EXPLANATORY NOTE
The curriculum of the academic discipline «Information Technologies in Cultural Studies» is designed for foreign students who get education in English and assimilate the curriculum of the second stage of higher education. The discipline program is designed to develop knowledge and skills of scientific, pedagogical and research work as well as for the attainment of a master's degree.
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).
