Faculty of Romance and Germanic Languages

Administration

General Information and Academic Programes

The Faculty of Romance and Germanic Languages was established on January 2, 2001, by order of the Rector of the National University of Ostroh Academy. The Faculty was conferred the 4th level of accreditation on July 30, 2014 (Decree No. 2657л of The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine).

The Faculty offers bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes in 035.041 Philology. Germanic Languages and Literatures (including Translation), English Major.

The Faculty alumni know the fundamental principles and concepts of the theory and history of the English language and literature, communication theory, philological analysis and text interpretation principles; are familiar with the past, current state, and the prospects for the development of the science of philology; speak fluent English, German/French in their literary form; are aware of and use the basic methods and techniques of different types of oral and written foreign language communication.

List of the Programmes

Baccalaureate (first-cycle academic degree):

• Germanic Languages and Literatures (including Translation), English Major
• English and Second Foreign (German/French) languages. Literature. Translation

Master’s degree programme (second-cycle academic degree):

• Germanic Languages and Literatures (including Translation), English Major
• Language Mediation and TESOL

Scientific Research Activities of the faculty

Fields of scientific research:

The comprehensive research topic of the Department of English Language and Literature - Modern Technologies in Teaching English and Interpretation of the Texts of World Literature, the State registration number is 0120U103937; scientific supervisor – Oksana Yu. Kostiuk, Cand. Sc. (Pedagogics), Associate Professor.

The Comprehensive research topic of the the Department of Indo-European Languages - Applied Linguistic Studies in Terms of Intercultural Communication, the State registration number – 0116U003900; the scientific advisor is Inna V. Kovalchuk, Cand.Sc. (Psychology), Associate Professor.

The Comprehensive research topic of the Department of International Verbal Communication – Specialised English for Non-Linguist Students in Higher Educational Institutions), the State registration number – 0120U105113.

The Comprehensive research topic of the Department of English Philology - Lexical and Phraseological Aspects of Discourse, the State registration number is 0120U105117; the scientific supervisor is Anatolii O. Khudolii, Doctor of Science (Politics), Full Professor.

Specialized Scientific Periodicals:

Scientific Proceedings of Ostroh Academy National University: Philology Series. The periodical is included in The List of Specialised Scientific Editions Empowered to Publish the Doctoral or Candidate of Science Dissertations Results. The journal enters the international and national scientometric databases of scientific publications.: INDEX COPERNICUS ICV 2020: 65,77, Google Scholar, Google Академія, DOI.

Academic Conferences

The Faculty members have vast experience holding regional and international academic conferences and round table meetings. In 2002, the International Summer School, American Studies in Ukraine, was held. For 10 days, 65 instructors from the leading Universities of Ukraine and Eastern Europe and 15 professors from the USA and Europe had been discussing the issues of American Studies. According to leading experts and representatives of the Embassy of the United States, the event was organized at a high level and was quite efficient.

In April 2002, the Nationwide Student Scientific Conference on TESOL was held. The participants of the Conference represented all the regions of Ukraine.

In 2007, the International Scientific and Practical Conference, Intercultural Communication: Language - Culture - Personality, was launched. In 2016, it was replaced by the International Scientific and Practical Conference Applied Linguistic Studies in Terms of Intercultural Communication.

In 2010, the International Internet Conference, the International Internet Conference Linguo-Cognitive and Sociocultural Aspects of Communication, was launched.

In 2011, the All-Ukrainian Student Scientific and Practical Conference Linguistic and Cultural Aspects of Communication, was held the first time.

The Symposium on Canadian Studies was launched in 2011.

2013 was the starting point of the Annual Canadian Scientific Readings and the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Internet conference, English for Specific Purposes.

In 2015, the first Virtual International Conference Modern Technologies in Teaching English and Interpretation of the Texts of World Literature, was organised.

In September 2018, the faculty hosted the IX Congress of Ukrainian Spaniards.

From 2017 to 2019, following the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine "On the All-Ukrainian Student Olympiad" Order, the faculty held the second stage of the All-Ukrainian Student Olympiad in "English Language and Literature".

The Faculty encompasses:

• DELE Exam Center (International Diplomas of Spanish as a Foreign Language);
• Testing Center for the German International Certificate onSET (DaF-Online)
• Camridge Club Testing Center for the English International Certificate
• Research Laboratory Modern Technologies of Forming a Foreign Language Communicative Competence (supervised by Inna V. Kovalchuk, Cand.Sc. (Psychology)) in collaboration with Research Laboratory of Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, PREFics, of the University of Rennes (France).
• LinguaPark Academic Research Center (Head - Cand.Sc. (Philology), Associate Professor Lesia M. Kotsiuk L.M.) (reference to the Regulations and Structure).

Scientific Groups and Seminars:

• The Structural and Semantic Features of Phraseological Units in the Languages of Different Structural Type (supervised by Victoria L. Polishchuk, Cand. Sc. (Philology), senior teacher)
• Text Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Linguistics (supervised by Anatoliy O. Khudoliy, Doctor of Science (Politics), Cand.Sc. (Phylology), Full Professor)
• Applied aspects of Linguistic Studies: Lexicology, Terminology, Corpus Linguistics, Translation (scientific supervisor Lesia. M. Kotsiuk) 
• Literary Translation Studio (supervised by Oleksii A. Pelypenko, senior lecturer)
• Modern Translation and Localization Studio (supervised by Yu. V. Zablotskii)
• The Semantics of Language and Text (supervised by Halyna V. Kraichynska, Cand.Sc. (Phylology), Associate Professor) 
• Linguocognitive, Pragmatic, and Sociocultural Aspects of Communication (supervised by Inna V. Kovalchuk, Cand.Sc. (Psychology), Associate Professor) 
• Socio- and Psycholinguistic Studies (supervised by Svitlana V. Novoseletska, Cand.Sc. (Psychology), Associate Professor) 
• Educational and methodical seminar "New Trends in TESL”;
• Scientific and methodological seminar The Newest Technologies in English Language Teaching Modern Technologies in Teaching English and Interpretation of the Texts of World Literature (supervised by Oksana Kostiuk);
• Literary Discussions for the Freshers (supervised by Lidiia V. Zelinska, Cand.Sc. (Philology), Associate Professor)

Language Clubs:

• English Speaking Club (supervised by Iryna M. Marsymchuk)
• English club Chatter Box
• Polish Language Club Polskie wieczorki (supervised by Yuliya K. Kratyuk)  
• French Language Club Panorama (supervised by Anna Tkach)
• German Language Club Loreley (supervised by Oleksandr P. Karvets)

The students are provided with: linguaphone laboratories, computer class, modern digital multimedia equipment, regional resource center for foreign languages, video center, media center.

Departments:

• Department of English Language and Literature
• Department of English Philology
• Department of Indo-European Language
• Department of International Verbal Communication

Partners

The faculty cooperates with Ukrainian and foreign higher educational establishments and scientific institutions:

• Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University (Lutsk)
• Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University (Zhytomyr)
• Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University (Vinnytsia)
• Taras Shevchenko National University (Kyiv)
• Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Lviv)
• Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University (Ternopil)
• Northumbria University (Newcastle, Great Britain)
• Jan Kochanowski University of Humanities and Sciences in Kielce (Poland)
• Universities of Warsaw and Krakow (Poland)
• University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Warsaw, Poland)
• Catholic University of Paris (France)
• Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany)
• The Cervantes Institute (Spain)
• The University of Rzeszów (Poland)
• The University of Rennes (France)