Undergraduate programs

The heritage of the world literature and all richness of Russian language will open for students of this major. Knowledge and skills of theoretical and applied linguistics as well as a technique of teaching Russian and literature will be necessary for work in the field of education, literary editing, and media. Training in this area means receiving thorough, high quality education according to the international standards.

Students of this major get an education which allows them to teach English in various types of educational institutions and training centers, and at all stages of the general secondary education. The additional major of primary education gives the chance to work as the elementary school teacher.

Students can receive a discount for additional education courses.
The students of this major enjoy the diversity of several foreign languages. The graduate will get an education which will allow working in various types of educational institutions and also in the foreign culture centers, language schools, travel agencies and mass media. Besides, students will receive psychology and pedagogical training which will provide better communication skills and become a professional in teaching a foreign langguage to children and adults.

Students can receive a discount for additional education courses
One of the priorities in the field of learning foreign languages is studying Chinese. China is an important cultural and economic partner worldwide. In this regard the experts knowing Chinese are in high demand nowadays.

The graduates will become teachers of history and social science at schools and colleges. It may be interesting for those who are interested in all aspects of social life, politics, who try to have a full ‘picture of the world’.

The graduates of this major can be regarded as multi-skilled specialists. Having gained special knowledge of pedagogics, psychology, the theory of the state and law, constitutional law of Russia and foreign countries, international law, law enforcement agencies and also of a technique of training of history the graduate can work as the teacher of historical and legal disciplines and also in judicial and law enforcement agencies, public authorities and local government, in the social sphere where special knowledge in the field of law is required.

This major is intended for training of the teacher of history in schools and colleges. Lectures of the leading professors of Minin University can be compared to the time machine. Students will be able to travel in space. All secrets of the world history will be open for graduates. Besides, they will receive psychology and pedagogical training which will allow knowledge transfer to younger generation.

This program is aimed at complex psychological, pedagogical and methodical training of students in the field of teaching a foreign language (English) and Russian as foreign language. The mission of the educational program is to raise the highly qualified, competitive specialist.

While the number of the international educational programs continuously increase, the training of professionals in the field of teaching Russian as a foreign language is a primary task. The curriculum was developed to help a foreign student to master all levels of studying Russian as a foreign language up to the native speaker's level. Therefore, the emphasis is placed on practice of teaching Russian to foreigners.

The educational program is aimed at integral studying of historical process developments, nations and confessions of Russia. The program is practice-oriented.

Philosophy today is an active, socially oriented science as well as a foundation for further scientific activity. Social systems are the most complex ones, so the management of those is the most difficult type of management. A manager of the future is an expert familiar with the scope of the philosophical knowledge necessary to perceive the reality, perform its analysis and exercise necessary influence. Social management assumes training of the qualified specialists capable of building solid social communication and to effectively manage human assets.

This major allows graduates of theological seminaries getting the higher secular education. The program is aimed at giving fundamental and vocational training in the field of theology, implementing the acquired competences in the pedagogical sphere, government agencies and NGOs.

Students can receive a discount for programs of further education
We train specialists in the field of graphic design, capable to perform creative activities in the sphere of ICT as well as in the field of social and cultural environment.

Students can receive a discount for additional education courses
This major trains teachers to work at schools and colleges. Besides, graduates can work in the field of decorations. Works of arts and crafts can be found anywhere: at home, in furniture, cook ware, clothes and jewelry. Since ancient times this art form has been very important for people, reflecting their ideas of the world and beauty. Students of this major master a large number of various techniques on producing objects of decor, creating things which can become decoration of any house.

This major trains art teachers to work at educational institutions. Students study technology of painting in perfectly equipped workshops under the leadership of the famous Nizhny Novgorod artists. The history of art, participation in various creative and scientific events, exhibitions, local, national and international projects — the students of this major can show their talent in painting to a full extent. Besides, psychology and pedagogical training will allow graduates to teach younger generation to express their thoughts and ideas in bright images of the fine arts.

The major trains music teachers for educational institutions. Students of this major find themselves in the atmosphere of treble clefs, music sheets and fine sounds. Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and other great composers for the period of the studies will get closer to the fans of classical music. Besides, psychology and pedagogical training will allow graduates to inspire young generations to value fine music of great composers.

A producer is an expert who manages financial, administrative, technological or legal aspects and is also engaged in repertoire policy during implementation of any project in the field of culture. Students of the major, on completing the training, will be experts in different spheres — law, economy, management and culture.
There is a shortage of professional producers at the market. Primary places of employment for graduates are specialized production centers, record companies, film companies, theaters, concert agencies, television and radio.

The recreational geography means considering geography in terms of tourism development. It is a scientific direction which studies territorial regularities and features of human activity. Students of this major will be able to assess tourist resource potential; estimate the current state and the prospects of development of this direction; they will be able to understand and apply trends of tourism and recreation.

Nowadays, environmental protection means not only the romantics of expeditions to the remote corners of the planet to explore the ‘untouched nature’, but also solving the problem of manufacturing enterprises where it is necessary to decrease pollutants, thus protecting air and water. Such a system, when companies are interested in reduction of the environmental impact is called the economics of environmental management and is used in all civilized world. Graduates of this major will learn to protect the environment and to keep the nature as untouched as possible.

We are training highly skilled and competitive specialist in biology capable to perform his/her active, creative, innovative activity and professional growth.

The mission of the educational program is to train a teacher – a mathematician, an innovation expert, capable of boosting mathematical education and life-long personal progress under any circumstances.

Graduates of the major are authorized to teach ‘the Queen of Sciences’ — mathematics. Besides, completing the course, the students will have an opportunity to teach one more discipline — Information Technologies. Our graduates are talented teachers at schools and colleges, and quite often become faculty staff of universities.

The mission of the educational program is to train a teacher, an innovation specialist who can apply modern economic and mathematical thinking and has a high level of pedagogical culture as the most important element of society development.

All mysteries of flora and fauna will open for students of this major. Graduates are talented teachers at schools and colleges as well as professors at universities.

This major trains teachers at schools and colleges as well as professors at universities. Graduates may teach two disciplines. Entrants who are interested in chemical formulas, test tubes and experiments are welcome here.

This major is run in cooperation with the Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences. Upon graduation you can work not only teaching two subjects, but also be engaged in scientific and/or engineering activities for physics, working in the scientific and educational centers, guiding projects performed by school children, translating and review popular scientific literature, movies and perform many other activities.

We are offering complex and high-quality training of pedagogical staff in the sphere of Information Technologies, capable of performing pedagogical, design, research, cultural and educational activities at schools and colleges.

Students can receive a discount for additional education courses
An Information Science Manager is an expert whose work guarantees effective management of information resources on the basis of the latest technologies. Computational economists can implement development methods of information systems and databases. They are able to perform works on launching modern information systems in various sectors of the economy. Obtained knowledge will help graduates to accustom quickly to key sectors of modern information economy and to find work in consulting services in the field of IT; companies offering information and communication products and services; IT departments of banks and insurance companies, investment and pension funds, and at innovative companies in general.

Business management without extensive use of hardware and complicated software is not possible anymore. Information systems are a core element in accounting, storekeeping and purchasing. Students of this major will gain theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the field of creation, functioning and use of information technologies, means of communications, access to data- and knowledge bases, use of modern application programs, intellectual technologies and systems intended for solving functional management tasks as well as systems that support managerial decision-making.

Human resource management, creating favorable social and psychological climate and modern organizational culture, solving and prevention of conflicts, psychological guidance of innovations and many other things form the scope of duties of our graduates. Nowadays, large organizations can't do without a psychologist. This is the reason why our graduates won't face any employment problems.

Mental processes, properties and conditions of a person which are spotted in various areas of human activity — all mysteries of behavior and psychology will be open to students of this major. In the process of training of future psychologists modern methods and formats of training are used. The psychologists work in all spheres of personal (inner world, family, the relations with people around) and public life — in education, medicine, sport, business, law, military science, religious practice, advertizing, design, information technologies, art, policy making.

The modern system of preschool education needs innovative approaches. The shortage of qualified personnel in preschool educational institutions and new requirements to professional staff in the field demands the updated maintenance of forms and methods of training. This program is aimed at training psychology and pedagogical staff to perform different types of psychology and pedagogical activity in modern preschool educational institutions and centers of development and education.

Following secondary vocational education: training period — 5 years (complete training period) and 3.5 years (intense program) part time form of education. Entry examinations in Russian, biology, mathematics
Creating environment which will provide better adaptation for children at the initial stage of school training, to find out some information of the child's character traits and engage in building/modifying his/her individual educational trajectory — these aspects and many other issues will be the duties of the graduate. Education of the growing-up personality and psychological assistance at early stages is one of the most important functions of graduates of this major.

The professional activity fields of our students are education, social sphere, health care, culture. Graduates are in demand in psychological, pedagogical and social assistance to students, teachers and parents in educational institutions of various kinds and types. The social educational psychologist ensures the rights of children, participates in creation of the comfortable and safe environment in educational institution, ensures social protection of students belonging to certain categories: orphans and children who found themselves in a difficult life situations.

We train future expers in bringing up and educating children with special intellectual development. The task of a teacher in this sphere is to give to the disabled child a chance to lead full-fledged life, to join the world around, its achievements and values. Oligophrenopedagogics exists on a joint of pedagogics, medicine and psychology. The first principle of work of such an expert is pedagogical optimism without which there is no sense to be engaged with children who need special help.

We train graduates to work with children, teenagers and adults with disabilities. Graduates will be able to apply the knowledge in the field of education, medical, psychological, pedagogical and rehabilitation centers, research establishments and laboratories which are carrying out scientific and practical activities in the sphere of a research and correction of various types of disabilities: sensor, motor, intellectual, emotional and other. The competences of graduates to develop and implement programs of psychological guidance and development of physically disabled people of different age are in demand in healthcare and social security institutions.

The speech therapy specialist does not only train correct sound pronunciation. It begins with developing skills of attention, visual and acoustical perception (recognition and distinction), memory, thinking, e general and fine motor skills with children. Lacking these skills makes it impossible to adjust to the educational process. Tasks of the speech therapy specialist include extension and enrichment of vocabulary, development of the coherent speech and spelling training, correction of grammar mistakes. Apart from the corrective techniques, the speech therapy specialist is familiar with fundamentals of neuropathology, psychopathology, pathology of hearing and speech system. Our professors will teach students to help children and adults to cope with speech problems.

The motor transport today is the largest industry which holds the leading position in the transport complex of the country. The field of professional activity includes technologies, planning and management of technical and commercial operation of the transport systems, managing rational interaction of different means of transport within a common transport system and transport safety. The graduates have a wide employment choice: automobile shops and repair stations; traffic police; state transport inspection and many other fields of employment.

The program mission includes ensuring comprehensive and high-quality training of experts that can meet the market requirements. The graduates have all the needed hard and soft skills and can use modern technologies when managing/working at any sector of the tourism industry.

These graduates can be really called multi-purpose specialists. Having gained special knowledge of pedagogics, psychology and technology, students master the economic theory, world economy, business economics, management and marketing. They are ready to be professionally engaged in education, culture, social and economic sphere. They will be able to find an interesting and well-salaried job and to feel confident in quite different fields of activity — education, production or administration.

This major allows a student to master economic and administrative methods of managing business activity of the companies of different legal forms and size. They can also work as school or college teachers as well as university professors.

Our students will get the needed knowledge in special legal disciplines. They will also learn how to transfer this knowledge to others. They are not only attorneys, lawyers or counsels but also managers trained to work in private and public fields and government agencies. Being "armed" with various communicative techniques, they can successfully resolve controversial issues arising in various situations of public/interpersonal relations including business administration or HR legal field.

This educational program is aimed at mastering all kind of tasks in finance and accounting, insurance, taxation and also in the field of professional and pedagogical activity by studying techniques of vocational education and pedagogy.

This educational program includes modules of learning universal culture, pedagogy, methodics and business administration, in particular effective management of organization and its human resources.

A future graduate will be able to assess cost efficiency of management decisions, develop business plans for public and private enterprises, compile analytical reports on economic activity of an enterprise. Such an expert will be in demand in the financial and insurance companies, economic, financial and analytical departments of enterprises in various industries.

A future graduate will be able to management enterprise cash flow, manage investments, perform analysis in the banking sphere. Holistic knowledge in the sphere of financial management, banking, insurance, public and municipal finances, monetary circulation, securities market will help to find employment at credit institutions, financial and tax administrations, pension funds and insurance companies.

It is one of the most demanded specialties nowadays. People are the key assets of any company, so sometimes HRM is called Human Talent Management. Competent HRM is one of the most important areas to manage at any company: the competitiveness of the enterprise and its development depends on it. The expert in the sphere of human resources management has to plan and control individual development of staff, improving their skillset. However, strategically, such a specialist can leverage building up a staff development center that can manage staffing, training and development, compensations and benefits, effectiveness assessment and many other areas.

We are committed to the comprehensive training of a modern manager that conforms to requirements of the market and social expectations, who has all necessary skills for professional self-determination and self-development, with high level of (professional) culture.

What is technical condition of the real estate? How much does it cost? How to operate the real estate effectively? Graduates of this major can answer these questions. Students will learn to consider the core psychological features of a consumer while managing real estate, to develop and implement all the relevant procedures, to influence customer attitude, etc.

The program forms theoretical, practical and applied foundations of professional activity in the sphere of banking. Apart from getting the regular university diploma, the graduates will also become certified banking agents.

Upon graduation, the students have the right to teach two disciplines. Graduates can work as teachers at school and other educational institutions, as experts at government agencies or law-enforcement offices, Emercom, etc.

The love for sports and the desire to pass this love to others is what our students are knon for. Graduates will obtain skills to make use of valuable potential of sports for the purpose of improving/maintaining health, building up a fully developed personality on the basis of traditional and innovative technologies.

This major usually attracts for entrants who are going to become sport professionals. Theory will include methodology of specialized workout. The core form of an athlete’s theoretical training is active and creative planning and driving of the training process. Technical training is aimed at teaching an athlete various techniques of movement and training these movements to perfection.

The adaptive physical culture is a set of rehabilitation measures aimed at adapting physically disabled people to the usual routine; overcoming psychological barriers which do not let people lead the ‘full life’. It also encourages awareness that it is important to personally contribute to the development of society. Graduates of this major help physically disabled people to regain self-confidence.