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• Enhance Your Career With University-Wide Optional Courses at ITMO

  Critical thinking, intercultural communication, sustainable development... Want to study these subjects but you aren't taking any of these majors? Believe it or not, you can study these and many other subjects even if they're not part of your curriculum! Any ITMO student can take an optional course, or факультатив (“fakultativ”), on a wide variety of subjects. Find out which of these courses are available this semester in English and the brains behind the ideas.

  01.02.2022

• "HOW should I trust?" - Thomas Leitch on Fake News

  Last year, fake news flooded the media; false information published on lurking websites was copied to Facebook where it gathered numerous likes and reposts. Apple's head Tim Cook sees fake news as a serious global threat, and Thomas Leitch, a renowned American sociologist, believes that we are now living during a real fake news epidemy. Why now, and what can help one discern fake news from real ones? The professor tried to answer these questions during an open lecture at ITMO University.

  29.09.2017