Irkutsk State Linguistic University (Russian: Иркутский государственный лингвистический университет (ИГЛУ)) is a university in Irkutsk, Siberia in eastern Russia founded in 1948. The university consists of two institutes (Institute of Cross-cultural Communication and Institute of Educational Technologies) and two independent faculties (Social Sciences Faculty and Education-by-Correspondence Faculty). THE UNIVERSITY'S ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES The university's academic activities are aimed at setting up and putting into effect a system of linguistic education from secondary schools to university to post-graduate and post-doctoral research programmes. THE UNIVERSITY'S CURRICULA SURVEY A national license empowers the university to train professionals in 17 major areas at 10 faculties. Intitute of Cross-cultural Communication Oriental Languages Faculty Major Areas Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-translator of two foreign languages' (Chinese and English, Japanese and English, Korean and English). Regional Studies. Foreign and home policy of China. The qualification granted is 'Regional studies specialist'.