Structural changes have occurred at UzhNU

On Tuesday, November 8, there was a meeting of the Academic Council of Uzhgorod National University. They considered final certification of graduates and the results of enrollment to graduate school in 2016, the approval of accreditation materials, reorganization changes in the structures of departments and a number of others.

Vice-rector for scientific and pedagogical Oleksandr Slivka reported on a number of important issues including the implementation of measures to improve the structure of the university.

As a result of the vote, the Department of Slavic languages ​​and contrastive linguistics was merged with department of world literature and comparative studies, forming the "Department of Slavic philology and world literature."

Human Health Faculty and general department of physical education also underwent changes. Their merger formed a new faculty – "Faculty of Health and Physical Education", which consists of four departments: theory and methodology of physical education; physical rehabilitation; health basics; physical education.

The Faculty of History, the Faculty of International Policy, Management and Business, the Faculty of International Relations were also reorganized. Two new faculties were formed based on them – "Faculty of History and International Relations" and "Faculty of International Economic Relations".           

The Humanities and Natural Sciences Faculty with the Hungarian language of instruction was granted the status of the Training and Research Institute with the following structure:

– Department of Hungarian Studies

– Department of History of Hungary and European Integration

– Department of Physical and Mathematical Sciences

– Center of Hungarology

– Center for the study of European integration and national minorities.

 The structure of the Faculty of Social Sciences was also changed by accession the general pedagogy and psychology department, changing its name to "Department of Pedagogy".

The Department of International Relations was renamed to the "Department of International Politics", the Department of International Business, Logistics and Management became the "Department of Business Administration, Marketing and Management", and the Department of Applied Linguistics was incorporated into the Faculty of International Relations.

The Academic Council unanimously supported the decision to establish the Information and Publishing Centre of UzhNU that will incorporate university media and publishing units in a single structure.