Kyiv-Mohyla International Summer Institute

About NaUKMA

1615 - Kyiv-Mohyla brotherhood school, later turned into Collegium, was founded

1720 - it receives the status of Academy. Until the XVIII century Kyiv-Mohyla Academy was the only Eastern European school open to all strata of society

1991 - The Parliament of Ukraine issues a decree "On the Revival of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (which did not exist during the Soviet times) as an Independent Institution of Higher Education of Ukraine” on its historic territory

2012 - NaUKMA is a classical university with six faculties (Humanities, Social Sciences, Law, Economics, Computer Sciences, Natural Sciences). During the twenty years since its re-establishment, Academy has initiated reforms in higher education, was the first university in Ukraine to introduce the bachelor, master and PhD programs, a curriculum in Liberal Arts Education, and a system of entrance tests

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About Kyiv-Mohyla International Summer Institute

The objective of the first Kyiv-Mohyla International Summer Institute is to introduce students to the transformations that took place in Ukraine after 1991 from various perspectives (political, economic, social, historical, and cultural).

Additionally while attending two and a half week university level courses at one of the oldest Ukrainian universities, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, the students will get a general idea of ‘post-soviet society’, its main features and development dynamics, thus establishing a necessary framework for understanding other societies of this type.

The students will get a possibility to choose among 3 interdisciplinary courses in Ukrainian studies and additionally to take the class of Ukrainian as a foreign language, which will be taught at different levels.

The course is oriented towards advanced Undergraduate students, although Master’s level students can also apply.