The History of Ukraine and Ukrainian Culture

2022
1 Short abstract of the discipline

The history of Ukraine and Ukrainian culture course is aimed to study how past societies,
systems, ideologies, governments, cultures, and technologies have been built, how they have
operated, and how they have changed in Ukraine. The subjects of study of the discipline are the
historical aspects of the formation and development of the culture, language, and art in Ukraine.

2 Prerequisite for studying the discipline

 The discipline is based on the study of general history during secondary education and integrates
with such disciplines as the history and culture of Ukraine, ethics and deontology, philosophy,
sociology, law, psychology, and more.

3 The purpose and objectives of the discipline

• Understand and grapple with complex questions and dilemmas by examining how the past
has shaped global, national, and local relationships between societies and people
• Analyze and explain problems in the past to see patterns that might otherwise be invisible in
the present – thus providing a crucial perspective for understanding current and future problems
• Understanding immigration patterns to provide crucial background for addressing ongoing
racial or cultural tensions
• Recognize Ukrainian cultures, ideas, and traditions as meaningful products of specific times
and places
• Asking a question about the past, assembling a set of clues through documents, artifacts, or
other sources, and then piecing those clues together to tell a story that answers your question and
tells you something unexpected about a different time and place in Ukraine
• Studying and examining Ukrainian society's way of life to comprehend the subject of
culture’s history that is integral to the shared identities of its members to see the full picture of a
culture and understand the history behind it
• To be drawn on politics, sociology, economics, and anthropology, all of which feed into the
history of Ukrainian individuals and societies

3 The purpose and objectives of the discipline

• Be able to resolve the conflict by comprehending the historical roots of a situation

• To know how to confront international crises by understanding how the crisis arose and what
forces shape them
• To develop reading and writing skills by reading different sources - be they documents, letters,
or even novels - and pulling out themes and patterns, motifs and details, and making sense of
what these features tell us about the past

4 Learning Outcomes

• Knowing and understanding the main stages of development of Ukrainian culture and society
in connection with the development and change of socio-economic events
• Acquiring basic historical research skills, including the effective use of libraries, archives, and
databases
• Identifying and describing the contours and stakes of conversations among historians within
defined Ukrainian historiographical fields
 • Applying historical methods to evaluate critically the record of the ancient history of Ukraine
and how historians and others have interpreted it
• Organizing and expressing the thoughts clearly and coherently both in writing and orally in
Ukrainian and English
• Demonstrating the mastery of the knowledge and skills involved in historical practice by
conceptualizing and executing a significant piece of original research

5 ECTS Loans
3 credits / 90 academic hours

Structure of discipline

Structure of discipline

Number of hours

Name of Full-time form

 table of
contents
section and including
topics

Total

l p lab ind i.w.

Module 1. Kyivan Rus’ in the Middle Ages

Topic 1. 0,5 3 0,5
Impact of
the
Scandinav
ian
invaders
on the
Slavic
people in
Ukrainian
lands
Topic 2. 0,5 2 0,5
The
beginning,
developm
ent, and
end of
Kyivan
Rus`
Topic 3. 0,5 4 2,5
Foundatio
n of the
Kievan
state
Topic 4. 0,5 2 0,5
Reign of
Vladimir
and
Christianis
ation
Topic 5. 0,5 2 1,5
Golden age
Topic 6. 0,5 2 0,5
Foreign
Relations
Module 23 3 13 3
total
Module 2. Ukrainian Lands in the Early Modern Times
Topic 1. 0,5 2 0,5
Polish–
Lithuanian
Common
wealth
Topic 2. 0,5 2 0,5
Cossack
era
Topic 3. 1,5 2 0,5
Russian
Empire
and
Austria-
Hungary
Topic 4. 0,5 4 0,5
The
developm
ent of
Ukrainian
lands
under the
reign of
the
Kingdom
of Poland
and the
Grand
Duchy of
Lithuania
in the
Early
Modern
time.
Topic 5. 0,5 2 0,5
Crown of
the
Kingdom
of Poland
Topic 6. 0,5 2 0,5
Metropolita
nate of
Kyiv
Module 21 4 14 3
total
Module 3. Ukraine in the XIXth - XXth Century
Topic 1. 0,5 3 0,5
The effect
of the
Reformati
on on
Ukrainian
lands
Topic 2. 0,5 2 0,5
The
Cossacks’
military
organizati
on, their
role in
European
wars, and
the
creation of
their own
statehood.
Topic 3. 0,5 2 0,5
Ukraine’s
struggle to
establish
its own
cultural
and
political
movement
s under
the reign
of two
empires
during the
XIX
century.
 Structure of discipline

Number of hours

Full-time form

Name of
table of
contents
section and Total including
topics

l p lab ind i.w.

Module 3. Ukraine in the XIXth - XXth Century

Topic 4. Declaration of independence by Ukraine after World 0,5 2 0,5
War I and its occupation by the Soviet Union.
 Topic 5. Executed Renaissance 1,5 2 0,5
Topic 6. The struggle for Carpatho-Ukraine in 1938-1939 0,5 2 0,5
Topic 7. Long way of the Ukrainian dissident movement to the 0,5 2 1,5
declaration of independence in 1991.
Module total 24 5 15 5
Module 4. Independent Ukraine
Topic 1. The Orange Revolution 0,5 2 0,5
Topic 2. Postindependence issues 0,5 2 0,5
Topic 3. The Maidan protest movement 0,5 2 0,5
Topic 4. Social and economical developments 2,5 2 1,5
Topic 5. The crisis in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine 0,5 2 0,5
Topic 6. Ukraine today 0,5 2 0,5
Module total 21 5 12 4

Structure of discipline

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 Structure of discipline

Total hours 90 17 48 25

7 Subject features

Training period: 1 semester

Semester: II
International disciplinary integration: Yes
Year of study: 1st year
Cycles: general training cycle

8 The assessment system and requirements

The semester credit is assessed according to a two-point scale (passed / failed) and a 200-point scale by determi
mean of current grades for each practical lesson according to a 4-point scale and its subsequent conversion into poin
scale. The minimum number of points that an applicant must score is 120.
8 The assessment system and requirements

The final examination of students’ knowledge in the discipline "History of Ukraine and Ukrainian Culture" is carried
differential test. The differentiated test in the discipline is conducted in the form of an oral examination in accordanc
of the differential test.
https://ieu.edu.ua/docs/rate-of-study.pdf

Conditions on excess to final control

Students who have completed all the types of work and tasks included in the curriculum for the semester in a
discipline, who attended all classes contained in the curriculum, written and provided a medical record and have a
current educational activities of at least "3” are considered to be acceptable for semester final control. "(72 points on
https://ieu.edu.ua/docs/rate-of-study.pdf

10 Discipline policy

While teaching and learning the course, all lecturers and students comply with the policy of academic integrity, intol
and ethics. Student responsibilities:
- to eliminate the possibility to use mobile phones, tablets or any other mobile devices during the class, topr
plagiarism;
- students should not miss lectures and practical training, should inform the dean’s office of absence for valid reaso
the permit to make up missed classes; coming late is undesirable;
- to ensure cooperation between the lecturer and students and adhere to the principle of solidarity while learning the d
- to address the lecturer regarding the assistance in organization and consultation on scientific, exploration and resear
- to take part in scientific groups;
For lecturers:
- fulfillment of the syllabus is obligatory;
- coming late to lectures, seminars and practical training is not allowed;
- the discipline policy implies objective assessment of knowledge and skills;
- any forms of corruption activities are forbidden;
- prejudiced attitude and discrimination regardless of the race, ethnic origin, and religious beliefs are not allowed.

11 Absence and Post-Deadline Tasks Policy

A student who, for valid documented reasons, was not subject to the current control, has the right to
pass the current control within two weeks after returning to study.
 A student who was absent from classes without a clear reason, did not participate in current control
activities, did not eliminate his/ her academic debt, is considered to be acceptable for the final
semester control of knowledge in this discipline, and on the day of the exam, a scientific and
pedagogical worker gives the mark “rejected” in the examination record. Repeated differential test
in the discipline is appointed subject to the implementation of all types of educational, independent
(individual) work provided by the working curriculum of the discipline and is carried out in
accordance with the schedule for the elimination of academic debts approved by the directorate.
https://ieu.edu.ua/docs/050.pdf

12 The policy of academic integrity

Participants in the educational process are guided by the principles of academic integrity
https://ieu.edu.ua/docs/011.pdf

13 Recommended sources of information

1. Ukrainian Economic History: Interpretive Essays (1991), and The Ukraine Within the
USSR: An Economic Balance Sheet (1977);
2. and VSEVOLOD HOLUBNYCHY, Soviet Regional Economics (1982). Other solid studies
include I.S. KOROPECKYJ, Development in the Shadow: Studies in Ukrainian Economics
(1990), and The Ukrainian Economy: Achievements, Problems, Challenges (1992);
3. and KING BANAIAN, The Ukrainian Economy Since Independence (1999).The
Nationalities Factor in Soviet Politics and Society (1990). Book-length studies include
JAROSLAW BILOCERKOWYCZ, Soviet Ukrainian Dissent: A Study of Political
Alienation (1988);
4. BOHDAN KRAWCHENKO, Social Change and National Consciousness in Twentieth-
Century Ukraine (1985);
5. PETER J. POTICHNYJ (ed.), Ukraine in the Seventies (1975); BOHDAN
KRAWCHENKO (ed.), Ukraine After Shelest (1983);
6. and SERHY YEKELCHYK, Stalin’s Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in
the Soviet Historical Imagination (2004). Istoriia ukraïns’koho mystetstva, 6 vol. in 7
(1966–70); GEORGE S.N. LUCKYJ, Between Gogol and Sevcenko: Polarity in the
Literary Ukraine: 1798–1847 (1971);
7. DMYTRO ČYŽEVS’KYJ, A History of Ukrainian Literature, from the 11th to the End of
the 19th Century (1975; originally published in Ukrainian, 1956);
8. GEORGE G. GRABOWICZ, Toward a History of Ukrainian Literature (1981);
9. GEORGE S.N. LUCKYJ, Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917–1934, rev. and
updated ed. (1990), and Ukrainian Literature in the Twentieth Century: A Reader’s Guide
(1992);
10. SVIATOSLAV HORDYNSKY, The Ukrainian Icon of the XIIth to the XVIIIth centuries,
trans. from Ukrainian (1973).
13 Recommended sources of information

1. Crisis and Reform: The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the
Genesis of the Union of Brest (1998, reissued 2001);
2. PIOTR WAWRZENIUK, Confessional Civilising in Ukraine: The Bishop Iosyf
Shumliansky and the Introduction of Reforms in the Diocese of Lviv, 1688–1708 (2005);
3. JOHN-PAUL HIMKA, Religion and Nationality in Western Ukraine: The Greek Catholic
Church and Ruthenian National Movement in Galicia, 1867–1900 (1999);
4. FRANK E. SYSYN, The Ukrainian Orthodox Question in the USSR (1987); BOHDAN
ROSTYSLAV BOCIURKIW, The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Soviet State,
1939–1950 (1996);
5. IVAN HVAT, “The Ukrainian Catholic Church, the Vatican, and the Soviet Union During
the Pontificate of Pope John Paul II,” Religion in Communist Lands, 11(3):264–294
(Winter 1983). SERHII PLOKHY and FRANK E. SYSYN, Religion and Nation in Modern
Ukraine (2003)

14 Tips for successful learning on the course

If you want to be successful in this discipline, you need to be a student who:

• attends classes, works hard, is confident, conscious, creative and active;
• communicates with s teacher to discuss the curriculum;
• fulfills tasks according to the program;
• writes abstracts on program topics;
• discusses topics and tasks in groups during extracurricular time;
• uses Internet recourses.

We wish you perseverance, determination and motivation to learn. And then success will come to
you! See you in class!