THE URALS STATE UNIVERSITY NAMED AFTER A. M. GORKIJ - DEPARTMENT OF PHILOLOGY

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The Urals State University

Address	51 Lenin Ave., Ekaterinburg, 620083 Russia
Tel. No.	+7 3432-55-75-12
Fax No.	+7 3432-55-75-12
E-mail address	Irene.Danilova@usu.ru
Rector	Professor Vladimir Tretyakov Vladimir.Tretyakov@usu.ru
Departments	Mathematics and Mechanics Physics Chemistry Biology Philology History Philosophy Political Science and Sociology Economics Journalism Art and Culture Studies Russian as a Foreign Language
Type of course	Bachelor of Sciences ( 4 years of education ) Graduate ( 5 years of education, Diploma ) Master of Sciences ( 6 years of education, Diploma ) Postgraduate studies ( 3 years of education, candidate of Sc. ) Doctorate Courses ( Doctor of Sc. Degree ) Russian as a Foreign Language 1 - 2 years of education
Date of commencement	September, 1 - June, 30
Class size	10 - 30 students
Accommodation	Available
Fees	overseas: 1500 -3000 USD national: 1500 - 2000 USD
Student grants	Not available
Admission requirements	Russian fluency required
Student profile	Ratio of National / Overseas students: 6000 / 40 Ratio of Men / Women: 40% / 60%
Contact for application	Mrs. Svetlana Sokollova Head of the International Relations Office, 51 Lenin Ave., Ekaterinburg, 620083 Russia Svetlana.Sokolova@usu.ru Tel: 7-3432-55-75-12 Fax: 7-3432-55-75-12

Department of Philology

Dean - Professor V. V. Blazhes, Doctor of Philology
Telephone: +7 3432 555-902
Student body: 380 full-time students; 330 correspondence students.
Staff:

11 professors, Doctors of Sciences;
31 assistant professors, Candidates of Sciences;
20 senior lecturers and lecturers.

Chairs: Russian and general linguistics, modern Russian, Russian language stylistics and rhetoric, Romance and Germanic philology, foreign literature, Russian folklore literature , 20th century Russian literature.

Majoring in: Russian language and literature (history of Russian, toponomastics, Russian dialectology, modern Russian, Russian literature of the 19th century, Russian literature of the 20th century, folk-lore and ancient literature); Romance and Germanic philology.

Basic academic disciplines: history of Russian literature of the 11th-20th centuries, history of foreign literature, Russian folk-lore, literary criticism, theory of literature, literature of the peoples of Russia, modern Russian, history of Russian, principles of stylistics and speech culture, general linguistics, history of philology, foreign languages: English, German, French.

Major fields of research: principles of the literary process, reciprocity of method and style, genres dynamics; typology of realism problems; literary characterology problems in the works of outstanding writers and poets of the 19th-20th centuries; folk-lore genres poetics in its contemporary state; structural study of the Russian language semantic system; speech cultureand stylistics; spoken language; theoretic and applied toponomastics, etymology; Russian dialectology.

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