About our Department

The Department of Theory, Practice and Translation of the French was founded in 2000 and is currently headed by Professor, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences Natalia Maiier. The department employs 10 research and teaching staff, including 1 professor, 7 associate professors, 1 senior lecturer and 1 teacher.

At the Department of Theory, Practice and Translation of the French students get education according to three educational programs (035 Philology): at the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral (PhD) degrees of higher education (specialty 035.055 Romance Languages and Literatures (including Translation), primary – French).

The objectives and program results of educational programs allow graduates to be fluent in two foreign languages – French and English (the third German language being optional), to translate documents and texts of different degrees of complexity, to carry out and provide intercultural professional interaction in scientific and technical communities, to do research in the field of philology and translation, etc.

Starting from the 3rd year of the bachelor’s degree, students acquire competence in oral and written translation, in particular, of professional scientific and technical texts. In the process of studying under the study programmes, higher education students develop skills in industry-specific translation and are given the opportunity to expand their future professional field by taking elective courses.
The Department of Theory, Practice and Translation of the French has established contacts with international partners to involve them in the educational process and in future employment. As part of cooperation with the Embassy of the French Republic in Ukraine, there is a constant practice of involving native French speakers, teachers of the French Institute in Ukraine, and DELF-DALF coordinators in classroom lessons.

Students of the department are trained in the latest communication methods of publishing houses such as СІе International, Didier, Express Publishing, and have access to the Culturethèque information resource thanks to an agreement with the French Institute in Ukraine and Alliance Française.
Our students take an active part in international scientific and practical conferences organised on the basis of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and other higher education institutions.
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute has signed agreements on cooperation and academic mobility (Erasmus + K1) of students: University of Cordoba (Cordoba, Spain); Balthazar Zapresic University of Applied Sciences (Croatia); West Bohemian University (Plzeň, Czech Republic); University of Burgundy (Dijon, France); Aristotle University (Thessaloniki, Greece); Polytechnic University (Thessaloniki, Greece). Thessaloniki, Greece); Polytechnic University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain); Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Jena, Germany); Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland).

Graduates of the department are highly qualified specialists who carry out their professional activities at a high competitive level in various domestic and foreign organisations: Ukrainian representative offices of French companies, the French Institute in Ukraine (Institut français d’Ukraine), the French Embassy in Ukraine, travel and advertising agencies, translation agencies, language schools and many other prestigious organisations. A significant number of graduates continue their studies in France, Belgium and other French-speaking countries and work for foreign firms and companies.
The Department has signed cooperation agreements with the Terra Lingua translation agency, the Idea+ translation agency, the Task Force translation company, and the Bonjour Français French school for translation internships and employment of its graduates.
If you are fluent in French or aspire to be, if you want to gain knowledge and professional experience at a prestigious university and become a qualified technical translator, we invite you to study at our department!