School of International Studies, North-Eastern Federal University

(NEFU-SIS)

Participating faculty members: About 70 (approximation) as of February 2015

Program launched on October 9, 2012

Target: young researchers, graduate students

Training of young future faculty members

Method: Quality teaching in English (to meet the high-level international standard)

Duration of training: 4 semesters

Admittance of students/screening process:

(1) Number of students: 30 per semester (60 for a year, the total of 90 students)

(2) Selection is based on document examination and interview

(3) Preference should be given to those applicants with better qualification/experience

(4) Foreign students from English-speaking countries to be added later.

(For frequent interaction with the NEFU students)

Modules: tentative, comments and suggestions are welcome.

(These are tentative and will be substantially modified later after receiving all the productive suggestions from the participating members and institutions.)

(1) On Understanding Yakutia: Land and People of Yakutia

Regional Studies: Geography and culture

(2) Innovation: Theory and Practice

(3) Human dimension

14 lectures for each module: 90 minutes (4:00-5:30 pm.) on  - Tuesday (for Module 2)

                                                                                                               - Thursday (for Modules 1 and 3)

There will be eight intensive English classes (including a test) in May. (5:30-7:00 pm)

Evaluation and management:

(1) Attendance: strictly enforced

(2) (Group or individual) project

(3) Lecture feedback: summary or homework

(4) Class presentation/participation

(5) Overseas research proposal

*(6) Publication: high preference

       Indicator of publication is very important for the NEFU-SIS and the NEFU.

Benefits:

(1) Tuition waived.

(2) Official certificate issued.

(3) Financial support for overseas training (Maximum 100,000 Rubles per person)

(4) Listed in the university human resource management database/program

Lecture room: Library conference room (Multimedia facility), auditorium

NEFU-SIS office: ULK 208

If you have any inquiry or suggestion, please contact the NEFU-SIS.

 Director: Sang-Cheol Ahn at scahn.mail@gmail.com

 Assistant director: Tatiana Olesova at otatiana@mail.ru

 Staff assistant: Kyunney Egorova at kiounnei1@yandex.ru

SIS committee members

Organization (in alphabetical order)

Fedorova Claudia (English) - fki110252@gmail.com

Fedotova Marina (Physics) -fedmar_fti@mail.ru

Filippov Dmitry (Social sciences)- fil_dv@mail.ru

Krivoshapkin Konstantin - kkk1970@rambler.ru

Kugunurov Vladlen (International office) oip-yakutsk@mail.ru

Nadezda Maksimova (Medicine) - nogan@yandex.ru

Okhlopkova Aytalina (Natural sciences) - okhlopkova@yandex.ru

Pavlov Alexander (Mathmatics) - saaska@yahoo.com