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Academic Programs: European Dimension title
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Europe has made important steps towards the harmonization of the architecture of higher education in recent years in order to provide for a greater mobility of students and faculty across Europe. Thirty-five countries have joined the 1999 Bologna Declaration on the European Higher Education Area. So far Belarus has not been included in this process.

However, the European Humanities University, as a national leader in internationalization and liberalization of higher education, builds up its academic programs based on the European two-cycle model. The latter includes undergraduate and graduate programs, with credit accumulation system as part of this model.

Beginning from academic year 2001-2002 EHU is reintroducing the two-cycle model of higher education programs.

Initially, the EHU was offering academic programs under this model of higher education. However, at that time the Belarusian Ministry of Education had no legal basis to accredit such programs officially. That caused the University to adopt a five-year design for its academic programs, which turned to be an EHU-liberalized version of the five-year diploma programs traditional for Belarus.


As an independent university, EHU enjoys a number of academic liberties and university autonomy. According to the statute, which was endorsed by the Ministry of Education, EHU is entitled to these liberties and autonomy. Being an experimental institution of higher learning, the EHU has more freedom than other Belarusian educational institutions in terms of curriculum design, selection of students, structural and procedural organization, budget planning and staff recruitment. The EHU works to guarantee freedom in research and studies in line with the principles of 'The Magna Charta Universitatum'.

The EHU students can choose different modules of higher education training:

1) Module leading to the award of bachelor's degree — 4 years. It comprises two years of the Artes Liberales program which includes the study of two European languages (English and French/German/Italian), computer skills, the humanities and social sciences, and two years of training in the major field.

2) After receiving a bachelor's degree, students can continue studying for another year to obtain a higher education diploma or apply for a two-year program leading to the award of
a master's degree.

Today thirteen major and three minor programs provide the basis for undergraduate and diploma studies at
the EHU. These include major programs in Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Theology, Political Science, Psychology, International Law, World Economy, Economics, History and Theory of Art, Art Design, International Cultural Tourism, Computer Science (Web design and Computer Graphics). Minor programs are offered in European Studies, International Economic Law, and American Studies.
As of academic year 2001-2002, more than 900 undergraduate students are enrolled in the University's academic programs.

Almost three hundred full and part-time faculty staff, of which more than 60 percent possess Ph.D. degrees, provide the core of the docent body of the EHU. Every year up to sixty visiting lecturers from foreign universities give classes to EHU students.
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