ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The Department of Foreign Languages was founded in 1954 as a result of the merger of the respective departments of the Agricultural, Forestry, and Veterinary Institutes. In 1976 the Department of Foreign Languages was divided into two departments: the Department of English and the Department of German and French. In 2002 the Department of English was further divided into three departments according to fields of study. The Department of English for Economic Specialties became structurally part of the Natural Sciences and Humanities Educational and Research Institute.

In January 2015, due to the restructuring of the university, the Department of English for Economic Specialties was renamed the Department of English Philology. Since 2002 the department had first been headed by N. S. KHARCHUK and later by N. O. ARISTOVA. Since January 2023, the department has been headed by Senior Lecturer Liudmyla Volodymyrivna KLYMENKO.

Currently, the academic and teaching staff of the department consists of 18 members, including Candidates of Pedagogical Sciences, Candidates of Philological Sciences, a Candidate of Sciences in Public Administration, a Candidate of Political Sciences.

The mission of the department is the professional training of highly qualified specialists capable of organically combining a high level of general education with profound theoretical and professional knowledge of the English language, as well as possessing skills of spiritual and physical self-improvement and individual and collective professional activity.

The goal of the department is to provide in-depth professionally oriented foreign language training to students at a level that enables them to use a foreign language in their future professional activities without the assistance of an interpreter.

The Department of English Philology is the main educational and research unit that ensures the implementation of all types of educational, scientific and methodological, research, and cultural-educational activities.

Tasks of the department:

• organization and high-quality implementation of educational, scientific and methodological, organizational and educational work with full-time, part-time, and external students;

• organization of the educational process aimed at training highly qualified specialists who must organically combine a high level of general education with deep theoretical and professional knowledge of the English language and possess skills of spiritual and physical self-improvement, as well as individual and collective professional activity.

The main areas of the department’s research activity include educational work, scientific and methodological work, organizational and educational work, international cooperation, and contract-based activities.