Political discourse as an academic discipline in professional training

The article argues the relevance of such aca-demic subject as Political Discourse within the framework of philological disciplines of the main educational programs for some bachelor’s degrees. The object of study was Political Dis-course as an area of research in political linguis-tics. The subject of study was the communica-tive components of political discourse, which, if mastered, can contribute to the formation of necessary competencies for the confident navi-gation of the communicative environment. Analysis, synthesis, and historical approach were the main theoretical research methods that helped study different approaches to the study of political discourse and its functions. To de-velop the methodological part (the academic program of the proposed discipline), we used structural analysis, which makes it possible to study the structure of elements constituting po-litical discourse; discourse analysis, which al-lows focusing on both the individual character-istics of the addressant and the contextual analysis; comparative analysis, which com-pares various examples of political discourse, identifies their similarities and differences; modeling, to develop the training program of the Political Discourse discipline. The result of the study was training program ‘Fundamentals of Political Discourse,’ recommended for the Journalism major in institutions of higher edu-cation.