The Department of Merchandise of Foodstuff

The Chair of the Department is Dr. hab., Prof. Svetlana A. Sergeychik (since 2005).

The Department of Merchandise of Foodstuff as an independent unit within the structure of V. Kuibyshev BSINE appeared in 1961. At present it is a structural unit of the School of Commerce Economics and Management of BSEU.

The first Chair of the Department (for 15 years) was Dr. hab., Prof. I. Kryuk. His successors were: À . Rutski (1976-1985), Y. Fedorov (1985-1995), Î . Brilevski (1995-2005).

The faculty comprises 15 members of teaching staff and 8 members of assistance personnel (lab assistants). The faculty includes 2 professors (1 Dr. hab.), 8 associate professors with PhD degrees.

Practicing experts are widely engaged in the educational process, too.

It a graduating department is for students majoring in specialty 1-25 01 09 01, Merchandise and Expert Examination of Foodstuff; it provides methodological guidance of the above specialty within the educational and methodological association of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus .

The department provides classes for students of a number of other specializations of the following specialties:

• 1-25 01 10 Commercial Activities;
• 1-25 01 08 Accounting, Analysis and Auditing ;
• 1-25 01 07 Enterprise Economics and Management;
• 1-24 01 02 Law.

The department staff are constantly developing the teaching process to make training specialists more efficient. We have worked out the specialty educational standard, standard and educational plans; updated the courses already taught and worked out new ones based on the results of the department's scholarly and research work to reflect market economy development trends, tendencies of changing economic methods and the world economy development. Besides, they have created a database of primary and statistical information about goods. Moreover, the staff members worked out regulatory documentation on standardization and certification of the studied objects.

In teaching we widely use new educational technologies which unite educational and scientific processes, testing, business games, solving real economic situation, PCs, students' academic progress rating evaluation system, hand-outs, library-research works, essays on most important topics, students' conferences at the end of studying particular disciplines, defending course theses using IT.

During its existence the department shaped the following directions of scientific research: optimization of manufacturing and storing some groups of consumer goods; consumer product range development; consumer goods marketing research and trade management.

We present the results of the research at national and international scientific and practical conferences, the last one held in December 2000.

These results made a basis for a number of educational and instructional publications authored by the department faculty.

Much attention is paid to students' scientific researches. The department has got 2 students' research teams. The students and postgraduate students are engaged in the department scientific research.

Students take an active part in competitions where they present the results of their scientific researches. Every year some of them win prizes and awards of different levels.

The department maintains active contacts with economic higher educational establishments in Russia, Ukraine, Poland as well as the Ministry of Trade, trade departments of regional executive committees, the Consumer Market General Administration of the city of Minsk and various trading enterprises and organizations.

	Address: 7 Sverdlova st. , Bldg 5, room 305
	Tel ./ fax : +375 17 209-79-84 – Chair
	E-mail: feut@bseu.by