Faculty of Translation and Interpreting

Anufriyeva Irina Leonidovna Dean, Associate Professor

Have you decided to learn foreign languages and become a translator?

Then, join our faculty! Here we train qualified bachelors and masters on actual degree programs: Philology (6.020303), Translation (7.02030304, 8.02030304). Along with the study of two foreign languages we provide training in the specialty "Computer Records Management and Organization Management Activities."

Contact Information:

61000, Kharkiv, Lermontovskaya St., 27

Telephone: +38 (057) 716-47-23

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Opening hours: Monday to Friday - 8: 00-17: 30; Saturday - 8: 00-16: 30

Competitive advantages of the faculty:

- qualified teaching staff engaged in vocational training;

- the usage of the aspect learning of foreign languages in the teaching process (Phonetics, Grammar, Analytical Reading, Speech Practice, Home Reading);

- the study of specialized disciplines and deep computer records management training throughout the whole academic process (Computer Records, Computer Technologies and Computer Studies, Information Technologies for Interpreters);

- availability of modern materials and technical base (specialized computer labs and media class rooms);

- provision of scientific, educational and methodical literature, periodicals and access to electronic full-text databases;

- enabling practical training at enterprises and organizations of Kharkiv, other cities of Ukraine and abroad;

- possibility of improving the level of practical language while training in Turkey, Greece, the USA, volunteer programs, children's camps in the Crimea;

- employment guaranteed (due to the career planning lab);

- possibility of further career through taking extra courses at the faculty of additional specialties.

There are four major departments at the faculty:

1. Translation Theory and Practice Department (the Head of the Department is V. V. Ilchenko, A.P.).

2. German and Romance Philology Department (the Head of the Department is T. M. Timoshenkova, Cand. Sc. (Philology), Prof.).

3. Ukrainian Languages Studies (the Head of the Department is I. O. Pomazan, Cand. Sc. (Philology), A. P.).

4. Information Technologies and Mathematics (the Head of the Department is P. E. Sitnikova, Ph.D., A. P.).

The Philosophy and Humanities, Sociology, General and Applied Psychology, Economic Theory and Law, Physical Education Departments also take part in the basic training.

The dean's office employees who work closely with students, their parents, with the departments and agencies of the Academy are in charge for organizational activities of the faculty.

The training system at the Faculty consists of four interconnected blocks of disciplines:

1) fundamental humanities (History, Philosophy, Religion Studies, Cultural Studies, Ukrainian and Foreign Literature, Latin);

2) majors linguistic areas (two foreign languages from the first year in an equal amount of academic hours: English and German / French / Spanish);

3) records management disciplines (deep computer training as well as training on documentation and records keeping that allows graduates to work confidently in any modern office and be competitive in the labor market);

4) economics and law disciplines (for graduates to be conversant in the modern business structures and career development).

Such a complex of disciplines enables graduates to receive training on the following skills and educational levels:

1) executive assistant with knowledge of a foreign language (2.5 years);

2) Bachelor of Philology with the knowledge of two foreign languages (4 years);

3) Specialist of Translation with knowledge of two foreign languages (1 year);

4) Master of Translation, the teacher of two foreign languages (1.5 years).

At the faculty there are qualified teachers, candidates and doctors of sciences. The best graduates of the People’s Ukrainian Academy are also engaged into the teaching process. We invite so-called "guest professors" and native speakers to give classes and lectures: G. Koller, Andrea Arnold, Jan-Peter Abraham, Mathias Zillah, I. Verlyayn, B. Tsepf (Germany); Benoit Hemelsdael, Emanuel Lefevre Remy Charpentier (France); Jane Metisson (Sweden).

Faculty members give fruitful results in their research work within the framework of the Scientific School "The Language Semantics as a Reflection of the Conceptual and Linguistic Picture of the World" (the Head of the School is Timoshenkova T. M., Cand. Sc. (Philology), Prof.), the scientific branches for Translation Studies (headed by Ivakhnenko A. O., Cand. Sc. (Philology), A. P.) and for Knowledge-Oriented Information Systems (headed by Lazarenko O. V., Cand. Sc. (Technology), A. P.) also work under her guidance). Students participate in the life of a student's scientific society, and young teachers are members of the Young Scientists Association.

Faculty fully provided records databases and translation practice in which students improve their professional skills and get qualified training, working in translation and travel agencies, banks, enterprises, branches of foreign companies, institutions of higher education. Career Planning Lab is engaged in the employment of graduates (the Kharkiv Chamber of Commerce, travel companies "Sam", "Standard", "Elite Tourism", "Astravel", External Relations Department of the Executive Committee of the Kharkiv City Council, the translation agency "Vimari", "Interkolo" the Malyshev plant, CJSC "Irbis Trade House").

During their studies the students could test and improve their language skills during foreign internships and trainings (Turkey, Greece, the USA, France, Germany, etc.).

Versatile and rich extracurricular life is not only entertaining but also presents a part of the educational process, promotes team building, helps to gain confidence in the correctness of students’ professional choice, to develop their leadership skills and confidence to face the future.

In summer students have practice while working in children's camps in the Crimea and just relax at the sea-shore or in the trips to the Carpathian Mountains.

Referent and Translator Department provides a modern education with academic traditions, interesting present and promising future!

MASTER’S DEGREE

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES OF OBTAINING MASTER’S DEGREE

• in addition to the study of two foreign languages (with equal number of academic hours) deep training in information and computer technologies for interpreters is carried out;

• theoretical and practical coursesgiven by the leading experts in the field of philology and translation (prof. Timoshenkova T. M, prof. Potapova Z. Y., prof. Zmiyova I. V., A.P. Kalnychenko O. A., A. P. Bublyk I. F.);

• aspect learning of Translation Studies: the public and political, popular and scientific, economic, law, technical, medical, literary translation;

• availability of specialized computerized and multimedia classrooms;

• providing scientific, educational and methodical literature, periodicals, and access to electronic full-text databases;

• the possibility of practical training in enterprises, organizations and branches of foreign companies, translation and travel agencies in Khariv, as well as participation in international summer internship and training programs in Turkey, Greece, the USA, France, Germany;

• guaranteed employment with the help of the Career Planning Lab.