St Petersburg University creates an online course on Ukraine’s modern history
St Petersburg University is launching an online course dedicated to the modern history of Ukraine. Students will be able to learn more about Ukrainian history, geography, economy, and domestic and foreign policy. The online course ‘Ukraine: Morphology and Mythology’ is available on the national educational platform OpenEdu.
The course is a coherent systematic overview of the key problems of the Ukrainian state and society, their preconditions and consequences. The course programme focuses on morphology: the structure of contemporary Ukrainian policy, history, economy, and state mythology. It also touches on the history of the formation of Ukrainian statehood, social processes and the formation of the country’s foreign policy orientation.
Online Course Ukraine: Morphology and Mythology
The authors of the course are Nikolai Mezhevich, Candidate of Economics, Professor in the Department of European Studies at St Petersburg University, Director of the Centre for Cross-Border Studies at St Petersburg University and a leading research associate at the Institute of the Regional Economy Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences; and Artem Barynkin, Candidate of History, Associate Professor in the Department of European Studies at St Petersburg University.
After training, students will be able to understand the intercultural diversity of Ukrainian society in its socio-historical, ethical and philosophical context. They will also learn more about the economic and geographical conditions of the formation of the Ukrainian economic model.
Note that other online historical science courses of St Petersburg University are also available, including: ‘History of Russia’, ‘World History’ (in two parts), ‘Ancient History’ and ‘History of the Middle Ages’. As a reminder, today students can enrol in over 165 different online courses and 21 programmes of St Petersburg University on the national platform OpenEdu.