Faculty of History

The Department of Ukrainian History was founded in 1918, restored in 1990 after its closure. Famous Ukrainian scientists like Dmytro Doroshenko, Pylyp Klymenko, Pavlo Klepatskyi worked here. Today, the department, which employs 4 professors, 4 associate professors and 2 senior lecturers, actively implements various components of educational and educational-scientific programs for the training of specialists; it has become a powerful regional center for scientific research, training of doctors and candidates of sciences, doctors of philosophy, and disseminates the latest knowledge on the country’s history among teachers, local historians, and interested citizens. Collections of research articles are published; nearly 4,000 papers were completed by the department’s scientists; there are two scientific schools as well.

The Department of World History is a basic structural unit of the Kamianets-Podilskyi Ivan Ohienko National University, the origins of which date back to 1918. One of the strongest aspects of the department’s activity was and is the research work of its staff. In recent years, teachers have published a number of monographs, textbooks and manuals, dozens of articles. The department fruitfully cooperates with the NASU Institute of History of Ukraine. To one degree or another, all teachers of department maintain creative contacts with various departments of the institute. Professor L. V. Bazhenov successfully manages the Center for Podillia Historical Research of the NASU Institute of History of Ukraine. Professor V. S. Stepankov is a member of the scientific council of the scientific journal “Ukrainian Historical Journal” and “Ukrainian Historian”. Professor S. A. Kopylov is a member of the editorial board of the “Slavistic Almanac” journal (the NASU Institute of History of Ukraine), etc. Today, the Department of World History of Kamianets-Podilskyi Ivan Ohienko National University is a dynamic structure, the development of which is based on two main components: the active implementation of the latest pedagogical technologies aimed at adapting historical education to modern European standards and preserving traditions that were established by more than one generation of scientists-historians, whose names made our faculty famous.

Currently, 10 employees work at the department, including 8 scientific and pedagogical employees, 7 full-time employees and 3 part-time employees. Among them: 1 Doctor of historical sciences, 5 Candidates of historical sciences, 1 Candidate of legal sciences, 1 Professor, 5 Associate Professors, 1 Senior lecturer, 2 Heads of the educational laboratory of archeology, 1 senior laboratory assistant. The department provides teaching of 25 standard training courses, 4 special courses and special seminars. The teachers of the department carry out significant work on providing the educational process with author’s textbooks and manuals. Most of the textbooks are recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine for implementation in the educational process. The scientific-pedagogical staff and post-graduate students of the department are actively engaged in research work, publish the results of research in professional journals and collections of scientific works, participate in conferences, congresses, and seminars. There are many great achievements in the history of the department, but there is hard work ahead, aimed at training highly qualified personnel: historians, archaeologists, lawyers.

The Department of Political Science and Philosophy

is a graduation department and is part of the structural subdivisions of the history faculty. It was founded in 2003 (under the name of the Department of Political Science and Sociology) and became a leader in the training of specialists in the field of political science in Khmelnytskyi Region. In 2020, the Department of Political Science and Sociology was merged with the Department of Philosophical Disciplines. Scientific and pedagogical workers of the department are actively engaged in research work, consulting, analytical, project activities, constantly raising their professional level. Graduates of the specialty 052 Political Science occupy leadership positions in the civil service and local self-government bodies, work in political parties, public organizations, charity funds, analytical centers, etc.

The Department of General and Practical Psychology prepares students of various levels of higher education who plan to become specialists in the field of psychological provision of education, clinical practice, activities of rehabilitation, inclusive resource centers, penitentiary institutions, political organizations, as well as those who dream of working in private practice. At the Department, priorities are given to student-centered learning, under which students choose an individual educational trajectory.

The staff of the Department of General and Practical Psychology is experienced and highly qualified. It includes 2 Doctors of Psychological Sciences, 1 Professor, 8 PhD in Psychological Sciences, well-known specialists in the field of practical psychology in Ukraine.

 Considerable attention is paid to scientific work. Since 2008, the Department has been publishing the Collection of Scientific Works «Problems of Modern Psychology» of the Kamianets-Podilskyi Ivan Ohiienko National University and H.S. Kostyuk Institute of Psychology of the NAES of Ukraine, which is included in the List of scientific professional journals of Ukraine, Category «B», psychological specialties – 053. Every year, the department of general and practical psychology organizes and holds four international scientific and practical conferences with the publication of conference participants’ materials.

The Department was founded in 2002. The Department includes competent scientific and pedagogical workers committed to the training of qualified, competitive specialists (teachers-speech therapists).

The Department’s priority areas of activity are: creation of favorable conditions for the formation of Speech therapy students’ professional competences; development and improvement of educational and methodological support for the study of educational components of professional training; organization of research space for scientific and pedagogical workers and students; establishing and maintaining relations with employers and educational institutions.

Among the special achievements of the department are initiatives in the organization and holding of the annual International scientific and practical conference «Correctional education: history, modernity and development prospects» (since 2006), and its updated format – «Special and inclusive education: problems and prospects» (since 2021), periodic All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Forum of Students «Development of Special Education: Student Format» (2017, 2018, 2020), publication of the Collection of Scientific Works «Topical Issues of Correctional Education» (Category B), Collection of Scientific Works «Bulletin of Faculty of Special education, Psychology and Social work» (Category C), Collection of scientific works of bachelor and master students of the Faculty of Special education, Psychology and Social work.

Due to the scientific and methodological work of its members and many years of experience in providing quality educational services, the department of speech therapy and special methods has gained a positive reputation both in scientific circles and among educational institutions for children with special educational needs and practitioners in various regions of Ukraine. For a long time, the department has fruitfully cooperated with adjacent departments of leading Ukrainian universities (National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A. S. Makarenko) and abroad (Academy of Special Pedagogy named after M. Grzegozhevska, Republic of Poland, Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovak Republic, etc.).