Since its establishment in 1988, the department of Fine Art and Culture Studies has been applying the effective methods for teaching new cultural disciplines, such as drama teaching and role-play gaming. This enhances the psychological and informative impact of the creatively mastered content of the degree programmes. The capabilities of Penza museums, art galleries and other cultural institutions are regularly used in the teaching and learning process.

The department focuses on artistic and creative training of students, as well as on forming a realistic image of the surrounding reality and developing skills of creative self-expression through various techniques. For this purpose, students are engaged in creativity competitions and exhibitions held in the Penza Region and beyond it. A peculiar result of creativity is their graduation projects, decorated interiors, certificates and awards of different levels. The excellent role models for students are teaching staff members, who regularly organise exhibitions, which are in demand in the Russian Federation.

An important place is occupied by research. Its main area is designing teaching and learning aids to ensure the development of artistic creativity among students. Teaching staff of the department also explore the particular areas of interest, such as history of culture, applied cultural studies, museum science, arts and crafts, architecture, gender history, theatrical art and many others.

The department has close ties with various institutions and organisations that enables employing graduates in secondary and higher educational institutions, art schools, art and design studios and computer design centres. Teaching staff of the department are invited to hold awareness raising meetings with schoolchildren and to participate in artistic and creative competitions in the Penza Region as experts and jury members. They regularly give public lectures for preschool teachers and primary school teachers and advise managers and leaders of art studios and creativity teams.

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Bachelor

     Teacher Training: Fine Arts

Master

     Teacher Training: Arts and Aesthetics

Post-graduate

     History and Theory of Culture

RESEARCH

Research topics

•    History of culture
•    Historical poetics
•    Intertextual approach to analysing modern prose
•    Language situation in the world
•    Applied cultural studies
•    Philosophy of arts, aesthetics
•    Theoretical problems of cultural studies
•    Theoretical problems of art history
•    Museum science
•    Historical cultural studies
•    Culture of the Penza region
•    Gender history
•    History of everyday life
•    “Live” folklore and mythological traditions
•    Technical aesthetics and design
•    Decorative and applied arts
•    Architecture of buildings and structures
•    Theatrical art
•    Visual arts
•    Arts and crafts
•    Amateur creativity

Collaboration

Penza School no. 20
Penza Region Library for Children and Youth
Children Arts School “Kvinta”
Centre for Children (Youth) Technical Creativity (art and craft team “Sokol” of the Teenage Club “Gaidar”)
Penza School no. 66
Penza School no. 30
K.A. Savitsky Penza Art College
Penza College of Architecture and Construction
Children Arts School no. 3 in Penza
Children Arts School in Zarechny
Children Arts School in Kuznetsk
Children Arts School in Serdobsk

CONTACTS

Dr. Lyudmila Meshkova
Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor
Head of the Department of Fine Art and Culture Studies

37 Lermontova Street, building 12, floor 4, office 425
Tel: 8 (8412) 20-38-21
E-mail: kiik@pnzgu.ru
Web-page of the Department of Fine Art and Culture Studies (in Russian)