Kharkov National University KhaNatUni
Name | Kharkov National University |
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Abbreviation | KhaNatUni |
Organization Type | School |
Website | http://www.univer.kharkov.ua/en |
Address | Maidan Svobody 4, 61077 |
City | Kharkiv |
Country | Ukraine |
Description | V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University with its over 200-year history is a leading Research and Educational Institution in Ukraine. In the “Top-200 Ukraine” rating conducted by the UNESCO Chair for 2009 Kharkiv University ranks third among all Ukrainian Higher Educational Institutions. According to Scopus, the world’s largest abstract and citation database, the University holds the third position among Ukrainian Research and Educational Institutions by the number of articles published in the leading international scientific publications. Today the University has 20 Schools and 125 Departments which provide training for specialists in 61 majors. The University also comprises 3 Research Institutes (of Astronomy, Biology and Chemistry), Central Scientific Library with over 3.5 million books in its stocks, Botanical Garden, University History Museum, Museum of Natural History, Museum of Archeology and Ethnography. All University Schools, Center for International Students Training and Pre-Enrolment Training Center provide teaching for 15 000 students and 500 postgraduate students. The University employs for teaching and research 308 Doctors of Sciences and Doctors of Letters, full professors and about 800 PhDs, associate professors including 15 academicians and corresponding members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Sectoral Academies. The University is distinguished by its 24 internationally-recognized scientific schools and it has the biggest potential and base for training high skilled personnel in the Left-Bank Ukraine. The University has over 20 Expert and Senior Expert Examining Boards where 10-15 Doctorate and about 60 PhD theses are defended annually. Every year University scientists publish over 60 textbooks and 300 manuals, about 60 monographs and over 80 issues of the University Bulletin and other journals, about 2500 scientific articles and abstracts, including over 400 articles in leading international scientific journals. Annually the University holds more than 150 international and national conferences on research and teaching methods. The University also promotes versatile, close and fruitful cooperation with Research Institutes of the National Academy of Sciences and Sectoral Academies of Ukraine, continues to establish and strengthen contacts with sectoral research institutes and enterprises. Within Research Institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine there were created 17 branches of the University departments. In cooperation with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine the University opened The School of Physics and Energy. The University boasts its wide international recognition as one of the initiators of signing the Magna Charta Universitatum (Bologna, 1998), a co-founder of the Eurasian Universities Association, an active participant of International Association of Universities and European University Association, a training center for about 1500 international students, postgraduate and doctorate students for 50 countries of the world, and a partner in research and educational cooperation with more than 100 universities and other organizations all over the world. |
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Offers training.
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[Info] English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese and Japanese are taught at the School. In addition to the languages, the university curriculum includes basic and professionally-oriented subjects in the field of Philology. They are Basics of Linguistics, Foreign Literature, Latin, Lexicology, Theory of Grammar, Stylistics, Lingua-cultural Studies, Theory and Practice of Translation, Computer Studies, History of Literature, Pedagogy, Foreign Language Teaching, Rhetoric. Optional courses in Translation and Philology are run as well. The School offers a course for post-graduate students who, after having completed the course, are awarded PhD degrees in Germanic languages (English, German) by the PhD Degrees Expert Examining Board. The V.N.Karazin Khakiv University Visnyk scientific journal (Problems of Germanic and Romance Philology, Translation Studies and Foreign Language Teaching) is published within the School. |