Arts and Humanities
50.03.01 In English and Russian
Level of education Bachelor
Type of instruction Full-time
Duration 4 years
The Arts and Humanities undergraduate programme is based on the principles of interdisciplinarity and provides a multi‑faceted education that combines breadth of scholarship with depth in individual disciplines Particular attention is paid to the development of critical and creative thinking, communication skills and the ability to assimilate new knowledge quickly.
Individual study tracks provide in-depth training in one of the following areas:
- Art in a cultural context
- Cultural history
- Film and video in the context of culture
- Literature in the context of culture
- Music in the context of culture
Main courses:
- World History of Art
- History of Economic Thought in Russia
- Foundations of Sociology
- World Religions and Comparative Religious Studies
- Introduction to Philology
- World Cultural Heritage
- History of Russian Culture and Art
- Introduction to Art History
- Introduction to Philology
- History of Philosophy
- Political Science
- Logic and Argumentation Theory
- History of Russia: State, Culture, Society
- Introduction to Psycholinguistics
- Philosophy of Culture
- Introduction to Ethnology
World Economy and International Economic Relations
Philosophy of Art
Archival Science
The main advantage of the Arts and Humanities educational programme is the training of qualified professionals in a wide range of fields — education, culture and arts, mass media, advertising. The set of competences acquired by graduates makes them in demand on the labour market, able to face the challenges of modernity and ready to adapt to the rapidly changing needs of the economy and society.
The programme receives full material support from the University, taking into account all types of educational activities included in the educational plan, including access to:
- SPbU Research Park
- Gorky Scientific Library (SPbU Information and Library Centre)
- SPbU Clinics (internship departments)
- SPbU collections
- access to the SPbU electronic information and educational environment
- necessary licensed software
- internships, including those based on arrangements with organisations
- teaching laboratories
- lecture halls and other facilities
- equipment and teaching aids
- other resources
Internship organisations:
- Saint Petersburg Institute of History (The Russian Academy of Sciences)
- Pavlov Institute of Physiology (The Russian Academy of Sciences)
- Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) (The Russian Academy of Sciences)
- Bekhtereva Institute of Human Brain (The Russian Academy of Sciences)
- The State Hermitage Museum
- The State Russian Museum
The areas of professional activity of graduates are: educational systems, cultural and educational phenomena, socio-cultural phenomena, cultural objects, phenomena, processes, and documentation in the humanities, and (depending on individual training):
- works of art, film art, visual media and practices
- socio-cultural and economic processes and phenomena
- human cognitive activity
- phenomena and processes of classical and contemporary music
- social processes and structures, social communities