Modern standards of
cultural education require students' ability and skills to analyze the evolutionary
processes of the society’s cultural life, the basic laws and variations of its development.
The course «Information technologies in cultural studies» is designed to teach
students to conduct cultural studies on their own to investigate the culture and
its structure on empirical level.
The content of the
academic discipline is aimed at forming general-purpose competencies, including
skills to use information technologies for analytical and forecasting purposes in
professional activities, modeling of the innovative socio-cultural processes
and phenomena, identifying the trends in their development (GC-3); as well as advanced
professional competencies in development and application of information resources
in socio-cultural institutions and organizational activities (GPC-5).
The interdisciplinary
discipline «Information Technologies in Cultural Studies» is related to the
discipline «Organizing and conducting scientific research», which is included
in the module «Research work».
The purpose of the
discipline is to train students to organize the cultural studies, prepare
research programs, collect and process statistical data, summarize and analyze
research results, formulate conclusions and recommendations on cultural policy.
Tasks of academic discipline:
- formation of the
methodological base of a cultural specialist,
- mastering the
methods of organizing and conducting sociocultural studies;
- developing
skills to analyze data, draw conclusions and formulate recommendations on cultural
policy implementation.
