Institute of the Humanities

The Institute of Humanities was established in March 2005 on the basis of four faculties: Faculty Philology and Journalism, Historical Faculty, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Faculty of Psychology. More than 2000 students currently study in the Institute.

The Institute of Humanities is committed to bringing the humanities to students majoring in various fields. Its departments provide training in Sociology, Psychology, Journalism, History, Philology, Linguistics, Translation and offer life-long learning opportunities to explore the ideas, history, literature and values that make up the human story.
The purpose of the Institute is to increase knowledge, promote the exchange of ideas, and to stretch minds in light of our rapidly changing world.
As one of the University's twelve academic units, Institute of Humanities comprises nine departments:

•  Department of Journalism
•  Department of History
•  Department of Russian Language and Literature
•  Department of Romance and Germanic Philology
•  Department of Theoretical and Applied Psychology
•  Department of Sociology
•  Department of Theory and Practice of Foreign Languages Teaching
•  Department of Theory and Practice of Translation
•  Department of Philosophy

The head of the Institute is Elena Prokopheva, PhD, Associate Professor. There are 160 faculty members, including 18 Full Professors and 70 Associate Professors.
Faculty members and students of the Institute are involved in a number of projects carried out by Community of Young Researchers of Humanities. The on-going projects are the following:

•  History of Stavropol Region
•  Center of historical reconstruction
•  German settlements in the Volga River Region.

Research Areas

•  History of the region

•  Historical reconstruction

•  Internet journalism

•  Journalism and civil society
•  Problems of boundaries in literature and art

•  Intercultural communication

•  Modern approaches to language teaching

•  Folklore

•  Foreign dramatics
•  Youth social problems

• Problems of translation and theory and practice of translation

The Institute houses

•  Center of Practical Psychology “Dialogue”
•  Philological laboratory
•  Center of Social Technologies
•  Laboratory “Social History”
•  Student radio station
•  Student newspaper
•  TV studio

International Events

•  All-Russian Conference «Issues of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics and Optimization of Language Teaching»
•  All-Russian Scientific Conference with International Participation «Self-actualization of People with Disabilities in Modern Russia»
•  International Scientific Conference «The Dialogue between Russia and Germany: Philological and Sociocultural Aspects»
•  International Scientific Conference «Text: Philological, Sociocultural, Regional and Methodological Aspects»

 International partners

•  Goethe-Institute (Representative Office in Russia)
•  Alliance Francaise (Representative Office in Russia)
•  Campus France (Representative Office in Russia)
•  DAAD
•  The Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany)
•  Glyndwr University (UK)
•  Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland)

Memberships

•  International Federation of Germanists
•  Russian Union of Germanists
•  The German-Russian House

Contacts

Olga Bezgina - bezgina@tltsu.ru
Igor Vlasenko - iavlasenko@tltsu.ru
Alexandra Gerasimova - zavisla@mail.ru