of Modern Philology: Theory, Practice, Prospects of Development» (since 2016); All-Russian conference «Science and Creativity of Young Researchers: Results and Prospects» (since 2016); International conference «Dostoevsky in Russian and Foreign Literature (on the 200th Anniversary of the Writer)» (2021).

Thematically, the conference covers three main areas:

1. Questions of cognitology, the verbalisation of cognitive models and their relation to the processes of cognition and discourse construction. This area analyses the nature of the cognitive-functional approach in linguistics, the role of the native speaker’s worldview in the search for equivalent translation solutions, the processes of metaphorisation in media discourse.
2. Characteristics of the discursive space of modernity. This area is considered in terms of the diversity of discourse types. The focus is on the variety and diversity of discourse types, their genres and the specificity of the construction of speech acts.
3. Possibilities of constructing new knowledge, e.g. when learning a foreign language, as well as methods of assessing the knowledge formed. The direction of the conference implies the consideration of different approaches that effectively influence the educational process.

Subject: the current state and prospects of development of linguistics.

The head of the research school is Lydia Isaeva, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of Modern Russian Language.

Subject: Modern terminology of linguistics.

The head of the research school is Lyudmila Buyanova, Doctor of Philology, professor, professor of the Department of General and Slavonic-Russian Linguistics.

Subject: Modern terminology of linguistics.

Leader of the research school — Lyudmila Buyanova, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Professor of the Department of General and Slavic-Russian Linguistics.

Subject of the research: linguistic issues of language teaching.

The head of the school is Valery Abramov, Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of Russian as a foreign language.

Subject of the research: religious-philosophical problems of the literary process.

The head of the research school is Alexei Tatarinov, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of Foreign Literature and Comparative Culture Studies Department.

Subject: Poetics of literary works; types and genres.

Head of the School is Evgeniya Zhirkova, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of History of Russian Literature, Theory of Literature and Criticism.

Subject: History of the literature of the peoples of Russia and neighbouring countries.

Head of the Research School — Larisa Golikova, Candidate of Philology, Professor, Professor of History of Russian Literature, Literature Theory and Criticism Department.