FESS RANEPA | Academic exchange

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How can I participate in the International Year programme?

Faculty of economic and social sciences invites students of foreign universities to join the programme “International Year” and study together with Academy Students.

Based on your curriculum, you can choose from a set of suggested disciplines and study them for one trimester or the whole academic year. Having completed the study of each discipline, the student passes the final certification and gets the result of mastering the course. At the end of the academic exchange, the student gets FESS RANEPA certificate with a list of courses, credits (academic hours) and results obtained that can be re-credited in his/her educational institution (in coordination with one’s dean’s office before the start of the programme International Year).

Tuition for the programme is free.
The format of education is online/offline.

What disciplines can I choose?

Each student can independently choose one, a few or all disciplines from the management, economics and business courses offered in the programme, as well as English language and exam preparation courses.

Courses offered to students each trimester include management, economics and business. These disciplines are taught in English, therefore, to participate in the programme, you need a level of English of at least B1-B2. Together with Russian and foreign university professors, the courses are read by leading experts from Russian and foreign companies as well as business owners.

You can read more about course names, credits and course content in the section The scheme of the learning process below.

Educational Process Outline

I trimester. September – December

Discipline	Level	ECTS	Professor
English	Undergraduate / Postgraduate	5	-
Structure of course: Theme 1. Language and Culture Theme 2.Lives and Legends Theme 3. Hot and Cold Theme 4. Friends and Strangers Theme 5. Law and Order Theme 6. Seen and Heard Theme 7. Supply and Demand Theme 8. Love and Hate Theme 9. Alive and Well Theme 10. Right and Wrong Theme 11. Land and Sea Theme 12. Magic and Mystery Theme 13. Parents and Children Theme 14. Power and Money Theme 15. Rhyme and Reason Theme 16. Dreams and Reality Theme 17. Fact and Fiction Theme 18. Light and Dark Theme 19. Great and Small Theme 20. Theory and Practice
Business English	Undergraduate / Postgraduate	4,5	-
Structure of course: Theme 1. Staff development and training Theme 2.Job descriptions and job satisfaction Theme 3. Getting the right job Theme 4. Making contact Theme 5. Breaking into the market Theme 6. A stand at a trade fair Theme 7. Being persuasive Theme 8. Starting a business Theme 9. Financing a start-up Theme 10. Expanding into Europe Theme 11. Presenting your business idea Theme 12. Arranging business travel Theme 13. Business conference Theme 14. Business meetings Theme 15. Spending the sales budget Theme 16. Language and Culture Theme 17. Social media and business Theme 18. Business and the environment Theme 19. A staff survey Theme 20. Offshoring and outsourcing Theme 21. Customer satisfaction and loyalty Theme 22. Communication with customers Theme 23. Corresponding with customers Theme 24. Business across cultures Theme 25. Launching a product
GMAT/ TOEFL/ IELTS/ CAE/ CPE preparation	Undergraduate / Postgraduate	4,5	-
Soft power and EQ	Undergraduate	1	Prof. Kovalevskaya N.V., PhD
Personal and professional development	Undergraduate	2	Prof. Vincenzo Ligorio, PhD
Structure of course: Theme 1. Learning Skills Multiple intelligence theory (Howard Gardner). Learning styles (Honey and Mumford learning styles, Kolb’s learning cycle, VAK learning style). The importance of reflection in writing Theme 2. Academic skills How to source relevant information. How to use academic databases. How to reference using the Harvard referencing method. Speed reading. Academic writing. Email etiquette Theme 3. Preparing for a professional career How to write and structure a CV. Writing Cover letters and statement letters. Job interview skills. Impression management Theme 4. Planning SMART objectives. Time management principles. How to avoid procrastination. How to build a development plan
Business Environment	Undergraduate	3	Prof. Katalin Diossi, PhD
Structure of course: Theme 1. Introduction to Business Etiquette Conceptual differences: law, ethics, etiquette. Theme 2. Behaviour, Neatness and Clothing Meeting and greeting business partners. Dealing with business cards. Introduction of business partners. Running conversations in person and on the phone. Handling unforeseeable situations. Business attire and neatness. Theme 3. Hospitality and Business Presents Invitations and event etiquette. Business present policies. Theme 4. Business in Different Cultural Clusters Using the GLOBE research the following clusters: Africa, Middle East, Nordic, Germanic, Anglo, Latin Europe, Latin America, Easterns Europe, East Asia and South Asia.
Business Law	Postrgraduate	2	Prof. Luz Ruiz, PhD
Structure of course: Theme 1. Entrepreneurship activity notion Theme 2. Legal forms of entrepreneurship activity Theme 3. State registration of entrepreneurship activity subjects Theme 4. Obtain of rights for different types of entrepreneurship activity by its subjects. Selfregulation of entrepreneurship activity Theme 5. Legal regulation of insolvency and bankruptcy of entrepreneurship activity subjects Theme 6. Bases of legal regulation of competition defence Theme 7. Peculiarities of legal regulation of entrepreneurship activity of small and medium business subjects Theme 8. Legal regulation of evaluation activity Theme 9. Legal regulation of audit activity Theme 10. Legal regulation of advertising activity
Negotiation Ethics and International Negotiation	Undergraduate	2	Prof. Katalin Diossi, PhD
Structure of course: After getting an overview on Negotiations and Communication the students learn to analyse a negotiation situation, identify the used strategies and choose the best respond strategy to win the negotiation. Theme 1. Negotiations Overview: Definition, Strategy, Process Theme 2. Communication Overview: Definition, Process, Context Theme 3. Communication Channels: Verbal Communication, Non-Verbal Communication Theme 4. Negotiation Strategies
Sustainable Development	Undergraduate	1	Prof. Katalin Diossi, PhD
Structure of course: Theme 1. Introduction to Sustainable Development Theme 2. Sustainability as a Driver for Change and Innovation Theme 3. Sustainability Strategies Theme 4. Enforcing Sustainable Development Theme 5. Business Sustainability Management
Modern business models	Postgraduate	3	Prof. Kovalevskaya N.V., PhD
Structure of course: Theme 1. Background for entrepreneurship History, etymology, and main types of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship traits Theme 2. Business models History of business modelling. Porter’s (2008) Value chain analysis. Business model Canvas - Osterwalder et al., 2010. Lean Canvas - Maurya, 2010. Social Business Model Canvas - Social Innovation Lab, 2012. Value Model Canvas - Kraaijenbrink, 2012. Value Proposition Canvas - Osterwalder, 2012. Value Proposition Canvas - Thomson, 2013. Fluidminds Business Model Canvas - Fluidminds, 2013. Gear up Social Business Model Canvas -Kjellberg, Ramfelt and Kosnik, 2014. Social enterprise Canvas - Olson and Harker, 2014. Innovation Canvas - Owolabi, 2016. Value Triangle - Biloslavo, Bagnoli and Edgar, 2018. Balanced Scorecard - Kaplan and Norton, 1996. Component Business Model – IBM - Koppinger, 2009. V4BM - Al-Debei and Avinson, 2010. Open business model. Business Model Wheel. Strengths and limitations of all business models Theme 3. Osterwalder and Pigneur’s (2010) Business Model Canvas components Value proposition. Customer segment. Distribution and communication channels. Customer relationship management. Key Partners and Stakeholders. Key activities. Key resources. Investment. Revenue streams. Revenue management. Competition Theme 4. Business Planning Template (additional needed components) Workforce advantage. Ethical advantage. Performance management and measurement. Risk management Theme 5. Creativity workshop How to brainstorm innovative ideas. Problem solving tool – TRIZ ('Theory of Inventive Problem Genrich Altshuller) Theme 6. Case studies

II trimester. January – March

Discipline	Level	ECTS	Professor
English	Undergraduate / Postgraduate	1,5	-
Structure of course: Theme 1. Language and Culture Theme 2.Lives and Legends Theme 3. Hot and Cold Theme 4. Friends and Strangers Theme 5. Law and Order Theme 6. Seen and Heard Theme 7. Supply and Demand Theme 8. Love and Hate Theme 9. Alive and Well Theme 10. Right and Wrong Theme 11. Land and Sea Theme 12. Magic and Mystery Theme 13. Parents and Children Theme 14. Power and Money Theme 15. Rhyme and Reason Theme 16. Dreams and Reality Theme 17. Fact and Fiction Theme 18. Light and Dark Theme 19. Great and Small Theme 20. Theory and Practice
Business English	Undergraduate / Postgraduate	4	-
Preparation for BEC exam: levels B2, C1 Structure of course: Theme 1. Staff development and training Theme 2.Job descriptions and job satisfaction Theme 3. Getting the right job Theme 4. Making contact Theme 5. Breaking into the market Theme 6. A stand at a trade fair Theme 7. Being persuasive Theme 8. Starting a business Theme 9. Financing a start-up Theme 10. Expanding into Europe Theme 11. Presenting your business idea Theme 12. Arranging business travel Theme 13. Business conference Theme 14. Business meetings Theme 15. Spending the sales budget Theme 16. Language and Culture Theme 17. Social media and business Theme 18. Business and the environment Theme 19. A staff survey Theme 20. Offshoring and outsourcing Theme 21. Customer satisfaction and loyalty Theme 22. Communication with customers Theme 23. Corresponding with customers Theme 24. Business across cultures Theme 25. Launching a product
GMAT/ TOEFL/ IELTS/ CAE/ CPE preparation	Undergraduate / Postgraduate	2,5	-
Project Management	Undergraduate	0,75	Prof. Kovalevskaya N.V., PhD
Structure of course: Theme 1. Project management activity contents Contents of manager professional activity in project management. Relationship between business project elaboration and project management. A manager authority in project management and frames of their responsibility. Project manager duties. Theme 2. Project realization process management Choice of project realization technology. Process and functional approach to project management. A manager function in project management. Planning in project activity. Completion of project realization work plan. Planning with network graph. Project work volume management. Authority distribution in project management. Organizational structure and its role in project management. Theme 3. Cost management in business project elaboration Budgeting in project activity. Planning of resources necessary for project realization. Project estimate and budget completion. Theme 4. Quality management in project activity Notion and goals of project quality management. Role of planning in quality management. Analytical tools used in project quality control. Theme 5. HR management in project activity Contents of project HR management activity. HR planning and staff list completion. Organizational structure formation. Staff recruitment. Project staff development. Motivation and control of project staff. Theme 6. Partnership establishment in project activity Partnership types in project activity. Contract relationship. Tender activity organization in project management. Necessary resources procurement graph planning. Contract relationship in financial sphere: crediting, project financing, mezzanine lending, leasing. Theme 7. Communication management in project activity and formation of relationship with stakeholders Project stakeholders’ set and their interests. Stakeholders’ identification and methods of their involvement to project activity. Planning of cooperation with stakeholders. Communication process organization in project.
Quality Management	Undergraduate	1	Prof. Katalin Diossi, PhD
Structure of course: Theme 1. Introduction to Quality Management The evolution of quality management. Major quality paradigms and the principles of quality management. Theme 2. Quality management systems Total Qality Management, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing. Theme 3. International recognition of quality excellence Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award, European Foundation for Quality Management, Model for the Quality Award of the Government of the Russian Federation. Theme 4. Building and Sustaining Total Quality Organizations “Houston, we have a problem!” - Apollo case study.
Strategic Management	Undergraduate	3	Prof. Shatalin V.P.
Structure of course: Theme 1. Nature and content of strategic management Main notions of strategic management. Strategic management evolution and its nature. Definition of strategy notion. External and internal organization environment. Organizational aspects of strategic management. Strategic planning as a main function of strategic management. Appearance and development of strategic planning and its specific characteristics. Strategic plan elaboration process and its structure. Theme 2. Preplan strategic analysis Current business state evaluation and perspectives of its development. SWOT-analysis. Business and product portfolio analysis. GAP-analysis. Forecasting role in preplan strategic analysis conducting. Scenario method. Research of a market and consumers. Demand and market share determination. Research of consumers. Segmentation and positioning. Competitiveness evaluation. Competitiveness: characteristic of approaches to its research. Choice of competitiveness indicators and its evaluation methods. Competitiveness of a product, marketing activity and a whole organization. Choice of increased competitiveness methods. Theme 3. Strategic plan elaboration Determination of organization mission, vision and goals. Organization mission and vision. Organization goals and their classification. Methods of goal system building and their priority identification. Goal achievement strategies. Strategy types and their main peculiarities. Based strategies of organizational development and their adaptation to real conditions and opportunities. Characteristic of strategic decision justification methods. Uncertainty and risk factor in choice of strategic alternatives. General characteristic of strategy and event evaluation methods. Role of expertise methods and sociological researches in strategic decision justification Theme 4. Strategic plan realization management Processes, steps and tools (methods) of strategic plan realization. Strategic plan realization planning. Business-plan as a tool of strategic plan realization. Program-goal method usage in strategic planning. Models used in strategic plan realization. Change management in an organization. Fields of strategic changes in an organization. Reveal of problems for strategic change conduction. Conduction of strategic changes. Control and evaluation of strategic plan fulfillment results. Content and types of strategic control. Evaluation of strategic plan fulfillment effectiveness.
Project Management in Banking	Postgraduate	4	Prof. Katalin Diossi, PhD
Structure of course: Theme 1. Definitions, Banking Sector in Russia and the World, Industry Drivers Specialities of the banking sector with regards to project management. Theme 2. Success factors for Project Management in Banking Banking knowledge, Project Management skills, communication and stakeholder management. Theme 3. Project – Program – Portfolio Management: differences and similarities. The students become aware of the main factors around which they can optimize project efforts. Theme 4. Procurement, Risk Management Importance and techniques of handling procurement. Different types of bank specific risks: credit risk, market risk, investment risk, operational risk. Theme 5. Project Management Methodologies: waterfall, scrum Understanding the IT related background of banking and identifying the matching project management methodology.
Organizational Development	Undergraduate	2	Prof. Katalin Diossi, PhD
Structure of course: Theme 1. Introduction to Organization Development Definition. History. Values. Key concepts Theme 2. Models of organizations and organizational changes Interpersonal and Individual Skills: Consulting, Leadership Training, Management Development, LIFO & MBTI, Conflict Negotiation Skills, Strategic Thinking, Assessment Centers, 360 Feedback, Executive Coaching. Group Dynamics: Sensitivity Training, Tavistock Workshops, Team Building, Intergroup Workshops, Process Consultation, Diversity Workshop, TQM, QWL, Self Managed Teams, Global and Virtual Teams. Systems Theory and Organisational Change Models: Socio-Technical Designs, Gestalt Theory, Open Systems Planning, Process Redesign, Learning Organisation, Large Group Interventions, Social Network Analysis, Process Management. Survey Research: Surveys, Data Feedback, System 4, Action Learning, Climate Surveys, Appreciative Inquiry, Action Research Theme 3. Underlying values and ethics Misrepresentation. Misuse of data. Coercion. Collusion. Promising unrealistic outcomes. Deception and conflict of values. Professional/technical ineptness

III trimester. April – June

Discipline	Level	ECTS	Professor
English	Undergraduate / Postgraduate	3	-
Structure of course: Theme 1. Language and Culture Theme 2.Lives and Legends Theme 3. Hot and Cold Theme 4. Friends and Strangers Theme 5. Law and Order Theme 6. Seen and Heard Theme 7. Supply and Demand Theme 8. Love and Hate Theme 9. Alive and Well Theme 10. Right and Wrong Theme 11. Land and Sea Theme 12. Magic and Mystery Theme 13. Parents and Children Theme 14. Power and Money Theme 15. Rhyme and Reason Theme 16. Dreams and Reality Theme 17. Fact and Fiction Theme 18. Light and Dark Theme 19. Great and Small Theme 20. Theory and Practice
Business English	Undergraduate / Postgraduate	4	-
Structure of course: Theme 1. Staff development and training Theme 2.Job descriptions and job satisfaction Theme 3. Getting the right job Theme 4. Making contact Theme 5. Breaking into the market Theme 6. A stand at a trade fair Theme 7. Being persuasive Theme 8. Starting a business Theme 9. Financing a start-up Theme 10. Expanding into Europe Theme 11. Presenting your business idea Theme 12. Arranging business travel Theme 13. Business conference Theme 14. Business meetings Theme 15. Spending the sales budget Theme 16. Language and Culture Theme 17. Social media and business Theme 18. Business and the environment Theme 19. A staff survey Theme 20. Offshoring and outsourcing Theme 21. Customer satisfaction and loyalty Theme 22. Communication with customers Theme 23. Corresponding with customers Theme 24. Business across cultures Theme 25. Launching a product
GMAT/ TOEFL/ IELTS/ CAE/ CPE preparation	Undergraduate / Postgraduate	3	-
Lean Management	Undergraduate	1	Prof. Katalin Diossi, PhD
Structure of course: Theme 1. Introduction to lean management Main notions, terms and definitions. A subject and tasks of lean management. General model of an enterprise structure. Meaning of lean management concept. Operational resources, which may be optimized. Theme 2. Principles of lean production Evolution of lean production concept development. Lean production phenomenon of Japan. Goals of lean production. Toyota production system. Lean management in an office. Peculiarities of lean production implementation. Activity creating value. Reveal of a concrete product value. Reveal of value creation flow. Support of ongoing value creation flow. Pulling scheme of production process. Permanent strive to perfection. Theme 3. Lean production tools Simple tools of lean production concept. 5S system: sorting, rational placement, keeping clean, standardization, perfection. Loss elimination. Defense from faults. Visual control. Kanban. Difficult tools of lean production concept. Quick changeover of machines. Kaizen. Just-in-time. General productive machine service. Autonomization. Chart alignment for production load. Map of value creation flow. Theme 4. Technologies of lean production concept implementation Traditional approaches to lean production concept implementation. Algorithm of lean production concept implementation. Organizational development strategy. Systematic technology of intervention. Project management. Overcoming resistance to changes. Corporate culture and lean management. Theme 5. Experience of lean production concept implementation Foreign experience of lean production concept implementation. Russian experience of lean production concept implementation. Perspectives of lean production concept perfection. Lean production concept development. Quickly responsive production concept. Transfer from functional plants to cells with group technology. Active production Scenario strategy and permanent readiness to changes.
Business Communication	Undergraduate	0,5	Prof. Katalin Diossi, PhD
Structure of course: Theme 1. Introduction to Business Etiquette Conceptual differences: law, ethics, etiquette. Theme 2. Behaviour, Neatness and Clothing Meeting and greeting business partners. Dealing with business cards. Introduction of business partners. Running conversations in person and on the phone. Handling unforeseeable situations. Business attire and neatness. Theme 3. Hospitality and Business Presents Invitations and event etiquette. Business present policies. Theme 4. Business in Different Cultural Clusters Using the GLOBE research the following clusters: Africa, Middle East, Nordic, Germanic, Anglo, Latin Europe, Latin America, Easterns Europe, East Asia and South Asia.
General Management	Undergraduate	1,5	Prof. Kovalevskaya N.V., PhD
Structure of course: Theme 1. Introduction Management as science and a specific type of professional activity. General scheme of management activity Becoming a professional: self-management problem Theme 2. A management object An organization as a management object: internal environment (organizational analysis from the systematic side). An organization: external environment (organizational analysis from the open side). Effectiveness and efficiency of organization interaction with external environment. Theme 3. A manager: form of management object perception Main manager duty. Situation and process approaches in management. Management concepts, oriented to a process (engineering and reengineering of business-processes). Functional approach in management (the first iteration). General and functional management. Theme 4. Management subjects Subjects of management process. Professional manager ideology. Management style. Role functions of a manager and subordinates Theme 5. Main manager functional appointment Main manager functional duty and conditions, determining such a duty fulfillment. Making decisions centers and management zones. Rational method of management decision making: elaboration process structuring. A manager: reference to other decision making methods. Management decision making: scientific method. Economic analysis as management decision making method. Decision making as a manager professional tool and as their authority indicator. Strategic management and decision making procedure. Efficiency of made decisions. Calculation of decision efficiency. Types of decisions and management style. Theme 6. Management process technology Functional approach in management (the second iteration). Planning: role and place in general concept of management activity. Planning as management category. Planning types (manager planning activity). Strategic planning and strategic management peculiarities. Methods and principles of planning. A manager’s function of transformation of a plan to real actions. Performer’s motivation as a management function. Control as a management function. Theme 7. Organizational structures and management models Organization: manageability level and quality of management. Organizational structures and factors, determining their choice. Communication process in an organization. Management models and conditions of their implementation Theme 8. Management: multiplicity of duties and practical actions An organization as a set of management zones: principles and contents of zone management. Types of management actions: character and contents. Conclusion.

Buddy program

Buddy	Position	E-mail
Margarita Kozlova	FESS deputy dean	kozlova-ma@ranepa.ru
Anastasiia Khaustova	FESS head of study department	khaustova-aa@ranepa.ru
Ekaterina Kochetova	FESS leading specialist	kochetova-ea@ranepa.ru

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