Faculty of Humanities

Dean  Mikhail Mashkarin  Docent                                                                               Omsk State Technical University  pr. Mira 11, 644050, Omsk  Telephone: +7.3812.652798    Fax: +7.3812.652798  fgo_omgtu@mail.ru

This faculty was created in 1993. It’s one of the largest faculties at the university.

Humanitarization of engineering education and unity of liberal arts and sciences are at the base of education at this faculty. Its fields of study may be interesting for active, creative and motivated people.

There’re yearly international, all-Russian and regional conferences. The faculty also has “Translator in professional communication sphere” program which lets the students get second higher education in addition to the first one.

List of departments:

1.     History, philosophy and social communication

This department teaches the following subjects for all OmSTU fields of study:

·        Russian language and speech culture

·        Philosophy

·        Sociology and political science

·        History

·        Russian history

·        World outlook safety basics

Apart from having traditional forms of studying such as lectures and seminars, the department also has role-plays, brainstorming classes, training of communicative competence, internet-conferences, film watching classes.

2.     Labor and organizational psychology

The department was established in 2002 in order to train specialists in the field of corporate psychology.

The department has a field of study 37.05.02 “Occupational psychology” with major “Psychological support of law enforcement employees”. Specialists in this field of study are engaged in prevention of social conflicts, emergencies related to technology and natural disasters, support employees of law enforcement forces, The Ministry of Emergency Situations, etc. Creation of this field of study is connected with a high psychological stress level in security ministries and individual, interpersonal and social peculiarities of the work.

List of subjects for this field of study:

History, philosophy, pedagogics, foreign language, professional ethics, sociology, religion studies, jurisprudence, political science, logic, cultural studies, mathematics, computer science and information technologies in psychology, anatomy and physiology of central nervous system, higher nervous system and sensory system anatomy, anthropology, first aid basics, health saving technology, general psychology, life safety, experimental psychology, psychology history, animal psychology and comparative psychology, behavioral genetics, personality psychology, psychognosis, mathematical methods in psychology, developmental psychology, pedagogical psychology, social psychology, labor psychology, clinical psychology, psychophysiology, stress psychology, counseling, psychocorrection and rehabilitation, organizational psychology, safety psychology, conflict resolution, ethnopsychology, methods of social and psychological research, human resource management, legal psychology, special or military training, communication and negotiation psychology, crowd and riot psychology, military psychology, psychology of persuasion, criminal psychology, psychological basics of law enforcement activity, counseling services for security agencies, psychological basics for working with employees, crisis psychology, applied pedagogics in security agencies, psychotechnology in law enforcement intelligence operations, penitentiary psychology, military conflict resolution, terrorism psychology, physical education.

3.     Foreign Languages

The department is engaged in teaching the following subjects for all University’s fields of study:

• English, German, French for students of 1-4 years of study

• Negotiations in foreign language (for students of economics and management faculty)

• Machine translation

• Foreign language for “Economics” field of study (Bachelor’s degree)

• Foreign language for master’s program

• English, German, French for beginners

• Foreign language training for doctoral entrance exams

Students can also apply for “Professional Communication Interpreter/Translator” 2-year program. Curriculum includes the following subjects:

• Colloquial English

• Business English

• Profession-oriented English

• Business letters

• Consecutive translation

• English phonetics

• English grammar

• Translation theory

• Introduction to linguistics

• Russian stylistics and speech culture

• Regional geography

Apart from studying, students take part in yearly events such as language club meetings, English song festival, competitions.

4.     Physical Education and Sport

The department is mainly responsible for such subjects as “Physical education” and ‘Applied physical education”. Apart from that, it organizes the following activities:

• Basketball, volleyball, football

• Track and field

• Swimming

• Skiing

• Aerobics

• Powerlifting

• Sambo (martial arts: self-defense without weapon)

5.     Government and municipal control, customs affairs

This department trains specialists in the following fields of study:

1.     38.03.04 Government and municipal control. Students get excellent knowledge in economics, management and labor, administrative, civil, land law, office administration; have skills for using modern organization and human resources management technologies.

2.     38.05.02 Customs affairs. Students get knowledge both in jurisprudence and economics, which makes it possible for students to work not only at customs and law enforcement services, but also governmental and private companies engaged in foreign economics. 

Learn more about this department's fields of study here.