This document summarizes information about the Faculty of Humanities and Law Sciences at Rezekne Higher Education Institution in Latvia. It describes the structure of the faculty including its chairs of history, philology, and law sciences. It provides details on the bachelor's, master's and professional degree programs offered. Statistics are given on faculty students and staff over time. Information is also provided on the institution's international cooperation, library resources, academic publications, and the professional master's program in archive studies.

1. Rezekne Higher Education Institution
THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
AND LAW SCIENCES

2. The Structure of the Faculty
The Faculty of
Humanities
and Law
Research
Institution
Letonika The Cebter of
Legal Consultation
The CHAIR of
The CHAIR of HISTORY and The CHAIR of
PHILOLOGY PHILOSOPHY LAW SCIENCES
Research Center of Crininology
Baltic Philology Laboratory

3. Academic higer education (Bachelor’s
degree) study programms:
- History,
- Philology
Higher professional education bachelor study
programms:
- “Teacher of Geography and Social Studies”
- “Law”

4. Second level professional higher
education study programms:
- “Teacher of History and History of Culture”
- “Pedagogy of Religion”
- “Teacher of Latvian Language and Literature”

5. MASTER STUDY PROGRAMMS
(3)
Professional Master Study Programms
“Archive studies”
“Law”
Academic Master Study Programm
“Philology”

6. Faculty Students
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0 TOTAL
2007/2008 2008/2009 2009/2010
PART TIME

7. Academic Staff of Faculty

8. The Structure of Academic Staff
20
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
professors asoc.professors assist.professors lecturers
2007/2008 2008/2009 2009/2010

9. ACADEMIC STAFF of FACULTY
(2009/2010)
6%
18%
Professors
asoc.professors
52%
Assist.professors
24%
Lecturers

10. International Cooperation
RHEI has cooperation agreements with more than 65
universities in 20 countries (Lithuania, Poland, Estonia,
Belgium, Dennmark, Italy, Greece etc.)
The cooperation with foreign partners is organized by
projects (SOCRATES/ERASMUS,
SOCRATES/LINGUA, LEONARDO, TEMPUS,
BALTIC SEA NETWORK etc.)

11. LIBRARY
More than 60 000 different press issues including 61%
social sciences and humanities
Literature in foreign languages (English, German,
Russian ect.)
Full-text data basis (EBSCO, SAGE, RUBRICON,
Oxford University Press, JSTOR, Letonika, NAIS etc.)
8 state libraries electronic catalogue (
Electronic catalogue (http://biblio.ru.lv/alise/) 2 library home
abonaments, 3 reading-rooms

12. COLLECTIONS of SCIENTIFIC
PUBLICATIONS of FACULTY STUDENTS
and STAFF
“We in Time, Space, Development”
“Researches, Problems, Solving”
“Via Latgalica”
Ethnicity in Europe: the social political and cultural
processes

13. Teaching Aids of the Faculty Staff
From 2006 to 2010 are issued 18 teaching aids
including:
“The Leagal Efficasy of Documents”
A.Plotnieks “Dogmatic rights”
V.Čakša “Methodical directions of scientific
research in history, history of culture”
K.Počs “Methodical directions of scientific
research in archive studies”

14. Rezekne Higher Education Institution
Professional Master Studies Program
“ARCHIVE STUDIES”
(CODE 46 322)

15. Substantiation of study program's
necessity
In Latvian Republic just now a bulk of from about
600 archivists are without special higher education
and accordant skill lever.
Only about 20 archivists have a special archival
education, what their obtained abroad (chiefly in
Soviet Union).The others confine oneself with
different courses in Latvia.
About 50 % of archives’ employees are 50 and more
years old.

16. The aim of the study program
- to ensure successive integrated
professional master archive studies for
the individuals working in the field of
archiving in order to train specialists
with theoretical comprehension about
research topicality of contemporary
fields of science as well as their link with
particularity of archive work; to develop
creation of academic and professional
competences appropriate to the theory
of archive studies

17. The tasks of the program
1. to impart deepened theoretical knowledge in archive
studies and related fields of sciences (auxiliary
disciplines of history, social sciences, etc.);
2. to develop skills of analysis and abilities of research
and evaluation of archive documents appropriate
to contemporary methodology;
3. to deepen and widen competences of archive
workers for implementation of IT technologies in
systematization of documents, creation of data
bases, storage and protection of documents;

18. The tasks of the program
4. to ensure acquisition of integrated management
theories, project development, and pedagogy and
psychology of law to stimulate communicative
potential of students as well as their
competitiveness in the labor market;
5. to promote development of students scientific skills,
to facilitate their possibilities in creative, scientific
research work motivating them to continue the
studies for a doctor’s degree.

19. Study Process Assessment and
Management System in RHEI
Quality assessment areas:
Study process eligibility to RHEI strategy
Academic staff
Study programms
Cooperation with applicants and graduates
Study process
Infrastructure
Financial and economical activities

20. Volume of the study program,
Duration of studies and ways of
realization
120 ECTS
Full-time 2 years (4 semesters)
Part-time 2,5 years (5 semesters)

21. Modules of the study program

22. Field Theory Module (Content)
Archive Studies and its Topical problems,
Paleography,
Archaeography,
Global Communicative Systems and
Intercultural Communication,
Informations Systems of Electronic
documents etc.

23. Professional Specialization Module
Management and Systematization of
Documents,
Preventive Protection of Documents,
Archive Pedagogy,
Archive Work Manegement and Manegement
Theory,
Banks and their Documentation,
Professional Ethics etc.

24. Elective Courses
Auxiliary Disciplines of History,
Copyright, Administrative and Municipal
Rights,
Historical Documents in Archives etc.

25. Practice Module (24 ECTS)
Acquaintance (professional) practice (15
ECTS)
Qualification practice (4,5 ECTS)
Research practice (4,5 ECTS)

26. The Places of Praxis
State Archive of Latvia (bilateral agreement)
Latvia State HistoricalArchive (bilateral agreement)
Regional State archives (Rezekne, Daugavpils,
Valmiera etc.)
Specialised Archives/Archives of Institutions

27. Qualitative Structure of the Study
Program
Profesori/
Professors
Lecturers
14%
43% Associated
professors
14%
Assistant
professors
29%

28. Fields of academic’s scientific work
Engineering
Chemistry (computer
Culturology 1 science)
1 2
Archive studies
and history
7
Pedagogy and
psychology
2
Social science
8

29. The number of students in the
program
16 16
15
14
14
12
11
10
8
6
4
2
0
2006/2007 2007/2008
2008/2009 2009/2010

30. Students exchange
In framework of ERASMUS program 3 students
O.Rogova. V.Kravčenko and S.Igaune in 2007
performed praxis in Central State Archive of
Vilnius (Lithuania)
In framework of ERASMUS program student
L.Andronova performed praxis in Central State
Archive of Vilnius (Lithuania) (july-september
2009)

31. Programm Graduates
During the period
2005/2006 – 2009/2010 acad.year
30 students have graduated programm and
received master degree

32. Some Themes of Graduation Papers
Sorting, preservation and using of the oral
history documents in Cesis Regional State
archive;
The perspectives of implementing of quality
system in Valmiera Regional State archive;
The mamaging of electronic documents;
Ensuring and protection of documents
maintenance in enterprises archives;
The archives pedagogy and its improvement

33. Thanks for your attention!
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