The Faculty of Philosophy and Arts began its academic activity in 1999 as the Faculty of Humanities. It changed to its present name in 2005. Although the faculty does not offer as wide a spectrum of study fields as at other traditional faculties of philosophy, it offers applicants a chance to study different and modern programs in anthropology, philology, philosophy, history, humanities, and social sciences in addition to the similar standard programs offered elsewhere. Due to the faculty’s relatively narrow scope of focus, cooperation and research among all the faculty’s workplaces is crucial. At first glance, the combinations of study specializations, which were formed at the faculty over the relatively short course of its existence, may seem disparate, but they actually provide a certain comparative advantage. Topics that currently intersect the scholarly interests of all the faculty’s departments include the issue of “societies in the modern age and their formation” – a topic that the faculty has been able to focus on with a high degree of complexity while making use of the wide spectrum of its offered study specializations. These specializations include contemporary archaeology; philosophy; ethnology; linguistics; modern history; political science and international affairs; social and cultural anthropology; and sociology.
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