Coeval of the Great Victory, BRSU im. Pushkin, whose faculties accepted the first students in 1945, was honored to be the beginning of socio-cultural and economic changes in the west of Belarus, where a new education system was just beginning to be created. It was the first pedagogical institute in the region.
Story
The university began to bear the glorious name of the great poet in 1949, it was awarded in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. In 1995, the Brest State Pedagogical Institute was transformed into a university, while without the name of a poet, it returned in 1999. BRSU named after Pushkin, whose faculties grew in number, became the largest educational institution in the Brest region, the center of science, culture and education of the south-west of Polesie.
The university is conveniently located in three educational buildings, students live in five housing buildings. The campus has, in addition to the sports complex and pool, an excellent library, biology, ethnographic and physical culture history museums. A winter garden with a garden of continuous flowering adds a great mood to the student's weekdays. There is an educational agrobiological base. BRSU named after Pushkin, whose faculties have a biological one, managed to create the best conditions for studying and relaxing students on their own.
Structure
To implement the main areas of activity, the university created special departments and sectors: teaching, educational work, international relations, commercial and legal work, personnel, documentation, editorial and publishing and operational departments, the research sector, the center of information technology and the Department of Finance and Accounting - all this perfectly ensures the fruitful work of the BRSU Pushkin.
Faculties
Ten faculties are present in the structure of the university: psychological and pedagogical, pedagogical, foreign languages, physical education, biological, geographical, historical, physical and mathematical and legal. Brest State University named after Pushkin has both full-time and part-time forms of education, where more than eight thousand students study at the same time. The faculty consists of fifty percent of specialists with a scientific rank or degree.
Forty-six majors in the first stage of higher education and twenty-one majors are offered to applicants. Only the baccalaureate teaches in fourteen areas and forty-one specializations, and graduate school in sixteen specialties prepares personnel with the highest scientific qualifications. The branch of BRSU is Pinsk College, where secondary specialized education is given and the possibility of continuing education further - at the university and its graduate school.
Geologists
In the BRSU them. Pushkin's Faculty of Geography was created in 1995 after the reorganization on the basis of the Faculty of Natural Sciences. Now 695 people are studying here in undergraduate studies and ten in magistracy, five graduate students are trained in two specialties.
The geology study room, which is located in the main building of the university, is a real highlight of the faculty. The most important of the elements of the educational process for future geologists was field training in geography and biology. Long-distance complex practices pass along the routes of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. The leading foreign universities and research institutes of Russia, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland collaborate with the faculty. Three departments of the faculty train specialists whose future is connected with geography and nature management, tourism and regional studies, theoretical and applied economics.
Educators
Another unit of the BRSU them. Pushkin - Faculty of Psychology and Education, opened in 1957 as a specialty in pedagogy and primary education methods. Since 1969, the faculty of language and literature was divided into pedagogical and philological. And in 1999, with the opening of a new specialty at the faculty, the renaming into psychological and pedagogical took place. This faculty is very popular among applicants like no other at Pushkin State University of Biography (faculties have pass marks that are not so high).
Future teachers conduct active scientific research: thirteen student associations operate in the departments of pedagogy, psychology, Russian and Belarusian languages with teaching methods and others. The subject of scientific works is so diverse that students are included in the research activities of various directions. The days of science, celebrated annually at the faculty, bring the most pleasant results to the results of scientific discussions: round tables, discussions, presentations, student conferences where reports are read are held. Many students are published in university articles.
Linguists
This most relevant specialty of the modern world in 1989 appeared in the BRSU. Pushkin. The faculty of foreign languages was not formed immediately: in 1990, only the department was opened, where they studied foreign languages (only English and German) as a second specialty. Since 2004, more active progress has begun in terms of expanding the department. A faculty was established and language laboratories and computer classes were gradually created, as well as a video room with a satellite system. In 2011, the specialization of computer linguistics opened .
The faculty provides not only budgetary, but also additional paid educational services, there are courses where Italian, French, Spanish are studied with the issuance of a quality certificate. In 2013, the faculty was reorganized, new departments appeared: English philology, German philology, linguodidactics. The faculty teaches 530 people in higher education, including 62 foreigners. Among the teachers are ten candidates of sciences, eleven associate professors and a professor at the head. Students under their auspices are actively engaged in scientific research, win competitions and grants.
Biologists
It is considered very popular in the BRSU them. Pushkin Faculty of Biology. Three departments function here, where zoology and genetics, botany and ecology, chemistry are studied. There are many directions, and all of them are interesting. In the scientific and pedagogical activity in biology, students specialize in zoology, botany, genetics, receiving a diploma of a teacher of biology and chemistry with the qualification of a biologist.
The direction of bioecology is chosen by students who are ready to become teachers of biology and ecology in secondary schools and colleges, environmental protection engineers (ecologists), biologists, nature conservation inspectors, research engineers (if they continue their studies in graduate and postgraduate studies). The direction of biology and chemistry will be chosen by future teachers. This faculty provides a very wide range of programs to external students.
Historians
In 1991, created at the BRSU. Pushkin’s Faculty of History, which was perfectly strengthened by the teaching staff. Two glorious doctors of historical sciences teach here, one doctor no less glorious in political sciences, fifteen candidates of historical sciences, six - philosophical and one candidate of political sciences.
There are four departments at the faculty; they prepare students for teaching in the history of Slavic peoples, general history, the history of their native Belarus, and in political science and sociology. All good for students Pushkin faculties. The schedule is always convenient, the slightest changes are recorded on the university website. There is something and someone to learn from, there is where to relax. Historians have the opportunity to carry out state research programs, take part in scientific examinations, and conduct individual scientific work.
Lawyers
The faculty of law was formed at the Pushkin University in 1996, when there was a huge need for specialists in this field. Five departments work here, where students are trained in more than ten specializations. Foreign students are present at all specialties of this faculty. Education is obtained at three levels: undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate studies.
Athletes
The faculty of physical education has its own museum at the university, and its work began in the distant 1969 - at first the physical education department at the faculty of biology and chemistry was opened, and in 1979 a separate faculty was opened on its basis. Here the natural sciences and the humanities came together. The main areas of activity are the study of the functional systems of the body and the improvement of methods regarding the physical education of preschool children, students and adults. Issues regarding the training system for athletes in a wide variety of sports are being addressed.
Sport is the most important component of training students and future specialists. The conditions for enhancing sportsmanship at the faculty are simply excellent. There is a well-equipped sports complex with specialized rooms and a swimming pool. Students of the faculty are constantly members of the national teams in swimming, athletics, chess, acrobatics, sambo wrestling, archery, handball and many others.
Physicists and mathematicians
The oldest structural unit of the Pushkin State BRU, whose faculties were mainly formed after 1969, is the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, which opened immediately after the victory over Nazi Germany - in 1945. This department was opened as part of a teacher's institute, and in 1950 it became a separate faculty - one of three. Graduates of physicists and mathematicians made a huge contribution to the development of the university. At the moment, almost all the scientific activities of the faculty and student training are in the hands of those who once himself was a graduate of this university.
The faculty has sixteen classrooms for study, an interdepartmental office, eight computer classes and eleven laboratories. Perhaps, none of the faculties are engaged in science so closely. Foreign relations also help this: partners include universities in Poland, Germany, Belgium and the USA. Graduates find work everywhere, not only in the field of education. There are a lot of them in power structures and state industry, at customs, in banks and in private business.