Jagiellonian University in Krakow introduces Russian-language curriculum

At the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, there is already a specialty "Russian Studies" - in Polish and partly in Russian, but from the next academic year the faculty will offer a specialty, training in whichwill be conducted exclusively in Russian. Andrzej Dudek, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of International and Political Studies, confidently informed the journalists about this.

Three years ago, the university had the idea to offer a program in English "International Relations and Area Studies", which was done. Considering the success of this program, the Jagiellonian University concluded that the same program could be offered in Russian. For this reason, in 2016, a new program "International Relations and Regional Studies" starts, which provides for three specialties - "International Security", "Politics and Culture" and "Regional Studies".

Teaching specialists will mainly be teachers, some of whom are already working at the Institute of Russia and Eastern Europe. The other part of the teachers are employees of the Institute of Political Science and International Relations, the Institute of European Studies. The program also intends to take advantage of the help of specialists from the University of Economics in Krakow, where teachers come from the former Soviet republics who speak Russian well enough to conduct their classes in it.

Thus, everyone can enter a specialty in Russian at the Jagiellonian University - both graduates of schools where teaching is conducted in Russian, and those who just have the required language certificates.If the person who wants to study in this specialty does not have such documents, you can always go through a separate interview with the commission.

“We try to show Russia as comprehensively as possible. The Russian Studies program is an interdisciplinary program offering a variety of subjects. And the one who graduates from our faculty, who is a Russian scholar after the Jagiellonian University, is a person whois supplied with solid knowledge, aware of what stereotypes are, Polish-Russian stereotypes, how they work, ”says Andrzej Dudek.

Anastasia Gorovaya