The History of Seminars and themes for reports and paper-works. Seminar 1. The Subject of Course “History of Ukrainian Culture” 1. The Essence and Structure of Culture. 2. Culture and Civilization. 3. Ethnic Culture and National Culture 4. Specific Features of Ukrainian Culture

Seminar 2. Primeval and Ancient Cultures in 1. Main Features of Primeval Culture. Mythology and Beliefs of Primeval People. 2. The Origins of Culture in Ukraine. The Stone Age. 3. The Neolithic Period and the Copper Age in Ukraine. The Trypilian Culture. 4. Cultures of the Iron Age in Ukraine: the Cimmerians, , and 5. Scythian Art 6. Culture of Ancient Greece and Rome 7. Antique Art 8. Culture of Ancient City-States on the Northern Black Sea Coast

Seminar 3. Medieval Culture in Ukraine 1. Medieval Culture in Western Europe 2. Western European Medieval Art 3. The Literature of Kyivan Rus’: Chronicles, Lives of Saints, Epics 4. The Art of Fresco Painting and The Byzantine Art of Mosaic in Ukraine 5. The Timeless Art of the Ukrainian Icon 6. The History and Cultural Legacy of the Kyivan Cave Monastery

Seminar 4. Ukrainian Renaissance (14th – 16th centuries) 1. Renaissance and Humanism in European Culture. 2. Italian Renaissance 3. The and its influence on the . Northern Renassaince. 4. The Origins and Tradition of Book Printing in Ukraine 5. The Polemical Literature of the 16th to 18th Centuries 6. Brotherhoods: the Promoters of Education and Culture in Early Modern Ukraine 7. Osthrih Academy: Eastern Europe’s First Institution of Higher Learning

Seminar 5. Ukrainian Culture of the 17th and 18th Centuries 1. The Age of Enlightenment in European Culture 2. European Art of the 17th – 18th Centuries and its Styles 3. Masterpieces of Rococo Architecture in Ukraine 4. Ukrainian Classicist Painters 5. Ukrainian Music of the Baroque and Classical Periods 6. The Cultural Legacy of the Kyivan Mohyla Academy 7. Ukrainian Wandering Bards: , Bandurists and Lirnyks.

Seminar 6. The 19th-century Ukraine’s Culture 1. Features of European Culture in the 19th century 2. Variety of Art Life of the 19th century: Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism 3. Academism in 19th-century Ukrainian Painting 4. , Panteleymon Kulish, and the Ukrainian Romanticism 5. Ukrainian Realist Genre Painting 6. Ukrainian Impressionist Painters 7. Mykola Lysenko and the National School of Ukrainian Music 8. Ukrainian Populist-Ethnographic Theater in the 19th Century 9. The Hromada Movement and the Growth of Ukrainian National Consciousness 10. and the Origins of Modern 11. The “Ruthenian Triad” and Western Ukrainian National Revival in the 19th Century. 12. Ukrainian Modernists Writers of the Late 19th – Early 20th Centuries

Seminar 7. Contemporary Ukrainian Culture 1. New trends in European Culture of the 20th century. 2. Modernism and Postmodern. 3. Ukrainian Modernist Artists 4. Mykhailo Boichuk and His School of Ukrainian Monumental Art 5. The Birth of Modern Ukrainian Theater. Les’ Kurbas and Berezil 6. Mykola Khvylovy, Vaplite and the Ukrainian Cultural Renaissance of the 1920s 7. Mykola Zerov and the Ukrainian Neoclassicists 8. Shistdesiatnyky: The Literature Generation of the Post-Stalinist Thaw in Ukraine

Requirements for the paper (individual project):  Structure of your paper: contents (plan); introduction; the main contents; summary; list of used sources and literature  Volume of your paper: from 10 to 14 standard pages A4  Font: Times New Roman, 14  Align: justified  Line space: 1.5  Margins: 2,5  The theme of paper may be taken from the list above or proposed by you.

Literature, References, Links 1. Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine / Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. – Access: http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/ - your primary source Some other links and references: 2. Cultural Anthropology Tutorials. – Access: http://anthro.palomar.edu/tutorials/cultural.htm 3. Culture and Civilization. – Access: http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=DicHist/uvaBook/tei/DicHist1.xml;chunk.id=dv1-73 4. Ancient World and Medieval Cultures. – Access: http://eawc.evansville.edu/ 5. Resources on the Web / Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe. – Access: http://arthistoryresources.net/ 6. . - Access: http://all-art.org/contents.html 7. Introduction to the Renaissance / Robert Wilde. – Access: http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/therenaissance/a/renaissance101.htm 8. The Enlightenment. Introduction to the Enlightenment / Robert Wilde. – Access: http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/thenineteenthcentury/a/enlightenment.htm 9. Internet History Sourcebooks Project / Paul Halsall, Editor. – Access: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/index.asp 10. Additional links concerning Ukrainian culture may be useful: http://www.everyculture.com/To-Z/Ukraine.html#b http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_culture http://www.ukraine.com/culture/ http://www.ukraine-travel-advisor.com/ukraine-culture.html http://www.ukrainianmuseumlibrary.org/index.php http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/about.html