Faculty of Philology

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Faculty of Philology

Faculty of Philology

The History of the Philological Faculty

The Philological Faculty is one of the oldest in Tomsk State University. It was founded in 1917 as the Faculty of History and Philology and included three departments: Historical, Philosophical and Philological. In 1974 the Philological Department acquired the status of an independent faculty with several departments, among which there were the Departments of the Russian Language, the Department of General Slavonic-Russian Linguistics and Classical Philology, the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature, the Department of the 20th century Russian Literature History, and the Department of Journalism. The Department of Romance and Germanic Philology was opened in 1994. In 2000, the Faculty established the Department of General Literature Studies that was later renamed as the Department of General Literature Studies, Publishing, and Editing. In 2004, the Department of Journalism became an independent faculty.

Nowadays the Philological Faculty takes part in TSU innovation programme, develops innovation educational techniques and applies the advantages of classical education to modern needs in different spheres of life.

We are proud of our worldly recognized academic staff who ensure a high level of education.

Among us are:

24 Doctors of Science
44 Candidates of Science (Russian analog of Ph.D.)
3 Members of the Russian Academy of Science
12 Laureates of the Russian Federation State Award

The Faculty consists of six Departments, the Regional Methodical Council for Classic Philology, the Center of Antique Culture, the Laboratory of General and Siberian Lexicography Research, the Scientific–Educational Laboratory of Cognitive Technologies in Applied Linguistic.

Here is the Curriculum of our 45.04.01 Russian as a Foreign Language and basic educational program

We also have the Testing Center in Russian for Foreign Citizens.

The Structure of the Philological Faculty

Department of the Russian Language

The Department of the Russian Language is focused on fundamental research and applied knowledge integrated with the educational process. The Department has scientific potential on the highest level. Scientific activity has always been the Department's priority.

The Department successfully develops such new branches of philology as:

Juridical Linguistics
Cultural Linguistics
Cognitive Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Ontolinguistics

The Department professors lecture the extension courses for professors of TSU.

The most popular programmes of the Department are "Linguistics at the turn of the century", " Russian as a foreign language", "The Russian language and the Standards of Speech". The Department organizes some conferences and seminars, including:

"Topical Problems of Russian Philology: Linguistic Aspects of Regional Human Existence" (2003)
The Linguistic Readings in the name of Professor V. Palagina (2003)
“V. Dal and the 20th-century Lexicography” (2001)

The department is headed by Professor Tatyana Demeshkina, Doctor of Philology.

Department of General Slavonic-Russian Linguistics and Classical Philology

Founded in 1974, the Department embodies the best features of a classical university department and continues traditions introduced by Professors E.V. Dil, B.L. Bogaevsky, P.I. Kagan, A.L. Pinchuck and E.F. Molina.

The department is headed by Professor Zoya Rezanova, Doctor of Philology.

The main fields of study:

Cognitive linguistic research (problems of linguistic world-modelling, conceptual metaphor theory, cognitive theory of derivation, and experimental psycholinguistic)
Sociolinguistic and discursive research (scientific, political, media, folklore, and everyday discourses). Perception of text and discourse from the perspective of the recipient. Modeling and manipulative aspects of the discourse
Literary stylistics
Comparative Linguistic
Classical Philology

Department of Russian and Foreign Literature

The Department was opened in 1957 and was long headed by F.Z. Kanunova, Doctor of Philology, the founder of Tomsk School of Zhukovsky Heritage Studies.

The main research directions are:

Russian Literature textology
poetics of Ancient Russian, Classical and Russian Literature
Russian Literature in the socio-cultural context
comparative and translation studies (Russian-English, Russian-German, and Russian-Italian literature contacts).

Department of 20th Century Russian Literature History

The Department was formerly known as the Department of Soviet Literature (1957) and the Department of Theory of Literature and the XX century Russian Literature (1993).

Among the scientific events initiated and organized by the Department were the All-Russian Conference “Philology and Philosophy in Contemporary Cultural Space” and International Internet-Conference “The Problems of Development of the Russian Language Literature and the Destiny of East-Slavonic Cultural Society”.

The department is headed by Professor Vyacheslav Sukhanov, Doctor of Philology.

Department of General Literature Studies, Publishing and Editing

In 2000, the Department of the Theory of Literature and Russian Literature of the 20th century was reorganized to form the Department of General Literature Studies, which later became the Department of General LiteratureStudies, Publishing, and Editing.

The curriculum includes such courses as Theory of Literature, History of Literary Criticism, Introduction toLiterature Studies, Folklore, Theory and Methods of Literature Teaching.

The Department is headed by Professor Irina Ayzikova, Doctor of Philology.

Department of Romance and Germanic Philology

The Department enrolled first students in 1994. The first head of the department was the TSU graduate Associate Professor Natalia Vetsheva who succeeded to integrate the long-standing experience and research potential of the Philological Department with professionalism of Tomsk State Pedagogical University graduates who came to teach foreign languages.

At present the students of the Department major in Professional Communication in Foreign Languages (English, German and French).

The Department is headed by Associate Professor Darya Olitskaya, Ph.D. in Philology.