On May 28, 2024, the defense of coursework on the history of Ukraine and the world was held for students of the 2nd year of the specialty 014 Secondary Education (History) of the “Bachelor” OR (SOI-21, SOI-22; full-time education). As part of the defense of coursework, three commissions were formed, consisting of teachers of the Department of History of Ukraine and the methodology of teaching history and the Department of World History. Bohdan Paska, a leading specialist of the Institute of History, Ethnology and Archeology of the Carpathians, worked in one of these commissions. In their speeches during the defense of the results of their works on the history of Ukraine and world history, the students paid attention to the reasoning behind the choice of the research topic and its disclosure, confirmed their fluency in the material, outlined the degree of independence in the performance of the work, determined the personal contribution (scientific novelty) of the author to the work.
Having prepared visualized presentations of the results of their research, the students behaved skillfully during the defense of their works, showed clarity, logic, consistency, and brevity of the presented material. At the same time, the competence and completeness of the young researchers’ answers to the questions of the commission members and their fellow students, as well as the etiquette and communication culture of the participants, active and qualified participation in the discussion were observed.
This was preceded by painstaking work, consultations were held by academic supervisors of student works. We hope that the experience of writing this type of qualification work will be useful for students who have chosen the teaching profession.