The Department of Belarusian culture and folklore

Head of the department - Doctor of Philology, Professor Novak Valentine Stanislavovna.

The department has six teachers, among them - 1 doctor of philology and 4 of the candidate of philological sciences.

Department of Belarusian Culture was established in September 1993 as a result of the reorganization of the department of ethics, aesthetics and cultural history. He headed the department, candidate of philological sciences, associate professor Dmitri Pavlovets.

In April 2007, at the Department of the Belarusian culture was created Department of the Belarusian culture and folklore. Promising directions of scientific research are: the study of the history and culture of Gomel Gomel oblast natives contribution to the development of national and world science, regional and local folklore study of Gomel, Bryansk-Gomel-Chernigov borderland, interoperability issues, multi-ethnic folk traditions, participate in events dedicated to the study National Heritage (held district departments of culture).

Perspective directions of scientific research:

Regionally local folklore study of the Gomel region and other regions of Belarus;
Belarusian folk mythology;
Mythology and folklore of the Belarusians in the context of the traditional culture of the Slavs;
Etnafalklarystyka;
Traditional spiritual culture of Belarusians;
Ethnolinguistics;
Etnakulturalogiya;
The history of the Belarusian language, lexicology, scientific terminology;
The cultural history of the Gomel region, Gomel oblast natives contribute to the development of national and world science.
 Discipline:

Folklore
Slavic mythology
Cultural
Belarusica
History and Theory of World Culture
Belarusian language (professional lexicon)
Office etiquette and paperwork
Universitetovedenie
Russian as a foreign language.