Department of History of Ukraine, Archeology and Special Branches of Historical Science
Head of the Department:Mykola Valentynovych Barmak,Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor
Dispatcher: Liza Ivanivna Shevchuk
E-mail: barmakmv@gmail.com
History of the Department
The Department of History of Ukraine was established in 1991. In November 2018, the Faculty of History underwent a reorganization, thus the Department of History of Ukraine, Archeology and Special Fields of Historical Science was created. The Department is headed by Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Mykola Valentynovych Barmak. Teachers of the Department manage archaeological, local history, museum and archival practices of history students. The Department conducts significant educational, methodological and scientific activities, the results of which are scientific conferences, published monographs, textbooks, manuals, articles and theses. An important place in the work of the Department is the preparation and participation of students, master and postgraduate students in the Olympiads, scientific competitions and problem solving groups, organization of research work. The innovative work of the Department is based on the introduction and practical use of modern information technologies, credit and modular system, electronic multimedia educational disciplines and more.
Teaching Staff of the Department
Mykola Valentynovych Barmak – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department
Volodymyr Liubomyrovych Broslavskyi – PhD in Historical Sciences, Associate Professor
Ivan Stepanovych Zuliak – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor
Volodymyr Myronovych Kitsak – PhD in Historical Sciences, Associate Professor
Andrii Bohdanovych Klish – PhD in Historical Sciences, Associate Professor
Pavlo Stepanovych Korinenko – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor
Ivan Petrovych Kutsyi – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor
Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Misko – PhD in Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Dean of the History Faculty
Mykola Mykolaiovych Moskaliuk – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Volodymyr Mykhailovych Okarynskyi – PhD in Historical Sciences, Associate Professor
Volodymyr Vasylovych Starka – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor
Bohdan Stepanovych Strotsen – PhD in Historical Sciences, Assistant
Valentyn Dmytrovych Tereshchenko – PhD in Historical Sciences, Associate Professor
Oksana Vasylivna Yatyshchuk – PhD in Historical Sciences, Associate Professor
Staff of the Department provides teaching of the following disciplines:
The following courses are offered for students of the Faculty of History:
• History of Ukraine
• Historiography of the History of Ukraine
• Source Criticism of History of Ukraine
• History of Ukrainian Peasantry
• History of Public Administration of Ukraine
• Political Science
• Fundamentals of Law
• Theory of State and Law
• Constitutional Law
• Law Teaching Methodology
The following courses are offered for master students of the Faculty of History:
• History of Public Administration of Ukraine
• Foreign Policy of Independent Ukraine
• Economic History of the World and Ukraine
• Historiography and Source Criticism of History
• Theory of State and Law
• Judicial and Law Enforcement Agencies of Ukraine
• Ethno-national Conflicts in the Modern World
• Intellectual Property Right
• History of Legal Thought
• Actual Problems of International Relations and the Foreign Policy of Independent Ukraine
• Constitutional Law of Foreign Countries
• History of Ukrainian Peasantry
• European Union Law
• Methods of Legal Work at School
• Problems of the Theory of State and Law
• History of Public Administration
• History of Socio-political Thought
Сourses offered for the students of all University faculties:
• History of Ukraine
• Fundamentals of Law
• Political Science
About the Department
The staff of the Department works in the following areas of scientific research:
• Ukrainian War of Independence (Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor P.S. Korinenko);
• History of the Civil Service of Ukraine (Doctor of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor M.V. Barmak);
• Problems of the Ukrainian History of the 20th Century (PhD in Historical Sciences V.D. Tereshchenko);
• Ukrainian National Movement, Socio-political and Scientific Thought (PhD in Historical Sciences, Associate Professor I.P. Kutsyi);
• Social and Economic History of Ukraine (PhD in Historical Sciences V.L. Broslavskyi);
• Ukrainian Youth Movement of the 19th – 20th Centuries (PhD in Historical Sciences V.M. Okarynskyi);
• Ukrainian National Liberation Movement (PhD in Historical Sciences V.V. Starka).
Members of the Department take an active part in social, political, public and cultural life; head various establishments, societies and institutes both within and outside the University. In particular, Mykola Barmak is the Head of the Center for European Studies at TNPU; Volodymyr Starka heads the Research Center for the Study of the Heroic Past of the Ukrainian People; Volodymyr Okarynskyi is the curator of the Student Club of European Studies and so on. The Department maintains extensive and fruitful international scientific relations. In particular, Mykola Barmak is a member of the international project of Interdisciplinary Research in the Social Sciences TISCASS (Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine); Ivan Kutsyi participates in the Ukrainian-Polish research project “History. Mentality. Identity. The Role of Historians in the Lives of Polish and Ukrainian Peoples in the 19th and 20th Centuries” etc.
