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Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities as a structural unit of the Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University was established in December 2021, by renaming the Faculty of Law and Linguistics. Since November 2021, the faculty is headed by Inna Valentynivna Kovalchuk, Doctor of Law, Associate Professor.

The faculty provides training at the bachelor's and master's degrees in the specialty 081 - Law, and the bachelor's degree in the specialty 035 - Philology.

The faculty employs highly qualified scientific and pedagogical workers, the majority of whom are doctors and candidates of sciences, associate professors. The basic principles of the Bologna Process are actively implemented at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Teaching is conducted using interactive teaching methods, using the credit-transfer system for organizing the educational process.

To train highly qualified specialists in the field of Law, Legal Clinic "Law and Practice" has been established and operates at the faculty. Since 2001 it has been providing free legal assistance to socially vulnerable groups not only in Bila Tserkva but also in Skvyrsky, Rokytnyansky, Tarashchansky and other districts of Kyiv region.

In 2019, BNAU Legal Clinic won the competition which was held among legal clinics of Ukraine and is currently implementing the project of the Association of Legal Clinics of Ukraine "Strengthening regional and intersectoral cooperation of legal clinics of Kyiv region", coordinating joint project activities of legal clinics of National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", State Fiscal University Service of Ukraine, the Academy of Advocacy of Ukraine, Borys Hrinchenko Kyiv University,

In addition, the Faculty has a "Laboratory of Applied Linguistics". The result of the laboratory is the creation of a library fund with a total volume of about 250 items, as well as a stand fund of the laboratory of applied linguistics. In 2019, about 11 scientific and methodological events were held, including an interuniversity round table, scientific and methodological and methodological seminars, trainings, workshops, scientific seminars, as a result of which electronic collections are issued and a project fund is formed on a research topic.

The Center for Patriotic and Legal Education was created with the aim of developing students as patriots and defenders of their country and ensuring the positive dynamics of the growth of social activity of young people.

Since 2020, the faculty has acted a student scientific laboratory "Legal Problems of Preventing Corruption in Ukraine", which is created to support the scientific research of students in the field of combating corruption.

In 2021, the scientific and practical laboratory "Modern problems of land, agrarian and environmental law" was launched, which is aimed to unite the efforts of scientists in researching problematic issues in this area.

An important component of the faculty's work is international cooperation, so teachers and students of the faculty actively cooperate with their foreign colleagues.

Since 2007, the faculty has been cooperating fruitfully with the Goethe-Institut, a world-famous cultural and educational institution in the Federal Republic of Germany. In addition, the Goethe-Institut supports the Association of Ukrainian Germanists, whose members are faculty members. Teachers of the department regularly undergo advanced training at the Goethe-Institut, perform certification project work and have certificates from the Goethe-Institut in Ukraine.

In January 2016, , the Chinese language and culture center was established at the faculty. The purpose of the center is to acquaint students, teachers and anyone interested in the history, culture, traditions of China, as well as to develop scientific and cultural cooperation with students and teachers of China. Thanks to exchange programs, students of the faculty have the opportunity to study at Shu De University (Taiwan).

Students of the faculty take an active part in student exchange programs with educational institutions of other countries and deepen their knowledge at universities in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, France, Switzerland, the USA.

Among the results of the international cooperation of the faculty is the established cooperation with FEFU (Federation of Exchange France-Ukraine), with the support of which graduates have the opportunity to undergo long-term (up to 6 months) internships in France, as well as with FLE – intensive French courses. – FLE teacher Tom Gronier.

Applicants for higher education who study German have the opportunity to improve their German language skills and participate in short-term and long-term internships provided by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) in Ukraine.

In 2019, a cooperation and academic exchange agreement was signed with the University of Debrecen (Hungary), which allows applicants for higher education to undergo short-term and long-term internships.

NNPs work closely with the University of Economics in Bydgoszcz on academic exchanges of higher education students under the Erasmus + K1 project.