Developing students’ academic literacy at the faculty of public administration

Abstract

The author describes the experience accumulated by the Faculty of Public Administration of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration in creating a system of developing students’ intellectual competences and academic literacy skills. The key elements of the system are interdisciplinary courses, such as “Introduction to Critical Thinking” and “Great Books” , tutorials for students and collaboration among teachers.

Keywords

• академическая грамотность
• критическое мышление
• междисциплинарное взаимодействие
• academic literacy
• critical thinking
• interdisciplinary approach
• great books course