ЯРОСЛАВСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКИЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ

Founded in 1908, Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University (YGPU) is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Russia. In addition to twelve regular departments, the university maintains an institute of teacher training, a center for Russian language testing of foreign students, an astronomy society, university museum and botanical gardens.

The School in Russia program at YGPU is coordinated through the Department of International Relations. Instructors at the School in Russia program come from филологический факультет of the Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University, as well from other institutions of higher education in the city.

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Standard School in Russia academic program at YGPU:

FALL 2009

• Advanced Written Russian
• Russian Cultural Studies
• Spoken Russian
• Advanced Intermediate Grammar
• Patterns of Advanced Russian Discourse

       Спецкурсы:

• 19th Century Russian Literature: "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin
• Modern History & Contemporary Politics

SPRING 2010

• Advanced Grammar
• Advanced Written Russian  
• Language Of Newspapers  
• Russian Film 

Спецкурсы:

• Modern History and Contemporary Politics    
• Russian History (IX-XIX Centuries)

Mainstream courses:

YGPU can offer qualified American students mainstream classes in the following departments and sub-departments:

• Geography (sub-departments in botany, anatomy, zoology, organic chemistry, general chemistry)
• History (general history; theology; modern history; Russian history, methodology)
• Mathematics (algebra, geometry, theoretical mathematics)
• Pedagogics
• Physical Culture (sports medicine, sports education, sport mastery)
• Physics
• Psychology (general psychology; pedagogy; social and political psychology)
• Russian Philology and Culture (Russian Literature, culturology, communication theory and advertising, linguistics)