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Dean's administration:
Zaikov Petr Mefodievich
- Deputy on research, Doctor of Philology, Full Professor, e-mail: pzaikov@psu.karelia.ru
Islamaeva Tatyana Ilyinichna
- Deputy on studies, e-mail: islamajeva@karelia.ru
Melentieva Aino Viktorovna
- Deputy on educational work, e-mail: karlait@psu.karelia.ru
Rozhina Tatyana Gennadievna
- methodologist, e-mail: rozhina@psu.karelia.ru
Chairs:
- Chair of Finnish language and literature
- Chair of Karelian and Veps languages
Finnish studies
Karelian and Vepsian studies
Educational services
The faculty had been founded in 1993. The faculty consists of two chairs: the chair of the Finnish language and literature, and the chair of the Karelian and Veps languages and literature.
The chair of Finnish language and Literature dates back to the foundation of the University. At that time it was called the chair of Finno-Ugric languages and headed by professor D.V.Bubrich (1890-1949), a famous scholar of Finno-Ugric philology and a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts.
At the end of 1980th years national cultural associations of Karelians and Vepsians urgently began to raise a question on necessity of opening of faculty Veps and Karelian languages, with the purpose of satisfaction of ethnocultural needs of radical peoples of the republic, development of languages, literature and culture.
The chair of Karelian and Veps languages has been founded in 1990. For 10 years of existence the chair has done the big educational and scientific-methodological work, the base for research and teaching of languages and culture of small ethnoses has been created.
The graduates of the faculty of Baltic and Finnish philology and culture obtain the qualification of "philologist",
the possibvle majors are: "instructor" è"
interpreter and translator". The students of the first year take lectures on phonetics and morphology of the Finnish language, introduction in literary criticism, and study history of Russia, foreign languages including facultatively Swedish, Norwegian, Danish.
Further the program of training includes: stylistics and syntax of the Finnish language (Karelian and Veps languages on the appropriate branches), pedagogics and psychology, technique of teaching, history, cultural science, bases of the right, philosophy, political science, ethnology, ethnography of Vepsians and Karelians, history of Russian, western and Finnish literature, language and style of the epos "Kalevala" and other subjects.
Since 1995 the faculty holds the postgraduate studies where teachers, graduates of the faculty continue their studies. The faculty has close relations with the Institute of language and literature of Karelian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Science. The faculty is actively engaged in research work. Students, post-graduate students and teachers participate in scientific All-Russian and international conferences. Together with Finland and Scandinavian countries the thematic symposiums on problems of linguistics, studying of literature, ethnos, folklore and musical culture of Finno-Ugric nationalities are organized annually. The active exchange of students, trainees and teachers is accomplished.
Chair of the faculty participate in the following international projects:
1. "Finno-Ugric world in Internet", which includes preparation and locating on the server of PetrSU of articles on material and spiritual culture of Finno-Ugric peoples of Karelia (http://www.soros.karelia.ru/projects/1998/sui/)
2. Karelia-Interreg on the problems of culture and education.
The chair has contracts on scientific and creative cooperation with cognate faculties of the Finnish high schools, with educational institutions and cultural funds and societies.
3. Network project of the Nordic Council of Ministers
Summing up 60-years activity of the chair of Finnish language and the 10-anniversary of the chair Karelian and Veps languages, it is possible to tell with pride, that the faculty brings the worthy contribution to science, culture and education. Known literary critics, specialists in folklore, ethnographers, linguists and many others are graduates of the faculty. They create numerous monographies, textbooks, dictionaries, selections of literature for study which today's pupils and teachers use.
Graduates of faculty are writers of Karelia T.Summanen, T.Vikstrem, M.Mazaev, P.Pellia, R.Pellia, T.Flink, E.V.Bogdanov, P.Mutanen, J.Zhemojtel, T.Tupin and known translators, members of the union of writers R.P.Kolomajnen, I.Hudman.
All editorials of mass-media on national languages both printed (Karjalan Sanomat, Carelia, Kipina, Oma muo, Vienan viesti) and electronic (radio and TV) are completed mainly with graduates of the faculty.
The most part of teachers of Finnish, Karelian and Veps languages of schools of republic have graduated from PetrSU. Graduates of the faculty teach in high schools and other educational institutions of Karelia, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Murmansk, Novgorod, and abroad: in Hungary, Norway, Finland, Sweden.
Graduates are claimed as the qualified translators in various firms, tourist organizations and bureaus of translations in Russia and Finland.
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The Finnish language is taught as a speciality since 1947. 260 students of the faculty of Baltic and Finnish Languages and Cultures major in the Finnish language. The faculty has worked out methods of teaching Finnish as the first and as the second language for different levels, including beginning and advanced. Several subjects in the third and fourth years of study are taught in Finnish (history of Finnish language, lexicology, stylistics of the Finnish language, introduction in Finno-Ugric studies, folklore and the literature of Karelia and Finland, etc.).
The Finnish language is taught as a foreign language on the faculties of history, agriculture, forest engineering, law and industrial and civil engineering.
Contacts with Finnish colleagues play an important role in providing an appropriate level of teaching. The chair gets a substantial assistance in acquiring new educational and research literature from the Ministry of Public Education of Finland and from various Finnish universities. Professors from Finland frequently come to lecture in Petrozavodsk University. Instructors from Finland teach at the chair on a regular basis.
The faculty members conduct research of the Finnish and Karelian languages and languages cognate with them, of Finnish and Karelian literatures, of Baltic onomastics, of translation theory and practice, of methods of teaching Finnish, etc. Besides, they jointly work on writing language textbooks for secondary and higher schools. The results of their work include 7 textbooks for secondary schools, 2 textbooks for higher schools, and several Finnish-Russian and Russian-Finnish dictionaries. The textbook "Puhuttan Suomea" (We Speak Finnish) has been reprinted several times already.
The students of the chair carry out term and diploma projects in various spheres of philology. They have teaching practice in schools, translating practice, and research practice including collecting dialectological and folklore materials.
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In 1990 the teaching of Karelian and Vepsian got on a new level. After the new chair of Karelian and Veps languages was organized, students could specialize in these languages. Students get instruction in all basic languages of Karelia of Baltic-Finnish origin (Karelian, Vepsian, Finnish).
Students take part in folklore and dialectological expeditions, they actively work in the archives of the research center studying and systematizing phono-materials. This work becomes the basis for students' term and diploma papers.
The faculty members work on theoretical issues of grammar of Karelian and Veps, which haven't been 'written languages' until recently, they also study the morphology of Karelian and of its Livvik dialect. The faculty members have prepared four manuals for the university students and several textbooks for primary schools that have just started to teach Karelian.
The faculty members are also working on theoretical courses of Veps phonetics and morphology. They have already written three Veps textbooks for secondary schools, a Veps-Russian and a Russian-Veps dictionaries.
After graduating the students majoring in Karelian and Veps will work in research centers, in educational institutiions, and in mass media.
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The faculty is ready to render additional educational services for interested persons to study and investigate Baltik-Finnish languages of Karelia:
- organization of courses of different duration, different level of mastery of the language and different applicability
- individual consultations and training
- organization educational (dialectological, etc.) probations
- organization of language training and courses for Finnish students studying Russian
- courses and training for the Finnish students studying closely cognate languages.
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