The program is designed in accordance with the university’s development strategy and aims to train qualified political scientists with a bachelor’s degree who possess the categorical-conceptual and analytical-research apparatus of political science, knowledge of modern political theory and practice, and are able to apply theories and methods of political science to solve complex specialized tasks and practical problems in the political sphere in conditions of martial law and post-war reconstruction and development of the region and country.

Teaching and learning involves the implementation of active learning methods that ensure a person-oriented approach, the development of critical thinking and professional autonomy higher education students.

The educational process is built on the principles of student-centered, problem-oriented learning and self-study using web technologies.

The study of academic disciplines involves: lectures, practical classes with discussion of the most relevant problems and solving situational tasks, self-study, consultations with scientific and pedagogical workers, individual and group forms. Classes are held with discussions that develop logical and critical thinking, business, communication and leadership skills, and the ability to work in a team in higher education students. Special attention is paid to writing course projects and preparing a qualification (bachelor’s) thesis, which is publicly presented and discussed with the participation of scientific and pedagogical workers of the department and higher education students. It is also planned to write scientific articles for publication in professional Ukrainian publications on political science, abstracts of reports for scientific and practical conferences within the framework of the department’s scientific and research work.

Independent work is carried out on the basis of textbooks, study guides, monographs, lecture courses, electronic educational resources, etc., placed in the repository of the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University (https://eir.zp.edu.ua/home) and on the university-wide Moodle platform (https://moodle.zp.edu.ua).

The study of academic disciplines involves: lectures, practical classes with discussion of the most relevant problems and solving situational tasks, self-study, consultations with scientific and pedagogical workers, individual and group forms. Classes are held with discussions that develop logical and critical thinking, business, communication and leadership skills, and the ability to work in a team in higher education applicants. Special attention is paid to writing course projects and preparing a qualification (bachelor’s) thesis, which is publicly presented and discussed with the participation of the department’s scientific and pedagogical staff and higher education students. It is also planned to write scientific articles for publication in professional Ukrainian publications on political science, abstracts of reports for scientific and practical conferences within the framework of the department’s scientific and research work.

Independent work is carried out on the basis of textbooks, teaching aids, monographs, lecture courses, electronic educational resources, etc., placed in the repository of the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University (https://eir.zp.edu.ua/home) and on the university-wide Moodle platform (https://moodle.zp.edu.ua).

Procedure educational activities within the framework of the implementation of the educational and professional program are provided by experienced scientific and pedagogical workers who have scientific degrees and academic titles, relevant experience in scientific and pedagogical activity, high professional level, confirmed by publication activity, have undergone advanced training and scientific and pedagogical internship in domestic and foreign higher education institutions in accordance with the Regulations on advanced training of pedagogical and scientific and pedagogical workers at the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University (https://zp.edu.ua//normativna-baza-navchalnogo-procesu), constantly participate in scientific and practical conferences both in Ukraine and abroad, etc.

Representatives of stakeholders, leading specialists from state authorities and local governments, as well as specialists from other higher education institutions are involved in conducting guest lectures.

Scientific and pedagogical workers who provide the educational process under the educational and professional program meet the requirements of the Licensing Conditions for the Implementation of Educational Activities, approved by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated December 30, 2015 No. 1187

The material and technical support of the program meets the current Licensing Requirements for the Provision of Educational Services in the Field of Higher Education and allows organizing and conducting classes in all academic disciplines at a high level.

To implement educational activities under the educational and professional program, the Department of Political Science and General Legal Disciplines and other departments of the university involved in the educational process under this educational and professional program are provided with classrooms and computer classes with multimedia equipment, computer equipment with an operating life of no more than eight years. years.

Higher education students have the opportunity to use sports halls and sports grounds, a stadium of sufficient size to fulfill the educational program and curricula, a scientific library with reading rooms and an electronic catalog, as well as an assembly hall and a catering point.

Higher education students who need it are provided with a dormitory.

The Scientific Library is the official scientific and information unit of the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University, the library fund of which is provided with textbooks, teaching aids and other methodological publications, and subscriptions are made to the main professional periodicals of Ukraine.

The Scientific Library provides access to world information resources, in particular to Elsevier (SCOPUS) and Web of Science resources.

Wireless network access points Internet.

Virtual learning environment–distance learning system Moodle, Google Meet, Zoom.

Scientific library, reading rooms, electronic library http//library.zntu.edu.ua/. Library fund.

Licensed software is used in the educational process.

Teaching and methodological materials are developed and systematically updated by the scientific and pedagogical staff of the department and placed in the Moodle distance learning system (https://moodle.zp.edu.ua) and the university repository (https://eir.zp.edu.ua/home).

National credit mobility is regulated by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine «On Approval of the Regulation on the Procedure for Implementing the Right to Academic Mobility» dated August 12, 2015 No. 579 and the Procedure for Implementing the Right to Academic Mobility of Participants in the Educational Process of the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University dated June 28, 2022 (https://zp.edu.ua/nbnp_istn).

National credit mobility Mobility is appropriate when there is a need for higher education applicants to study (master) fundamentally new academic disciplines that are not taught at the basic higher education institution.

Every higher education student has the opportunity to study at partner higher education institutions (individual academic disciplines during the semester with subsequent recognition of the results and study credits). National academic mobility is carried out on the basis of agreements concluded between the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University and higher education institutions of Ukraine: Kyiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (https://zp.edu.ua/uploads/partnery/knuba.edu.ua/Dohovir_pro_orh_proh_vnutr_akadem_mob_zdob_vo.pdf), National University «Lviv Polytechnic». (https//zp.edu.ua/uploads/partner/lpnu.ua/Dohovir_pro_spivpratsiu.pdf), State University «Zhytomyr Polytechnic». (https://zp.edu.ua/uploads/partnery/ztu.edu.ua/Dohovir_pro_spivpratsiu.pdf), National University «Odesa Polytechnic». (https://zp.edu.ua/uploads/partnery/op.edu.ua/Uhoda_pro_partnerstvo_i_spivpratsiu.pdf), State Higher Educational Institution «Priazovsky State Technical University». (https://zp.edu.ua/uploads/partnery/pstu.edu/Dohovir_pro _spivpratsiu.pdf).

International credit mobility is aimed at improving the quality of education, developing professional competencies, and integrating the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University into the European Educational Space.

International credit mobility is regulated by the Procedure for the Implementation of the Right to Academic Mobility of Participants in the Educational Process of the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University dated June 28, 2022 (https://zp.edu.ua/nbnp_istn), and is also carried out in accordance with bilateral agreements on international academic mobility concluded between the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University and foreign higher education institutions.

Higher education students have the opportunity to participate in the EU Erasmus+ international credit program and the DAAD German Academic Exchange Service programs (Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium); Ilmenau Technical University (Germany); Madrid Polytechnic (Spain); Marche Polytechnic University (Italy) (https://zp.edu.ua/mizhnarodne-stazhuvannia-ta-akademichna-mobilnist-6/).

The Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University has the right to train foreign applicants for higher education, whose education is regulated by the Regulations on the organization of recruitment and training (internship) of foreigners and stateless persons at the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University dated July 6, 2020. ( https://zp.edu.ua/uploads/dept_inter/pol_pro_org_naboru_ta_navch_inozemtsiv.pdf).

Certification of higher education students in the educational and professional program «Political Science» specialty C2 Political Science is carried out in the form of a public defense of a bachelor’s qualification thesis

The qualification thesis must involve solving a complex specialized task or practical problem in the political sphere, characterized by complexity and uncertainty of conditions, with the application of theories and methods of political science science

The qualification work must not contain academic plagiarism, fabrication, falsification and must be published in the repository of the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University (https://eir.zp.edu.ua/home)