This article substantiates the need to develop innovative educational methodologies taking into account the current trends in the transformation of the educational paradigm. The relevance of the study is associated with the new requirements for the professional competence of a university graduate. The article specifies the global trends in society changes influencing the functioning of modern universities and describes the principles universities apply to course programmes design. Innovative methods of bilingual education used by foreign universities are analyzed. The main approaches to teaching based on the bilingual education are characterized. The authors' own methodology of the interconnected course programmes used in higher education is described. The analysis of the results of the introduction of the interconnected course programmes methodology into the educational process of the Novosibirsk University of Economics and Management is presented.

Keywords: innovative teaching methods, interconnected course programmes, content and language integrated learning, bilingual education.