BA Russian Language

A systematic introduction to philosophy covering ontology, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics. Major philosophical systems from antiquity to the present are examined. Philosophy of language and consciousness receives particular attention as areas directly relevant to philological study. The course develops critical thinking and the skills of argumentation and academic writing.

A systematic survey of Uzbekistan's history from ancient Central Asian civilisations through the Timurid period, Russian imperial rule, the Soviet era, and the building of independent Uzbekistan. The course pays special attention to the role of the Russian and Uzbek languages in the socio-cultural life of the region at each historical stage.

First module of the World Literature survey. Covers ancient Greek and Roman literature (Homer, Greek tragedy, Hellenistic poetry, Latin literature) and medieval European and Eastern literature (the courtly romance, Italian Trecento: Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio). The course traces how ancient and medieval texts continue to live in Russian and world literature of subsequent eras.

Second module covering European and American literature of the 17th–19th centuries: Baroque, Classicism, Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Realism. Detailed analysis of Shakespeare, Molière, Goethe, Byron, Balzac, and Dickens in the context of literary movements and historical epochs. The dialogue between these traditions and Russian literature — especially Pushkin, Gogol, and Dostoevsky — is a central theme.

Third module covering world literature of the 20th–21st centuries: Modernism, avant-garde, Postmodernism, postcolonial literature, and digital fiction. Analysis of Kafka, Borges, García Márquez, Kundera, and recent Nobel laureates. The course investigates how contemporary world literature responds to globalisation, identity, and technological change.

First module of the Russian Literature History sequence. Russian literature of the 11th–17th centuries as an independent artistic system, distinct from subsequent authored tradition. Genres studied: chronicle, hagiography, homily, military tale, and pilgrimage narrative. Central monuments — the Tale of Igor's Campaign, the Life of Alexander Nevsky, and the Tale of Peter and Fevronia — are analysed in the unity of their ideological content and artistic form.

Second module covering Russian literature of the Petrine and post-Petrine era: the formation of Classicism, Enlightenment, and Sentimentalism. Key authors studied include Kantemir, Lomonosov, Trediakovsky, Sumarokov, Derzhavin, and Karamzin. Special attention is given to the formation of the Russian ode, tragedy, and prose narrative as genres that will become the foundation of 19th-century 'golden age' literature.

Third module: the Golden Age of Russian poetry and the rise of Realist prose — Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol. Literary societies and journals, Romantic and Realist currents are examined. Eugene Onegin, A Hero of Our Time, and Dead Souls are analysed in detail as works that defined the mainstream of Russian literature.

Fourth module: the era of the great novel — Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Leskov, Chekhov. The social and philosophical questions posed by Russian literature — nihilism, morality, the Russian soul — are examined. A dedicated seminar block is devoted to Chekhov as the creator of a new dramaturgy and the modern short story.

Fifth module: the flowering of Russian culture at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries — Symbolism (Blok, Bryusov), Acmeism (Akhmatova, Mandelstam), Futurism (Mayakovsky, Khlebnikov). The interaction of literature with painting, theatre, and music of the era is examined. The course concludes with an analysis of how the Revolution of 1917 simultaneously destroyed and transformed this rich cultural world.

Sixth and final module: literature under Soviet ideology and beyond — Socialist Realism, the Thaw, samizdat, and émigré literature. Authors studied include Bulgakov, Platonov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, and Brodsky. Post-Soviet prose and poetry are examined as a space for rethinking national identity and literary heritage. Prepares students to teach 20th-century Russian literature in secondary school.

Comparative study of the world's major religious traditions: Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, and Judaism. Special emphasis is placed on the history of Islam in Central Asia and its influence on Uzbek and Russian literary and cultural interaction. Religious texts are analysed as literary and cultural monuments. The course cultivates a scientifically grounded and tolerant approach to religious diversity.

A practical course aimed at maintaining physical health, developing endurance, and forming sustainable habits of a healthy lifestyle. Includes theoretical sessions on physiology and sports medicine, as well as practical training in selected sports. Students learn to integrate physical activity into their professional and personal routines.

Equips humanities students with digital competencies needed for philological and pedagogical work: text editors, electronic libraries, corpus tools, and academic publishing platforms. Students learn to search, evaluate, and use digital and corpus resources for linguistic research and to produce academic texts in digital environments.

An introductory survey of psychological science covering sensation, perception, attention, memory, thinking, speech, personality, and interpersonal communication. Particular emphasis is placed on psycholinguistics — the relationship between cognitive processes and language acquisition and use — which is directly relevant to the future teaching of Russian language and literature.

Introduction to pedagogy as the science of education. Covers the history of educational thought, the main didactic principles, types and forms of instruction, and modern educational standards of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Both domestic and international educational models are examined. The course forms the basis for subsequent study of Russian language and literature teaching methodology.

An in-depth study of Russian pedagogical thought: from 18th-century Enlightenment ideas through Soviet school reform to modern Uzbek educational standards. Primary works of Ushinsky, Tolstoy, Makarenko, and Sukhomlinsky are analysed. The course includes independent work with source texts and the development of teaching materials for the Russian language and literature classroom.

A foundational theoretical course establishing the linguistic base for all subsequent language modules. Topics include the nature and functions of language, sign theory, levels of linguistic structure (phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic), typological classification of world languages, and the history of linguistics from ancient grammars to modern cognitive and corpus approaches. The place of Russian within the Slavic branch of the Indo-European family is given particular attention.

Introduction to literary studies as a discipline: its subject, methods, and major subdivisions. Covers literary theory (genre, style, narrative, image, chronotope), literary history, and literary criticism. The course builds skills in academic textual analysis and serves as a prerequisite for all subsequent literature modules. Russian literary texts are used as primary examples throughout.

First module of the Modern Russian Language sequence. Provides a scientific description of the sound system of contemporary standard Russian: articulatory and acoustic phonetics, the system of vowel and consonant phonemes, positional alternations, syllable structure, stress, and intonation. Theoretical knowledge is reinforced through practical transcription exercises and analysis of spoken Russian.

Second module focusing on the vocabulary system of Russian: lexical meaning, polysemy, homonymy, synonymy, and antonymy. The stratification of Russian vocabulary by origin, stylistic register, and domain of use is analysed. Phraseology, paroemiology, and fixed expressions are examined as special units of the lexical system. Practical dictionary work is a compulsory component.

Third module covering the morphemic structure of Russian words and the mechanisms of vocabulary enrichment. Topics include morpheme analysis, productive word-formation models, and derivational word families. A contrastive block compares Russian and Uzbek word-formation systems, allowing students to deepen understanding of both languages.

Fourth module providing a systematic description of the Russian parts-of-speech system and their grammatical categories. Detailed coverage of: noun (gender, number, case), adjective (agreement, comparison), numeral, pronoun, verb (aspect, tense, mood, voice), participle, adverbial participle, adverb, preposition, conjunction, particle, and interjection. Morphological parsing is practised extensively.

Fifth module covering the structure and function of syntactic units in Russian: the phrase, the simple sentence (including one-part and incomplete sentences), and the complex sentence. Topics include syntactic roles, types of syntactic connection (agreement, government, adjacency), coordination and subordination, and punctuation. Directly serves the development of written literacy.

Sixth and final module of the Modern Russian Language sequence. Covers the functional styles of contemporary Russian: scientific, official-business, journalistic, colloquial, and artistic. Examines the norms of contemporary standard Russian and common speech errors. Rhetorical strategies and skills in editing academic and journalistic texts are developed. Completes the full language competence of the Russian language and literature teacher.

Study of Russian oral folk tradition as a special sign system and the primary source of the literary language. Major genres covered: non-fairy-tale prose (legends, bylички), fairy tales, byliny (heroic epic), lyric songs, and minor forms (proverbs, riddles, zagovory). The interaction between folklore and authored Russian literature — from Pushkin to 20th-century writers — is analysed throughout.

First module of the Russian Language History sequence. Covers the origins and development of East Slavic dialects from Proto-Slavic unity to the formation of the Old Russian language. Students work with written monuments of the 11th–14th centuries: the Tale of Igor's Campaign, the Primary Chronicle, and birch-bark letters. Old Church Slavonic and its influence on the Church Slavic tradition are examined.

Second module covering the formation of Great Russian dialects and the emergence of a common national language in the 15th–18th centuries. Topics include Petrine linguistic reforms, Lomonosov's codification of literary norms, and the establishment of the Pushkin-era literary standard. Written monuments studied range from the Domostroi to Radishchev's Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow.

Third module covering the language of classical 19th-century Russian prose and poetry as the peak of the literary norm, followed by Soviet-era linguistic changes: new coinages, ideologisation of vocabulary, and the 1917–1918 orthographic reform. The post-Soviet linguistic explosion — influx of borrowings, liberation of colloquial and internet speech, and debates about norms — concludes the module.

Fourth module devoted to the territorial variety of the Russian language and field linguistics methods. Northern, Southern, and Central Russian dialects are examined, with attention to dialectal features preserved in literary works and folklore. Students work with dialect dictionaries and atlases and are introduced to field data collection methods.

An advanced theoretical course on current problems of Russian language study: modern grammatical concepts (Moscow Phonological School, functional grammar), corpus linguistics, and sociolinguistics of Russian in the post-Soviet space. Students produce an independent research project using data from the Russian National Corpus (RNC).

Theory and practice of comparative-historical and typological language analysis. Covers the Indo-European language family, language universals, and areal phenomena. A dedicated block focuses on the systematic comparison of Russian (inflectional, Indo-European) and Uzbek (agglutinative, Turkic) at the phonological, morphological, and syntactic levels. Develops cross-linguistic analysis skills essential for teaching Russian as a second language.

A capstone theoretical course systematising the conceptual apparatus of literary studies: categories of genre, style, narrative, chronotope, and image. Major theoretical schools are examined — Formalism, Structuralism, Hermeneutics, Reception Aesthetics, and Poststructuralism — and applied to Russian literary texts. Students produce an extended theoretical essay as part of the summative assessment.

A practical course in modern Uzbek literary language for students studying in Russian-medium groups. Covers the fundamentals of Uzbek phonetics, grammar, and everyday vocabulary, and builds skills in basic communication and reading. Language learning is accompanied by introduction to the cultural and literary traditions of Uzbekistan.

A propaedeutic course building basic receptive, reading, and writing skills in a foreign language (English or another language designated by the department). Typological similarities and differences between the foreign language and Russian are examined. The course provides a foundation for reading scholarly literature on linguistics and literature in foreign languages.

A block of student-choice courses allowing in-depth specialisation. Possible areas include: translation studies (Russian–Uzbek/English), media linguistics, Russian diaspora literature, computational linguistics, rhetorical studies, or other annually updated offerings. Students select courses in consultation with their academic advisor.

Practical placement in educational institutions, editorial offices, publishing houses, or translation agencies accredited by SSIFL. Students apply the theoretical knowledge acquired during their studies in real professional settings: teaching Russian language and literature lessons under mentor supervision, participating in extracurricular activities, and becoming familiar with school administration. A written portfolio and reflective report are submitted after each placement stage.