Rhetoric and speech standards penetrate all spheres of our life. Language is a form of thinking and a communication medium. Professional careers depend on the culture of communication to a great extent. Good relations with your colleagues are absolutely crucial to your productivity. Rhetoric plays an important part in shaping your personality and greatly contributes to forming successful relations with other people. This course is designed to foster a comprehensive understanding of the principles behind various types of public speaking; to give students an idea of the basic rules of an effective public statement. Through this course you will develop the skills required to create texts of major rhetorical genres (information public speaking; ceremonial public speaking; entertaining public speaking; convincing public speaking).

Lecturer – Nadezhda Akovantseva, PhD, General Linguistics and Stylistics Department, Faculty of Philology

In this course, we’ll come together to help you learn the fundamentals of effective business communication in Russian. The study of Business Communication promotes the comprehension of soft-skills within commerce. We’ll focus on writing, speaking, and interpersonal communication. Class work is based on a systematic approach to designing messages, both written and oral, from concept to delivery for targeted business communication situations. This course concentrates on contextualized critical communications skills, particularly those needed for intelligent, face-to-face interactions, for effective tactics to achieve cooperation and gain consensus. You will use a strategic communication model to identify objectives, analyze audiences, choose information, and create the most effective arrangement for your message. There is strong emphasis on various strategies used in negotiating.

Lecturer – Maria Salomatina, PhD, General Linguistics and Stylistics Department, Faculty of Philology

The course covers such issues as the geography, political system, mass media, education and history, of the UK and the US.

Lecturers:
      Yaroslav Yeremeyev, PhD, Senior Lecturer;
      Olga Ivashenko, PhD, Senior Lecturer;
      Natalya Sharova, PhD, Senior Lecturer.

The course covers such issues as the geography, political system, mass media, education and history of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

Lecturer – Yaroslav Yeremeyev, PhD, Senior Lecturer

The course offers a review of the English speaking countries, such as the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand according to the following plan: Geography, Symbols, and History. Students are also offered individual and group projects.

Lecturers:
      Yaroslav Yeremeyev, PhD, Senior Lecturer;
      Natalya Sharova, PhD, Senior Lecturer.

This course is designed to help EFL students to develop the skills of effective computer-mediated communication (mediated by the internet and mobile technologies) in a business environment.

Lecturer – Ekaterina Pletneva, PhD, Senior Lecturer

The course is designed to help students to develop the skills of effective PowerPoint presentation in English.

Lecturer – Andrey Bystrykh, PhD, Senior Lecturer

This course focuses on the acquisition of business related vocabulary, including collocations, and incorporation of new lexical items into written texts.

Lecturer – Ekaterina Pletneva, PhD, Senior Lecturer

This course focuses on oral business communication skills needed in various situations. Students explore a wide range of verbal content, functions and forms and participate in listening and speaking activities, including role play, discussions, formal and informal speeches, group discussions, and presentations.

Lecturers:
      Ekaterina Pletneva, PhD, Senior Lecturer;
      Dmitry Zhuchkov, PhD.

The course provides practical knowledge of the economies, politics and social structure of the English speaking countries, their relations with each other and with the rest of the world. It explores timely national and international issues, focusing on UK and USA current problems.

Lecturers:
      Lyubov Tsurikova, PhD, Dr.phil.habil. in Linguistics;
      Andrey Bystrykh, PhD, Senior Lecturer.

This course examines the relationship between language and society. It is intended as a general survey of basic topics in sociolinguistics and sociolinguistic research methods. It covers topics such as language variation and change, code switch, language attitudes, politeness, multilingualism, and explores the influence of social factors such as social class, networks, or gender on the way we speak.

Lecturer – Lyubov Tsurikova, PhD, Dr.phil.habil. in Linguistics

The course explores the place of language in social, institutional, and cultural contexts, especially the pragmatic sources of language breakdowns and misencounters in cross-cultural communication by identifying and describing major factors in discourse events.

Lecturer – Lyubov Tsurikova, PhD, Dr.phil.habil. in Linguistics

This innovative course focuses on developing the ability to comprehend and process authentic English language audio-visual media discourse (TV), as well as on enhancing critical thinking and discussion skills.

Lecturers:
      Lyubov Tsurikova, PhD, Dr.phil.habil. in Linguistics;
      Andrey Bystrykh, PhD, Senior Lecturer.

This course provides in-depth training in intercultural business communication, drawing on the latest developments in international management training.

Lecturers:
      Lyubov Tsurikova, PhD, Dr.phil.habil. in Linguistics;
      Andrey Bystrykh, PhD, Senior Lecturer.

This course is designed to help EFL students to develop the skills of effective computer-mediated communication (mediated by the internet and mobile technologies) in a business environment, focusing on intercultural communication strategies.

Lecturer – Ekaterina Pletneva, PhD, Senior Lecturer

The course aims to develop skills of textual analysis and the understanding that texts, both literary and non-literary, can relate to culturally determined reading practices. An understanding of the ways in which formal elements are used to create meaning in a text is combined with an exploration of how that meaning is affected by reading practices and by the circumstances of text production and reception.

Lecturers:
      Yaroslav Yeremeyev, PhD, Senior Lecturer;
      Natalya Sharova, PhD, Senior Lecturer

Theoretical phonetics is an exam course designed to introduce students to the fundamental principles of British English phonetics and phonological system as they relate to the teaching of English as a foreign language. More specifically, the course covers the main terminology issues on the segmental and suprasegmental levels and provides students with a theoretical basis upon which to make practical decisions about pronunciation and spelling issues in English as a foreign language contexts.

Lecturers:
      Nelly Kostenko, PhD, Senior Lecturer;
      Ekaterina Pletneva, PhD, Senior Lecturer.

Lexicology is an exam course designed to introduce students to the study of the formation, meaning and use of words and of idiomatic combinations of words. It explores semantics, derivation, usage and other issues, involved in analyzing the whole lexicon of the English language.

Lecturers:
      Olga Ivashenko, PhD, Senior Lecturer;
      Ludmila Laenko, PhD, Dr.phil.habil. in Linguistics

The course in Theoretical Grammar introduces the students to the problems of up-to-date grammatical study of English morphology and syntax. It aims to improve their linguistic competence by applying modern analytical techniques to various grammatical phenomena and studying the relations between the paradigmatic and syntagmatic elements of the language system.

Lecturers:
      Natalya Ovchinnikova, PhD, Senior Lecturer;
      Ekaterina Selezneva, PhD.

The course in the History of English enhances the students’ understanding of the ways the English language has developed since the earliest times and enables learners to account for the specific features and inconsistencies of Modern English. This is achieved through analyzing theoretical aspects of language evolution as well as doing varied practical tasks (the study of Old English texts and etymology of words).

Lecturers:
      Nina Ulyanova, PhD, Senior Lecturer;
      Natalya Ovchinnikova, PhD, Senior Lecturer

A course of Stylistics deals with: a) Linguo-stylistics or a taxonomy of expressive means and stylistic devices for all the levels of English; b) Functional Stylistics analyzing official, publicist, academic, colloquial and Belles-Lettres varieties.

Lecturer – Natalya Sharova, PhD, Senior Lecturer

General linguistics is an exam course designed to introduce students to the study of the universal properties of language as they manifest themselves in the language system, the language capacity of individual language users, the use of language in varying social circumstances, and the application of linguistic knowledge in technological environments.

Lecturer – Prof. Lyubov Tsurikova, PhD, Dr.phil.habil. in Linguistics

This course provides in-depth training in intercultural communication, drawing on the latest developments in linguistic and social training. The aims of the course are to develop: knowledge of the theoretical approaches to intercultural communication; skills of critical analysis of the theoretical approaches to intercultural communication; social competence of orientation within multicultural realm.

Lecturer – Lyubov Tsurikova, PhD, Dr.phil.habil. in Linguistics

The course is aimed at providing an introduction to the typological study of human languages. Formal and functional approaches to the description of language universals research are contrasted and various typological classifications of languages (phonological, morphological and syntactic) are discussed in detail. The course gives a broad overview of current issues within the field. On the basis of their own work and that of others in the course, students will learn to evaluate what is unusual and what is expected in a language. The course will enable the students to develop analytical skills in gathering and evaluating information regarding language universals and linguistic diversity.

Lecturer – Ksenia M. Shilikhina, Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology

The course aims to provide a general introduction to corpus based language research. The course is divided in two parts: the first part is a discussion of methods of analysis to explore linguistic variation (concordances, collocations, frequency lists, keyness). Students are exposed to a range of existing national and specialized corpora. The lectures are followed by practical tasks designed to help students to use existing corpora and the corpus software. The topics cover basic corpus research techniques, using corpus data for solving practical linguistic tasks, e.g. compiling dictionaries, and for studying contemporary social issues, language teaching and discourse analysis. The second part of the course is focused on compiling corpora: principles of compiling corpora for various research purposes and various annotation techniques are discussed in detail.

Lecturer – Ksenia M. Shilikhina, Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology

The course introduces students to basic concepts and methods as well as various areas of application of linguistic data to automatic processing of natural languages. Another aim of the course is to familiarize students with various computational linguistic tools and resources. The topics covered are computer lexicography, machine translation, artificial intelligence, algorithms for corpus analysis and techniques of text annotation, and markup languages.

The course provides students with sufficient background that they be able to employ these concepts and methods in their other studies, and to prepare students for further study in computational linguistics. No previous knowledge of computing nor experience with its linguistic applications is required.

Lecturer – Ksenia M. Shilikhina, Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology

The purpose of this course is to develop professional skills and techniques required to be successful in advertising and PR-practice such as: analysing information, making visuals, creating AD and PR-product. Moreover, the course develops decision-making skills, interpersonal skills, and taking responsibility for the results. The aspects explored are the history of PR and Advertising; Advertising and PR Professions; PR and AD genres that are shown through the concepts of Russian & foreign researchers.

Lecturer – Кurganova Ekaterina, Faculty of Journalism, senior lecturer in PR, Ph.D. in Philology

The main purpose of the subject is to introduce the basic concepts of media information representation to the audience. The laws of psychology of perceiving audio- and video information, the barriers of reproduction, and the problems of manipulation are analyzed. The greatest attention is dedicated to the rules of creating an effective public statement in different types of media.

Lecturer – Alla Mikhailovna Shesterina, Faculty of Journalism

Learning course "Contemporary Foreign Mass Media" is dedicated to the principal topics of western and eastern media sector at the beginning of the 21st century. We study monopolisation, financialisation, commercialisation, demassification and other principal tendencies of mass media development outside Russia. We focus special attention on Systems of foreign TV, radio, press and Internet. We also learn media systems of leading western countries and those of Asia, Latin America and Africa.

Lecturer – Maria Igorevna Pivovarova, Faculty of Journalism

The aim of this course is to understand how better internal communication engages employees.  The energy and the enthusiasm of their employees needs to point in the required direction. Theoretical and empirical tactics are discussed with special focus on leadership theory, organizational behaviour, PR- practice and company culture. The case-study course shows how organizations need better communication to deliver results and how the management and practice of internal communication needs to be improved in order to meet business needs.

Lecturer – Iveta Albertovna Shchekina, Faculty of Journalism

Learning course "Contemporary Foreign Mass Media" is dedicated to the principal topics of western and eastern media sectors at the beginning of the 21st century. We study monopolisation, financialisation, commercialisation, demassification and other principal tendencies of mass media development outside Russia. We focus special attention on Systems of foreign TV, radio, press and Internet. We also learn media systems of leading western countries and those of Asia, Latin America and Africa.

Lecturer – Vladimir Igorevich Sapunov, Faculty of Journalism

The first part of the course provides an overview of the First Part of the Russian Tax Code. We will examine how to fulfill an obligation to pay taxes, analyze principles of tax control and liability for tax offenses, as well as discuss major concepts of Russian tax law.

The second part of the course is designed to foster a comprehensive understanding of rules regulating calculation and payment of federal, regional and local taxes. Special emphasis is placed on special tax regimes in the Russian Federation.

Lecturer – Alexey G. Paul, PhD, senior lecturer of Financial Law Department

This course provides an excellent opportunity to explore the World Trade Organization as an international intergovernmental entity, to consider its legal system, and problems in its functioning and development. Students will become familiar with the structure of the World Trade Organization, and provisions of international treaties that form its legal system. Much attention is paid to the mechanism of resolution of disputes between member-states within WTO.

Lecturer – D. Galushko, PhD, Associate Professor

Students will become familiar with the provisions of existing international instruments and, above all, international treaties of the Russian Federation in the sphere of civil process. Much attention is paid to the mechanism of realization (implementation) of international law on the national level.

Lecturer – P. Biriukov, Professor

Students will become familiar with the provisions of existing international instruments and, above all, international treaties of the Russian Federation in the field of transport.

Consignors, carriers, consignees in international traffic must be guided in their activities by the provisions of International law.

Lecturer – P. Biriukov, Professor

The past few decades have seen enormous growth in international tourism, increasing the importance and prominence of international and national legal regulation of the sphere. This area of law provides a basis for future specialists in tourism. The increasing relevance of this course makes it an excellent choice for those seeking opportunities in the commercial world.

Lecturer – D. Galushko, PhD, Associate Professor

This discipline introduces students to the issues of international law as an independent legal system. Its aim is to develop the scientific understanding of the main categories and institutions of international law. In modern conditions of globalization and regional integration this discipline is of the highest topicality for students.

Lecturer – P. Biriukov, Professor

The main aims of the course is to explore the major stages of the European integration, to explore the European Union as a very special entity, to characterize the European institutions and their interaction with Member States, to study EU legal system as a part of international law, to consider the major branches and institutions of EU law. This course is of special value as it highlights the fact that the European Union is an example of the most advanced regional integration in the world.

Lecturer – D. Galushko, PhD, Associate Professor

The purpose of the discipline is to develop students` knowledge about legal principles and mechanisms of the organization and functioning of banking institutions on domestic and international levels, the purpose and methods of legal regulation of banking activities at all levels and in all parts of the banking system. Students will become familiar with the provisions of existing international instruments in the banking sector, as well as legislation of leading foreign states.

Lecturer – D. Galushko, PhD, Associate Professor

The purpose of the course is to develop in students the necessary knowledge about forms, procedures, methods and conditions of organization of foreign economic activities of business in foreign countries. Students will become familiar with the provisions of existing international instruments, as well as the legislation of foreign states in this sphere. Much attention is paid to the mechanism of implementation of international and European law in the field of foreign trade at the domestic level.

Lecturer – D. Galushko, PhD, Associate Professor

This course covers the fundamental aspects of intellectual property: copyright and related rights, trademarks, patents, geographical indications, and industrial designs. It also covers contemporary issues impacting the intellectual property field such as: new plant varieties, unfair competition, enforcement of intellectual property rights and emerging issues, international and domestic legal regulation of this sphere.

Lecturer – P. Biriukov, Professor

The main objective of the course is to develop students` knowledge of current trading and commercial law of highly developed and other countries, main parts and institutions, its trends, and directions of further development. This discipline is ideally suited to those students wishing to specialize in the international dimension of commercial law.

Lecturer – D. Galushko, PhD, Associate Professor

This course is designed to help students obtain in-depth understanding of organizations through good comprehension of central theoretical perspectives and paradigms. The course will focus on determinants of an organization's success, focusing particularly on structure and design issues, as well as external environmental factors that impact organizational structure and functioning. A systems theory approach will be taken, making links to the strategic management, power and control literatures, as well as different forms of organizing ("rational" to "natural" organizing). Finally, the effect of macro-level factors on individual decisions and behaviors, and thus organizational effectiveness, will be examined from a multiple levels-of-analysis perspective.

Lecturer – Vladislav Kuznetsov, a lecturer of the Faculty of Economics

Managerial Economics is aimed at applying economic analysis to decision-making techniques of business. Through this course you will gain knowledge about how to increase a company’s profitability by applying microeconomic analysis to a wide array of business problems. The course focuses on: demand & supply analysis, firm and individual behavior prediction, costs, pricing strategies, profit maximization by firms, market structures, and managerial decision in different competitive settings.

Lecturer – Irina Yu. Liashenko, PhD in Economics, Associate Professor / Faculty of Economics, Department of Economic Theory and World Economics

This course provides students with an introduction to the fundamental concepts, principles and models of macroeconomic theory and policy. This course begins with a brief history of macroeconomic thought and national income accounting. The main part focuses on basic models such as Circular Flow model, AD-AS, Income-Expenditure, IS-LM models, Phillips curve. The last part of this course includes models of an open economy (Mundell-Fleming model) and economic growth (Harrod-Domar and Solow models). These models explain the workings of goods and financial markets and determinants of aggregate output and aggregate income, inflation, unemployment, budget deficit, interest rate and exchange rate. Special attention should be paid to the role of fiscal and monetary policies of economic development.

Lecturer – Oleg Maslennikov / Faculty of Economics

(including basics of business risks, main characteristics and measurements, organization and methods of financial risk management, exchange risks, interest risks, insolvency risks descriptions, efficiency investment and financial decisions, overall liquidity risk assessment, cash flow discounting, influence of cost and price variances on the break-even point, risk finance planning, budgeting, other risks and opportunities factors)

Lecturer – Irina Polukhina, PhD in Economics / Faculty of Economics

Keywords: research, research methods, research programme, management, cybernetics, organizations, system, system analysis, development, effectiveness of research and management.

Course description: Life is developing at a very fast pace nowadays. Organizations have to constantly analyze market situations, thinking about improving effectiveness of their work. This course explains the importance of research work today; it also provides the students with special knowledge, skills and competences on how to organize research and how to create a research programme using different analytic methods. The key ideas of this course also include comparing different research methods and learning how to calculate effectiveness of research and management.

Lecturer – Maria Solosina / Faculty of Economics

The course provides students with knowledge of the key economic, political, and social dynamics in emerging markets. Students are at liberty to choose any emerging market and a theme for their projects. The course adopts an interdisciplinary framework to focus on institutions, how they have changed, how they contribute to economic growth and development, and how they continue to act as barriers to change.

Lecturer – Kanapukhin P.A., Prof., Doctor in Economics

This course begins by exploring and defining the notion of culture in its many forms. Students will understand the global leadership competencies necessary to manage cultural differences. Students will apply the theories learned by analyzing managerial processes of major emerging economies in the Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Russia, China and India.

Lecturer – Spiridonova N.B.

Supply Chain Management, Global sourcing strategy in an unstable world economy, Outsourcing, Intrafirm sourcing, Trends in global sourcing strategy, Potential pitfalls in global sourcing, Long-term consequences (dependence, loss of skills).

Lecturer – Dolgova M.V., PhD, Associate Professor

This course aims at providing information on responsible business activities in Emerging Markets. The course focuses on selected case studies.

Lecturer – Tsaturian A.G.

Selling and Sales Management, Key Account Management, Market Penetration and Acquisition Strategies for Emerging Economies.

Lecturer – Tsaturian A.G.

In this course, key factors of public and private enforcement of corporate governance in emerging markets are discussed and analyzed. Transparency, shareholder rights and integrity of both private stakeholders and public institutions and reliability of information and efficiency of law enforcement are crucial issues of this course.

Lecturer – Foret I.V., PhD, Associate Professor

The course aims to: develop a critical understanding of international business and emerging markets: develop practical applications for business decision-making including the collection, analysis and interpretation of information from a wide variety of sources. It will also develop a critical understanding of international business strategy in its different economic, political and social environments.

Lecturer – Kirchanov M.V., Doctor in History

(Focus on Emerging Markets)

1. Financial markets in E.M.
2. Country risk analysis
3. FX risk and hedging
4. Project finance.

Lecturer – PhD Komov I.V.

1. M&A and FDI
2. M&A Valuation
3. M&A Process.

Lecturer – Tsaturian A.G.

History of Russia from ancient times till the year 2013.

Lecturer – Kirchanov M.V., Doctor in History

This lecture discusses legal aspects of international business in Emerging Markets (such as ICSID arbitration, CISG) and institutional aspects of the legal systems of Emerging Markets.

Lecturer – Foret I.V., PhD, Associate Professor

This course will convey practical skills in conflict management and negotiations focused on Emerging Markets on the students. Cultural aspects, such as high context or power distance, will be discussed to enable the students to develop their skills in effective methods of international communication and negotiation.

Lecturer – Foret I.V., PhD, Associate Professor

International Teams (Leadership, Trust, Conflicts) – Communication (Stakeholders, Communication Strategy and Techniques, Creativity) – Organizations (Project Structure, Project and Program offices, HR, Support, Networks) – Collaborative Tools (Implementation and Adoption of Audio and Video conferencing) – International Project Management Experiences (cases).

Lecturer – Dolgova M.V., PhD, Associate Professor

This course will include steps that lead to strategy, how to translate strategy into tactical plans that drive day-to-day actions, how to measure performance of the strategy as well as the tactics, and how to decide the corrective action that should be taken when things go wrong. Core topics of this course include the question what is strategy and why do we need it, how the best of the best do it, how to design effective strategies, how to get from strategy to implementation, and what are the most commonly used strategic management tools.

Lecturer – Dolgova M.V, PhD, Associate Professor

The course makes students familiar with quantitative and qualitative marketing research on an advanced level. Students learn to apply SPSS. In an applied project, students immediately apply these abilities.

Lecturer – Shilova I.V.

The course’s primary goal is to provide students with the knowledge and tools needed to develop a scientific research project. Students will learn about relevant issues in research methodology (e.g., designing research questions and hypotheses, selecting an appropriate research design), topic selection (e.g., what constitutes a good topic; finding a topic), philosophy of science (e.g., what counts as “science”, criticisms to the scientific method) and academic research writing (e.g., writing in English, referencing issues).

Lecturer – Nemirovskaya O.L.

Power Distance, Expatriates, Personal Development, Empowerment, and Remuneration.

Lecturer – Yakushkina E.I., PhD, Associate Professor

The aim of the subject is to introduce the basic concepts of eco-management in tourism. The subject provides the starting-points on the environmental management concepts. The applications of ecological management concepts in the companies operating in the tourism industry are discussed.  Most of the attention is dedicated to the ecological management issues from the viewpoint of the companies operating in the tourism industry. (18–36 lecture hours + 18–36 hours of seminars and in class case studies + 70–140 hours of independent work by students).

Lecturer – Irina Shapovalova, European Master in Tourism Management

The main purpose of the subject is to provide the students with several models of local tourism management both from the public and private sector points of view. The subject will also review the most common resources and tools employed for the development and management of tourism destinations and businesses. (34–72 lecture hours + 18 36 hours of seminars and in class case studies + 70–140 hours of independent work by students) Irina Shapovalova, European Master in Tourism Management.

The course provides students with knowledge of psychological ethnoses features, their development and functioning. Students will have the systematized representations about the main areas of research and application of ethnopsychological knowledge. The course will acquaint students with the most widespread methods and techniques of ethnopsychological research. This course aims at development of ethnocultural competence and ethnic tolerance of students.

Lecturer – Grivtsova Y.G., Philosophy and Psychology Faculty

The course draws on cultural and social theories to understand the culture in global and intercultural aspects.

Lecturer – Yakushkina E.I., PhD, Associate Professor

The course provides students with knowledge of history, customs and traditions in Russian culture. It helps in the understanding of Russian arts, lifestyle, folklore, ethnic traditions, and food.

Lecturer – Yakushkina E.I., PhD, Associate Professor

This course aims at providing methods of examining modern society (politics, economics, law, culture, family, arts) with a gender perspective. The emphasis is on the gender situation in Russian society.

Lecturer – Yakushkina E.I., PhD, Associate Professor

The course aims to understand and to study intercultural relations and communication. It is a field of study that looks at how people from different cultural backgrounds communicate, do business together, solve intercultural problems.

Lecturer – Yakushkina E.I., PhD, Associate Professor

This course is a comparative study of culture and human society; it provides understanding of humankind in all its diversity. This understanding is reached through the study of societies and cultures and the exploration of the general principles of social and cultural life.

Lecturer – Yakushkina E.I., PhD, Associate Professor

The course is designed to introduce the students to the problem of scientific rationality in its interconnection with philosophy and common cultural process.

The course includes the following structural parts:

• concerning the entity and specific of the science;
• historical reconstruction of the evolution of scientific thought through the development of human culture;
• explication of the main forms and methods of scientific research;
• concerning the models of genesis and development of the science.

Lecturer – Denis Obydenny, PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor

The course provides students with knowledge of phenomenological and existential thought in France.

Students will learn about Levinas's metaphysics, Sartre's existentialism and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception.

Lecturer – Maxim Litvinov, PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor

This course provides in-depth training in philosophy of humanities. It covers topics such as genesis of humanities, basic paradigms of humanitarian studies, problem of truth and method in humanities, relationship between ideology and humanities, and explores the influence of philosophical concepts on the development of humanities.

The aims of the course are to develop:

• knowledge of the philosophical approaches to humanities;
• skills of critical analysis of the philosophical problems of humanities;
• competence of orientation in contemporary studies in humanities.

Lecturer – Elena N. Ishchenko, PhD, Dr. phil. habil. in Philosophy

The course gives a broad overview of the major trends and schools in the development of Ancient Greek Philosophy. A particular emphasis is placed on the continuity of ancient philosophical schools as well as the Roman contribution to the intellectual legacy of the Greco-Roman world.

Lecturer – Tzurcan A.A., PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor

The main idea of this course is to place religion in the context of contemporary culture and philosophy. Religion is viewed from its mythological, social and symbolical roots. This course highlights the interaction between different structural components of religion such as representation of Absolute, religious anthropology and theories of consciousness.

Lecturer – Stefan Pravoslawsky

This course is an introduction to Russian philosophy studies. A broad area of historical and philosophical problems related to Russian thinking tradition is analyzed in order to represent the inner structure of the social and cultural field of Russian philosophy.

The course focuses on:

• Russian Orthodox Christianity and its role in the development of Russian philosophy;
• Natural philosophy and metaphysics in the works of Russian philosophers of the XIX century;
• Russian religious and secular thought in the XX century.

Lecturer – Stefan Pravoslawsky

The course traces interpretations of sociability by different Russian Christian thinkers from ‘sobornost’ by A. Khomyakov to ‘communitarnost’ by N. Berdyaev as well as by famous writers (N. Leskov and L. Tolstoi). The course goal is to identify attitudes toward civic society cultivated by philosophers and other thinkers. This identification is to help to understand specifics of the traditional and contemporary Russian sociable features and the state of civic society. 

Lecturer – Vera Gushchina, PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor

The course deals with the «Arts and Crafts Movement’s » ideas and practices, which had enormous impact on European culture, especially on the development of the design industry. Particularly they transformed book and wall-paper, furniture, and window glasses, interior and home design, as well as gardening and park culture. Its two most influential figures were John Ruskin and William Morris who initiated struggle for natural and cultural preservation. Their aesthetic, social, and ecological ideas have not lost their topicality and sound extremely vital even today.

Lecture – Vera N. Gushchina, PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor

Russian religious philosophy and culture of the XIXth century did not pay much attention to the material side of life in general and to economics in particular. Some notable persons touched on these problems, though they were neither professional philosophers (writers, peasants, priests), nor economists. The first serious philosophical attempt to deal with problems of economy was made by Rev. S. Bulgakov in his “Philosophy of Economy” (1912).

This course tries to trace important attempts to interpret economic problems (wealth, private property, work and money attitudes, division of labour, etc.) made by outstanding Russian thinkers, which both reflect and form Russian traditional and contemporary mentality.

Lecture – Vera N. Gushchina, PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor

The discipline «Gender Philosophy in Russia» focuses on the main philosophical approaches analyzing the notions of "sex" and "gender" in Russia from the nineteenth century until present times. V. Rozanov, N. Berdyaev, V. Solovyov and some other Russian philosophers developed their ideas about the destiny of a woman within the concept of “Metaphysics of sex”.

The idea of the emancipation of women within the framework of Marxist-Leninist theory was reflected in the articles of A. Kollontai, I. Armand, N. Krupskaya. Their ideas played an important role in the state's "women's philosophy" in the Soviet period. Modern Russian philosophy of gender is represented by O. Voronina, S. Ushakin, E. Zdravomyslova, A. Temkina and others. These philosophers develop the ideas of gender theory, the concept of “doing gender”, femininity and masculinity and so on.

The discipline will be useful to understand the philosophical basis of the traditional and modern status of men and women in Russia.

Lecturer – Elena I. Yakushkina, PhD, Associate Professor

Aesthetic foundations of Russian artistic culture of the ХIХ century. Aesthetics of life. Aesthetics of VS Solovyov. Aesthetic programme of  «World of Art». Aesthetics of Russian symbolism (A. White, V. Ivanov). Russian aesthetics of the nature of artistic space. Religious aesthetics of the ХХ century. Russian avant-garde aesthetics. Aesthetic ideas of AF Losev. Aesthetics of NA Berdyaev.

Рensée russe esthétique de «Silver Age»

Fondations esthétiques de la culture artistique russe du XIXe siècle. La vie esthétique. Esthétique de VS Soloviev. Programme esthétique «Monde de l'art». Esthétique du symbolisme russe (A. White, V. Ivanov). Esthétique russes de la nature de l'espace artistique. Esthétique religieuse du XXe siècle. L'esthétique d'avant-garde russe. Les idées esthétiques de AF Losev. Esthétique de NA Berdiaev.

Lecture – Svetlana A. Simonova, PhD, Dr. phil. habil. in Philosophy

Problem of enlightened monarchy. France before the Great Revolution: fellowship of «Old Regime» and his critique of the Enlightenment. Results of the ideological and aesthetic battles of the «Great Century». Encyclopedic. Denis Diderot – writer and philosopher. «Persian Letters» of SH.L. Montesquieu and educational «dissent». Creativity of Voltaire: theatre, poetry, essays and philosophical prose. Voltaire's influence and importance of his ideas in the development of European culture. Educators and their opponents. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and ideas of Rousseauism. Rousseau treatises and their influence on artistic works. Innovation Rousseau in his critical writings. Reception contemporary art Rousseau and its value. Objectives of social education in art educators. Ideals of rationality and citizenship.

L'esthétique française des Lumières

Problème éclairé monarchie. France avant la Grande Révolution: Société «Ancien Régime» et sa «critique des Lumières. Résultats des batailles idéologiques et esthétiques de la «Grand Siècle». Encyclopédique. Denis Diderot - écrivain et philosophe. "Lettres persanes" SH.L. Montesquieu et éducatif «dissidence.» Créativité Voltaire: le théâtre, la poésie, des essais et de la prose philosophique. L'influence et l'importance de ses idées dans le développement de la culture européenne de Voltaire. Les éducateurs et leurs adversaires. Jean-Jacques Rousseau et idées rousseauisme. Traités Rousseau et leur influence sur les œuvres artistiques. Innovation Rousseau dans ses écrits critiques. Réception art contemporain Rousseau et sa valeur. Objectifs de l'éducation sociale dans éducateurs d'art. Idéaux de rationalité et de la citoyenneté.

Lecture – Svetlana A. Simonova, PhD, Dr. phil. habil. in Philosophy

This introductory course explores key concepts, views and controversies in contemporary analytic philosophy of language.

Topics covered include meaning and reference, proper names, descriptions, propositional attitude reports, semantic paradoxes, speech acts and language pragmatics. Additionally, questions of the nature of language and interconnections between language, truth, logic, realism and knowledge may occasionally be touched upon.

No previous experience with logic or linguistics is required for the course.

Lecturer – Sergei M. Zhdanov

This course aims to introduce students to the basic problems of Russian moral philosophy.

The course structure consists of the following topics:

• the place of Ethics in Russian philosophy;
• the language of Russian moral philosophy;
• literature and moral philosophy in the context of Russian culture;
• "Accursed questions" as the main feature of Russian moral philosophy.

Lecturer  – Dr. in Philosophy, Prof. Vladimir V. Varava

The main idea of this course is to reveal the features of thanatological discourse in the structure of philosophical knowledge.

The course aims to expand ideas about human being, its death and mortality in the ethical, religious and existential modus. Another important goal of the course is to demonstrate the similarities and differences in relation to the death adopted in Russian and Western philosophical traditions.

Lecturer  – Dr. in Philosophy, Prof. Vladimir V. Varava

Monitoring is a powerful tool for better management of resources. Good monitoring can detect management problems at an early stage; it can also demonstrate that management is effective and successful.

The course will provide an overview of different monitoring techniques. Approximately half of the course will explore different methods of plant population structure investigation. In this part we will explain the ways of researching demographic, vitality and spatial structure of plant populations, and it will be also focused on the problem of compiling and processing data for population analysis. The second half of the course will provide a critical overview of different concepts which describe the organisation and dynamics of plant communities. You will gain knowledge of discrete and continuum vegetation, different models of succession development and climax concept.  This part of the course is designed to foster a comprehensive understanding of the ways to research plant communities.

The course will couple lectures and class work. The lectures will combine the knowledge of different botanical disciplines: plant ecology, phytogeography, population biology, vegetation ecology, and plant sociology. The class work will be focused on the problem of how to integrate the methods of different botanical disciplines in order to solve some practical tasks.

Lecturer – Andrei Kirik, Ph. D, Faculty of Biology, Chair of Botany and Mycology

The course will explore the characteristic of modern cytology methods. This introductory course teaches students the features of the structure and functioning of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, plant and animal cells. Class work is based on learning practical skills of microscopic techniques, preparation of slide mounts, and cytological analysis. A discussion of the characteristics of structural and functional organization of sub-cellular components will provide students with solid knowledge of the origin of eukaryotic cells, and their differentiation in multi-cellular organisms. This course is designed to foster a comprehensive understanding of structural and functional organization, types and modern methods of studying chromosomes as carriers of material units of heredity - genes. Through this course you will find out about the cell cycle and its regulation, normal karyotype and various pathological conditions. This course is an introduction to the division types (reproduction) of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, mechanisms of mitosis, meiosis and amitosis, and their characteristic features. The course will give you an idea of endomitosis and somatic polyploidy polyteny, explore the features of micro- and megasporogenesis, micro- and megagametogenesis, the process of fertilization in plants. Students will gain knowledge of apoptosis - genetically programmed cell death. We will consider cytological basis of pathology, aging and cell death.

Lecturers:
      Olga Mashkina, PhD., Associate professor;
      Mikhail Belousov (assistant)

Generated in living organisms and oxidative stress, the mechanisms of their formation, modifications of biological molecules induced by reactive oxygen intermediates or by oxidative stress products, methods for detection of these modifications as well as components and functioning of antioxidant system that protects living cells against free radicals will be discussed. Diseases accompanied by the oxidative stress development will also be the subject of the study.

Lecturer – Safonova Olga A., PhD, Associate professor, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology

The Course is designed to assist the students to acquire knowledge of the normal biochemical composition and functioning of the human body and its individual tissues (muscle, nerve and others), integration of metabolic processes between the various organs of the body and understand some alterations in biochemistry in diseases. It is fundamental to understanding how the body adapts to physiologic stress, how defects in metabolism result in disease, and why data from the clinical chemistry laboratory are useful to diagnose disease and monitor the efficacy of treatment.

Lecturer – Safonova Olga A., PhD, Associate professor, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology

Study of animal behavior and general approaches to zoo psychology. This course focuses on the research into the psychological and neurological bases of animal sensation, cognition, behavior, perception, and behavioral interactions within and outside the species.

This program typically includes in-depth instruction in ethology, neurobiology, behavioral neuroscience, cognition and sensory perception, behavioral evolution, motivators, hormonal controls, learning and instinct, community ecology, reproductive and developmental biology, functional behavior, and applications to specific behaviors and patterns as well as to specific phyla and species.

This course achieves a good balance between recent research and classic studies of animal behavior. It integrates both psychological and biological approaches and provides current information in the areas of animal learning and cognition, parasitism, and mutualism. It includes all phases of scientific animal behavior investigation.

Lecturer – Olga Solodovnikova, PhD, Associate Professor

Introduction of Cytology, Genetics, Evolution and Ecology

Lecturer – Olga Solodovnikova, PhD, Associate Professor

This course brings together a broad collection of case studies on biotechnology applications in industrial processes and subjects them to detailed analysis in order to give advice to scientists, industrial managers and government policy makers. The special attention is paid to physical, chemical and molecular bases of biotechnological processes. This course integrates many different perspectives to give the students a coherent road map of the biotech industry for the next decades. It is anchored by numerous relevant examples that create a framework which any life sciences professional needs to understand.

Lecturer – Marina Holyavka, Associate Professor, Department of Biophysics and Biotechnology

The course is devoted to study of morphology, biochemistry, ecology and life cycles of parasitic organisms. The course is concentrated on biodiversity of the parasite, their adaptations and relations with their hosts.

Lecturer – Sergey Gaponov, Full Professo, Department of Zoology and Parasitology

The course is devoted to the study of diversity, morphology, biology and systematic of invertebrate animals.

Lecturer – Sergey Gaponov, Full Professor, Department of Zoology and Parasitology

The course is devoted to the study of diversity, morphology, biology and systematic of vertebrate animals.

Lecturer – Sergey Gaponov, Full Professor, Department of Zoology and Parasitology

The course is devoted to the study of parasites which use the human body for their lives and development, interrelations between parasites and human.

Lecturer – Sergey Gaponov Full Professor, Department of Zoology and Parasitology

The course is aimed to develop a thermodynamic and kinetic approach to the phases with electric charges. The course of electrochemistry is divided in three main parts, which are the equilibrium in the electrolyte solutions, the transport of charged particles and the electrode processes. There is a strong emphasize on the ion interaction and the structure of double electric layer at the phase boundary.

Lecturer – Grushevskaya Svetlana Nikolaevna, Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry Department, Ph.D.

is an interdisciplinary science. Lectures show the significant role of analytical methods (Analytical Chemistry) in Environmental Chemistry which enable the identification of the nature, concentration and source of pollutants in the air, soil and water. Common classical and advanced analytical techniques used for qualitative and quantitative determinations of various contaminants are considered as important tools in Environmental Chemistry.

Lecturer – Eliseeva Tatiana Viktorovna, Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry Department, Ph.D.

Modern diagnostics techniques based on synchrotron radiation for functional nanostructure characterization will be presented. The course will include the following topics. Basics of synchrotron radiation. Modern synchrotron radiation sources. Main approaches for nanostructures diagnostics. Basics for atomic and electronic structure studies at macro- and microscopic levels with the use of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, photoelectron microscopy (including angle and time resolved), resonance scattering basics, X-ray absorption spectroscopy.

Lecturer – Dr. Sergey Turishchev, associate professor, senior researcher of the solid state physics and nanostructures department, physics faculty.

Atomic and electronic structure techniques will be studied as well as local atomic surrounding probing approaches. Core levels spectroscopy, valence and conduction band density of states distribution investigations will be considered. Qualitative and quantitative phase composition analysis as non-destructive approaches for physics and chemistry studies of different objects surface and bulk including biology systems and nanomaterials will be described. Modern instrumentation trends will be discussed as well.

Lecturer – Dr. Sergey Turishchev, associate professor, senior researcher of the solid state physics and nanostructures department, physics faculty 

History, present and future of silicon technologies for micro- and nanoelectronics will be considered starting from bulk silicon properties to nanocrystals and clusters. Formation approaches, electronic structure, perspective optical properties will be studied in frameworks of past and present problems. Future directions will be discussed from the technology and application positions at basic researches, laboratory and manufacturing levels.

Lecturer – Dr. Sergey Turishchev, associate professor, senior researcher of the solid state physics and nanostructures department, physics faculty

Classical lectures presenting the basics of the solid state physics will include: translation symmetry in crystals, reciprocal lattice, Brillouin zone, electrons in periodic potential, Bloch theorem, single-electron approximation, many-electron approximation, boundary condition, electronic states, band theory of solids, metals, semiconductors and dielectrics, direct and indirect transition, Fermi surface, density of states, effective mass, strong coupling method, orthogonalized plane wave method, pseudopotential method, augmented plane wave method, Hartree-Fock equations.

Lecturer – Dr. Vladimir Kashkarov, associate professor of the solid state physics and nanostructures department, physics faculty

The course covers Newtonian classical mechanics (Newtonian formalism), description of classical mechanics within Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms, basic application of classical mechanics for one-dimensional problems, application for description of dynamics of a classical system in a central fields, application for description of dynamics of a rigid body, application to the theory of linear and nonlinear vibrations, fluid mechanics.

Lecturer – Dr. Mikhail Frolov, associate professor of the theoretical physics department, physics faculty

Practical course aimed at obtaining working skills with X-ray spectroscopy and microscopy experiments. X-ray emission spectrometer, scanning electron microscope, X-ray diffractometer and other facilities of Voronezh State University will be used. For postgraduate and master students. Dr. Sergey Turishchev, associate professor, senior researcher of the solid state physics and nanostructures department, physics faculty. Dr. Dmitry Spirin, head of the laboratory of the solid state physics and nanostructures department, physics faculty.

Lecturer – Dr. Alexey Kharin, Head of the center for collective use of scientific equipment of VSU

The course will explore Data Mining studies, algorithms and computational paradigms that allow computers to find patterns and regularities in databases, perform prediction and forecasting, and generally improve their performance through interaction with data. It is currently regarded as the key element of a more general process called Knowledge Discovery that deals with extracting useful knowledge from raw data. The knowledge discovery process includes data selection, cleaning, coding, using different statistical and machine learning techniques, and visualization of the generated structures. The course will cover all these issues and will illustrate the whole process by examples. Special emphasis will be placed on Machine Learning methods as they provide the real knowledge discovery tools. Important related technologies, as data warehousing and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) will be also discussed. The students will use recent Data Mining software.

Lecturer – Natalia Sapkina

aims to develop an understanding of basic concepts of a stored-program computer architecture and organization, providing practice in PDP-11 and Intel x86 machine-code programming.

Lecturer – A. Koval, Senior teacher

As a result of this course the student should:

• demonstrate an understanding of purpose and architecture of data warehousing when implementing Data Mining techniques;
• demonstrate an understanding of the basic concepts of multivariate data analysis and online analytical processing (OLAP) when processing real multi-dimensional data with Data Mining systems;
• demonstrate the knowledge of common data mining techniques and algorithms, their applicability and the specific features when selecting relevant method for solving specific problems of data mining;
• practically use Data Mining tools (RapidMiner, Matlab and MS Analysis Serivces) for solving specific data mining problems;
• to be able to apply the knowledge of visual data analysis (visual mining) to choosing a relevant form of multidimensional data representation (for preliminary analysis) and results data mining;
• demonstrate an understanding of the basic stages of the data mining process and its organizational factors, as well as relevant standards, when designing or implementing data mining systems.

Lecturer – A. Sychev, Ph.D., Associate prof.

As a result students should know:

• basic concepts in the field web-applications development;
• markup languages (HTML, XML) and related technologies (CSS, XHTML, DOM);
• client side programming using script languages;
• basic concepts server side programming (ASP, PHP, JEE) be able:
  • to make HTML documents containing simple scripts;
  • develop server-side applications with chosen script language;
  • to analyse the security of web-applications.
• аnd have basic understanding:
  • of web-programming using frameworks
  • web CMS;
  • advanced technologies: WEB 2.0, mashups, AJAX;
  • search engine positioning optimization.

Lecturer – A. Sychev, Ph.D., Associate prof.

Students know and understand the purpose and the architecture of an operating system, and in particular memory and tasks management; they are able to install an OS; they know, can apply and program shell commands for Linux and Windows OS; they understand multitasking and concurrent programming, and can analyze and write small concurrent programs in C or Java.

Lecturer – S. Vlasov, Ph.D., Associate prof.

As a result of this course the students should:

• demonstrate understanding of systems thinking and systems approach in creating new or complex analysis of the existing system which is a product, a service, or a corporate organization;
• develop projects of complex systems for various purposes and justify the choice of relevant hardware and software on the base of methods of systems analysis;
• prepare requirements on the design of components of information systems and technology on the base of -systems engineering methodology;
• choose and put into practice computer-aided design tools;
• unify and perform typing the design solutions.

Lecturer – S. Vlasov, Ph.D, Associate prof.