The chair of "Journalism and literature of foreign countries" is a department that prepares staff for the specialty of Journalism at the undergraduate level of higher education. The department was established in 2002 under the name of "Journalism and World Literature" department. Since 2018 it has been playing an important role in the training of highly educated journalist specialists in the region under the name of "Journalism and librarianship" department, and since September 2020 "Journalism and literature of foreign countries" department. In 2001-2006, Assoc. I. Jafarov, in 2006-2013 Assoc. S. Sura and since 2013, Ph.D. in philology, associate professor Shahla Shiraliyeva.