School of Social Sciences and Social Technologies
With an interdisciplinary approach to learning, the focus is on helping students become leaders, and navigate through the challenging ideas of our times, while understanding the ethical and historical roots of their communities, the challenges of building a democratic country, and understanding their place as individuals. The curriculum offers an opportunity to learn about behaviors, culture, and society to promote change.
Departments: The School of Social Sciences offers Bachelor and master’s degrees in the following departments:
Students of all NaUKMA schools have the opportunity to receive a minor degree in Political Science, and Sociology, as well as certificates in Social Psychology and Conflictology, Public Relations, Practical Psychology.
Research Focus Areas:
Rural population: needs, problems and ways to solve them
Rehabilitation of people with chemical dependencies
The impact of the development of assertiveness skills on women who have experienced domestic violence
Epidemiology of mental illness in Ukraine
Dynamics of coverage of issues of people living with HIV / AIDS in mass media
Theory and history of sociology
The ethno-demographic potential of Ukraine: current state and prospects of development
The School boasts specialized computer classes, two TV studios, and a photo studio, Molode Radio studio. Students take an active part in developing media resources at the school and development initiatives as the university portal "Bonet", radio SMITH, radio K:) VIT. The educational program, research, and student mass-media initiatives take place in the following research and study centers of the school:
Center “Institute of Civics Education”
School of Political Analysis
Center of Research of Conflict Resolution and Psychoanalysis
Research Center of Healthcare and Social Policy
Center of Interdisciplinary Research of World Politics
StopFake
In 2013, the Kyiv-Mohyla School of Journalism has set up Media Reforms Center, a not-for-profit educational platform, aiming to implement western standards of journalism in Ukraine and to raise the level of media literacy for different audiences, from students to journalists to members of the public who want to consume media content in a critical and responsible way.
The Academy alumni, together with the School of Journalism faculty conduct fact-checking workshops for journalists and journalism lecturers from Ukrainian universities, and train students, bloggers, and civil activists from different regions of Ukraine and other countries. Initially, the goal was to verify and refute disinformation and propaganda about events in Ukraine being circulated in the media. Eventually, the project grew into an information hub known as StopFake, where all aspects of Kremlin propaganda are examined and analyzed.
StopFake has excelled in utilizing software to streamline the process of fact-checking stories. It hosts StopFake News, a weekly television show only about fake news, and holds the standard that "if fact-checkers cannot prove that a story published or broadcast by another news media outlet is false, it will not be featured in the weekly airing".
Following the allegations of Russian influence in the 2016 United States presidential election, StopFake began to gain international recognition. In a joint effort, the Financial Times, Google, Res Publica, and Visegrád Group recognized StopFake and its founders in their 2016 New Europe 100 list, commending "central and eastern Europe’s brightest and best people—plus the organizations who are changing the region’s societies, politics or business environments and displaying innovation, entrepreneurialism and fresh approaches to prevailing problems". StopFake won the "Best Project in Russian Award" in Deutsche Welle's 2014 BOBs awards.
The New York Times states that StopFake "is highly respected in journalistic circles here in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, for its specialty of debunking fake news", and it "reported some of the biggest nonstories of the war" in Ukraine. Politico stated, "the journalism school crew behind StopFake have emerged as the 'grand wizards' of the fake-news-busting world".