Irkutsk State Linguistic University
| Иркутский государственный лингвистический университет | |
| Motto | Взаимопонимание со всем миром |
|---|---|
| Established | 1948 |
| Rector | Г.Д. Воскобойник |
Academic staff | 10 |
| Students | 4200 |
| Location | Irkutsk, Russia |
| Website | http://www.islu.ru |
Irkutsk State Linguistic University (Russian: Иркутский государственный лингвистический университет (ИГЛУ)) is a university in Irkutsk, Siberia in eastern Russia founded in 1948.
The university consists of two institutes (Institute of Cross-cultural Communication and Institute of Educational Technologies) and two independent faculties (Social Sciences Faculty and Education-by-Correspondence Faculty).
Academics
The university gives linguistic education from secondary school to university to post-graduate and post-doctoral research programmes.
License
A national license empowers the university to train professionals in 17 major areas at 10 faculties.
Institutes
Institute of Cross-cultural Communication
Oriental Languages Faculty teaches:
- 'Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-translator of two foreign languages' (Chinese and English, Japanese and English, Korean and English).
- Foreign and home policy of China. The qualification granted is 'Regional studies specialist'.
Translation and Translatology Faculty
- Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-translator of two foreign languages' (European languages, such as English, French, German, Spanish, Italian).
- Foreign and home policy of the USA and Canada' The qualification granted is 'Regional studies specialist'.
International Faculty
- Linguistics. The Russian language.
Degrees:
- Bachelor (8-semester training)
- Master (4-semester training).
The faculty offers post-graduate research programmes in Germanic and Romance philology (6 semesters of professional seminars including writing and public defense of candidate dissertation).
Institute of Educational Technologies
English Language Faculty
- Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-teacher of two foreign languages'
- Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-translator of two foreign languages'
- Personal and Public Security Service plus Modern English. The qualification granted is 'Teacher of Personal and Public Security Service. Teacher of English
- Linguistics and New Information Technologies. The qualification granted is 'Linguist'.
- Philological Education. The qualification granted is 'Bachelor of Philological Education; Modern English and Russian as a Foreign Language'.
Romance Languages Faculty
- Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-teacher of two foreign languages'(Spanish-English, French-English, Italian-English)
- Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-translator of two foreign languages' (Spanish-English, French-English, Italian-English)
- Personal and Public Security Service plus Modern English. The qualification granted is 'Teacher of Personal and Public Security Service. Teacher of Spanish, or Teacher of French or Teacher of Italian'
- Linguistics and New Information Technologies. The qualification granted is 'Linguist'.
- Philological Education. The qualification granted is 'Bachelor of Philological Education; Modern French (or Spanish or Italian) and Russian as a Foreign Language'.
German Language Faculty
- Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-teacher of two foreign languages' (German and English)
Humanities Faculty
- Documentology and Documentary Logistics. The qualification granted is 'Documentation manager with professional knowledge of two foreign languages (French and English)'.
Social Sciences Faculty
- Management of Organization. The qualification granted is 'Manager'.
- Public Relations. The qualification granted is 'Public Relations Manager with professional knowledge of foreign languages'
- Pedagogy and Infant School Education Methodology. The qualification granted is 'Teacher of infant school. Teacher of English'
- Philology. The qualification granted is 'Teacher of two foreign languages'.
- Advertisement. The qualification granted is 'Advertisement manager'.
Education-by-Correspondence Faculty
- Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-teacher of English/German/French'
'* Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication'. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-translator of English/German'
Second higher education
ISLU offers the following higher education opportunities to holders of non-linguistic university qualifications:
- Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-teacher of English/German/French'
- Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist- translator of English/German/French'
- Management of Organization. The qualification granted is 'Manager'
- Public Relations. The qualification granted is 'Public Relations Manager with professional knowledge of foreign languages'
- Advertisement. The qualification granted is 'Advertisement Manager'.
Students and teachers as well as 'outsiders' who are interested in language learning and related areas are offered educational services including:
- 3rd or 4th foreign language learning,
- Graduation qualifications in Public Relations/Management of Organization/Advertisement,
- Graded or community-related teaching of foreign languages:
- to beginners;
- conversational versions;
- to advanced learners;
- to particular age groups of children.
"Young Polyglot" language learners community;
- Preparatory and placement courses for international exams (FCE, TOEFL, IELTS, DAF, JLPT, TOPIK);
- Business German/Business French;
- English for tourism/German for tourism/Japanese Guide Courses.
Annually, more than 700 students use the opportunities of additional educational services at ISLU.
Irkutsk State Linguistic University is a site for international language proficiency exams such as Japanese Language Proficiency Test (日本語能力試験), Test of Proficiency in Korean (한국어능력시험).
External links
- Irkutsk State Linguistic University Official website (Russian)
- Irkutsk State Linguistic University Official website (English)
Coordinates: 52°17′19″N 104°16′43″E / 52.28861°N 104.27861°E