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The Department of German and Romanic Languages

Head of the Department:
Marina A. Komarova
Candidate of Philological Sciences,
Associate Professor

The Department was established as a result of the merger of the Department of Romance Languages and the Department of German and has been operating since April 2022. It is a structural unit of the Faculty of International Business Communications.

The Department employs 24 staff members, including the Head of the Department, five Associate Professors, twelve Senior Lecturers (including three holders of Master's degrees in Philology and four graduates of postgraduate programmes), two Lecturers, two Trainee Lecturers, and two specialists.

The Department takes pride in its highly qualified international specialist, Ángel Loengrin Mujica Peralta, a citizen of Venezuela and PhD in Philosophy, who has been teaching at the Department since 2011 (personal page: http://bseu.by/personalpages/mukhika/biography.htm).

ACADEMIC AND METHODOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES

The Department provides instruction in French, Spanish, German and Portuguese as first, second and third foreign languages to students of all years of study and faculties enrolled in full-time, part-time and distance-learning programmes at BSEU.

Courses taught:
• Business Communication (2nd foreign language);
• Business Communication;
• Business Foreign Language (2nd foreign language);
• Business Foreign Language;
• Business Communication in a Foreign Language;
• Foreign Language (2nd foreign language);
• Foreign Language (Professional Vocabulary);
• Foreign Language;
• Pragmatics;
• Practical Course in Oral and Written Communication (2nd foreign language);
• Practical Course in Oral and Written Communication I, II (2nd foreign language);
• Workshop in the Culture of Speech Communication (2nd foreign language);
• Practical Grammar I, II (2nd foreign language);
• Practical Phonetics (2nd foreign language);
• Practical Translation Course (2nd foreign language);
• Practical Translation Course;
• Professionally Oriented Foreign Language (2nd foreign language);
• Professionally Oriented Foreign Language;
• Area Studies;
• Third Foreign Language.

The objective of teaching undergraduate and Master's students is to develop linguistic competence, including the skills required for both everyday and professional communication, as well as essential knowledge of the cultural, social, economic and political spheres of life in the countries where the languages studied are spoken.

The educational process is based on innovative pedagogical technologies of creative learning, combining professionally oriented, competence-based, communicative and action-oriented approaches. Information and communication technologies, multimedia teaching tools, educational online resources, national and international methodological course materials, as well as textbooks and teaching materials developed by the Department's academic staff, are widely used.

The Department's academic staff have developed all the textbooks currently available in higher education institutions in Belarus on business and economic French, Spanish and German.

Research ACTIVITIES

As part of its research activities, since 2026 the Department has been working on the research topic “Educational Content in Germanic and Romance Languages in the Contemporary Educational Environment of a University with an Economics Profile”.

The Department's academic staff demonstrate a high level of publication activity: over the past five years, more than 80 research publications have been published in Belarusian and international academic journals and other scholarly publications.

Every year, the Department organises and conducts two rounds of the Olympiad in Business and Economic German, French and Spanish, during which participating students demonstrate a high level of foreign-language proficiency for professional purposes. The Olympiads in Business French and Business German have inter-university status.

The Department actively develops international cooperation with foreign partners. The Faculty of International Business Communications is home to the country's only Centre for Latin American Studies, which organises numerous events with the participation of representatives of Venezuela, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Cuba and Brazil (for more information about the Centre's activities: http://celbe.bseu.by/), as well as the Centre for Portuguese Language and Culture and the Centre for German Language, Economics and Culture.

The Department coordinates cooperation between BSEU and the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil).

The Department hosts the Lingvoeconomist Student Research Laboratory, which brings together students interested in contemporary research into the countries where the languages they study are spoken, as well as students seeking to engage in creative research and expand their academic potential. The Laboratory's projects have repeatedly participated in and won prizes in various competitions.

MAJOR EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS PREPARED BY THE DEPARTMENT'S ACADEMIC STAFF IN RECENT YEARS

1. Komarova, M. A. French for Economics = Cours du français économique: A Textbook / M. A. Komarova et al. – Minsk: Republican Institute of Higher Education, 2022. – 226 p.
2. Shevtsova, V. A. German for Economists. Wirtschaftsdeutsch: A Textbook for Students of Higher Education Institutions Majoring in Economics / V. A. Shevtsova et al. – Minsk: Vysheyshaya Shkola, 2022. – 348 p.
3. Kovalkova, T. V. Spanish. Professional Communication in Economics = Comunicación profesional en la economía: A Textbook / T. V. Kovalkova, E. V. Dyro, M. N. Mardyko. – Minsk: BSEU, 2020. – 226 p.
4. Barteneva, I. I. French for Master's Students. Le français pour les étudiants en master: A Textbook / I. I. Barteneva. – Minsk: Kolorgrad, 2025. – 80 p.
5. Barteneva, I. I. All Aspects of Tourism Activities = Tous les aspects de l'activité touristique: Teaching and Methodological Guide / I. I. Barteneva, I. V. Panteleeva. – Minsk: Kolorgrad, 2019. – 56 p.
6. Panteleeva, I. V. French: Professional Communication in Economics = Français: communication professionnelle en économie: Teaching and Methodological Guide in French for Students Majoring in Economics / I. V. Panteleeva. – Minsk: BSEU, 2019. – 69 p.
7. Panteleeva, I. V. French. Practical Course = Cours pratique du français: A Textbook / I. V. Panteleeva. – Minsk: Republican Institute of Higher Education, 2022. – 212 p.