Linguistics

Specializations within this programme

• Theory and Methods of Foreign Language and Culture Teaching
  The purpose of the Bachelor’s program is to train students for further professional activity in the fields of intercultural and cross-language communication, linguistic education, linguistics and new information technologies. The object of the bachelor’s professional activity is theory and methodology of foreign languages and culture. Graduates with BA in Linguistics are purposefully prepared for activities that demand profound academic and professional competence, including research work. The main field of study for this program is foreign language teaching in the secondary school and secondary vocational and technical schools. General and professional bachelor's competencies include theoretical fundamentals of foreign language teaching, practical skills in intercultural communication. Graduates are expected to use professional methods and techniques necessary for a foreign language teacher; to know the essentials of the teaching process; to have skills to use course books, study guides and teaching manuals in foreign languages with further development of new educational materials in particular areas; to be able to benefit from the national and international methodological heritage, modern foreign language teaching trends and concepts in order to solve particular teaching tasks; to analyze in detail the educational process and study materials in terms of their efficiency; to be effective in structuring the educational process, in fulfilling teaching activities in compliance with purposes of a particular course and foreign language teaching conditions at educational institutions of pre-school, primary general, basic general, secondary general and secondary education, and also additional linguistic education, including further education of children and adults, and further vocational training. Graduates with the Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics can be employed by secondary comprehensive schools, secondary specialized schools, secondary vocational and technical schools. Besides, graduates can be taken on by agencies working in intercultural communication, e.g. tourism and hotel industry.
• Theory of Translation
  The purpose of the Bachelor's program is to train students for further professional activity in the fields of intercultural and cross-language communication, linguistic education, linguistics and new information technologies. The object of the bachelor’s professional activity is translation and interpreting. Graduates with BA in Linguistics are purposefully prepared for activities that demand profound academic and professional competence, including research work. Professional bachelor’s competencies imply pre-translation text analysis, translation and interpretingskills, search of information in reference books and computer networks. Graduates are expected to know how to achieve equivalence in translation, to apply basic translation techniques, to do a written translation which would meet lexical, grammatical, syntactic and stylistic rules, to know PC editing standards; to have skills in consecutive translation, to be able to take shorthand notes in interpreting; to know interpreting ethics and interpreter’s behavioral rules in different situations (tourist guiding, business negotiations, official delegation escorting and interpreting). Graduates with the Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics (i.e. translators of English, German, French and Spanish) can be employed by agencies working in intercultural communication, e.g. tourism, hotel industry, translation agencies. What makes this bachelor’s program, offered by Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, unique is an opportunity for a student to develop competence in business and engineering translation.
• Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language
  The students will learn to understand other cultures, be able to familiarize international students not only with the “mysterious Russian soul” and the great Russian literature but also with peculiarities of business negotiations as well as to teach them how to write scientific articles in Russian. The graduates will be ready for self-realization and creative tasks; they will be satisfied with their chosen profession and pleased with the gratitude of numerous foreigners who have studied Russian.