The article describes several technologies of teaching a special class "Psychology of Folklore and Psychologism in Classical Russian Prose Fiction" at non-philology faculties of higher education institutions. The article presents information pedagogical technologies, reveals insights into the meaning and advisability of using facilitation technologies in organizing and conducting multi-level classes at a higher education institution, and contains methodology guidelines for carrying out project activities. The article also describes in detail the methods of organizing a class activity aimed at studying a writer’s biography that are based on facilitation technologies. The group activities are based on "The World Café" model that makes it possible to process and comprehend a large amount of information, as well as to model or make up a plan of further activities on studying the works of an author in question. "Group memory", one of a facilitator’s main tools, is used to maintain the thinking process in groups.