University of Georgia

Mission

Mission of the School of Humanities is derived from the mission of the UG: firstly, implementing modern principles of humanitarian sciences and training the students for achieving professional skills necessary in the spheres of Culture and Educational systems, art criticism, cultural researches both in cultural and social anthropology, modern methods of archeology, English and German languages – thus to make them competitive in local/international labor market.

Goals

The goals of the School derive from its mission and is aimed at implementing all necessary modern methods of teaching.

In particular:

To define priorities and post-priorities of teaching and scientific research;
To shape out the indicators of implementing the defined priorities;
To supply the educational process with modern, high professional academic staff;
To facilitate maximum self-realization of the lecturers and students;
To study the demands of free labor market and define professional criteria according these data;
To care for bringing up the competitive specialists from the point of view of their professionalism.
To care for preparing interdisciplinary and international Masters and Doctoral Programs.

Ways of Accomplishing the Goal

Detailed plan for the educational process;
Standardized form of syllabi;
Modern, well-defined system of evaluation;
Permanent improvement and monitoring of the interactive degree of teaching;
Choosing the academic stuff according to the competition with clearly defined criteria;
Implementing the tradition of public lecturing;
Permanent contact between academic stuff and the students;
Facilitating the professional growth of the academic personnel;
Getting familiar with the experience of the prominent American and European Universities;
Using modern technologies in the academic courses.
Preparing new, innovative academic courses.
Perfecting all four stages of educating (High Professional, Bachelor, Masters, and Doctorates), Maximum adaptation and permanent renewing in the context of changes.
Establishing exchange Programs with foreign universities: Munster (Germany), Scranton (USA);
Establishing modern-standard Language Centers, competent to award international certificates (in duo with Munster University);
Inviting foreign specialists to supervise the Masters and Doctoral Programs and the internship of Master and Doctorate students in other countries;
Seeking for funds to organize both local and international scientific conferences;
Establishing Black Sea and Caucasus Region Research Center to shape out individual profile of the researches and to activate our contacts with foreign scholars.

Indicators of Accomplishment

Anonymous questioning the students in connection with every course/lecturer;
Appraising and encouraging both the best student/teacher of the year;
Attending the lectures and discussing them;
Seeking for and activating the international contacts;
Students’ participation in improving the Schools’ curriculum;
Establishing the Club of the School of Humanities graduates that will support their professional growth;
Activities of the School’s Scientific Seminar;

· Students’ participation in scientific researches and stable activity of the Students’ Conferences;

· Preparing text books according to the modern European acquirements for all disciplines and directions.

Post priorities:

Inviting the best specialists of prominent foreign universities for lecturing in the UG;
Integrating and interning our students, Masters and Doctorates into the foreign universities and scientific activities;
Enlarging the frame of specialties according to the demands of local labor market;
The growth of purposeful international scientific collaboration;
Backing up the activities carried out by the Centre for the Study of Caucasus and the Black Sea Region;

Memoranda of Cooperation with:

Batumi Museum of Archeology;
Georgian Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources;
Georgian Ministry of Culture, Preservation of Cultural Monuments, and Sports;
Georgian National Museum;
Marjanishvili State Dramatic Theatre;
Shota Roustaveli State Dramatic Theatre;
The Department of Tourism and Resorts;
National Opera and Ballet Theatre;
National Centre of Manuscripts;
Historical-Architectural Museum Reserve in Vardzia.

Exchange Programs, joint BA Program, joint certificate for Language, and Memorandum of Cooperation with the University of Munster (Germany).