The Faculty of Physical Training and Life Safety

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The Faculty of Physical Training and Life Safety was founded in 1989. There are Candidates, Doctors of Science and professors in the teaching staff of the faculty. More than 300 full-time students and part-time students study here.

The Faculty train teachers of Physical Training with a vocational specialty of a teacher of Life Safety.

The specialty of a teacher of Physical Training for Children with Mental Disorders with a qualification of a specialist in adapted Physical Training was opened in 2005.

A course of studies of full-time students is 5 years. Part-time students study for 5 and half years.

The Faculty has its branch in Michailovka, Volgograd Region, where full-time and part-time students are trained. It also co-operates with the pedagogical college of Michailovka and the boys’ pedagogical lyceum of Volgograd.

Vocabulary

Life Safety – безопасность жизнедеятельности

part-time students – студенты-заочники

a vocational specialty – дополнительная специальность

children with Mental Disorders – дети с отклонением в развитии

to co-operate – сотрудничать

boys’ pedagogical lyceum – мужской педагогический лицей

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1. What is the name of the faculty you study at?

2. When was your faculty founded?

3. What kind of specialists does the faculty prepare?

4. What specialty was opened in 2005?

5. How long do full-time and part-time students study at the faculty?

6. The Faculty has its branch in Michailovka, Volgograd Region, hasn’t it?

7. What establishments does the faculty co-operate with?

The Faculty of Philology

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The Faculty of Philology was opened in 1932 as a department of Languages and Literature of Stalingrad State Pedagogical Institute. It included full-time, extra-mural and evening forms of education.

In 1946 a merging of the Faculty of Philology and the Faculty of History took place. The Faculty of Philology and History had existed till 1985. In 1985 the Faculty of Philology and the Faculty of History were parted again.

Since its foundation the faculty trains teachers of the Russian Language and Literature. Nowadays it also prepares teachers of the Russian Language, Literature and Foreign Language (English and German), Bachelors and Masters of Philology Education.

The Faculty of Philology has its own graduate courses in specialties of “the Russian Language”, “Russian Literature”, and “Theory and Methods of Teaching and Educating”.

There are three chairs at the faculty: the chair of the Russian Language and Methods of Teaching It, the chair of Linguistics, and the chair of Literature. A teaching staff of the faculty has about 20 Doctors of Science and about 30 Candidates of Science.

Intensive scientific research in Russian Dialectology, Theoretical Semantics and Phraseology is held on the chairs of the faculty. The scientific school of the faculty is one of the most authoritative among higher educational establishments of the Russian Federation.