The Department was established in December 2012 as a result of the reorganization of the Department of English Language of the Faculties of Humanities. Head of the Department: PhD in Education, Associate Professor T. Babenko. In 2021, the department had 9 lecturers: 5 PhDs, 2 Senior Lecturers, and 2 Assistant Professors.
The department provides teaching of the following academic disciplines at the Faculties of Psychology and Sociology: at the Bachelor’s degree level – Foreign Language for the specialties “Psychology”, “Social Work”, “Social Pedagogy”, “Sociology”, “Social Technologies”; at the Master’s degree level – Academic English Writing for the specialties “Sociology” and “Gender Studies” of the Faculty of Sociology; for PhD students of the Faculties of Sociology and Psychology – Academic Writing (in English).
Since 2020, the teaching of English to 1st year cadets of the Military Institute has been resumed.
As part of the Department’s research theme “Developing Academic Writing Competences as a Prerequisite for Master’s Students’ Academic Activity”, two manuals have been published: A Concise Course in English Syntax (2015) and Abstracts and Annotations (2018), along with 9 scholarly articles and 2 curricula (developed by T. Babenko in co-authorship with Associate Professor A. Malii).
The Department is actively engaged in developing teaching and methodological support for its academic disciplines. Over the 9 years of its existence, the academic staff of the Department have published 23 teaching manuals and 110 scholarly articles, including in academic journals in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and Canada; 4 articles were published in the Index Copernicus database, one article in Scopus and one article in Web of Science. The members of the Department continuously work on improving their methodological proficiency through internships both in Ukraine and abroad and regularly participate in national and international teaching and methodological seminars and conferences.
The Department is one of the co-organizers of the International Scientific and Practical Online Conference “25 Years of Tesol in Ukraine: Honoring the Past and Shaping the Future” (2019–2020) and two scientific and practical seminars “Philological and Pedagogical Studies in National and International Scholarship of the 21st Century”