Abstract:

It is still priority for modern universities to prepare students to work in a multicultural interconnected world, which is reflected in the requirements for the internationalization of education and interdisciplinary integration. These notions remain especially topical for modern professions closely connected to innovations and progress, the so-called professions of the future.

This article presents the analysis of the compliance of foreign language curricula for students majoring in Innovation studies ("Innovatics") with the requirement of interdisciplinary internationalized education in modern Russian universities.

The paper is based on the research results obtained during comparative analysis of the English language curricula specializing in "Innovatics" of the leading Russian universities and general educational programs of this degree.

First, analysis of English language curricula revealed the lack of interdisciplinary integration in teaching a foreign language, revealing a contradiction in the trends of higher education for the development of a foreign language professionally oriented communicative competence. Curricula contain few practical tasks that go beyond one course and require many interdisciplinary factors to be taken into account when solving them.

The survey showed the demand of students to integrate and internationalize the knowledge received in other courses with the help of an updated foreign language curriculum.

Based on the data obtained, the transformation of the existing educational curriculum was proposed on the basis of one of the leading universities of the country, taking into account problem-based learning, team-based learning, transferring of skills between disciplines and the trend towards internationalization. The article describes the expected results of the integration of professional experience into the language experience in the process of foreign language training of future graduates for foreign language communication, which allows them to perform professional tasks in a multicultural interconnected global world.

Keywords:

Internationalization, curriculum design, problem-based learning, interdisciplinary approach, Professional Linguodidactics.