Institute of Humanities
Research projects of the Institute of Humanities
Project scope: Global promotion of Russian language, approach to teaching Russian as a foreign language through the other’s worldview
Project outcomes:
Annual International Student Conference Homo Dicens (2021, 2022)
Scientific publications about the role and status of Moscow in the Russian linguistic consciousness:
- Collection of students’ articles;
- Grebenshchikov Yu., Zakharova M. (2021). Homo Dicens: Human in the Modern World. Sovremennaja nauka: aktual’nye problemy teorii i praktiki. Serija: Gumanitarnye nauki. [Contemporary Science: Relevant Issues of Theory and Practice. Series: Humanities], 9, pp. 103–107;
- Grebenshchikov Yu., Zakharova M.(2022). Using the Resources of the International Digital Olympiad in the Russian Language “Homo Dicens” to Promote the Cultural and Historical Heritage of Moscow. Modern Humanities Success, 7, pp. 183–187.
Internation Student Olympiad in Russian Language
School Student Olympiad in Russian Language
Series of webinars on linguistic worldview for teachers of Russian as a foreign language from Russia, Turkey, India, Serbia, Armenia, and Qazaqstan
Series of webinars on Moscow in the consciousness of native Russian speakers for students from Russia, Turkey, and Poland
Quests for students on cultural and language environment of Moscw
Project lead:
Associate Professor Maria Zakharova, Candidate of Sciences (PhD) in Philology
Project coordinator:
Project scope: Development of cross-disciplinary discourse in teaching disciplines in the humanities; development of students’ positive environmental and civic value orientations through the potential of the national culture
Project outcomes:
Cross-University Cross-Disciplinary Research Conference Natural World in the Space of Culture
2 international cross-disciplinary conferences in the humanities
2 collections of articles
5 multi-authored monographs
MCU Scientific School Natural World in Russian Philology: Theoretical and Historical-Literary Issues
Training module Nature in Russian Philology features the courses:
- The World of Nature in the Conventional Culture;
- Symbolism of Natural Images in Russian Literature;
- Environmental Consciousness in Russian Literature of the 20th Century
Project lead:
Professor Alfiya Smirnova, Head of the Department of Russian Literature
Project coordinator:
Professor Irina Raykova, Deputy Director of the Institute for research work
Project partners:
The State Institute for Art Studies, Polenov State Russian House of Folk Arts, Gorky Institute of World Literature, Lomonosov Moscow State University, University of Delhi (India)
Project scope: Personalization of the content of sociocultural practical training and applied educational technologies; direct participation of students in the design of educational track; cross- and meta-disciplinarity in the learning approaches in the learning environment of the humanities
Project outcomes:
Sorokin A., Kalabukhova G., Polovnikova A., etc. Multi-authored monograph Education in Social Studies and Humanities and Models of Arranging Sociocultural Practical Training of Students (supervised by Viktor Ryabov)
34 teaching staff members of the Institute of Humanities have contributed to the programmes of sociocultural practical training
Features of practical training: Museums and parks, Cinema and theater, Libraries and publishing houses, Urban infrastructure, City: equal opportunities, Ecology of the city, among others
Tracks of practical training: Moscow: folklore, holidays, mystic; Everyday trinity in the U.S.S.R. food, clothes, apartment; History in Moscow streets, among others
Project scope: Practice-oriented activities following the principles of education of cooperation and personalization of students’ learning tracks, including the supporters’ team of teaching experts and awardees of previous years (including graduates of the Institute)
Project outcomes:
Platforms and resources for professional growth:
- Research and Practice Seminar School of Professional Growth;
- Historical-Educational Project School of Historians;
- Historical-Research Community Vagrants;
- Temporary communities of tutoring experts;
- Counseling teaching staff for grant projects.
Study of approaches to the development of learning outcomes diagnostics, special features of arranging students’ creative activities. educational potential of WorldSkills Championships for delivering teacher training.
Students’ opinion study on the training system in the humanities in higher education and search for talented students
Comprehensive training programmes: training sessions, master classes, lectures, play techniques of preparing for competitions
Consultations and simulation of competition procedures in cooperation with the Moscow’s main educational institutions
Students’ practical training in informal education: Lecture course Persons in History, Roundtable The Invisibles in the Ancient History: Women and Children, distance course on history and culture of Armenia, among others
Professional competitions: I am a Professional Olympiad, The All-Russian Online Olympiad in Latin Classical Latin (Kazan, Russia), Teacher of the Future. Students Contest, Let’s Teach You Contest (by SBER Education), WorldSkills Russia Competition, among others