Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations. N. Liventseva

The Department of World Economy was established in December 2006, and in September 2007 it was renamed the Department of International Economic Relations. The need to create a department was associated with the urgent need to focus on one department all training courses that reflect the realities of international economic relations today, Russia's place in the changing world economy, the features of state regulation and organization of foreign trade activities in Russia.

When conducting training sessions, teachers of the department actively used various forms and methods of conducting classes, forms of monitoring students' knowledge during intermediate and final testing, oral and written surveys, solving situational problems and cases. This became possible thanks to the initiative of one of the founders of the department, Associate Professor I.Yu. Sergeeva.

The teaching staff of the department is in close contact with the Customs Cooperation Department of the Federal Customs Service of Russia and the Eurasian Economic Commission, with which they solve many topical scientific and methodological issues.

Since January 11, 2016, the Department of International Economic Relations has been headed by Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor Tkachenko Marina Fedorovna.

The Department of International Economic Relations is a structural subdivision of the Faculty of Economics of the Russian Customs Academy. The department is graduating in the direction 38.03.01 "Economics", focus (profile) "World Economy", in the direction 38.04.01 "Economics", focus (profile) "Foreign Economic Activity and International Business". Previously, graduation was carried out in the specialty "world economy".

The Department of International Economic Relations performs the following tasks:

in educational work:

o Ensuring that the level of educational activity and training of students of the Academy meets the requirements established by the Federal State Educational Standards, the State Educational Standards and the Federal State Educational Standards of Higher Education.

o Ensuring the high quality of preparation of economic classes, conducting training sessions at a high scientific and methodological level.

o Increasing the level of responsibility of the teaching staff for the quality of training students.

o Processing, development and implementation of educational programs of higher education of the disciplines of the department in the areas of training "Economics", "Management", "Commodity Science", specialty "Customs", in accordance with the requirements of the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation of December 19, 2013 No. 1367.

o Increasing the level of qualification of the teaching staff.

oIntroduction into the educational process of innovative educational technologies and interactive forms of learning using a set of automation tools for the educational process (KSA OP RTA), specialized software (AAT, TEC).

in educational and methodical work:

o Improving the educational and methodological support of the educational process of the disciplines of the department that meet the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standards and State Educational Standards of Higher Professional Education.

o Introduction into the educational process of methods of problem-based, research learning, new educational technologies aimed at ensuring the effectiveness of the organization of educational activities and independent work of students.

oStudying, summarizing and introducing into the educational process the advanced pedagogical experience of the best methodologists, the development of innovative technologies for teaching academic disciplines by the teaching staff.

oImproving the quality of developed educational and teaching materials.

In research work:

o Participation of the teaching staff in research activities and contractual research.

o High-quality and timely training of postgraduate students.

o Timely and high-quality development of research work assigned to the department and the use of the results of scientific research to improve the content and methods of conducting training sessions, increase the efficiency of the educational process.

o Development of scientific creativity among students, by involving in the work of a scientific student circle at the department, participation of students in university and interuniversity conferences.

oUsing access to electronic resources and information and reference system of the academy, in educational work and independent work of students.

o Publication of scientific research results in Russian periodicals included in the List of leading, peer-reviewed scientific journals, including those included in international citation databases.

In educational work:

oStrengthening and maintaining the best traditions that exist in the staff of the Academy, the department, aimed at educating students and employees.

oFormation of high moral relations in the team and the creation of a normal psychological climate in the department.

oDeveloping a sense of responsibility for the fulfillment of the assigned tasks among the teaching staff and students.

o Increasing the level of pedagogical culture of teachers, their professional skills.

o Organization and conduct of educational and preventive work on the prevention of offenses.

o Formation of a healthy lifestyle and responsible behavior of the teaching staff of the department.

o Improving the moral and legal culture of the teaching staff and students.

o Organization and conduct of educational work to prevent corruption among the teaching staff of the department.

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Opening hours and reception hours

Head of the Department (439/6 GK): 09:00-17:00.

Teaching (249 GK): 08:00-18:30.

Directions of study and levels of training

Undergraduate academic

• 38.03.01 — Economy

Specialty

• 38.05.01 — economic security

About the department

Strategic goal The department’s activities are the formation of a system of general, professional and personal competencies of specialists with theoretical and applied skills and abilities to organize and effectively implement the economic entities of the region and the macroregion, aimed at ensuring competitive, sustainable and safe development of the economic system of the Russian Federation in the global environment. And also in meeting the educational needs of the individual, society and the state, in the development of a single educational space in the field of economics.

The department prepares for the main educational programs:

• specialists in the specialty 05/38/01 "Economic security" profile " Economic and legal support of the economy»— since 2013;
• bachelors in the direction 38.03.01 "Economics" profile "World economy" since 2002 with the award of the degree "Bachelor of Economics" to graduates. Not only students from Russia and the CIS countries study in this direction, but also foreign students from China, Mongolia, Vietnam, Nigeria.

Studying proccess

Students are trained in accordance with the curricula of the provided basic educational programs that meet the requirements of the state educational standard and allow students to gain deep specialized knowledge, develop professional foreign language communication skills, adapt graduates to the changing mega-, macro- and meso-economic conditions and sustainable development prospects economy of the region in the context of globalization.

The implementation of the mission and strategic goal of the department led to the use of innovative interactive teaching methods that activate students' independent work, remove their psychological inertia, develop creative thinking through the use of business games, role-playing technologies, case studies, tests. In the learning process, the teachers of the department rely on the principles of scientific character, visibility, accessibility, consistency and consistency, the connection between theory and practice.

Classes are held in classrooms equipped with high-tech equipment. The presentation of the lecture material is accompanied by multimedia presentations that reflect the main didactic units of the content of the discipline under study, relevant statistics, and practical examples.

The Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations (IER and FEC) counts its history from the moment of creation in 1931 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) of the Institute of Foreign Trade, which in 1942-43. was transferred to Moscow and in 1958 merged with MGIMO. In different periods of time, the department was headed by well-known experts in the field of international economic relations: prof. G.S. Lopatin (1954–1958); Hero of socialist labor, laureate of the State Prize prof. N.N. Lyubimov (1958–1975). From 1975 to 1979 The department was headed by prof. L.N. Karpov, prof. E.E. Obminsky, prof. V.D.Schetinin. From 1979 to 2006, the department was headed by Professor Nikolai Nikolaevich Liventsev. Since August 2006, the head of the department is Irina Nikolaevna Platonova.

During the existence of the department within the framework of the Institute of Foreign Trade, it was called the “Department of International Trade and Foreign Trade of the USSR” and included such courses as “Organization and Technique of Foreign Trade Operations” (headed by Professor M.G. Shereshevsky), the course “Transport Operations in foreign trade" (supervisor - Associate Professor G.A. Maslov, who combined the educational process with responsible management work in the Ministry of Marine Fleet), the course "Conjuncture of world commodity markets" (supervisor - Professor F.G. Piskoppel, author of the first domestic textbook on the method of researching commodity markets ). It was headed by a well-known specialist in the field of international monetary and credit relations - Professor G.S. Lopatin.

Since 1958, after the merger of the Institute of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the USSR and MGIMO, the department became a subdivision of the Faculty of International Economic Relations. It was headed by an outstanding economist of our country, a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, one of the few Heroes of Socialist Labor in the field of economics - Professor N.N. Lyubimov. His name is associated with the further formation and development of the department and the subject of "International Economic Relations". Already in 1957, the first edition of the domestic textbook of international economic relations appeared under the editorship of Professor N.N. Lyubimov. The members of the team of authors included young capable researchers, who later became the pride of the national economic science - professors S.M. Menshikov, E.P. Pletnev and V.D. Shchetinin.

The next stage in the history of the Department of International Economic Relations and WES dates back to 1979, when it received its modern name. Then, on the basis of one department, three independent divisions arose: 1) the Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations, 2) the Department of Organization and Management of Foreign Trade (today - the Department of Management and Marketing) 3) the Department of International Transportation (later the Department of International Transport Operations and Logistics). G.A.Maslov was the acting head of the department of international transportation after its creation. From 1983 to 2003 the department was headed by Professor D.S.Nikolaev. In 2003–2013 she was again included in the Department of International Economic Relations and WES.

From 1979 to 2006, the department was headed by Professor Nikolai Nikolaevich Liventsev, who was awarded the title of Honored Scientist in 1997. Under his leadership, the scientific activities of the department were actively expanded, a number of textbooks and monographs were published, which became the basis for studying the main directions of the IER.

Currently, the Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations is the leading department of the Faculty of International Economic Relations, which trains qualified specialists of all levels (bachelor, master, candidate and doctor of economic sciences) in international economic relations. The training courses taught within the Department of International Economic Relations allow students to master the skills of research work, analysis of current trends in the development of international economic cooperation. The Department of Economics and Economics works at the economic faculties of MGIMO-University (faculties of International Economic Relations, MBDA, FPEK, MIEP), at non-economic departments (faculties of the Moscow Region, FP).

The department has a long period of cooperation with the UNCTAD Virtual Institute and the WTO. The project coordinator is Associate Professor Abramova A.V. As part of the cooperation program, videoconferences of UNCTAD and WIPO experts are regularly held, as well as study internships for students of the Faculty of International Economic Relations in international organizations in Geneva (UNCTAD, WTO, ITC).

Teachers of the department take part in the preparation of UNCTAD reports and in joint scientific research with foreign universities, WTO experts give lectures and master classes.

Teachers of the department actively participate in Russian and international conferences.

Last update - January 2017
Responsible for the information provided - senior lecturer. Maksakova M.A.