School of Intercultural Communication

 
This is the youngest School at the university.
It was established in 2001 on the basis of the School of Western European Languages Its establishment is conditioned by labour-market needs for new specialists.

The School trains specialists in intercultural communication for economic and cultural entities actively cooperating with foreign partners. This activity requires both a good command of foreign languages and possession of professional skills in applying current technologies of communication in various spheres: politics, economics, information, etc.
In the process of studies great attention is paid to the acquaintance with the national traditions and peculiarities of everyday and professional etiquette, with the mentality of other nations.

The training of specialists at the School of Intercultural Communication is carried out in several directions:
I. Foreign economic relations;
II. Foreign policy relations;
III. Public relations;
IV. Information resources;
V. International tourism.
 
The possible specializations within the corresponding directions are as follows:
I. Information processing analysis;
Communication technologies in business;

II. Information processing analysis;
Political stylistics;
Communication technologies;

III. Information processing analysis;
Image-making;
Advertising;

IV. Computer-aided advertising;
Automatic text processing;
Systems of electronic communications;

V. Information processing analysis;
Tour-guiding.
English, German, French and Spanish are taught as the major foreign languages and English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic as the second foreign languages are taught at the School of International Communication at present. It is possible to open up new vistas for providing a wider range of foreign languages taught.