List of educational and professional program components
Disciplines of the general training cycle:
- comparative political science
- public policy analysis
- political forecasting
Disciplines of the cycle of vocational training:
- global problems of our time
- social legal system
- cratology
- theory of political conflicts
- geopolitics and foreign policy
- Public Relations
- information and analytical support for political relations
- political management and marketing
- international and european security
- strategic partnerships and asymmetric relationships
- electoral political technologies: a comparative analysis
- political culture and political ideology
- party systems
- applied political science
Students of the Institute of International Relations receive practical training in:
- government bodies and local government;
- Committee on issues of European integration;
- representations of political parties and international organizations;
After a full academic course a specialist in Political science is prepared for the following kinds of work:
- analitical;
- political and technological;
- politica and consulting;
- political design (strategic planning of public policy);
- political and organizational;
- research (in public and private institutions);
- teaching (in higher educational and secondary institutions).
May work in:
- Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, administration of the President of Ukraine, Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine;
- central authorities with special status;
- regional structures of state power;
- research institutes;
- structures of political parties;
- consulting agencies;
- media.
May hold the following positions:
- politologist, expert or consultant in socio-political issues;
- head of the analytical unit, research worker;
- specialist in public relations and media, political correspondent, director of a company;
- chairman of political party, organization;
- head of press-centre;
- head of department, reviewer, chief specialist in local authorities.