Religious Studies 2020

Faculty of Philosophy

Name
Religious Studies 2020
Program code
1186
Qualification awarded
Bachelor of Religious Studies
Length of programme
4 years
Number of credits
240
level of qualification according to the National Qualification Framework and the European Qualifications Framework
6
Qualification level
First (Bachelor)
Discipline
Humanities
Speciality
KnowledgeField EN
Specific admission requirements
On the basis of complete secondary education
Specific arrangements for recognition of prior learning
Based on the results of an external independent evaluation.
Qualification requirements and regulations, including graduation requirements
Certification of graduates of the educational and professional program of the specialty 031-religious studies is carried out in the form of a qualifying exam in religious studies and a public defense of the qualifying work, and ends with the issuance of a document of the established model awarding the recipient of a degree of higher education with the assignment of an educational qualification: Bachelor of Religious Studies.
Programme learning outcomes
The educational program provides 16 program learning outcomes (LPL). During the attestation of higher education applicants, the following program results (PRN) are checked: 1. Communicate freely on professional issues in national and foreign languages orally and in writing, use languages for effective intercultural communication. 2. Effectively work with information from various sources, critically analyze, interpret, classify, and systematize it in order to solve religious problems. 3. To have skills in applying subject knowledge of religious studies in order to analyze current social problems. 4. Organize the process of learning and self-education. 5. Know and apply the basic concepts, theories and methods of religious studies in professional activities. 6. To characterize the main stages of the history of the world's religions, the peculiarities of the historical typology of religious ideas. 7. Collect, analyze, systematize and interpret facts related to the development of religions and denominations, use them to solve complex tasks in specialized areas of professional activity. 8. Critically evaluate and analyze information from various sources on religious issues. 9. Use information technologies to identify modern trends in the coexistence of religions and confessions in the conditions of globalization and intercultural dialogue. 10. Analyze the place of religious studies in the system of humanitarian knowledge and the social role of the religious scholar. 11. Apply religious knowledge and methods of scientific study of religion for practical solutions to modern socio-cultural problems (ensuring human rights to freedom of religion, interreligious relations, interreligious dialogue, state-church relations, believers and non-believers, religious education, medical and environmental problems, etc.). 12. To present one's own point of view in open discussions on religious issues. 13. Analyze religious texts using knowledge of one of the ancient languages.
Form of study
Full-time form
Examination regulations and grading scale
Written and written-oral examinations, tests, reports of teaching practices, oral presentations, essays, current control, control works, written-oral qualifying examination in religious studies, defense of qualification work, differentiated test.
Оbligatory or optional mobility windows (if applicable)
-
Work placement
Industrial practice by profession in the 3rd year. Industrial practice by profession is a mandatory component of the educational program. Practical training takes place separately from theoretical training on the basis of the Faculty of Philosophy.
Work-based learning
Student-centered learning, self-learning, problem-oriented learning, learning through practically-oriented scientific seminars, online learning. During the last year, students write a qualifying paper, which is presented and discussed with the participation of teachers and classmates.
Director of the course
Zoya Volodymyrivna Shwed
Department of Religious Studies
Faculty of Philosophy
Occupational profiles of graduates
Any type of professional activity in the field of analytical work with religious organizations, their charters and founding documents; management of social relations and processes that require effective communication. Jobs in research, educational, religious, analytical and informational institutions, mass media, state authorities.
Access to further studies
A person who graduated from this educational and professional program and obtained a bachelor's degree can continue his studies at the second (master's) level of higher education. Acquire additional qualifications in the postgraduate education system.

Subjects

As part of the curriculum, students study the following disciplines

Early Christian tradition and the history of Orthodoxy
Code: ОК.11,
Philosophy of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Code: ОК.13,
History of world religious thought
Code: ОК.29,
Basics of economic theory
Code: ОК.31,
General and social psychology
Code: ОК.32,
Religion and science: forms of modern dialogue
Code: ВП. 3.07.01,
Cosmology in the European history of philosophy
Code: ВП.3.08.03,
ANCIENT GREEK LANGUAGE
Code: ОК.44,
Latina
Code: ОК.45,
Rhetoric
Code: ВП. 3.01.03,
History and theory of free thinking
Code: ОК.09,
Course work on the history of religion
Code: ОК.02,
Stylistics of the confessional text
Code: ОК.34,
Geography of religion
Code: ОК.35,
New philosophy of the 16th - 18th centuries.
Code: ОК.15,
Scientific image of the world
Code: ОК.29,
Buddhism as a religious tradition
Code: ОК.12,
Aesthetics
Code: ОК14,
Catholicism: history and modernity
Code: ОК.17,
History of Ukrainian philosophy
Code: ОК.18,
Social philosophy
Code: ОК.19,
Philosophy of religion
Code: ОК.36,
History of Slavic religious philosophy
Code: ВБ.2.1,
Religious fundamentalism and extremism
Code: ВБ. 2.2,
Genesis and time as a religious problem
Code: ВБ. 2.3,
The sophistry of Kyivan Christianity
Code: ВБ. 2.4,
Religious texts
Code: ОК.38,
Protestantism and neo-Christianity
Code: ОК. 46,
Sociology and psychology of religion
Code: ОК.20,
Epistemology
Code: ОК.21,
Course work on the philosophy of religion
Code: ОК. 37,
Ethics
Code: ОК. 16,