Ukrainian and Foreign Culture

Course: "English Studies and Translation and Two Western European Languages"

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Ukrainian and Foreign Culture
Code
ОК 12
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
6 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
PLO 1. Communicate freely on professional issues with experts and non- experts in Ukrainian, English and in two Western European languages, in oral and in written form, use these languages to organize effective cross-cultural communication. PLO 2. Process information effectively: collect relevant information from a variety of sources, including professional literature and electronic databases, critically analyze and interpret it, organize, classify and systematize it. PLO 3. Organize own learning and self-education process. PLO 5. Collaborate with colleagues, representatives of other cultures and religions, supporters of different political views, etc. PLO 6. Use information and communication technologies to solve complex specialized tasks and issues of professional activity.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
To know the key events of the world history and the history of Ukraine. To be able to analyse and interpret literature and reference materials on the historical and cultural development of Ukraine and other countries of the world at a basic level. To have the basic skills of critical thinking.
Course content
The academic course introduces the theoretical and methodological basis for studying of culture to students. The course involves learning basic stages of the development of world cultures as well as their typology. It also provides the analysis of sources on the history of Ukrainian and foreign culture. The students analyse cultural phenomena and processes from various historical periods, as well as cultural interrelationships and interactions of the past, and what cultural peculiarities were formed in different regions of the world, including Ukraine. The students also study achievements of Ukrainian and foreign culture, in particular the main pieces of art from various historical periods, and learn how and in what circumstances they appeared, what specific features they have. It also provides learning the main cultural institutions and their practices for protecting and popularising the major components of the world's cultural heritage.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Історія української культури: у 5 т., 9 кн. / ред. кол.: Скрипник Г.А., Пилипчук Р.Я., Рубан В.В., Пономар Л.Г. [та ін.]. К., 2001 2013. Історія українського мистецтва: у 5 т. / голов. ред. Г. Скрипник. К., 2007-2011. Українська культура в європейському контексті / Ю.П.Богуцький, В.П.Андрущенко, Ж.О.Безвершук, Л.М.Новохатько. К., 2007. 679 с. Art: a world history / Editors Jo Marceau, L.Candlish, F.Day, D.Williams. London, 2002. 720 p. Panofsky E. Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance. New York, 1939. Pp. xxxiii+262. Vasari G. The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. New York, 2006. 640 pp. Wölfflin H. Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Early Modern Art. Los Angeles, 2015. 368 pp.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, students’ individual work.
Assessment methods and criteria
The assessment is carried out according to the module rating system. Formative assessment includes oral answers at the seminar (up to 50 points), creative task (individual work) (up to 10 points), express control (up to 20 points), final test paper (up to 20 points). The form of the final control is a credit.
Language of instruction
English

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Nataliia Yuriivna Kryvda
Department of Ukrainian Philosophy and Culture
Faculty of Philosophy
Iryna Hennadiivna Adamska
Department of Ukrainian Philosophy and Culture
Faculty of Philosophy