"The chair I head seems to be a multi-colored mosaic of universal values and world culture": Lusine Harutyunyan

Education, science, and pedagogy. The professor who has chosen this trilateral path consistently instills her scientific thinking into the applied field of pedagogy, being convinced that the path of science and pedagogy should catch up with modern times. Lusine Harutyunyan, Head of ASUE Chair of Languages, has authored and co-authored more than 70 papers, a dozen of manuals and textbooks. She started his scientific and educational activities back in the 2000s. In 2006 she defended her PhD thesis, and in 2009 she started teaching at ASUE Chair of Languages, concurrently lecturing at the Armenian-Russian University for two years.

Since 2011, the University of Economics has been the only workplace, where her scientific research activities resulted in the defense of her doctoral dissertation in 2017. Along with scientific and educational activities, Lusine Harutyunyan is engaged in administrative works as well. From 2018, she was the acting head of ASUE Chair of Languages, and from 2020 – the Head of the Chair.

The range of her scientific interests is multi-layered: functional, cognitive linguistics, lexicography, semantics, and language teaching methodology, etc. "Books and science demand selfless dedication from us, and at first glance it may seem difficult to do something else along with something new to say in that field. I am a perfectionist by nature, and I try to achieve everything and maintain the high yardstick set by me. I am sure that it is possible to work effectively in seemingly incompatible areas at the same time only if there is a strong desire. I hope I succeed in it," the professor points out.

Lusine Harutyunyan attaches importance to maintaining warm and kind relationships, as well as working and creative atmosphere in the chair. She has inherited this idea of heading the chair from the former Head of Chair Susanna Chalabyan.

The head of the chair constantly supports young, competitive professionals, takes into account the ideas and suggestions of the experienced senior colleagues, and this effective cooperation of generations leads to the development of methodological textbooks and manuals for teaching Business English, Russian, Armenian (also French, German) that comprise innovation and modern thinking.

"We are implementing dozens of new and bold projects together with our colleagues. It is rewarding that, regardless of age, everyone is involved in creative work and realizes the importance of catching up with global scientific developments," Lusine Harutyunyan underlines.

Meanwhile, ASUE Chair of Languages is one of the largest chairs of our university, where women scientists-pedagogues of different ages work and collaborate who are delighted with the achievements of their colleagues. "The chair I head seems to be a multi-colored mosaic of universal values ​​and world culture, because specialists teaching different languages ​​work and collaborate here. Each of them is a skilled specialist not only of the language they teach, but are also aware of their culture and value system."