Study program called “English Language for Specific Purposes and Communication” at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of foreign languages, the RUDN University. It provides an opportunity not only to enhance knowledge of the general English language and learn English for professional areas as well as public administration, law, and business but also to learn and master another foreign language. it allows the students to have a comprehensive overview of what`s going on currently in politics, diplomacy, modern history, and society in general and its influences and impacts on our current issues concerned.

It designed as in the following:

1- UK and USA country studies - 2 lectures + 2 seminars (the UK and USA Country Studies” aims: - to provide students with knowledge about political, social and cultural phenomena of different historical periods of UK and USA and to interrelate these periods with the global context; - to develop the ability to analyze historical and cultural phenomena of UK and USA by using the proper English terminology).

2- Introduction to Linguistics - 2 lectures + 2 seminars ( Phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax)

3- English for Business communications - 2 lectures + 2 seminars ( English for Business communications is aimed at the development of students’ Business English skills necessary to fluently use B1 business English for oral and written intercultural communication in different business situations; to provide the knowledge of business English specifics: linguistic and stylistic features, the content of business texts) 

4- Education and Innovations - 2 lectures + 2 seminars (Pedagogy vs Andragogy, personality theory, the theory of motivations, current issues of changing curriculums in the modern world)

5- Media and Literacy - 2 lectures + 2 seminars

6- Law in general vs Policies 

6- Public Relations 

7- International Relations 

8- Philosophy and philosophy of sciences 

10-   Technology and IT markets 

11- Medicine and Emergency in general 

13- Literature and Fine Arts 

14- Intercultural communication

15- Psychology in general

Criteria for the assessment of the work throughout the semester: 1) doing assignments and active participation in practical training activities; 2) doing and presenting autonomous/ individual and group tasks by writing (essays, summaries official documents, business correspondence, etc.), orally (negotiations; phone calls, business meetings, presentations, projects, etc); 3) mastering of the study material: competence of specifics of business and Communication in other disciplines, the ability to analyze and review authentic  English texts, the correct use of  English in concrete situations.