The Liberal Arts and Sciences system, a human rights program and almost all English courses will be canceled at St. Petersburg State University • The Insider • RIMA — Russian Independent Media Archive
The Liberal Arts and Sciences system, a human rights program and almost all English courses will be canceled at St. Petersburg State University
July 16, 2023
Students of the Faculty of Free Arts and Sciences studied the new curriculum of St. Petersburg State University. They report that the Liberal Arts and Sciences system is eliminated from the plan. Earlier, the supervisor of this system Nikita Kuznetsov reported that it is characterized by "the worst Western stereotypes." Sota drew attention to this.
According to students, the following changes will be introduced in the new academic year:
The number of English courses will be reduced from 21 to 2;
The election is canceled. Future freshmen will have the opportunity to choose a profile after 2 years of training (history of cultures, cinema and video in the context of culture, cognitive research, literature in the context of culture, music in the context of culture, sociology of culture, cultural economy), and until then more than 100 people will master the same disciplines, but even after 2 years the choice of de facto does not exist. The ability to build your trajectory of learning is abolished.
The reduction in educational areas by almost half: instead of 12 profiles there will be 7 trajectories, abolished, among others, the program of international relations, political sciences and human rights.
The possibility of discussions during couples is removed, earlier the program made it possible to freely communicate students and the teacher.
In addition, students write that over the past two years, the number of teachers has greatly declined - from a hundred teachers since 2021, 25 people have left the university.
Not only the curriculum of St. Petersburg State University is changing. The Insider previously wrote that the leadership of the university decided to change the symbol - instead of the “winged genius” they will be a monument to Count Sergey Uvarov - the Minister of Education during the reign of Nicholas I. Sergey Uvarov - the author of the theory of the official nationality, the state ideology of the Russian Empire during the reign of Nicholas I. It was based The expression “Orthodoxy, autocracy, nationality” as an antithesis of the motto of the Great French Revolution “Freedom, Equality, Brotherhood”.
