Arts and Design Department

The department was established on September 1, 2015 as a merger with the department of Technology and Service. The range of specializations and profiles that the department has worked on at various times is very extensive: choreography, amateur theater, folk lore, arts and crafts, vocal and choral art, management and technology of sociocultural activities, musical education, painting and pictorial composition, graphic design, interior design, computer graphics etc.

Department research interests:

• Theory and methodology of teaching
• Creative and culture-related industries of the Arctic region
• Arctic design
• Comfortable city environment and urban studies
• Culture of indigenous peoples of the North
• Marine culture
• Northern nature in world culture

Head of department

Elena Tereshchenko

Doctor in Culture studies, Associate professor