International Journal of Philology

The modern demand to organize studying is concluding some syllabuses to learn different disciplines in general and foreign language for professional purposes in particular. At the same time the attention amplifies to the research of syllabuses basic structural content. The purpose of article is to determine topical content structure of the foreign language course for specialty "Geodesy and Land planning" initial bachelor’s degree program’s studying stage and performing adequate comparative characteristics of topical content within the first and the second semesters on the basis of pedagogical observation during 2019/2020 curriculum. The result of investigation lays in 5 conclusions. The perspectives of investigation is the analysis of the freshmen’s mistakes types while working with electronic course "English for Geodesy and Land Planning", analysis of the activity of fulfillment, the correctness of content design and understanding of the set tasks either aiming to represent general and personal recommendations to improve gaps in freshmen’s foreign language knowledge, abilities and skills or further correction of topical content of studying course being based on the real students’ demands

comparison; thematic semester content; syllabus of the discipline "Foreign language"; freshman; bachelor; specialty "Geodesy and land planning"