History of the Chair
The Department of General Linguistics and Literature is a kind of scientific and methodological center, which trains students in several areas: bachelor's, master's, doctoral studies. The department was formed in September 2021 on the basis of several departments: Russian Philology and Library Science; foreign languages. The united department was headed by candidate of philological sciences, associate professor Baimanova L.S.
Currently, the department has 37 full-time teachers and 4 part-time teachers, including: doctors of science, professors - 2; candidates of science, associate professors, PhD doctors - 1; masters, lecturers - 20, assistant lecturers - 9.
The department provides teaching of Russian language and literature, German as a first and second foreign language, as well as professionally oriented Russian and English languages for bachelors and masters in full-time and distance learning.
The department provides training in the following educational programs for bachelor's, master's and doctoral studies:6B01708 – Russian language and literature in schools with Russian and non-Russian languages of instruction, 6B01703 – Foreign language: two foreign languages in primary school (German/English), 7М02301 – Philology: Russian philology, 7М01702 – Russian language and literature, 7М01703 – Russian as a foreign language in the international educational space, 8D02301 – Philology: Russian philology
