Properly organized communication can contribute to the development of intercultural and international relations, tolerance and mutual respect. The educational programs of ICPS faculty are targeted at developing intercultural communication skills and competences to further have qualified and competitive specialists in the labor market.

The students of the faculty are majoring in English, German, French, Japanese and Russian and corresponding Cultural Studies. Simultaneously they take courses in second language and Cultural Studies – English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Georgian etc. The range of foreign languages is constantly expanding.

The Faculty suggests also a number of educational programs in Political science: Political Science, International Relations and European Studies.

Goals: the educational programs of Intercultural Communication and Political science foster development of interlingual and intercultural communicative competencies, knowledge and skills in terms of socio-cultural values of the corresponding countries, as well as competencies and skills to analyze socio-political relations, political analysis of specific political events and political situations at the domestic and international levels.

Mission: to educate competitive in the labor market, qualified specialists with linguistic, cultural and political knowledge, equipped with interlingual, intercultural, geopolitical and communicative competencies. To become a national and regional center in corresponding scientific, educational and research areas.

Advantages:

• The Chair of World Literature and Civilizations cooperates with the universities of Paris-Sorbonne, Aix-Marseille and Louvain-la-Neuve of Belgium.
• The UNESCO Chair of Political Science and Philosophy cooperates with the University of Essex in the UK, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany, the Russian National University Higher School of Theory, Tbilisi State University, and Stonehill College in the USA.