Subject Committee for Economic Disciplines

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The Subject Committee for Economic Disciplines, established in 1967, provides the teaching of economic disciplines in all specialties of the College.

The Subject Committee for Economic Disciplines of the SSS “Odesa Technical Professional College of ONTU” is also a graduating committee and trains specialists at the educational level of “Professional Junior Bachelor” under the educational and professional programmes:

“Economics and Business Organisation”
“Finance, Banking and Internet Banking”.

The main goal of the subject committee’s work is to develop the professional competences of students and to ensure the quality of training of specialists capable of resolving complex issues of business practice in modern socio-economic conditions.

To achieve this goal, the subject committee develops and introduces into the educational process measures aimed at ensuring high-quality training of specialists and clear organisation of the educational process, and methods of teaching economic disciplines using progressive pedagogical technologies.

The main task of the lecturers is to create interactive sets of teaching and methodological support for the courses. In the course of their work, the methods of conducting lectures, seminars and practical classes, integrated classes and students’ independent work are improved; a student-centred approach and information technologies are applied in teaching.

The main areas of the subject committee’s work:

introduction of the latest learning technologies and forms of organising the educational process;
development of creative abilities and stimulation of students’ cognitive activity; improvement of lecturers’ qualifications and pedagogical excellence;
work with gifted students aimed at developing their intellect;
use of interdisciplinary links in teaching economic disciplines;
organisation of the educational process on the basis of accessible high-quality learning materials and highly professional distance and face-to-face classes;
ensuring the personal development of young students in line with their individual aptitudes and abilities;
improving the quality of education by combining education with science and industry in order to train competitive specialists for the country’s high-tech and innovative development;
meeting the needs of society and the state for qualified personnel.

The effectiveness of training highly qualified specialists depends on the level of pedagogical professionalism of the teaching staff.

The committee employs highly qualified lecturers, including: 1 Candidate of Economic Sciences (PhD), 2 lecturer-methodologists, 2 lecturers of the highest category and 2 lecturers of the first category, who skilfully organise the educational process and have a perfect command of teaching methods and interactive learning technologies.

Members of the subject committee work on improving their pedagogical excellence, undergo professional development at higher education institutions of Ukraine, engage in research, and take part in academic and practical conferences, round tables, trainings, seminars, master classes and competitions.

Over the years, the lecturers of the Subject Committee for Economic Disciplines have trained more than 2,000 specialists. Our graduates are employees and managers of private enterprises, public-sector institutions, commercial organisations, banks and insurance companies, as well as businesspeople, etc.