Institute of Linguistics

of Kyiv International University

provides training in the following direction:

philology

Philologist, lecturer of two foreign languages and foreign literature.

Educational and qualification levels:

Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree.

Duration of Studies:

bachelor – 4 years;

master – 1 year and a half on the basis of basic higher education; 1 year on the basis of complete higher education;

second higher education – 2,5 years.

Education - full-time, extra-mural.

Extensive professional knowledge of the specialty is formed in the process of teaching of the following blocks of subjects:

Block of Humanitarian Subjects

History of Ukraine, philosophy, politology, psychology, Ukrainian, English, and students of the Institute also have an opportunity to learn foreign languages optionally.

Block of professionally-oriented subjects

Practical course of the first and second language; practical phonetics and grammar of foreign language; linguistics; Latin; the introduction to Germanic languages study; the practice of translation from the first foreign language; practical work on business language; history of foreign language; stylistics of foreign language; theoretical grammar of foreign language; foreign language theoretical phonetics; lexicology of foreign language; history of World Literature, basics of computer science and applied linguistics; basics of scientific research in linguistics; basic theory of linguistic communication; problems of communicative linguistics.

Non-academic activities

Language laboratories: B.E.S.T. Club, Espanõl, German, French, Chinese, Japanese, Centre of Arabic language learning, studio art translation.

Scientific groups: English Stylistics, country-studying of Great Britain and the USA, History of the English language, peculiarities of the American variant of English, English Lexicology, problems of Linguistics and Culture.

After a full academic course a specialist in linguistics may hold the following positions:

§ the lecturer of higher educational institution;

§ the lecturer of professional educational institution;

§ teacher of secondary school;

§ head of practice in the translation bureau;

§ pedagogue-organizer;

§ lecturer of public talks in the press, on radio and television;

§ specialist in literature;

§ editor, head of editorial office;

§ literary editor;

§ editor-translator;

§ specialist in the field of Philology and Linguistics;

§ specialist in Literature;

§ scientific co-worker (methodology, philology, linguistics);

§ consultant in the field of public communications;

§ consultant in administrative organizations, embassies and consulates, companies and firms, information and advertising agencies.