Since 1966, the psychological faculty has existed independently at Moscow State University. Now it includes eleven departments and five scientific laboratories. Applicants are invited by the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University. Address: Moscow, Mokhovaya street, 11, building 9.
Structure
The departments that the Faculty of Psychology has at Moscow State University are as follows:
- Psychology of personality.
- General psychology.
- Social psychology.
- Psychophysiology.
- Neuro-and pathopsychology.
- Psychology of work and engineering psychology.
- Psychology of Pedagogy and Education.
- Age psychology.
- Psychogenetics.
- Methodologies of psychology.
- Extreme psychology and psychological assistance.
Science labs are:
- Psychology of perception.
- Psychology of professions and conflict.
- Labor psychology.
- Neuropsychology.
- Psychology of communication.
In addition, in the structure of the Moscow State University, the Faculty of Psychology opened the Center for Retraining (in Psychology) of the Teaching and Scientific Personnel of the Moscow State University, the Training Centerfor retraining for university teachers of psychological and pedagogical disciplines, the Department of Second Higher Education and the School of the Young Psychologist.
A bit of history
As a basic fragment of the structure of Moscow State University, the Faculty of Psychology is part of the UMO (Educational and Methodological Association) of the country's universities in psychology. During the forty years of its independent existence, the faculty has become one of the leading centers of psychological assistance and thus has earned the attention of specialists in this field on a global scale. Here the foundations of the most promising areas in the science of psychology were laid, scientific schools were formed and successfully function, deservedly recognized in the world scientific psychological community.
Awards
The Lenin Prize was awarded in 1963 to the book "Problems of the Development of the Psyche" by A. N. Leontiev. Faculty of Psychology, Moscow State University Lomonosov was repeatedly awarded the Lomonosov Prize for scientific work. In particular, these are the works of Professor A. R. Luria in the field of neuropsychology, who won the prize in 1967, a series of works by Professor E. D. Chomskaya (also in neuropsychology) in 1973, the book "Activity. Consciousness. Personality" by Professor A. N. Leontiev in 1976.
Also, the Lomonosov Prize was awarded to the works of Professor B. V. Zeigarnik on pathopsychology (1978), textbook by Professor G. M. Andreeva "Social Psychology" (1984), developments in aphasiology and neuropsychology by L. S. Tsvetkova (1998),textbook N. F. Talyzina "The Active Theory of Learning" (2001) and the work of Professor Z. A. Reshetova (2003). The team of authors of the faculty in 1998 received the award of the President of the Russian Federation following the results of 1997 in the field of education. Professor E. N. Sokolova was awarded the "Centenary Prize" from the International Association of Psychophysiologists in September 1998 in Italy.
Training
Like almost all faculties of Moscow State University, the Faculty of Psychology has excellent reviews. No wonder this university tops the rankings. It trains graduates, masters and bachelors in two speci alties and eight specializations, and doctoral and postgraduate students are trained in six speci alties of the Higher Attestation Commission of Russia.
In total, one thousand six hundred students and one hundred and thirty graduate students study at the Faculty of Psychology. The teaching staff is worthy of all respect: there are one hundred and forty-five candidates and more than seventy doctors of science, ten academicians and one corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Eleven associate professors from among the teachers were awarded the Lomonosov Prize.
Students and science
Many forms of education has a psychological faculty as part of Moscow State University. The second higher education, reviews of which are numerous and respectful, the correspondence department and the retraining department are all pluses to the main, classical education. In addition to classes, students are not idle: the Student Union has been created and is successfully functioning, within the framework of which annual visiting psychological schools are held - winter and summer.
Workingsection of psychology at the International Conference of Students "Lomonosov", all materials of which are necessarily published. Scientific works of students are presented at competitions, abstracts of the winners are also published. For these purposes, the journal "Bulletin of Moscow State University. Series 14. Psychology" is published.
Development of psychology at Moscow State University
The 250-year history of Moscow University contributed to the creation of traditions, according to which philosophy, natural science and medicine developed. It was their successes that were perceived and developed by modern psychology. Having absorbed the special spirit of university life, the general type of interdisciplinary relationships, the principles that live today in the scientific work of the faculty were formed. Psychology as a science began its development from the moment the university was founded.
In the eighteenth century, it was not an independent subject, but was actively developed by scientific specialists - professors of physiology, philosophy, biology, medicine. The Psychological Society was created, and many of its members constantly turned to various facts of the life of the soul, to various manifestations of personality. Scientific works of S. S. Korsakov, A. N. Bershtein, G. I. Rossolimo and many other university professors, where attempts were made to experiment and study individual mental phenomena for the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of nervous and mental diseases.
International Activities
Dean of the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University - Professor Yu. P. Zinchenko - considers international relations to be the most important in the study of the subject and the training of specialists who will be useful to this most modern science. A lot of work is being done here: mutually beneficial contractual relations are being established with foreign universities and psychological faculties of foreign universities.
Joint educational programs have been drawn up with the world's leading universities, educational and scientific internships are provided, foreign colleagues are involved as lecturers. An international exchange of students has been established, the list of foreign languages studied at the faculty has been expanded. There is a competition for the education of foreign students. International cooperation is a priority direction in the activities of the Faculty of Psychology.
Spheres of cooperation
The construction and implementation of agreements is based on the initiatives that the faculty takes in opening new educational programs. For example, such are the programs of joint postgraduate and joint master's programs, where the documents of education in the field of psychology are mutually recognized. The conditions for joint work are created comfortable, joint scientific research is carried out, supported by international funds and organizations, long-term internships abroad are popular - educational and scientific.
The faculty attracts leading foreign scientists for scientific research, professors for lecturing. Student exchanges are actively carried out among leading foreign universities and Moscow State University (Psychological Faculty). Second highereducation here is received not only by citizens of the Russian Federation, but also by foreigners. There are cooperation agreements with the psychological faculties of the universities of Helsinki (Finland), Freiburg (Germany), several universities in the USA, Brazil, Mexico, France, Great Britain, China.
Disciplines
Education includes humanitarian, social, natural science, psychological general professional and, finally, specialized disciplines, as is customary at Moscow State University. The Faculty of Psychology, which does not have a correspondence department, admits only full-time and evening forms of study. The cycle of social and humanitarian subjects includes national history, formal logic, philosophy, history of world philosophies, professional ethics, economics, sociology, cultural studies, political science, pedagogy, foreign languages (German, English, Japanese, French, Vietnamese, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese).
Science subjects are divided into two cycles - mathematical and biological. The latter studies the anatomy of the CNS, the physiology of the CNS, sensory psychophysiology, as well as the psychophysiology of functional states and the psychophysiology of cognitive processes, general genetics, and anthropology. In the first cycle, mathematical methods of psychology, computer science, mathematics and computers in psychology are studied.
Specialization
The foundation for training a professional psychologist is courses in general psychology, personality psychology, history of psychology, experimental psychology,differential psychology, basics of psychodiagnostics, methodological problems of psychology and psychological workshop.
Individual branches of psychological practice are also thoroughly studied: clinical psychology, social psychology, special psychology, pathopsychology, neuropsychology, developmental psychology, developmental psychology, personality psychology, educational psychology, psychogenetics and many other disciplines.
Alumni
Graduates of the faculty can be found in large companies and banks, in recruitment agencies where they work with personnel, in employment services, in counseling centers for the provision of psychological services to organizations and the public, in universities, colleges, kindergartens and schools, in medical centers and hospitals. In addition, a graduate diploma from the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University gives the right to teach this subject. More than thirty percent of those who graduated from the faculty's master's program remain in graduate school and continue their education.
