TEACHING THE BASIC CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION AS A NECESSARY CONDITION FOR IMPROVING PROFESSIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION
The article substantiates the necessity of introducing the course “Cross-cultural communication of Siberian peoples” into the regional component of the State Educational Standard at the Siberian Federal University. Proposed course founds upon the principle of incorporating students into Siberian ethnocultural environment in order to develop in them its notion of an original phenomenon and to encourage their patriotic sentiments.