The Department of Business English

The Department of Business English was organized in December 2003. The academic, methodological and scientific work of the Department is focused on the problems of business communication.

Head of Department is Volha Rudkouskaya, PhD in Economics, Associate Professor.

The academic process is currently organized by 20 instructors who conduct classes in English (also as a second foreign language) to students of the School of International Economic Relations, the School of International Business Communication and the Higher School of Management and Business; provide language training to Master students.

Specialties

Language instruction at the Department is organized in the disciplines and aspects of English which comply with the specifications and curricula of the specialties taught at BSEU.

Academic and Methodological Work

Disciplines

Among the disciplines and aspects of English taught are Practical Phonetics, Practice of Oral and Written Speech, Communicative and Practical Grammar, Home Reading, Business English, Cultural Studies, Academic Reading, Writing and Speaking, Translation, Press, Business Correspondence, Business Communication, as well as Academic-methodological activity at FIER is coordinated by L.V. Bedritskaya, Deputy Department Chair; at FIBC – by L.N. Kleiner, at HSMB – by I.V. Kuzminova, and for part-time students – by O.N. Frantsuzova.

Research work

The Department of Business English offers the following courses:

The students of the School of International Business Communication can also take the Course on the Theory and Practice of Cross-Cultural Communication instructed in English.

The coordinator of the academic and methodological work of the Department is Senior Teacher T.N. Yakovchits.

Scientific Work

The staff are currently doing research on cross-cultural business communication in the digital age.

The instructors also make coursebooks, dictionaries and other teaching materials; participate in scientific conferences. Some of these textbooks and materials are actively used in BSEU, other universities in Belarus and abroad:

1. Bedritskaya, L.V., Vasilevskaya, L.I., Borisenko D.L. English for Business Studies. – Minsk: Tetralit, 2014.
2. Slepovich, V.S., Vashkevich, O.I., Mas, G.K. Academic Writing and Speaking Course Pack.  – Minsk: Tetralit, 2012.
3. Vasilevskaya, L. I. Business Correspondence. - Minsk, «IVC Minfina», 2004.
4. Slepovich, V.S. Translation English<—> Russian – Minsk, «Tetralit», 2014.
5. Bedritskaya L.V., Vasilevskaya, L.I., Kuzar D.K., I.V. Sinyapkina. English for economists. – Minsk, Narodnaya asveta, 2018.

Following the resolution of the University Council, the Centre of Cross-Cultural Business Communication was organized at the Department in 2016. The coordinator is Senior Teacher T.N. Yakovchits.

The Centre holds meetings with the representatives of business circles and annual scientific student conferences in English.

International Cooperation

The Department has close links with the universities of India and Indonesia, cooperation agreements with Lovely Professional University, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies и Jian Jyoti Institute of Management and Technology.

As a result, international conferences are organized annually; joint research findings are published in most-cited journals of Belarus, Scopus and Web of Science periodicals. 2 collective monographs have already been published:

  1. Building sustainable tourism communities: a blueprint for the future: collective monograph edited by A. Edurne J. Ruiz, Sh. Bhartiya, V. Rudkouskaya. - Routledge, 2025. -  376 p.
  2. Talent management for successful organizations: collective monograph edited by Sh. Kulkarni, A. Sheopuri, M. Valeri, V. Rudkouskaya. - Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2026. – 552 p.

 

Contacts

Address:Partizanski Ave. 26, Bldg 3, Room 335A

Tel.:+375 17 209 88 57

Email:inyaz1@bseu.by

CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL BUSINESS COMMUNICATION