Arts and Humanities

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
• Religious Studies
• Introduction to Philology
• History of Russian Culture and Art
• Introduction to Art History
• History of Philosophy
• Political Science
• Logic and Argumentation Theory
• Introduction to Psycholinguistics
• Philosophy of Culture
• Introduction to Ethnology
• World Economy and International Economic Relations
• Philosophy of Art
• Introduction to Psychology 
• Introduction to Cultural Studies 

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

• Tatiana Chernigovskaya, Doctor of Biology, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education, Honoured Worker of Higher Education and Honoured Worker of Science of the Russian Federation, Director of the Institute for Cognitive Studies, Acting Head of the Department of the Problems of Convergence in Natural Sciences and Humanities at St Petersburg University, Member of the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation for Science and Education, and Member of the Bureau of the Scientific Council on the Methodology of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Research at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Ivan Chechot, Doctor of Art Studies, author of approximately 50 academic papers on the history of art, including the monograph From Beckmann to Breker. Articles and Fragments (winner of the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize), and organiser of the Navicula Artis Gallery
• Andrei Astvatsaturov, Candidate of Philology, philologist and writer, author of works translated into French, Italian, Czech, Finnish, and Hungarian; Director of the Vladimir Nabokov Museum at St Petersburg University