Opening of the Art History Department of the European University at Saint Petersburg

The State Hermitage Museum announces opening of the Art History Department of the European University at Saint Petersburg.
This Department is a joint project of the State Hermitage Museum and European University at Saint Petersburg worked out to prepare highly qualified specialists in the field of art history within the framework of the post-graduate education.It is aimed at eliminating the gaps in the curriculum of high schools of art history in Russia, approaching European and world standards in this sphere and development of international contacts in exchange of information in the field of art.

In 2000 the department accepts applications for the programme ‘Russia - Europe: interaction of artistic languages" (the late 17th - beginning of the 20th centuries). The applicants are to have a degree eigther in art and architecture or musik, theatre, cinema, philology, history, ethnology, culture, museum activities and so on. The lectures are delivered and the theses for the candidate degrees are supervised by the leading specialists in different spheres of art history from Russia and other countries.

The course is divided into two stages. The first stage of the programme (I-III semesters) results in the defence of an essay for the Masters degree and receiving the diploma corresponding to the standards of the curriculum of the M.A. (Master of Art).
The second stage (IV - VI semesters) is devoted to the theses for the candidate degree. At the end of this stage the students have an opportunity to defence their theses and to get a candidate degree in the following specialities: "The Fine Arts, Applied Arts and Architecture", "Theatre", "Musik", " Theory and History of Art", "Theory and History of Culture" and other specialities in the field of art and culture, depending on the topic of their scientific work. Lectures, seminars and scientific supervision is conducted by leading specialists having authority over the artistic problems in question, including foreign scientists. Some classes will be held in the funds of the Hermitage Museum.

Address
of the European University at Saint Petersburg: Gagarinskaya street (formely Furmanova street), house 3.

Telephone
of the Art History Department: (812)275-51-42
Dr.Roman Grigoryev

Head, Print room, State Hermitage Museum
tel. (812)110-96-82
e-mail abramova@hermitage.ru

Coordinator, Art History Department, European University at Saint Petersburg
tel.(812)275-51-42
e-mail arts@eu.spb.ru