Humanities

The course gives a concise survey of the Chinese character-writing tradition. You’ll master the fundamentals of the Chinese writing aesthetics; learn about the main phases of the characters’ evolution and about the great calligraphers of the past. You are going to distinguish 6 types of the Chinese written symbols, [...]

We are going to talk about Contemporary literature specifically, but it doesn’t include only the literature of the most recent years. It is technically a course on the history of literature, but the history starting from the late Soviet period up until today. The goal is to show [...]

In the course “Understanding Russians: Contexts of Intercultural Communications": we will: build skills in the analysis of the intercultural communication process using Russian-Western communication as an example; apply the knowledge of interrelations between different contexts of communication (cultural, institutional, professional, social, interpersonal, etc, to the cultural history and national [...]

Main objective of this course is to trace the development of the Cultural and Creative Industries as an idea and as concept and to identify the key points of changes within it in relations with contemporary digital connected world. Another important task of this course is to provide the [...]

This course provides an introduction to the study of the history, major teachings, and practices of the major Chinese religions and spiritual practices and is deigned to give conceptual tools to appreciate diverse religious practice in East. It covers the development of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism and wide range of [...]

Знакомит с теоретическим наследием в области медиа, обучает основным подходам к теоретическому анализу медиа и прослеживает логику развития медиасистем в современных обществах.

Курс дает представление о предмете философии культуры и ее базовом концептуальном аппарате, а также истории философских учений о культуре от античности до современности. A course dedicated to the description of a subject area of the philosophy of culture and its basic conceptual apparatus.

The processes of globalization are highly complex and influence the multi-layered structures of societies: economic, socio-cultural, political, linguistic and education aspects among others. A remarkable increase in global migration flows, especially over the last decade, required from the host countries to pay particular attention to the provision of equal [...]