Faculties and Institutes

The Faculty of Foreign Philology

The Department of English Philology

Associate Professors: N.A. Diakova, L.K. Zhukova, N.A. Kniazeva, E.N. Mazina, E.V. Polkhovskaya, I.V. Tatarnikova, L.V. Bondarenko, L.Sh. Kubedinova, A.N. Shimanovich; Senior Lecturers: T.E. Egoshina, O.V. Kharchenko, N.V. Shevchenko, S.E. Chernobay, N.A. Vovk; Tutors: S.G. Arseenko, M.V. Beloventseva, N.N. Trunchenkova, T.V.Melnichenko, A.L. Kharchenko, T.A. Radchenko. Postgraduate – E.N. Serdyuk.

History

The Department of the English Philology has been training students in the specialization of "The English Language" since 1944, when the faculty of the Foreign Languages, comprising the English, French and German Departments was established on the basis of the two-year courses in foreign languages, offered at the Pedagogical Frunze Institute. The first lecturers were A.M. Krilitchevsky, Associate Professor and B.S.Jusim. A.G.Altunin, who became the head of the English Department later, was among its graduates (1948).

In 1957 The Faculty of the Foreign Languages was closed.

In 1967 the Faculty of The English Language was opened, headed by the senior lecturer A.G Altunin. For some years it trained students for teaching English at Secondary School. It had two departments: the Department of the English Language, headed by A.G Altunin and the Department of the English Philology, headed by I.G. Dolinina, Associate Professor. Other members of the staff were: N.K. Varypajeva, A.I Ischin (later the Dean of the Faculty), T.Ja. Verbova., T.N. Malygina. Theoretical courses were provided by the Professors: A.I. Germanovitch and V.N.Migirin; Associate Professors: M.I. Novikova, O.I. Bajkov and others.

In 1972 the English Faculty was reorganized into the Faculty of the Foreign Languages of Simferopol State Frunze University, which later became the Faculty of the Germanic Philology and in 1993 it was returned its previous name.

In order to optimize the teaching process as well as to develop new curriculum and advance scientific work at the Faculty, some Associate Professors from other universities were invited in 1979-s. Those were: L.K. Zhukova, L.Ya. Tsvet, T.P. Abaschev, A.V. Timoschenko, S.I. Kucher, Professor Ju.A. Dubovsky and others. British philologists worked there during some years. In 1980-s V.A. Kunitsyna and A.P. Zherdeva defended their PhD theses and M.A. Novikova obtained her Doctoral Degree in Philology.

In 1986 the two English Departments were combined and the Department of the English Language was formed, which later on, in the year of 2000 was renamed the Department of the English Philology.

In 2004-2005 Luise Gabron, a specialist in methods of teaching English, carried on weekly seminars and workshops for the staff of the Department.

In October 2005 L.K. Zhukova, Associate Professor, Candidate of Philology was given a rank of the "Honoured Specialist in Education of the Crimea."

At present the Department of the English Philology provides BA, Specialist and MA degree courses in the specialization of "The English Language and Literature" and MA in Philology. The Department offers full-time courses as well as part-time courses and an opportunity for distance learning. The specialists of the Department of the English Philology carry out training courses at the Crimean State Institute of Economy, at the Kerch affiliation of the TNU and at the Institute of the Post Graduate Education.

Academic staff

Theoratical (obligatory) courses for full-time and part-time students and for distant learning

• Methods and Organization of Scientific Research - N.A.Dyakova, Associate Professor;
• Introduction into the Special Philology - E.V. Polkhovskaya, Associate Professor;
• Theory of the English Language - N.A. Dyakova, Associate Professor;
• History of English Language. N.A. Diakova, Associate Professor.
• Lexicology of the English Language - L.K. Zhukova, Associate Professor;
• Methods of Teaching a Foreign Language at a Secondary School- Svitlana Ye. Chornobay, Senior Lecturer
• Theory of the English Grammar - N.A. Knyazeva, Associate Professor;
• Stylistics of the English Language - E.N. Mazina, Associate Professor;
• Labour Protection - N.V. Vovk
• Theoretical Course in the Second Foreign Language – A.N. Shimanovich, Associate Professor;
• Methods of Teaching a Foreign Language in the Institutions of Higher Learning – L.V. Bondarenko, Associate Professor;
• Cultural Studies/ Area studies, Second Foreign Language - L.K. Zhukova, Associate Professor.

Optional courses for full-time and part-time students and for distant learning

• English Phraseology - N.A.Dyakova, Associate Professor, S.Ye. Chornobay, Senior Lecturer;
• Grounds of the American Studies - L.K. Zhukova, Associate Professor;
• Principles and methods of the Cultural Studies - N. A.Knyazeva, Associate Professor;
• Business English - I.V.Tatarnikova, Associate Professor;
• Main Problems of the American Literature - E. N. Mazina, Associate Professor;
• Problems of Lexicography. Perspectives of Development - N.V.Shevchenko, Senior Lecturer;
• History of the English Literature - E.V. Polkhovskaya, Associate Professor;
• Grounds of Business Communication in English - L.K. Zhukova, Associate Professor;
• English Poetry of the 12-20 centuries - E.V. Polkhovskaya, Associate Professor;
• Comperative Phraseology - L.Sh. Kubedinove, Associate Professor;
• Philological Topology of the English Poetry (in English) - N.A. Dyakova, Associate Professor.

Academic and Educational Relations

The Department of the English Philology works in close cooperation with other Departments of the TNU and State Universities in Ukraine, such as the Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Sevastopol State City University.

Conferences and publications

Members of the Department Academic staff annually participate in conferences and seminars in Philology, Linguistics, Communication strategies, Literature and Criticism, which take place in different Universities and other Institutions of Higher Learning in Ukraine as well as in the International Conferences and Workshops conducted by British and American colleagues.

Text-books:

• L.K. Zhukova, N.S.Smirnova. Windows on the USA. - Simferopol, 2003, 468p.

Perspective

• In the near future it is planned to develop the Department's academic interactions with both Ukrainian and International Institutions and Organizations in order to increase its academic level and the quality of teaching;
• Tutors: T. Melnichenko, S.Chornobay are defending their theses for PhD degree.