- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
General University Courses: Countries and nations of Caucasus. History and Culture 3620-1-PNK-OG
Lectures are based on the past of Caucasus and history of Caucasus civilization. They are showing general history of Caucasus. Subject matter of lectures concentrates on Christian roots and borderlands of Caucasus civilization. The issue of historical continuity in the face of transformation on the territory of coexistence of different civilizations constitutes the central topic of lectures. Caucasus – the territory between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea is not a homogenous territory. There is a distinct division resulting above all from politic relations evolving during centuries. Caucasus as a territory of interest of the Great Powers became a point of contact of many cultures, nationalities and religions. During many centuries Caucasus was the territory of peaceful coexistence of different ethnic, religious and language groups. (Geography and main trends of Caucasus history; First century of colonialism; The period of Storm and Stress; Countries of Transcaucasia and revolutions in Iran and Turkey; Independence experiment – in the shade of Ottoman Turkey; Revolutionary Empire and its transformations; Soviet Ethnic policy and korenizatsiya (sometimes also called korenization, meaning ‘nativization’ or ‘indigenization’), Christianity, Islam and North Caucasus). Participants may familiarize with themselves with essential problems of history and culture of Caucasus (cultural and ethnic differentiation, intercultural relations). The aim of the lectures is not only present specified collection of facts but giving participants of lectures the key to interpretation of this facts, as well as develop their ability to formulate their own opinions.
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Bibliography
Alstand, Audrey, The Azerbaijani Turks. Power and Identity under Russian Rul, Hoover Institution Press, 1992.
Suny, Robert, Looking Toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History, Bloomington, Indiana Uuniversity Presss, 1993.
Suny, Robert, The Making of the Georgian Nation, Bloomington, Indiana Uuniversity Presss; Transcaucasia, Nationalism and Social Change.The Uuniversity Presss, 1983.
Swietochowski, Tadeusz, Historical Dictionary of Azerbaijan, Scarecrow, 1999.
Atkin, Muriel, Russia and Iran, 1780-1828, University of Minnesota Press, 1980.
Meyer, Karl, The Dust of Empire. The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland, Public Affairs, New York, 2003.
Kadir I. Natho, Circassian History, New Jersey 2009.
Anchabadze, George, The Vainakhs (The Chechen and Ingush), Caucasian House, Tbilisi 2009; Gruzini i Abchazi. Istoria i sowremennost, Tbilisi 2009
Volatile Borderland: Russia and The North Caucasus, Glen E. Howard, Editor, The Jamestown Foundation, 2010.
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Term 2023L:
W. E. D. Allen, A History of the Georgian People (London, 1932); David Marshall Lang, A Modern History of Georgia (London, 1962); Ronald Grigor Suny, The Making of the Georgian Nation (Bloomington, Ind., 1988); idem, Looking Toward Ararat: Armenia inModern History (Bloomington, Ind., 1993); and Audrey L. Altstadt, The Azerbaijani Turks (Stanford, Calif., 1992). Cyril Toumanoff, Studies in Christian Caucasian History (Washington, D.C., 1963). John F. Baddeley, The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus (reprint, London, 2003); Muriel Atkins, Russia and Iran, 1780–1828 (Minneapolis, Minn.,1980); Mark Bliev, Rossiia i gortsy Bol’shogo Kavkaza (Moscow, 2004); and Mark Bliev and V. V. Degoev, Kavkazskaia voina (Moscow, 1994). Robert H. Hewson’s Armenia: A Historical Atlas (Chicago, 2001); Artur Tsutsiev’s Atlas etnopoliticheskoi istorii Kavkaza, 1774–2004 (Moscow, 2006); Alexander Knysh, Sufism as an Explanatory Paradigm: The Issue of the Motivations of Sufi Resistance Movements in Western and Russian Scholarship, Die Welt des Islams 42, no. 2 (2002). Alstand, Audrey, The Azerbaijani Turks. Power and Identity under Russian Rul, Hoover Institution Press, 1992. Tadeusz Swietochowski, Historical Dictionary of Azerbaijan, Scarecrow, 1999. The Vainakhs (The Chechen and Ingush), Caucasian House, Tbilisi 2009; George Anchabadze, Gruzini i Abchazi. Istoria i sowremennost, Tbilisi 2009. Volatile Borderland: Russia and The North Caucasus, Editor Glen E. Howard, The Jamestown Foundation, 2010. |
Term 2024Z:
W. E. D. Allen, A History of the Georgian People (London, 1932); David Marshall Lang, A Modern History of Georgia (London, 1962); Ronald Grigor Suny, The Making of the Georgian Nation (Bloomington, Ind., 1988); idem, Looking Toward Ararat: Armenia inModern History (Bloomington, Ind., 1993); and Audrey L. Altstadt, The Azerbaijani Turks (Stanford, Calif., 1992). Cyril Toumanoff, Studies in Christian Caucasian History (Washington, D.C., 1963). John F. Baddeley, The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus (reprint, London, 2003); Muriel Atkins, Russia and Iran, 1780–1828 (Minneapolis, Minn.,1980); Mark Bliev, Rossiia i gortsy Bol’shogo Kavkaza (Moscow, 2004); and Mark Bliev and V. V. Degoev, Kavkazskaia voina (Moscow, 1994). Robert H. Hewson’s Armenia: A Historical Atlas (Chicago, 2001); Artur Tsutsiev’s Atlas etnopoliticheskoi istorii Kavkaza, 1774–2004 (Moscow, 2006); Alexander Knysh, Sufism as an Explanatory Paradigm: The Issue of the Motivations of Sufi Resistance Movements in Western and Russian Scholarship, Die Welt des Islams 42, no. 2 (2002). Alstand, Audrey, The Azerbaijani Turks. Power and Identity under Russian Rul, Hoover Institution Press, 1992. Tadeusz Swietochowski, Historical Dictionary of Azerbaijan, Scarecrow, 1999. The Vainakhs (The Chechen and Ingush), Caucasian House, Tbilisi 2009; George Anchabadze, Gruzini i Abchazi. Istoria i sowremennost, Tbilisi 2009. Volatile Borderland: Russia and The North Caucasus, Editor Glen E. Howard, The Jamestown Foundation, 2010. |
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- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
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