Theory and History of Culture (code: 24.00.01) is a postgraduate studies’ specialty offered at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Communications.
The primary focus of postgraduate and doctoral students research is the evolution of culture as a social phenomenon, systemic integrity, various forms and levels of organisation, specific ways of inclusion in public life, and socio-cultural and ethnocultural processes in various regions of the world at specific historical stages.
Postgraduate studies can be pursued in the following forms:
- full-time education – maximum of 3 years,
- part-time education – maximum of 4 years,
- self-study education – maximum of 5 years
– at the expense of the republican budget resources, organizations, individual entrepreneurs or other individuals, including the applicant’s own funds.
Applications for studies at the expense of the republican budget are being accepted until March 1 of this year.
Document admission for a postgraduate course is carried out annually from August 1 to September 30.
All applicants are interviewed by the head of the department, the prospective academic research advisor, and the admissions committee before September 30.
The results of the interview are formalized by the conclusion of the admissions committee.
Applicants for postgraduate study in both full-time and part-time forms of education take an entrance exam in the speciality within the scope of existing higher education programmes.
The speciality’s admission exam will be held from October 1 to October 10. Admission exam cannot be retaken.
Postgraduate course admission process starts on November 1.
The admissions committee decides on the admission of those who have successfully passed the exams on a competitive basis, taking into consideration the maximum number of post-graduate students to be admitted.
Full-time graduate students are paid a scholarship in accordance with the established procedure.
Individuals, who have successfully completed their studies, are awarded the scientific qualification of “Researcher” by the attestation commission. Thereafter, a researcher’s diploma is obtained (with the exception of those independent degree seekers studying only to pass candidate exams and tests in general educational courses).
Admission process, as well as all stages of the educational process, are coordinated and controlled by the Department of Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies of the Main Department of Science of BSU.
For further information on postgraduate studies and the admission process, please contact: Minsk, Bobruiskaya str., 9, room 414, 419, phone: 8 (017) 209-51-73, 209-54-23 (Head of the Department of Postgraduate Studies and Doctoral studies).
Consultation hours: 8:30 am –1pm, 2pm – 5:15pm (Monday–Thursday); 8:30am – 1pm, 2pm – 5pm (Friday).
Correspondence address: Nezavisimosti Ave., 4, 220030, Minsk (with the indication “For the Department of Postgraduate Studies and Doctoral Studies”), fax: 8 (017) 200-74-65 (with the indication “For the Department of Postgraduate Studies and Doctoral Studies”).