History of Ukrainian Statehood» for Students of English-Speaking Groups
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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF UKRAINE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LIFE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES OF UKRAINE HUMANITARIAN-PEDAGOGICAL DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Methodological recommendations on discipline «History of Ukrainian Statehood» for students of English-speaking groups Kyiv – 2018 1 UDC 93/94 477: (07) Here general methodological recommendations for a study of the discipline "History of Ukrainian Statehood" for the first year students of full-time education of all the specialties of NULES of Ukraine are described. This publication contains topics of lectures and seminars, themes of reports and recommendations for their writing, control questions for each module, list of recommended literature. The annexes contain criteria for assessing students' knowledge, recommendations for individual research work and issues that need attention when preparing for the exam, etc. Recommended for publication by Academic Council of the Humanitarian and Pedagogical Faculty of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (Рrotocol №2, on October 30, 2018). Compiler: PhD, Associate Professor Nataliia Borysivna Kravchenko Reviewers: Вilan Serhii Oleksiiovych, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of International Relations and Social Sciences of the National University of Life and Environmental Science of Ukraine Vyhovskyi Mykola Yuriiovych, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Faculty of Historical Education of the National Pedagogical Drahomanov University Educational and methodical publication Methodological recommendations on discipline «History of Ukrainian Statehood» for students of English-speaking groups Signed for printing on 07.11.2018. Format 60 х 84 1/16. Conventional printed sheet 12.75 Published sheets 12.75 Circulation 100 oz. No. 12352 Publisher and manufacturer National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, 15, Heroes of Defense, Kyiv, 03041. Certificate of the publishing business of the Civil Code № 4097 dated June 17, 2011 © N. Kravchenko, 2018 © NULES of Ukraine, 2018 2 CONTENT Aims and purposes of the discipline "History of Ukrainian statehood" ……….. 4 General methodological recommendations .............................. ......... .. ... ... ... .. 7 Thematic plan of lectures .……………………………................................ .. .... 20 Unit 1. Ukrainian statehood: origins, forms, trends ........... ..................................20 Unit 2. On the way to the revival of statehood (XX – beg. of XXI century) ....... 26 Themes and Plans of Seminars ...................................................... .... ................ 36 Unit 1. Ukrainian statehood: origins, forms, trends ..... ..………………………..36 Unit 2. On the way to the revival of statehood (XX – beg. of XXI century...................................................................................................................63 List of recommended literature.................................................. ..........................90 Supplementary materials A. Criteria for assessing students' knowledge ................................................... ... .101 B. Methodological recommendations and standards for Individual Research Work (IRW).... …………………………………………………………………………107 С. Examples of title page, plan, and literature for written essays and individual research works………. ……………………………………………………………………...110 D. Provisional examination questions.......................................................................113 E. Samples of the test block of the exam………………………………... ............... 119 F. Examples of unit test tasks .................................................................................. 134 3 AIMS AND PURPOSES OF THE DISCIPLINE «HISTORY OF UKRAINIAN STATEHOOD» The affirmation of Ukrainian statehood is accompanied by a rise of national consciousness in various strata of society, a general increase in interest in the historical past. An important part of this process is teaching the history of Ukrainian statehood in higher education institutions. The history of Ukrainian statehood is a science that studies the past of people, who have lived in our land since ancient times, formed deep traditions, created high standards of culture, obtained and lost state forms of living. National historiography considers historical past of Ukrainian society as a continuous uninterrupted process in which following forms of social existence were created: from primitive society to advanced forms of state living. We focus on the history of the territory of the permanent residence of the Ukrainian ethnos, its corresponding evolution, as well as those state institutions that were created by Ukrainian people at all stages of its historical existence. The history of Ukrainian statehood includes the processes of the emergence and functioning of national state institutions, national state opinion and national liberation struggles of Ukrainians for the restoration of their statehood in the period of Ukraine's stateless existence. Statehood is a complex of political institutions operating on the territory inhabited by a national community, interconnect it into a compact integrity and provide development in present and future. The main features of statehood include public authority; a system of law principles; population and territory with defined frontiers. One of the most important aspects of the course is to refute the idea that the Ukrainian people are incapable of independent state life. The Kyivska Rus, the Galician-Volyn state, the Kiev principality of the XV century, the Zaporizhska Sich, the Cossack state of the times of Bogdan Khmelnytsky, the Hetmanate, the UNR and the Ukrainian state of the twentieth century, the Ukrainian SSR - all of these formations are stages of a single historical process, which, despite of all the dramatic incidents, reflects the constant desire of Ukrainian people to live an independent state life. 4 The course is meant to familiarize students with the main stages of the Ukrainian national liberation movement, its specific content, and organizational forms. A significant point is the disclosure of the activities of Ukrainian political parties from the very beginning of their foundation and the coverage of the modern process of the formation of a multiparty system in our country. It provides a comprehensive coverage of events and a rethinking of the complex processes associated with the struggle for Ukrainian statehood in the twentieth century. Also, a special mention of modern problems of state building in independent Ukraine is made. This course is intended for students of agrarian higher educational establishments, who study the "Bachelor" educational program. Course is to ensure an implementation of the principles of historicism, scientificity and objectivity in the assessment of facts, phenomena, events in the history of Ukrainian statehood during the educational process; contribute to the formation of statehood thinking, historical comprehension and national consciousness, active position of future specialists, their patriotic, moral and ethical convictions. This course is taught before other humanitarian disciplines, in particular, philosophy, political science, sociology, the basics of economic theory and cultural studies. The expediency of studying a course in an agrarian university is conditioned by the real state of social development in Ukraine and follows from the necessity of solving the following tasks: - use of the latest achievements of historical science in the teaching of national history; - ensuring the realization in the educational process of the principles of historicity and objectivity in the assessment of facts, phenomena, events; - the humanistic orientation of historical education, its orientation towards the priority of universal values; - achievement of continuity in historical education at the stage of higher education in comparison with general secondary school; - Formation of a holistic view of students about the historical development of the Ukrainian people; - education of specialists capable of analyzing and using historical experience in solving topical problems of modern Ukrainian statehood. As a result of studying through this course, a student will be able to master modern historical theories and concepts, a system of scientific approach to the analysis of problems of national history and obtain skills of 5 working with primary sources and self-comprehension of documents and materials on the history of Ukrainian statehood. The main forms of students' training in the higher education system are lectures and seminars, self-training of students, writing of abstracts and control works, etc. All of them will be used in preparing students of full- time study for mastering the program on the history of Ukrainian statehood and preparing for the exam. The author hope that the methodological recommendations will help students to successfully identify critical points when studying the whole course of Ukrainian statehood history and will enable them to gain a thorough knowledge of this course, which in turn will be useful for them in later life. 6 GENERAL METHODOLOGICAL RECOMMENDATIONS The study of "History of Ukrainian Statehood" in NULES of Ukraine is provided with following forms of organization of the educational process: lectures, seminars, consultations, independent work of students under the guidance of a teacher, individual creative tasks, abstract works writing, as well as other