Vilaliy Scherbak, Dean Dmytro Mazin, Deputy Dean Tetiana Habora, Yaroslava Dubina, Iryna Yurechko, Faculty Coordinators
Natalya Yakovenko, Head of the Department of History Tetyana Sirosh, Valentyna Shumova, Department Coordinators
Mykhailo Sobutsky, Head of the Department of Cultural Studies Tetyana Sotnyk, Department Coordinator
Larysa Masenko, Head of the Department of Ukrainian Language Bohdana Tarasenko, Department Coordinator
Volodymyr Morenets, Head of the Department of Literature and Foreign Languages Natalya Peleshenko, Department Coordinator (Literary Studies)
Maryna Tkachuk, Head of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Maria Perevenko, Department Coordinator
Vasyl Luchyk, Head of the Department of General and Slavic Linguistics Marharyta Ryasantseva, Department Coordinator
Faculty History and Structure
The Faculty of Humanities was created shortly after the Academy's revival in 1992. Then it consisted of the Departments of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, Ukrainian Language, English Language, and the Department of Foreign Languages. In 1994, the Departments of History, Comparative Literature and Physical Training, and in 1997 - the Department of Political Studies were organized. The same year the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Foreign Languages were united into the single Department of Philology. During the years 1997-2002 the Faculty bore the name “Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences”. The present day Faculty of Humanities is made of six Departments, which are the Departments of Cultural Studies, History, Philology, Philosophy and Religious Studies, General and Slavic Linguistics, and the Department of Ukrainian Language. The Faculty offers Bachelor’s Degrees in Cultural Studies, History, Philology (with specialisation in Ukrainian Language and Literature), Philosophy; and Master’s Degrees in Cultural Studies: Theory and History of Cultural Studies, History, Archaeology and Ancient History of Ukraine, Philology (with specialisation in Theory, History of Literature and Comparative Literature; and Theory, History of Ukrainian Language and Comparative Linguistics), Philosophy: History of Philosophy.
Faculty Peculiarities
Students majoring in humanities are getting profound preparation not only in their particular field of specialization; they are being offered a solid and broad training in the sphere of arts and humanities.
The Faculty offers a wide spectrum of foreign languages (besides English which a NaUKMA first foreign and also along with Ukrainian is a University working language); among the languages for students to chose are both ancient (Latin, Old Slavonic) and modern ones - European (French, German, Italian, Spanish, Finnish, Polish, Croatian and others), Oriental (Arabic, Japanese) and others. Training in the second foreign language is available for the students of all the NaUKMA specializations.
The annual prize established by Roman Struts, Professor of the University of Calgary (Canada) is awarded each year for the best year paper and Bachelor / Master Thesis in philology. The candidates are approved by the NaUKMA Department of Philology.
Affiliated institutions that contribute to the Faculty educational process and to its research activities are: “Heredity” Research Centre, East-Central European Studies Research Centre, European Humanities Research Centre, NaUKMA Archaeological Expedition Centre, Centre for Modern Literature Research, Centre of Polish and European Studies, Cinema Research Centre.
Studying Opportunities
Faculty offers both major (in History, Cultural studies, Philology and Philosophy) and minor (in History, Cultural Studies, Philology and Philosophy) specializations, as well as short certificate programs (in Religious Studies, Study of Art, Museology, Art of Translation, and Judaism Studies). The last two options are available for the students of all the NaUKMA specializations.
Faculty of Humanities Bachelor's and Master's program curricula are of the original character; they usually have an interdisciplinary character and combine state-of-the-art cultural studies, philosophy, religious studies, history, philology, archaeology, cultural and social anthropology.
Students are offered different kinds of fieldworks, internships and practical trainings, among which are archaeological, archaeological-cultural, ethnographical, pedagogical, museum etc.
Faculty Major Research Fields
Philosophic and Theological Heritage of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Kyiv Theological Academy
Methods of Historical and Philosophical Cognition
Modernization Processes in Ukrainian Culture
Ukrainian Language: Social Functioning, Studying and Teaching
History of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Ukrainian Literature of the 20th century: New Approaches
The Faculty partners with
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin (Poland)
Warsaw University (Poland)
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland)
Dresden University (Germany)
Saint Petersburg University (Russia)
Research institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine