Faculty of History and Theory of Arts

**Rostyslav Shmagalo.**
Dean of the Faculty

The Faculty of Theory and History of Art co-ordinates the educational process between postgraduate studies, doctoral studies, and faculties that train specialists in artistic specialities. It provides the educational process connection with museums, galleries of classical and contemporary art, archives, restoration and educational institutions from Ukraine and other countries. The faculty is the only one in the academy having both intramural and extramural forms of study. The faculty has two graduation departments: Art Management and Theory and History of Art.

The main tasks of Art Management department are training specialists in management of art and socio-cultural activities as well as shaping a modern concept of the Ukrainian culture development, raising it to a new quality level, effective using the existing national historical and national cultural achievements, activating the commercial sphere of the Ukrainian culture.

The list of specialized disciplines:

management of socio-cultural activities
marketing in socio-cultural area
human resources management
public relations
advertising in cultural and artistic activities
information management
project management
fundamentals of human resources management
entrepreneurship in socio-cultural area
economics of culture and art
theory of art and artistic education
tourism industry

The concept of History and Theory of Art department activities involves the education and professional training of art experts in the speciality “Culturology”, specialization “art studies” and “museum activities and cultural valuables appraisal”. The main achievements of the department, in addition to its students, are numerous scientific monographs, specialized dictionaries as well as textbooks, educational programs of the new generation.

The basic theoretical courses of “Art Studies” specialization: