From computational linguistics to theatre: St Petersburg University starts enrolment for courses at the Summer School in Philology
The University starts enrolment for new non-degree programmes in the field of philology. The courses are scheduled for the summer. The duration is from one week to three weeks.
The programme "Russian Literature from the 1990s to the 2010s: History and Theory" is developed by Andrei Stepanov, Professor in the Department of the History of Russian Literature at St Petersburg University. It focuses on modern Russian literature, the history of its formation in the late Soviet and 1990s, and major trends in prose in the 2000s—2010s. The course introduces modern Russian culture through literature. It discusses the works by Victor Pelevin, Zakhar Prilepin, Vladimir Sorokin, and Tatyana Tolstaya to name just a few. The course duration is one week. The format is face-to-face.
If students pass the final assessment tests, they are issued a certificate in the standard form established by St Petersburg University.
The part-time non-degree programme "Contemporary Russian Theatre: Tendencies and Movements" introduces the trends in the development of Russian theatre from the creative surge of avant-garde art in the early 1920s to the experiments of the new drama of the 21st century. The duration of the course is two weeks. There is a special emphasis on the systems of Konstantin Stanislavski and Vsevolod Meyerhold, the theatre of the Khrushchev Thaw , and the phenomenon of the director’s theatre of late socialism. The course investigates specific cases. The programme is developed by Natalia Semenova, Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Russian Literature at St Petersburg University.
The professional development programme "Introduction to Computational Linguistics" is headed by Mariia Khokhlova, Associate Professor in the Department of Computational Linguistics at St Petersburg University. The course duration is one week. It is in a full-time format. It is intended for philologists and linguists to improve their skills in the field of automatic language processing. The course introduces a wide range of topics related to text analysis at different levels and the directions and methods of modern computational linguistics. Students can acquire practical skills in data processing.
The programme "Phonetic Annotation of Speech Material" is a three-week full-time programme aimed at improving the skills in the analysis, processing and annotation of speech. The course provides fundamental knowledge necessary for modelling language and speech units of different levels and acoustic analysis of speech. The course introduces the modern methodology for the transcription description of sound units. Students will be able to adapt and apply in practice classical and new research principles and methods to solve problems in the field of creating of and applying artificial intelligence technologies and systems. The programme "Phonetic Annotation of Speech Material" is developed by Pavel Skrelin, Professor in the Department of Phonetics and Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages at St Petersburg University.