“Summer School on the Sociology of Youth – 2018” from September 10 to September 15 was held on the basis of the Department of Political Science and Sociology of the Faculty of Economics of the Mogilev State A.Kuleshov University. The participants of the school were undergraduates from Germany, as well as students of the faculty of foreign languages of our university. Germany was represented by Alina Schnitzel and Christina Schacht, who are studying in our partner university “The International Institute of Zittau” in the specialty “Business Ethics”.
Lectures and seminars were conducted by the Head of the Department of Political Science and Sociology, Associate Professor, Likhacheva S. N. and Senior Lecturer of the Department of Political Science and Sociology Stavsky V. N. Classes were conducted in German and English. During the summer school, its participants got acquainted with the educational system of the Republic of Belarus, the history and modern life of the Mogilev State A.Kuleshov University, with the functioning of the social pedagogical and psychological service of our university, the volunteer activity of the Mogilev State A.Kuleshov University.
The students were given lectures on contemporary problems of youth, on the history of Belarus, the sociology of conflicts. Also, the participants of the school were given the opportunity to listen to a course of lectures on the mentality of the Slavs and Germans, read by our colleague from the University of Pardubice (Czech Republic), Dr. Jan Czapek. The students from Germany attended a lecture on the German language of the senior teacher Protasova N. A., during which the students of the Faculty of Foreign Languages presented a presentation on the sights of the Republic of Belarus. The participants of the summer school also visited the Educational Center of the German language and culture of our university, where they discussed with the head (Protasova N. A.) the problems of teaching the German language. In off-hour time for participants of the school an excursion around the city of Mogilev was organized with a visit to the Buinichsky field, the zoo, the Town Hall.