Department of Economic Policy
Head of Department Alexander Viktorovich Bondar, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Honored Educator of the Republic of Belarus.
The department was founded in 1981.
Structural reorganizations and renaming:
1981-1987 – The Department of Political Economy and critics of Anti-Marxist Economic Doctrines;
1987-2009 – The Department of Economic Theory and History of Economic Doctrines;
2009 - to the present – The Department of Economic Policy.
The department was headed in different years by: Professor Ya.A Yazvinskaya (1981-1985); Doctor of Economics, Professor I.M. Lemeshevsky, (1985-1991), Doctor of Economics, Professor A.N. Tour (1991-2000).
Since 2000, the department is headed by Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Honored Educator of Republic of Belarus A.V. Bondar, he was awarded the Francysk Skorina medal in 2010. Professor A.V. Bondar is a member of dissertation board on "Economics" and "International economics", the chairman of the methodical commission on "Economics", the member of scientific and methodical council of BSEU. He published more than 200 scientific and educational and methodical works. He is a coauthor and the editor of textbooks on the economic theory, microeconomics, macroeconomic, economic security and economic policy, history of the economic studies, national economy prepared at the university, which have withstood repeated reprints.
The department conducts educational work at the following faculties of the university: Institute of Social and Humanitarian Education, Commerce and Tourism Industry, Marketing and Logistics, International Business Communications, International Economic Relations, Economics and Management.
The staff of the department has a high creative and scientific potential for teaching students and training highly qualified specialists.
SPECIALTIES
The department is a graduate in specialty 1-250101 "Economics", specialization "Economic Policy" and specialty 1-250102 "Economica".
The students of the specialization “Economic Policy” deeply study economic theory and various aspects of economic relations, master modern methods and tools of economic policy, theory and methods of teaching economic subjects. Graduates are awarded the qualification "Economist. Teacher of economic disciplines." The sphere of professional activity of graduates of this specialty are ministries and departments, bodies of state and municipal government, research centers, enterprises, and higher educational institutions.
Graduates of the specialty "Economica" receive the qualification "Economist-Analyst". Students receive serious fundamental training in the field of modern economic theory, study modern information processing technologies, statistics, econometrics, and mathematical economics. Graduates of this specialty are in demand in government bodies, various organizations, including consulting firms, foreign and joint ventures, analytical departments of banks, insurance companies, research centers.
EDUCATIONAL WORK
Disciplines assigned to the department:
For the first stage of higher education:
- Economic policy;
- Economics (mandatory module);
- Economics.
- Economy;
- History of economic doctrines;
- Human resources development analysis;
- Innovation policy and economic security;
- Macroeconomics;
- Microeconomics;
RESEARCH WORK
The scientific work of the department is carried out in close cooperation with the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, research and higher educational institutions.
The department works in the following main areas of research of modern economics:
- theory and methodology of the study of human and intellectual capital;
- the system of knowledge-intensive services in a post-industrial society;
- problems of sustainable human development in the global economy;
- theory, methodology and practice of conservation and development of natural capital;
- import substitution in modern conditions of the Republic of Belarus.
The Department of Economic Policy carries out joint research with the Higher School of Finance and Management in the city of Bialystok (Poland). In the framework of the cooperation agreement between the HSFM in Bialystok and BSEU from the 2016-2017 academic year, the Double Degree Program is carried out. Under this program students of the specialties “Economic Policy”, “Economica” can get a diploma in Business Administration from the HSFM in Bialystok.
A branch of the department was created in the State Production Association "Gorremavtodor of the Minsk City Executive Committee", by order of which contractual scientific research is carried out, practice and graduation theses of students are carried out. Employees of this enterprise take an active part in the certification of students and undergraduates of the specialization "Economic Policy".
International relations dep.
e-mail : umoms@bseu.by
Tel.: (+375 17) 209-88-32,
International students office:
Tel.: (+375 17) 209-79-71