Regional Studies

Area studies specialist is a unique job. This is an essential and distinctive specialist who goes into all details and peculiarities of an examined region: from state system and foreign policy trending of high priority to cultural and national peculiarities of local communities. The major section in Foreign Area Studies is Oriental Countries. This specialist is highly intelligent and has an independent thinking, fluent in several foreign languages: English (the language of an international communication) and one of the orient languages (Arabic, Chinese or Korean).

The advantages of education in the field of Foreign Area Studies.

A new field of education in Tyumen Region;

Learning of two or more foreign languages with native speaking professors;

Lectures and seminars in English;

An opportunity to get a highly required profession applicable in various professional fields;

Skill acquisition of complex analysis and sociopolitical assessment and socioeconomical events andprocessin economic, social and cultural-civilizational contexts; translation and interpretation from foreign languages.

Opportunity to attend lectures of invited lecturers from leading Russian academical universities and foreign universities.

Opportunity to study abroad in foreign universities through the exchange programs.

Foreign area studies as a field of education which allows to acquire necessary knowledge and skills for working with foreign partners and for work abroad. The education allows a graduate to be fluent in two languages - English (the language of an international communication) and one of the orient languages (Arabic, Chinese or Korean), go into demographic situation in the region of specialisation, cultural peculiarities and traditions of local communities, their ethnography, history and literature, economics and politics of the countries of the studied region; may assess the capabilities of the region from a military, socio-political, foreign trade, economic and other viewpoints, predict the development of the interrelations with the Russian Federation; develop diplomatic and other contacts with the studiedregion; work out information leaflets, handouts and information materials both in Russian and foreign languages with the purpose of expanding the activities of domestic companies abroad; perform highly professional interpretation of business and official documents; participate into various types of cultural events, including exhibition holding and presentations.