Event Date: 2024-02-21

Target Audience: Professor/ Scientists, Staff, Schoolchildren, Everyone

Subject: Culture, Study

Location: Online, Available for Viewing Now

We offer you to join a short introductory course on the history, culture and society of Ukraine from the Middle Ages to the present.

The course is aimed not only to provide basic knowledge of Ukrainian history and culture, but to reveal Ukrainian impact on European and world history. It's the first English-language MOOC' course on Ukrainian history and culture.

What you'll learn?

• Transformation of Eastern Europe by the Viking Age
•  Origin and decline of Kyivan Rus’
• The effect of the Reformation on Ukrainian lands, the creation of the Uniate Church
• The Cossacks’ military organization, their role in European wars, and the creation of Cossacks’ state
• Ukrainian lands under the reign of two empires during the XIXth century
• The rise of culture and art in the 1920s (Ukrainian modernism)
• The causes and consequences of Stalinism in Ukraine, the Ukrainian experience of World War II
• Ukrainian dissident movement in the Soviet state
• Ukrainian struggle for independence and democracy after the collapse of the USSR

Speecers: Vadym Aristov, Tetiana Hryhorieva, Kateryna Dysa, Natalia Shlihta and Maksym Yakovlyev. 

The project was implemented under the support of the platform EdEra, NaUKMA and Ukrainian Institute. 

The course is free of charge, only registration is required on international educational platform Udemy.

Enroll now