- We train universal journalists who can work in various types of media after graduation - on television, radio, and in print periodicals, as well as specialists for digital media and Internet communications. “Our goal is to promote the formation of professionals, journalists with a new vision of the world, original thinking, sharp, honest words, real fighters of the information front,” Vitaliy Handziuk said.

The goals of the educational program are to form integral, general and professional competencies, a set of knowledge and skills for use in professional activities in the field of journalism.

The list of disciplines includes 75% compulsory and 25% elective, which contribute to building an individual educational trajectory of students through the right to choose disciplines freely.

The training of a specialist involves the study of traditional journalism disciplines, including courses in the theory and history of journalism, methods of journalistic activity, psychology of journalistic creativity, media law, journalistic ethics, newspaper and magazine production, television production, radio production, photojournalism, agency journalism, Internet journalism, digital journalism, investigative journalism, information technology in the media industry, theory, history and practice of publishing and editing, advertising and communications.

For internships and training, students can be sent to regional, city, and district periodicals in Vinnytsia and other regions of Ukraine, news agencies, online media, television and radio companies, and press services. 

Technical support

The university has classrooms, laboratories, computer labs with appropriate multimedia equipment for conducting classes and control activities for students majoring in journalism. There is a radio studio, a TV studio, the NotBox educational hub, and a media center, whose equipment is used to complete student projects, qualification papers, and create media products in the classroom. The university has an appropriate social and amenity infrastructure: libraries, catering facilities, an art center, gyms, a stadium, etc. 

Cooperation with foreign universities

The international cooperation of the Department of Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations is realized in several aspects: publication of scientific research of teachers and students in collections indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases; participation in international scientific and pedagogical internships (Włocławek, Poland, Cuiavian University, Research Institute of the Lublin Science and Technology Park, Lublin (Republic of Poland), membership in the scientific organization Center for Ukrainian and European Scientific Cooperation (Poland). Lublin (Republic of Poland), membership in the scientific organization “Center for Ukrainian and European Scientific Cooperation” (Poland); participation in international scientific and practical conferences (“International scientific innovations in human life” (UK), “Science and technology: problems, prospects and innovation” (Osaka, Japan), “Innovations and prospects of world science” (Vancouver, Canada).

Among the international opportunities for journalism students at the Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University are both long-term and short-term internship offers, in particular, students have the opportunity to be selected for the Erasmus+ program and spend a semester in one of the higher education institutions in Europe or America. 

Every year, students who have shown the greatest motivation in their studies and the best academic performance have the opportunity to participate in the International Multimedia School.

Applicants have the opportunity to attend courses and lectures by foreign journalists and media professionals on the Prometheus platform, etc. 

Graduates of the Department and their achievements

For almost 20 years of its existence, the Department of Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations has trained more than a dozen journalists: TV and radio hosts, correspondents, and other media professionals. Graduates who are currently working in their specialty keep in touch with the department, meet with future journalists, talk about current realities in the media sphere, reveal professional secrets and share their own experiences.

Unfortunately, the recent events in our country have deprived us of live communication and meetings between alumni and students in university classrooms. Nevertheless, teachers try to engage them online and arrange internships.  

The following alumni are among those who constantly respond and conduct master classes for current students: Maria Suprun, Alyona Litvitska, Yulia Dzygalenko, Kateryna Zulinska, Anastasia Antoniuk, Olha Antonovska, Svitlana Geruk (VITA TV channel), Svitlana Pashenko, Anastasia Holoshyvets (Vinnytsia TV channel), Iryna Vdovychenko, Yulia Melnyk, Ruslana Tkachuk (Suspilne. Vinnytsia"), Maryna Reva (Apostrophe TV), Veronika Kordon (1+1 TV), Diana Kolesnyk (Suspilne. Khmelnytsky” TV channel, Svitlana Nakonechna (Yampilski Visti newspaper), Inna Haletska (Radio ‘Misto Nad Bugom’), Yevhen Pochynok, Diana Kolnohuzova (Department of Media and Public Relations of Vinnytsia City Council), Tetiana Kolodii (press service of Enera), Artem Paridukha (press service of the Ukrainian Air Force), Lina Kornyliuk (press service of the Nemyriv City Council, Daryna Didyk, Anastasia Mishko (press service of the Vinnytsia Regional Council), Oleksandra Mykytchak (newsletter “Community Time” of the Teofipol Village Council) and others.

Graduates are constantly involved in discussing educational programs of the specialty 061 Journalism at Vinnytsia Pedagogical University. 

Contacts:

Site: sites.google.com/vspu.edu.ua/depjorn/first 

Email: v.o.handziuk@gmail.com