Department : Intercultural professional communication department

The Department of Intercultural Professional Communication (formerly "Modern European Languages" until September 1, 2017) has been operational since March 17, 1997. Since its inception, the department has been led by Associate Professor Alla Ivanovna Sorokina, PhD. The department consists of 10 faculty members, including 2 PhD holders, 5 senior lecturers, and 3 instructors. All faculty members have experience teaching two or three foreign languages.

To enhance their educational practices, the faculty regularly undergo professional development at leading universities within the country. With linguistic backgrounds, department faculty have also undergone retraining in economic disciplines.

The faculty actively contributes to the education of students in several specialties: Business Administration, Marketing, Economics and Enterprise Management, Management of Innovative Projects in Industrial Enterprises, Management of Design Projects in Industrial Enterprises, Commercial Equipment and Technologies, and Production of Exhibition and Advertising Objects. Currently, English, Chinese, and German are the primary foreign languages taught at the faculty. The Confucius Institute for Science and Technology at BNTU oversees the teaching of Chinese language courses.

Students have the opportunity to commence the study of a second or third foreign language, such as German, Spanish, Italian, or French, through language courses offered by the department. The department offers a wide range of courses, including Foreign Language (English, German, Chinese), Business Administration (in a foreign language), Business Language, Professional Lexicon (in a foreign language), Basics of Marketing (in a foreign language), Business Foreign Language, Basics of Business (in a foreign language), Marketing in English, Technical Translation (in a foreign language), Technical Documentation for Commercial Equipment in Foreign Economic Activity, and Belarusian Language (professional lexicon).

During classes, students acquire a comprehensive set of language skills and competencies in communicative abilities across various types of foreign language speech activities, utilizing professional economic and technical vocabulary (in economics and management, commercial activities, marketing, international economic relations, international management, small business economics, business cultures in international business, strategies of communicative behavior, technical documentation, commercial equipment, etc.). They also gain knowledge of sociocultural and sociolinguistic specifics of the country where the language is studied.

For three consecutive academic years (2015/2016, 2016/2017, and 2018/2019), the department was awarded the first place pennant in the "Best Humanities Department" category following reviews and competitions among the faculties of the Belarusian National Technical University.