Chair of Historic, Social, and Philosophic Disciplines, Oriental Studies, and Theology

The Chair is headed by Professor Viktor Pavlovich Ermakov, Candidate of Historical Sciences, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Humanitarian Science.

The Chair of Historic, Social, and Philosophic Disciplines, Oriental Studies, and Theology was formed by the Academic Board’s decision in 2014 on the basis of two chairs: the Chair of History of State and Law of Russia and foreign countries, the Chair of Philosophy, Culture Study and Ethnology, and Theology Sections of the Chair of Political Science, Sociology, and Theology.

The mission of the Chair: Generation and application of scientific ideas and modern educational technologies, which contribute to the training of high-qualified, creative thinking, innovation-active, socially responsible experts through the development of a creative academic environment, which promotes the chair’s capacity as a unit of PSU as an innovational university and as a humanitarian peace-making center in the North Caucasus - an outpost of the Russian statesmanship.

The chair carries out its activities in accordance with the mission and key priorities in accordance with the 2020 PSLU Strategy in the following areas:

- Educational and methodical work, improvement of the educational process;
- Research, scientific and methodical work, professional development, students' scientific research direction;
- Educational and social work, a formation of social competencies and civic consciousness among students, their preparation for employment and future career;
- Research and production, practice-oriented, project, and entrepreneurial innovational activity;
- Participation in the process of internationalization of university activities, and implementation of export-oriented projects;

- Active use of information technologies in order to introduce and popularize historical knowledge among university students.

Today the chair is a great and united scientific and pedagogical staff, which combines experience and youth, which nods to traditions, open to innovations and scientific contacts. This is a center of scientific and methodological work in the area of the historical and social of philosophic education, which plays a significant part in scientific, cultural, and social activities of the university, city, Krai, and region.

At present, the chair employs 30 people, including 7 Doctors of Sciences, Professors, 17 Candidates of Sciences, experts in fundamental research and applied work in the history field, history of international relations and foreign policy of Russia, regional history, religion, culture, language, philosophy, and theology, the interaction of ethnic groups and cultures in a multi-ethnic area, national relations, and the culture of the peoples of the North Caucasus, in the area of communication processes in the dialogue of cultures.

The Chair of Historic, Social, and Philosophic Disciplines, Oriental Studies, and Theology provides education on all levels, including the Secondary Vocational Education programs in all areas of undergraduate training, specialties, master and post-graduate courses of the university. The Chair graduates experts in Oriental and African Studies, Theology, History, and Pedagogical Education (with two majors).