Irkutsk State Linguistic University

The university gives linguistic education from secondary school to university to post-graduate and post-doctoral research programmes.

A national license empowers the university to train professionals in 17 major areas at 10 faculties.

Institute of Cross-cultural Communication

Oriental Languages Faculty teaches:

• 'Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-translator of two foreign languages' (Chinese and English, Japanese and English, Korean and English).
• Foreign and home policy of China. The qualification granted is 'Regional studies specialist'.

Translation and Translatology Faculty

• Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-translator of two foreign languages' (European languages, such as English, French, German, Spanish, Italian).
• Foreign and home policy of the USA and Canada' The qualification granted is 'Regional studies specialist'.

International Faculty

• Linguistics. The Russian language.

Degrees:

• Bachelor (8-semester training)
• Master (4-semester training).

The faculty offers post-graduate research programmes in Germanic and Romance philology (6 semesters of professional seminars including writing and public defense of candidate dissertation).

Institute of Educational Technologies

English Language Faculty

• Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-teacher of two foreign languages'
• Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-translator of two foreign languages'
• Personal and Public Security Service plus Modern English. The qualification granted is 'Teacher of Personal and Public Security Service. Teacher of English
• Linguistics and New Information Technologies. The qualification granted is 'Linguist'.
• Philological Education. The qualification granted is 'Bachelor of Philological Education; Modern English and Russian as a Foreign Language'.

Romance Languages Faculty

• Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-teacher of two foreign languages'(Spanish-English, French-English, Italian-English)
• Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-translator of two foreign languages' (Spanish-English, French-English, Italian-English)
• Personal and Public Security Service plus Modern English. The qualification granted is 'Teacher of Personal and Public Security Service. Teacher of Spanish, or Teacher of French or Teacher of Italian'
• Linguistics and New Information Technologies. The qualification granted is 'Linguist'.
• Philological Education. The qualification granted is 'Bachelor of Philological Education; Modern French (or Spanish or Italian) and Russian as a Foreign Language'.

German Language Faculty

• Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-teacher of two foreign languages' (German and English)

Humanities Faculty

• Documentology and Documentary Logistics. The qualification granted is 'Documentation manager with professional knowledge of two foreign languages (French and English)'.

Social Sciences Faculty

• Management of Organization. The qualification granted is 'Manager'.
• Public Relations. The qualification granted is 'Public Relations Manager with professional knowledge of foreign languages'
• Pedagogy and Infant School Education Methodology. The qualification granted is 'Teacher of infant school. Teacher of English'
• Philology. The qualification granted is 'Teacher of two foreign languages'.
• Advertisement. The qualification granted is 'Advertisement manager'.

Education-by-Correspondence Faculty

• Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-teacher of English/German/French'

'* Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication'. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-translator of English/German'

Second higher education

ISLU offers the following higher education opportunities to holders of non-linguistic university qualifications:

• Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-teacher of English/German/French'
• Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist- translator of English/German/French'
• Management of Organization. The qualification granted is 'Manager'
• Public Relations. The qualification granted is 'Public Relations Manager with professional knowledge of foreign languages'
• Advertisement. The qualification granted is 'Advertisement Manager'.

Students and teachers as well as 'outsiders' who are interested in language learning and related areas are offered educational services including:

• 3rd or 4th foreign language learning,
• Graduation qualifications in Public Relations/Management of Organization/Advertisement,
• Graded or community-related teaching of foreign languages:
  • to beginners;
  • conversational versions;
  • to advanced learners;
  • to particular age groups of children.

"Young Polyglot" language learners community;

• Preparatory and placement courses for international exams (FCE, TOEFL, IELTS, DAF, JLPT, TOPIK);
• Business German/Business French;
• English for tourism/German for tourism/Japanese Guide Courses.

Annually, more than 700 students use the opportunities of additional educational services at ISLU.

Irkutsk State Linguistic University is a site for international language proficiency exams such as Japanese Language Proficiency Test (日本語能力試験), Test of Proficiency in Korean (한국어능력시험).

• Irkutsk State Linguistic University Official website (in Russian)
• Irkutsk State Linguistic University Official website (in English)