The focus of attention in the article is on the issues of forming personal and professionally relevant competencies of nonlinguistic university students within the educational environment of the academic discipline “Foreign Language”. An innovative approach to modeling the educational environment is proposed based on the analysis of certain principles. Some principles contributing to structuring didactic resources are described as well as organizational forms and activities of all those involved in the educational process. The article observes the correlation between these principles and the competencies to be formed.