THE INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT ACTIVITY AS A METHOD TO GET STUDENTS OF BACHELOR DEGREE PROGRAMMES PREPARED FOR INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES

Abstract

The article explains the role of an interdisciplinary project in the process of getting bachelor students prepared for innovative activities in a higher school. The linkage is stated between the necessity to use innovative educational technologies while teaching students at university and social – economical determiners, shaping the preferential qualities of prospective graduates. The contradiction between the teachers’ needs for deeper knowledge and skills require to make the undergraduate students ready to perform innovative activities and the lack of the practical usage of the project technology is underlined. Some extra characteristics of the project activity have been described which are thought to appear obligatory for successful forming the undergraduates’ readiness for innovative activities as the way to settle the above contradiction. Some definitions describing the core of innovative activities are explained. The case of running the interdisciplinary project in a foreign language by the English Language Department of the Institute for Social Sciences (RANEPA, Moscow) is introduced. The results of the survey among the undergraduate students are analized to find out the importance of the interdisciplinary project in the processes of the development of the innovativeness of the specialists-to-be.