Department of Political Science
The Department of Political Science at the Belarusian State Economic University was established in 1990. In April 2005, it became part of the Institute of Social and Humanitarian Education, a structural unit of the Belarusian State Economic University. Since 2024, the Department of Political Science has been part of the Faculty of Socio-Economics. The head of the department is Oleg Kazak, Candidate of Historical Sciences.
Specialties
Undergraduate Degree
The department offers a Bachelor's degree program in Political Science leading to the qualification of "Political Scientist."
TEACHING AND METHODOLOGICAL WORK
Courses
Currently, the Department of Political Science provides instruction on the following courses to all faculties of the Belarusian State Economic University:
- Political Science;
- Geopolitics and Geo-economics of the Modern World;
- State Policy and Governance in the Republic of Belarus;
- Modern Political Economy;
- Economic Diplomacy.
To prepare students for the specialization of Political Science, the faculty members of the department offer courses on the following subjects:
- Introduction to Political Theory
- Foreign policy of the Republic of Belarus
- Geopolitics and geo-economics of the modern world
- Public policy and governance in the Republic of Belarus
- Local power in the political system of society
- Methodology for preparing educational and qualifying works
- Methodology of political science
- New media and communications in business management
- Public policy
- Organization of election campaigns
- Organization of relations with authorities (GR)
- Organization of the work of the state apparatus
- Fundamentals of diplomatic and consular service
- Policy in the field of digital transformation
- Policy and budget
- Political communication
- Political conflictology
- Political culture
- Political psychology
- Political regional studies
- Political ideologies
- Political parties and interest groups
- Political problems of modern global studies
- Political analysis and forecasting
- Political management, marketing and advertising
- Political management and public policy
- Political Science
- System of government in the Republic of Belarus
- Modern political economy
- Modern political communications in management and business
- Comparative Politics
- Public Administration Theory
- Policy Theory
- Theory of political decision making
- Economic diplomacy
- Economic political science
- Ethnopolitical science
The department is currently preparing specialists, master's and postgraduate students.
In 2009, the first intake of students for the specialty «Political Science» (specialization: «Political Management») took place. The first graduation took place in 2014. Since 2023, admissions have been conducted for the specialty «Political Science» with the awarding of the qualification «Political Scientist.»
The training of specialists (political scientists, researchers, and applied analysts) is carried out on the basis of the state educational standard, modern curricula, and also taking into account the interaction of the department with leading domestic and foreign experts in the field of practical political science. To date, the department’s staff have developed and implemented more than 35 original training courses into the educational process. To prepare students for the disciplines assigned to the department, author teams have developed and published a number of textbooks, manuals, and monographs; electronic educational and methodological complexes are being developed and updated. The department’s teaching staff is constantly improving the practice of students’ research work, expanding the practice bases, and increasing contacts with potential employers. In 2017, the department established a branch on the basis of the ROO «Belarusian Society of Friendship and Cultural Ties with Foreign Countries».
The department offers a master’s program in the field of «Political Science», with a specialization in «Economic Political Science: Analysis and Forecasting of Political Processes». Master’s studies are conducted both in full‑time and part‑time formats.
The department conducts training of highly qualified scientific personnel in the following areas:
- 22.00.01 – theory and philosophy of politics, history and methodology of political science.
- 22.00.02 – political institutions, processes and technologies.
- 22.00.04 – political problems of international relations, global and regional development.
Research work
Currently, the research work of the department focuses on analyzing the relevant political and socio-economic processes in the Republic of Belarus, as well as studying the integration processes in the Eurasian region. Over the past years, the department staff have conducted scientific research on such topics as "Problems of the development of the political system in the transformation period", "Political modernization in the Republic of Belarus: traditions and innovations", "Political science on the trajectories of development of the state, business, and civil society", and "Public-private partnership: analysis of domestic and foreign experience", "Modern media and problems of political communication in relations between civil society, state and business".
The authors have considered a number of theoretical questions related to the study of the political system (definition of the content of basic concepts, its typology, etc.), provided a structural characteristic of the political system, and examined changes in its most important components during the transformation period (government bodies, political elites and parties, public organizations in the post-Soviet space, political culture, and mass consciousness of Belarusian society).
Since 2020, the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Modern Political Science on the Trajectories of Development of the State, Business and Civil Society” has been held annually at the Department of Political Science.
International relations dep.
e-mail : umoms@bseu.by
Tel.: (+375 17) 209-88-32,
International students office:
Tel.: (+375 17) 209-79-71