Oriental Languages and Intercultural Communication

The Department of Oriental Languages and Intercultural Communication was established in August 2015 on the basis of the Chinese Philology and Translation Section, which had been operating since 2008. Since 2016, the department has also been training bachelors in Arabic, and since 2025, bachelors in Japanese as a second foreign language. The department has combined the traditions of teaching Oriental languages with modern approaches to intercultural communication, linguodidactics, and translation studies.

The department has 1 professor, Doctor of Philology, 1 Doctor of Philosophy, 2 Candidates of Philology and 2 Candidates of Pedagogical Sciences, 5 senior lecturers and 6 teachers.

The department provides teaching of Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic languages and literature, as well as theoretical disciplines related to the study of Chinese and Arabic languages. The department staff is constantly working to improve teaching and methodological work, developing and improving work programs and plans, materials and tasks for independent work by students, test tasks, examination materials, and programs for teaching and translation practices.

Particular attention is paid to the development of student scientific activity. In 2018, the department established a student scientific circle called Popular Science: Orientalism, which deals with contemporary trends in Oriental studies and philology, and the popularization of the latest research in the field of Oriental studies in Ukraine and worldwide.

The Department of Oriental Languages and Intercultural Communication is a modern educational and scientific center that combines in-depth theoretical knowledge with specialized competencies in the field of international communication and intercultural communication.

The department is headed by Yulia Valeriivna Lakhmotova, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor.