About Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University

Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University is one of the oldest universities in the Chelyabinsk Region. In autumn 2004, the University celebrated its 70th anniversary.

Since 1934, the year of its foundation, the University has turned from a small pedagogical institute into one of the leading pedagogical universities of Russia. In 1984, Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University was decorated with the Badge of Honour for its great success in training skilled specialists.

In 1995, the Institute obtained the status of university and was renamed into Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University.

The whole educational activity of the University aims at the realization of the State standard of vocational education, the improvement of the quality of vocational training of pedagogical personnel, the intensification of the educational process. Moreover, great attention is paid on the searching of new forms and methods of teaching and creative development of future teachers’ personality.

Being the only specialized pedagogical university in the Chelyabinsk Region, Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University has undergone sweeping changes in recent years. The modern status opened for the University inviting prospects in training competent personnel practically in all education programs of the regional educational system. In this connection there were opened new specialities such as special preschool pedagogics and psychology, oligophrenopedagogics, typhlopedagogics, syrdopedagogics, special psychology, logopedics, pedagogics and methods of preschool education, computer science, life safety, cultural studies, social pedagogics, social work, 4 specialities of primary vocational education and others.

In comparison with 1994 when the University trained teachers of 14 specialities of vocational education, in 2004 Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University provided about 38 specialities. Nowadays the University qualifies teachers not only for comprehensive schools, but also for the educational institutions of preschool, primary, secondary vocational level or special education. The University also trains managers for education control system and organize courses of professional build-up. There are institutes of distant pedagogical education, of health and human ecology, of optional creative pedagogical professions and others.

In the Institute of optional creative pedagogical professions students can acquire any optional pedagogical profession in 5 branches of education:

• art-aesthetic education (vocal, choral singing, art song, theatre, puppet-show, folklore, recitation and compering, ballroom and street dances, modern and national dances, musical instruments etc);
• sport education (aerobics, volleyball, basketball, table tennis, tourism, karate, fencing, life safety etc);
• art and crafts (sewing, fashion theatre, knitting, interior decorator, phytodesign, photo, hairdressing, interior design, leisure activities, ecology etc);
• leisure-time activities (technology of leisure, excursion business, intellectual games etc);
• organizational pedagogical education (computer science, valeology, archeology, journalism, astronomy, practical psychology, French, Tartar, orthodox culture, traffic safety, management in education).

The process of education on 14 faculties and 45 departments of the University is provided by highly qualified teaching staff including 530 regular teachers, among them 52 D.Sc holders and 297 Ph.D holders (65%). The results of their scientific and tutorial work are widely introduced in the process of education updating and coordinating it with the modern claims on the level and quality of specialist training.

The University introduces in teaching process a wide range of novelties concerning new multimedia information and pedagogical technologies. There exist about 650 modern computers at the disposal of students, postgraduates, teachers and scientific workers of the University. The library of the University is also equipped with modern computers, Internet, its own electronic catalogue. Besides, Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University provides the usage of electronic catalogue of the thesis works of the Lenin National Library.

The University has an efficient system of educational work. Self-actualization of students’ personality is realized in various directions. The museums of CSPU, the Institute of optional creative pedagogical professions, the system of traditions in the University, scientific student society, student pedagogical troop “LUCh” contribute to it. In 2002 and in 2004, Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University won I and II All-Russian contests on the best educational work hold by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation.

The students of the University obtain academic and social scholarship including perks in accordance with the results of the examinations. All students’ achievements are marked by the scholarship of the President or the Government of the Russian Federation. Each month students-orphans and those who are under care or guardianship obtain higher scholarship and food subsidy.