A qualified regionalist is eligible to work as a consultant, expert, advisor in Region Studies; as a translator and or / interpreter of a corresponding language (languages) of the region; work for national, scientific or higher educational establishments of the Russian Federation.

To be qualified for a degree each graduating student is required to defend a final qualification paper (Master thesis) and pass state exams in specialty and a major Oriental language.

ÂÈ150. Foreign Language (3). This 340-hour basic foreign language program is designed for undergraduate orientalists majoring in Regional studies, as well as Oriental Studies. It is the first stage of studying English. The purpose of the course is to build reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills in students, as well as elementary skills in making business contacts.

ÔÔÊèÑ100. Physical Education (2). The course seeks to develop athletic abilities as well as character. Emphasis is placed on students acquiring personal experience, which will provide them with a creative utilizing of sports and fitness skills.

ÈÈÔ100 Russian History (2). This course offers an overview of the history of Russia from ancient time to the present based on both traditional and modern scientific concepts and alternative ones. A large body of factual evidence is given as well as information about celebrated historic personalities. The emphasis is on comparative analysis of Russia's historical development, with political, economic, social, and cultural problems covered.

ÍÁ101. Basics of Information Science (2). The topics addressed include the importance of information in modern society and methods of creating, transmitting, and storing information; libraries; information systematization; information technologies as applied to ways of finding information; utilizing scientific and educational information in university teaching strategies.

ÂÈ271. Chinese (14). Chinese is the first Oriental language course for Regional Studies majors. This 1500-hour, nine-semester course is designed for oriental language acquisition. The purpose of the course is to provide the student with a working knowledge of Chinese conversational, political, and literary vocabulary and to develop oral and written communication skills in Chinese.

ÂÈ278. Geography of Pacific Rim Region (2). The course focuses on economic and social peculiarities of the PR region and countries, such as the People's Republic of China, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Australia, Oceania, and PR North American and Latin American countries. The purpose of the course is to familiarize students with prospects of integrating processes in the PR countries.

ÂÈ296. Social Anthropology(3). The purpose of the course is to familiarize students with modern concepts of human origin and society, earliest forms of socialization, basic characteristics of pre-industrial societies. Topics include the importance of integrating knowledge of man and the possibility to utilize this information for international communication. This course is focused on the problems of gender, ethnic, age, religious, urban, professional anthropology; it also discuses the anthropology of sensual, mythological and utopian character. Emphasis is on the problems of life and death, global informational processes, deviated behavior and others.

ÂÈ285. History of World Civilization and World Culture (2). The course is designed to familiarize students with the overview of the history of the world civilization and culture. It describes the peculiarities of historical and cultural development of various countries and nations with emphasis on national specific features of regions and areas. This two-semester program presents students- orientalists with the world civilization in the ancient period, the Middle Ages, the early modern and modern periods. The course presents future regionalists with a working knowledge of major problems of the world history. Students develop skills in using special, scientific, and historical literature, as well as maps. The main purpose of the course is to provide students with practical skills in studying history and culture in terms of reality.

ÂÈ505. English Morphology(2). The course is an important part of a theoretical base and practical training for prospective foreign language interpreters and / or translators. It seeks to present the student with an in-depth overview of traditional grammar concepts and to develop usage skills thus providing a grammar background for using grammatical forms and constructions. Topics include theoretical foundations of word structure, words changing, ways of conveying grammatical meanings, parts of speech and word building; standard grammatical form acquisition.

ÂÈ515. Professional Interpreter's Ethics (2). The course presents the student with an overview of their future profession. It describes interpretation as the means of communication; deals with the business and speech etiquette, as well as verbal and non-verbal behavior of the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans and other peoples of the Pacific Rim Countries. ÈÌèÊÍ317. Mathematics and Computer Science (2). Topics include description of principal higher mathematics divisions; theorem formulating and proving; problem solving, computer science in the modern world; information product and service market, with emphasis on applied computer science and students' familiarization with modern computer design, types, and applications; PC software, office information technologies.

ÂÈ272. Introduction to Regional Studies (2). This course is the first theoretical discipline of regional studies. It provides principles, methodology, and specific methods of regional research. Emphasis is placed on processes of region forming and possibilities of regional prognostication and planning.

BÈ295. History of East Asian Civilizations in Ancient Time and Middle Ages (3). The purpose of the course is to familiarize students with basic facts, events, and phenomena in the history of civilizations in East Asia in the ancient period and the Middle Ages and also provide them with methods of historical analysis (synthesis). Students are familiarized with the polymorphic civilized transformations in the region. The course seeks to develop students' skills in working on historical material and literary sources.

ÂÈ864. Internship (6). Students are familiarized with FENU, the Institute of Oriental Studies and its Departments' libraries. During the internship, students are instructed in working on reference literature, rules and conventions of writing reference lists, and correct citation. Participants present an individual research paper.

ÈÈÔ104. Culture Studies(2). Topics addressed include culture studies as an integrating area of knowledge; the phenomenon of culture; ideas, concepts, and approaches to culture study; culture types and forms; culture in different regions and time periods; Russia's culture in the world culture system.

ÂÈ151. English-speaking Countries Culture and Language Studies (2). The course is an important part of basic theoretical knowledge and practical training for future translators and/or interpreters and seeks to develop in students positive attitudes toward the language of study and native speakers. It is designed to familiarize students with the history, traditions and realities of English-speaking countries. The course provides solutions to a number of educating problems and serves as a linguistic foundation for both language teaching and translating. It trains students to fully understand shades of word meaning, analyze hints and allusions expressed by native speakers in speech discourse, and select relevant equivalents in the target language, taking into account the interlocutor's temper, character, and mood.

ÂÈ153. Economics (4). Topics include fundamental concepts of market economy in theory and practice. The course is based on the data of Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean economies. Students are trained to solve problems and write tests on economics.

ÂÈ273. Regional Studies and Humanitarian Geography (2). The purpose of the course is to familiarize students with fundamental research of humanitarian geography and regional studies, which are new trends in this field; it also provides them with principles of analysis and synthesis as applied to regional studies and humanitarian geography .It presents them with a working knowledge of map-making and regional studies terminology.

ÂÈ274. History of East Asia (mid-1800s -present). The purpose of the program is to present students with basic knowledge of historical processes in the countries of East Asia from the time of their discovery by the Europeans in the middle of 19th century till the present. It focuses on modernization problems in these countries, as well as their relations with each other, and with Western countries.

ÂÈ275. Culture and Literature of East Asia (2). The course explores the formation and development of traditional Oriental culture.

ÂÈ276. Ethnology of East Asia (3). The course explores the formation and development of traditional social Oriental culture.

ÂÈ509. English Syntax (2). The course is an important part of basic theoretical knowledge and practical training for future translators and/or interpreters of a foreign language. It presents the student with an overview of traditional English syntax and helps to develop skills in using standard grammatical forms and constructions. The course is designed to provide the student with theoretical foundations of syntactical combinability in English, types of syntactical connection in the English sentence, syntactical functions of words and standard grammatical constructions for practical language acquisition.

ÂÈ153. Economics (4). Topics of this course include fundamental concepts of market economy in theory and practice. The course is based on the data of Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean economies. Students are trained to solve problems and write tests on economics. ÂÈ271. Chinese (14)

ÂÈ274. History of East Asia (mid-1800s - present) (2). The course explores the historical processes in East Asian countries after the Europeans discovered them in the mid-19th to the present. Emphasis is on modernization problems in the countries of this region, their relations with one another and Western countries.