Summer schools at TSU welcome international highschool and university students, graduates of foreign universities, professors, and invited Russian and international specialists. Education offered at these schools includes not only academic, but also cultural exchange programs. TSU has been working with international students for the past 10 years.
Summer and Winter Schools
- Summer School of Intensive Russian–2021
- When: August 16 – September 3, 2021
- Duration: 3 weeks
- Target group: Humanities and Natural Sciences students with A2–B1 levels of Russian proficiency
- Language: Russian
- Number of students: min. 8
- Course fees: 50 000 rubles
- Program includes: The Russian language: Speaking and Writing; Russian Culture
- Accommodation and food: Student Residential Complex, coffee breaks
- Transportation to Tomsk and back: covered by the students
- Application deadline: June 20, 2021
- Cultural Program: Sightseeing tours, museums, unique theater of living puppets, concerts of classical, Russian folk and popular music, picnics, Siberian Botanical Garden (the oldest beyond the Urals)
Curriculum includes:
- Intensive speaking and writing classes
- Advanced grammar topics
- Advanced listening and pronunciation classes
- Discussion of current socio-political and cultural issues
- Introduction to Russian media and work with various types of media texts
- Introduction to the cultureand history of Siberia
- ONLINE Summer School of Intensive Russian–2021
- When: June 14–27, 2021
- Duration: 2 weeks
- Target group: Humanities and Natural Sciences students with A2–B1 levels of Russian proficiency
- Language: Russian
- Number of students: min. 8
- Course fees: 20 000 rubles
- Program includes: The Russian language: Speaking and Writing; Russian Culture
- Application deadline: April 1, 2021
Curriculum includes:
- Intensive speaking and writing classes
- Advanced grammar topics
- Advanced listening and pronunciation classes
- Discussion of current socio-political and cultural issues
- Introduction to Russian media and work with various types of media texts
- Introduction to the cultureand history of Siberia
- Your Global Opportunities: International Perspectives
- When: January 18–29, 2021
- Language: English and Chinese languages
- Target group: bachelor’s students from Russia and other countries who are potentially interested in applying to the master’s program in International Management and are ready to study in English and partially in Chinese
- Tuition fee: 14 200 rubles (or equivalent in any other currency)
- Contacts:
assoc. prof. Evgenia Kaz, International Coordinator genyakaz92@gmail.com
prof. Olga P. Nedospasova, academic supervisor, TSU master’s program in International Management olgaeconomy@mail.ru
assoc. prof. Evgeniya V. Tikhonova, co-supervisor, TSU master’s program in International Management (Chinese module), Head of the Department of Chinese sie@sud.tsu.ru
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The purpose:
- To acquaint learners with a wide specter of topical issues in management concerned with the Development and Redesigning of Business Strategy; Market Entry; Work in Special Economic Zones; Global Marketing Mix; Business Communication; Problem Solving and Decision Making; Corporate Social Responsibility; and Doing Business with Chinese Partners.
- Classes are taught by leading faculty at the Institute of Economics and Management, its international partners and members of its Supervisory Board, and also leading faculty from the Department of Chinese, managers from the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry; and managers from international companies.
- As part of the program, we will be holding an interactive roundtable with guest speakers from the academic and business communities on the topic ‘How are multinational companies responding to trade wars and rivalry between economic powers?’
- The winter school’s program includes 20 online sessions (two a day) lasting 1 hour 20 minutes. At the end of the program students receive certificates which can be included in the applicant's personal portfolio upon admission to the master's program at TSU’s IEM for the International Management master’s program (in English and Chinese) and are entitled to additional points for competitive admission
Download the application for participation in the Winter School
- Cross-cultural Communication in Interpreting and Translation–2021
- When: August 15–29, 2021
- Duration: 2 weeks
- Target group: Linguistics and Philology students with good level of Russian proficiency (A2-B1)
- Language: Russian, English
- Number of students: min. 8
- Course fee: 40 000 rubles
- Transportation to Tomsk and back: covered by the students
- Application deadline: June 20, 2021
- Program includes: Interpreting and translation (RU-EN, EN-RU), Russian history and culture
- Accommodation and food: Student Residential Complex, coffee breaks
- Cultural Program: Sightseeing tours, museums, unique theater of living puppets, concerts of classical, Russian folk and popular music, picnics, Siberian Botanical Garden (the oldest beyond the Urals)
Curriculum includes:
- Intensive grammar, speaking and writing classes
- Translation from Russian to English and vice versa
- Main translation principles for Russian-English language pair
- Communication basics for different topics
- Russian cinema traditions
- Siberian and Russian culture traditions
- Cross-cultural Communication in Interpreting and Translation–2021 ONLINE
- When: August 15–29, 2021
- Duration: 2 weeks
- Target group: Linguistics and Philology students with good level of Russian proficiency (A2-B1)
- Language: Russian, English
- Number of students: min. 8
- Course fee: 20 000 rubles
- Application deadline: August 6, 2021
- Program includes: Interpreting and translation (RU-EN, EN-RU), Russian history and culture
Curriculum includes:
- Intensive grammar, speaking and writing classes
- Translation from Russian to English and vice versa
- Main translation principles for Russian-English language pair
- Communication basics for different topics
- Russian cinema traditions
- Siberian and Russian culture traditions
- International Summer School at the station "Aktru"
- When: July
- Duration: 9 days
- Target group: international students and young scientists aged 18–35 years old
- Language: English
- Program includes: Geology and Geomorphology studies. Glaciology, Geocryology, Hydrology and Water Resources studies. Ecology of Biosystems, Biogeography and Biodiversity studies. Anthropology and ethnology studies. Field excursions
- Accommodation: Residential Complex for the first and the last days of the program
- The main goal of International Summer School Programme is - to study a unique natural region Gornyi Altay, lifestyles of native ethnics groups and their adaptations to the rapidly changing climate.
The objectives of this Programme are:
- to analyze the better practices of complexinterdisciplinary and transdisciplinaryresearches in Life Sciences, Earth Sciencesand in Social Antropology
- to learn about natural objects, processes andinteractions between man and nature
- to improve field research skills and todevelop complementary skills, such as groupwork and partnership
- The Heritage of Eurasia: Past, Present and Future–2021
- When: August 22 – September 2, 2021
- Duration: 2 weeks
- Target group: mostly Art and Culture students, but students from any field of study can participate as well
- Language: English
- Number of students: min. 8
- Course fee: 45 000 rubles
- Transportation to Tomsk and back: covered by the studens
- Application deadline: June 20, 2021
- Program includes: topical issues on culture, artwork, performing arts; history and culture of Siberia; special elective seminars
- Accommodation and food: Student Residential Complex, coffee breaks
- Cultural Program: Sightseeing tours, museums, concerts of classical, Russian folk and popular music; museums of local lore, art, Slavic mythology as well as TSU museums; Siberian Botanical Garden (the oldest beyond the Urals); classical and puppet theatres, picnics, Extreme Park
- Nowadays the Institute of Arts and culture is extending contacts with different universities abroad.
The aim of this Summer School is:
- to provide international students withan opportunity to study Siberian history and culture, artistic and musical life of Tomsk, big cultural and educational center in Western Siberia
- to get acquainted with TSU training system for specialists in art and culture
- International Summer Field School «Mesozoic and Cenozoic paleobiogeocenoses of the Northern hemisphere»–2021
- When: July 26 – August 24
- Duration: 26 days
- Target group: students, postgraduates, and their scientific advisors, researchers.
- Language: Russian, English
- Number of students: up to 20
- Application deadline: June 1, 2021
- Accommodation: Student Residential Complex for the first and the last days of the program (not included in the price)
- Topic: Paleontological, stratigraphic, and paleogeographic methods of field research
- Organizer: Faculty of Geology and Geography of Tomsk State University (GGF TSU)
- Program includes: South of the West Siberian Plain (forest-steppe zone) – the terminal lake basin of the Baraba lowland (Novosibirsk Province; 500-700 km away from Tomsk). The territory includes the paleontological and geoarchaeological site Volchia Griva, Pleistocene-Holocene geological sections and other research objects.
The site of Volchia Griva is one of the largest mammoth fauna site in Asia comprising Paleolithic artifacts. The concentration of bones and teeth buried in situ reaches 130 per m². The locality represents the southernmost mammoth refugium of Eurasia. It was formed in the period from 20,000 to 10,000 years ago on the beast solonets, and its genesis is associated with mineral starvation of animals.
The site of Chuklayda and geological sections will be examined along the banks of the river Om and Lake Chany — the largest in Western Siberia with an area of ~ 2,000 km². These deposits contain mammoth fauna, mollusks, plant and other residues aged from more than 50,000 years ago.
The field workshop will be held during the expedition of the Laboratory of Mesozoic and Cenozoic continental ecosystems (TSU, Faculty of Geology and Geography). The Laboratory is implementing interdisciplinary research of Mesozoic and Cenozoic biogeocenoses, abiotic and biotic relationships, and problems of extinction and survival of organisms. The field works will be carried out on paleontological and geoarcheological sites, natural and artificial geological sections. The program includes training of methods of paleontological, stratigraphic, archaeological and paleogeographic research, including excavation and washing of sediments, as well as the basics of taphonomic and paleoecological analyzes.
The main objective is to develop joint scientific research and academic mobility, demonstrate advantages of the complex approach in the study of natural objects, involve students in research work.
The schedule is flexible. The participants may join the group after the beginning and before the end of the program. In that case the price of the personal transfer is the responsibility of a participant (it is paid additionally).
The work of the field workshop will be organized in the autonomous conditions of the field camps in forest-steppe and taiga areas. This involves the use of a field bath and cooking by all school participants in turn (without professional cooks).
Participation in the field school-workshop also includes excursions in Tomsk, compulsory safety instructions, purchase of products, preparation of field equipment (2 days before and 1 day after the fieldtrip).
Cell phone service: stable (several mobile phone service providers) in both modules
Necessary requirements: medical insurance
Duration of academic activity: 150 academic hours
Expenses (in euros) for participation in the International Field Workshop*
Meals in a field per day1 Transport2 Equipment3 Total transfers in the field 15 40 30 40 500 1 Meals in Tomsk (before and after the field period) are paid by a participant. The average cost of 3 meals in a café of the economy class is €10–20 a day.
2 Calculated for the whole period (transfer from Bogashevo airport and transfer to the field workshop area and back). Transport expenses from the country of residence to Tomsk and back are paid by participants.
3 Calculated for the whole period. You can rent the following equipment items: a sleeping bag and its liner, a mat, a tent, cooking utensils etc. The participants are expected to have warm and light expeditionary clothing, hats and shoes, backpacks, personal cleansing including toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo, swimwear, towels etc.
* Calculation does not include accommodation costs in Tomsk. TSU provides accommodation in the student campus before and after the field period.
