Yevdokia Browning exclusively to Vestnik Kavkaza
This year is the fifth anniversary of the perfect journalist mastery subdivision at Moscow State Linguistic University. The subdivision was initiated by MSLU president, academician of RAO Irina Khaleyeva. The university tried to take part in the settlement of a state or even international task, i.e. it was necessary to help the mass media of the post-Soviet space, which were published in Russian, to survive in the current changing informational world. The subdivision is aimed at advanced training of Russian-speaking journalists in CIS countries.
At the moment, the subdivision with the help of other MSLU structures prepares specialists in the sphere of modern Russian multimedia journalism and the modern Russian and CIS cultural-informational space. The level of training can be different: the subdivision conducts week-long advanced training courses, including summer and winter schools of young journalists from the CIS, Baltic countries, and Georgia. However, the course most in demand comprises about 600 academic hours of lessons and practice which take three semesters. If required, the course can be “squeezed” into two semesters.
Students are interested in such disciplines as contemporary Russian language and stylistics of the Russian language in journalism. It appears that even students from neighboring countries who have highest humanitarian education in Russian need to constantly improve their linguistic knowledge in their practice. The Russian language in the subdivision is in the reliable hands of PhDs (Philology) Tatyana Berezhnaya and Iskra Kosmarskaya. Of course, students can also improve their English, German and French.
“I have no heart to call the course of Modern Cultural Informational Space “theoretical”,” the head of the subdivision, Alan Kasayev, told Vestnik Kavkaza. The course is unique for a journalism major, and it consists of two parts. Technology and psychology of interviewing, public speaking and rhetoric, work with acute media texts, and producing media projects using visual content as an inevitable part of modern media products. This is the course by Anastasia Davydova who is an experienced person in the sphere of tele- and photojournalism, producing visual media projects, organization of wide-scale art projects and musical shows. The history of Russia and the CIS countries as a process of cultural informational development and cooperation is taught by Professor Gennady Bordyugov. Under his management graduates of 2013 from Azerbaijan prepared and published a unique work – the study guide “Media Space of Azerbaijan.” Graduates of 2012 from the same country prepared the book “The Image of Azerbaijan in the Modern World.”
Students of the subdivision get an opportunity to work, using new media technologies in the most “advanced” Moscow mass media. The administration of the university plans to launch a program on media management in 2014, allowing MSLU to prepare specialists on a new major in Russia – “producer of media projects.” The academic year begins in mid-October.
