Institute of Culture and Arts

Art is a creative field of studies that includes painting, singing, dancing, taking pictures, performing on the stage, etc. Art is a kind of communication that allows people to understand each other’s thoughts and emotions through images, sounds and stories. Art influences society’s opinion by instilling into values and transferring of best practices through time and space. That’s why, Art can be considered as a means of social change that brings different people together. Culture helps to appreciate each other with their diversity and it is a set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that define a group of people, such as the people of a particular region. The arts  means vast subdivision of culture, composed of many creative endeavors and disciplines. The arts encompasses visual arts, literary arts and the performing arts.

 

Arts and culture allow learners to stay together in harmony, making schools safer, and creating excellent environments for learning. These are some of the benefits of integrating arts and culture while studying. The cultural education is seen as one of tools used to create the social capacity building, focused on stimulating creativity and preparing to operate in the reality of the information society. Its aim is also to increase the level of participation in the culture of various social groups. The paybacks are immense for both individual learners and the community at large.

 

The Institute of Culture and Arts is a highly acknowledged Educational Center in the field of Culture & Arts at Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University. The Institute has strong facilities and resources that include specially-equipped rooms and workshops, an exhibition hall with students’ works, a computer room and a reading room. There are also evening preparatory courses at the Institute of Culture and Arts.

The structure of the Institute includes:

  • 4 Departments:
    Arts and Crafts
    Design
    Fine Arts
    Cultural Studies and Educational Anthropology

 

  • 2 Scientific and Educational Centers and laboratories:
    Environmental Design, Advertising, and Printing Industry
    Student Research Laboratory of Socio-Cultural Monitoring

 

 

  • Other structural divisions:
    Workshop of Sculpture and Artistic Ceramics
    Computer Room with Special Programs (Graphic software packages)
    Educational and Methodical Study
    Showroom

 

The Institute of Culture and Arts trains students in the following programmes of study:

Bachelor:

  • Folk Art Culture (Major “Manual Studio Arts and Crafts”)
  • Culture
  • Library and Information Activities
  • Design (Major “Environment Design”)
  • Applied Arts and Crafts
  • Pedagogical Education (Major “Culturological education”, etc.)
  • Pedagogical Education (Major “Fine Arts”)
  • Religion

Master:

  • Pedagogical Education (Major “Pedagogical Anthropology”)
  • Cultural Studies (Major “Social and Cultural Engineering”, etc.).
  • Design (Major “Design Environment”, the program is declared for implementation)

Postgraduate:

  • Theory and History of Culture

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October prospect, 55 Syktyvkar, Russian Federation

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