Portrait of a graduate

Bachelor’s program

Organizational and management activities

  • Ability to generate new ideas (creativity)
  • Ability to participate in project development and project management
  • Ability to be proactive and show leadership
  • Ability to evaluate and ensure the quality of works that are being performed
  • Ability to act on the basis of professional and ethical considerations (motives)

Production and practical activities

  • Ability to conduct sociological studies
  • Ability to analyze the social impact of the activities of the institutions of society
  • Ability to predict the progress of social processes
  • Ability to identify social issues in social processes

Project activities

  • Ability to plan activities
  • Ability to perform the assigned functions within the project
  • Ability to be scientifically proactive
  • Ability to develop project presentation
  • Ability to communicate with project team

Research activities

  • Ability to set goals, set specific tasks for studies in different fields of sociology using the best domestic and foreign practices of fundamental and applied scientific research
  • Ability to solve specific scientific tasks using quantitative and qualitative methodology, modern software and internet technologies
  • Ability to create, participate in development and design of professional scientific and technical documentation, research reports, papers, present sociological research reports taking into account key target audiences and the specifics of mass communication

Master’s program

Organizational and management activities

  • Ability to generate new ideas (creativity).
  • Ability to participate in project development and project management.
  • Ability to be proactive and show leadership qualities, to realize one’s own responsibility for one’s personal and professional development.
  • Ability to motivate members of organizations and move towards a common goal, work honestly and responsibly for a good of society, other people and oneself.
  • Ability to evaluate and ensure the quality of works that are being performed.
  • Ability to work in a team, to distinguish between public and private interest, to avoid conflicts of interest.
  • Ability to act on the basis of universal, professional and ethical considerations (motives), standards.
  • Ability to make informed management decisions.
  • Ability to resolve conflict situations in the team, to determine own behavior in case of conflict of interest.

Production and practical activities

  • Ability to organize sociological and marketing research;
  • Ability to conduct sociological examination of laws and regulations, social projects and programs
  • Ability to provide scientifically sound advice to government agencies, enterprises, organizations on the social component of production processes
  • Ability to formulate and implement personnel policy of organizations
  • Ability to organize conferences, public and mass social events
  • Ability to manage sociological services and organizations
  • Ability to establish and maintain public relations
  • Ability to develop projects for socially responsible business
  • Ability to model strategies for the development of social institutions of society

Project activities

  • Ability to set goals, look for ways to achieve them, identify and overcome obstacles, evaluate performance, compare achieved goals with the original goals
  • Ability to formulate the social mission and scientific goal of the project
  • Ability to develop methodology of the project
  • Ability to develop public presentations and project justification
  • Ability to set goals and analyze functions within the project team
  • Ability to provide information support to the project
  • Ability to manage own time as a resource of the project

Research and pedagogical activities

  • Ability to conduct research activities independently, set goals, set specific tasks for studies in different fields of sociology using the best domestic and foreign practices of fundamental and applied scientific research
  • Ability to independently solve specific scientific tasks using quantitative, qualitative, and hybrid methodology of social sciences, multi- and transdisciplinary approaches, modern software and internet technologies
  • Ability to create, participate in the development and design of professional scientific and technical documentation, research reports, papers; to present reports of social and sociological research, taking into account key target audiences and the specifics of mass communication
  • Ability to improve theoretical and methodological approaches, techniques, research methods of collecting and analyzing sociological information, to create and use socio-political cases
  • Ability to critically analyze theory and practice in the field of sociology and other social sciences; to critically evaluate research results; to study on practice and to forecast changes in the objects of professional activity based on research results; to present the results of own research (including master’s) works, scientific research in relevant publications.
  • Ability to teach social sciences and humanities
  • Ability to develop curricula and methodological documentation
  • Ability to systematize and transfer the acquired knowledge
  • Ability to work with the student audience
  • Ability to organize group work

PhD program

Organizational and management activities

  1. Ability to plan, organize work and manage projects in the field of sociology
  2. Ability to show leadership in organizing the research and educational activities: conferences, round tables, competitions, etc.
  3. Ability to generate scientific ideas and develop social technologies on their basis that can be used in organizational and managerial activities

Production and practical activities

  • Ability to use basic knowledge of various sciences in professional activities
  • Ability to apply modern information technologies in various types of professional activities
  • Ability to find, process and analyze relevant information for problem solving and decision making
  • Ability to use modern methods and technologies of scientific communication in Ukrainian and in foreign languages
  • Ability to organize scientific and pedagogical teams for teaching and pedagogical activities

Project activities

  • Ability to critically analyze, evaluate and synthesize new and complex ideas
  • Ability to rethink existing knowledge and create new holistic knowledge and / or professional practices and to solve significant social, scientific, cultural, ethical and other problems
  • Ability to develop and implement projects, including own research
  • Ability to initiate innovative research projects and work autonomously during their implementation
  • Ability to plan and organize the work of research teams to solve scientific and educational problems

Research activities

  • Ability to independently perform research activities in the field of sociology.
  • Ability to analyze, synthesize, perceive information, set goals and choose ways to achieve it, master the culture of thinking;
  • Ability to create fundamentally new ideas and products, to have creativity, proactivity;
  • Ability to understand the relationship between forms of knowledge and human behavior, to use sociological criteria in the analysis of forms of knowledge – “episteme”, “techne”, “phronesis”
  • Ability to understand and critically evaluate a variety of approaches to the analysis of forms of knowledge / science / technology;
  • Ability to apply the basic ideas and individual concepts of the sociology of knowledge / science / technology to the analysis of real problem situations, to consider the specific practice of scientific communities in the context of the search and accumulation of knowledge;
  • Ability to take into account the special role of science / technology / context as a way of producing knowledge in modern society and as a specific social institution and practice;
  • Ability to conduct comparative sociological research of the Central and Eastern European region

Pedagogical activities

  • Ability to develop and perform all types of educational activities in a higher educational institution
  • Ability to apply the latest pedagogical, as well as information technologies in educational process.