Department of Intercultural Economic Communication

Head of the Department – ​​Irina Kovalevskaya, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor. The faculty members of the Department – 25 (19 regular staff, 6 part-timers):
Chair – 1,
Professor – 1,
PhDs – 12,
Head Teachers – 6,
Teachers – 4,
Trainee Teacher – 1.

SPECIALTIES

The Department trains students for majors 1-23 01 02 Linguistic Provision of Intercultural Communications (in the directions), 6-05-0231-03 Linguistic Provision of Intercultural Communications (with languages) and 7-06-0412-04 Marketing profiling in Event Marketing (in English).    

TEACHING

The list of the disciplines taught by the faculty members of the Department in the Bachelor's degree specified fields:

  1. Business Speech Listening Practice;
  2. Belarusian Language and Culture of Speech;
  3. Introduction to Linguistics;
  4. Introduction to Communications Theory;
  5. Business Writing;
  6. Discursive Practices and Communications;
  7. Communicative Grammar I;
  8. Communicative Grammar II;
  9. Cultural Context of Professional Communication;
  10. Morphology and Syntax of the Russian Language;
  11. World Literature;
  12. World Art;
  13. Basics of Language Theory;
  14. Basics of Translation;
  15. Translation;
  16. Oral and Written Communication I;
  17. Oral and Written Communication II;
  18. Practicum on Culture of Speech Communication;
  19. Practicum on Academic Writing;
  20. Practicum on Translation;
  21. Practical Phonetics I;
  22. Practical Phonetics II;
  23. Practical Course of Business Speech;
  24. Practical Course of Profession Oriented Language;
  25. Speech Etiquette;
  26. Russian Language and Speech Culture;
  27. Public Relations;
  28. Semantics;
  29. Semiotics of Culture;
  30. Syntactics;
  31. Simultaneous Interpreting;
  32. Sociolinguistics;
  33. Stylistics;
  34. Stylistic Basics of Translation;
  35. Country Studies;
  36. Strategies of Communicative Behavior;
  37. Public Communication Strategies and Tactics;
  38. Theory and Practice of Intercultural Communication;
  39. Translation Theory;
  40. Translation Editing Technologies;
  41. Interpreting;
  42. Advertising Language.

The list of the disciplines taught by the faculty members of the Department in the Master's degree specified field:

  1. Business Protocol and Communication: Case Studies and Analysis;
  2. Basics of Event Marketing;
  3. Project Management;
  4. Services in Event Marketing;
  5. Event Marketing;
  6. The Specifics of Marketing in Particular Areas;
  7. International Communication;
  8. Pedagogy and Psychology of Higher Education (optional).

The list of the other disciplines taught by the faculty members of the Department:

  1. Belarusian (professional vocabulary);
  2. Latin (optional);
  3. Russian as a Foreign Language.
  4. Advertising Language

Research

The faculty members of the Department carry out scientific research activities in the field of linguistics, pedagogy of higher school and methods of teaching foreign languages aimed at higher quality of education and better methodological support.
The teachers of the Department provide guidance to the FIBC students on their graduation papers and take an active part in the international scientific events. The Department was awarded the Third Prize in the category “The Best Department for Its International Cooperation” in 2022.

The faculty members of the Department carry out research on "Development of Integrative Model of FIBC Students' Professional Competencies and Its Introduction into Educational Process". As a result of the Department staff's research activities scientific papers, conference reports as well as textbooks and teaching materials are published.

The FIBC students take an active part under the guidance of the Department supervisors in the international scientific conferences, workshops and other similar events held in the Republic of Belarus and abroad. The best students’ research projects won prizes following the results of the Republican Contest of Students’ Scientific Works, All-Russia Competition for the Best Scientific Work of Students (Sochi), International Competition of Research and Design-Creative Works of Young Scientists of Eurasia, Chinese-Belarusian Youth Competition for Research and Innovation Projects, International Contest “In the World of Science: Issues of Philology, Language Education and Translation Studies” (I. Ya. Yakovlev Chuvash State Pedagogical University), Republican Contest on Translation and Interpreting (MSLU) etc.

The Department annually holds a number of events in the framework of the National Students' Scientific and Practical Conference "State Economy of the Republic of Belarus: Problems and Development Prospects" including the organization of the Intercultural Economic Communication Section.

The Department has a custom to hold annually a video projects festival and a translation contest for the students to have the opportunity to try out their skills in preparing professional projects in English as well as to show their worth in translating a foreign song and presenting it.

The Department hosts a students' research laboratory "Communicator" guided by Professor N. I. Kurganova.

In order to train qualified translators and organize students' efficient self-dependent work the Department runs the Students' Translation Centre that provides translation services for the BSEU structural units and other third-party organizations.

The FIBC students acquire and improve their skills in translation and interpreting at the Minsk Office of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry that is the Branch of the Department.

Listed below are the main textbooks:

  1. Русский язык как иностранный : учеб.-метод. пособие для студентов, изучающих экономические дисциплины / С. Г. Барбук [и др.]; под ред. С. Г. Барбук. – Минск : БГЭУ, 2020. – 229 с. (с грифом Министерства образования Республики Беларусь).
  2. Русский язык как иностранный. Экономический профиль : учебное пособие для магистрантов / С. Г. Барбук [и др.]. – Минск : БГЭУ, 2022. – 175 с. (с грифом Министерства образования Республики Беларусь).
  3. Губская, В. М. Беларуская мова для эканамістаў : вучэбны дапаможнік  / В. М. Губская, І. І. Шматкова. – Мінск : РІВШ, 2020. – 132 с.  (с грифом Министерства образования Республики Беларусь).
  4. Губская, О. Н. Мировая литература / О. Н. Губская, И. И. Шматкова : учебное пособие. – Минск : РИВШ, 2021. – 260 с. (с грифом Министерства образования Республики Беларусь).
  5. Демченко, А. И. Практикум по переводу с английского языка на русский для иностранных студентов БГЭУ / А. И. Демченко, Е. В. Резниченко ; М-во образования Респ. Беларусь, Белорус. гос. экон. ун-т. – Минск : БГЭУ, 2022. – 121, [1] с.
  6. Ефимчик, О. Е. Стратегии коммуникативного поведения : учебное пособие для иностранных студентов учреждений высшего образования по специальности «Лингвистическое обеспечение межкультурных коммуникаций (по направлениям)» : допущено Министерством образования Республики Беларусь / О. Е. Ефимчик, Н. М. Эдвардс. – Минск : РИВШ, 2023. – 218 с.
  7. Ковалевская, И. И. Лексические и грамматические проблемы перевода = Lexical and Grammatical Translation Problems : учебно-методическое пособие на английском языке / И. И. Ковалевская, И. В. Кратёнок. – Минск : БГЭУ. – 2020. – 144 с.
  8. Курганова, Н. И. Лингвистическая семантика: учебное пособие / Н. И. Курганова. – Минск : БГЭУ, 2023. – 160 с.
  9. Лапуцкая, И. И. Русский язык как иностранный. Практика устной и письменной речи : учебно-метод пособие для иностранных студентов / И. И. Лапуцкая. – Минск : БГЭУ, 2020. – 180 с.
  10. Маслов, Ю. В. Professionally oriented Communication = Профессиональное общение: учеб. пособие для студентов лингвист. специальностей : в 2 ч. (Ч.1).– Барановичи : БарГУ, 2020. – 255 с.
  11. Маслов, Ю. В. Основы интерпретации текста = The Basics of Text Interpretation : учебное пособие / Ю. В. Маслов, М. Е. Маслова : М-во образования Республики Беларусь, РИВШ. – Минск : РИВШ, 2021. – 240 с.
  12. Маслов, Ю. В. Английский язык. Практикум по межкультурной коммуникации / Ю. В. Маслов. – Минск : РИВШ, 2022. – 240 с.
  13. Навасельцава, І. І. Беларуская мова і культура маўлення / І. І. Навасельцава. – Мінск : БДЭУ, 2024. – 263 с. (з грыфам Міністэрства адукацыі Рэспублікі Беларусь).

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