By the end of the study learners are expected:
to know object and subject of country studies as a scientific discipline; methodology of modern country studies; content of major trends in country studies; main groups of factors determining mechanics of functioning economic, political and legal country’s system; general foundations of regionalization of the world;
to be able to give characteristic to major methodological principals of scientific country studies; have good command of professional terminology to analyze various fields of social life of a country; to give characteristic of different aspects of the country’s geographical position; to define cause-and-effect relations in determinants, means and tools and consequences of the country’s policy; to estimate natural resources of the country, its political and legal system, its value in the system of international relations, its social, economic, legal and cultural development.

Prerequisites: Politology, History of Political, Legal and Economics Theories.
Corequisites: Theory of International Relations, History of International Relations

Country Studies as a Scientific Discipline. Political Map of the World. Natural Conditions and Natural Resources of the Countries of the World. Social and Economic Basis of Country Studies Research. Demographical Peculiarities of Country Studies Research. Political System as an Object of Country Studies Research. Typology, Classification and Regional Division of the Countries of the World. Characteristics of Central and Eastern European Countries. Characteristics of Key Countries of Southern Europe and South-Eastern Europe. Main Countries of Northern and Western Europe. Central American Countries and their Characteristics. Regional Characteristics of North-American Countries. Russia and Central Asia. Characteristics of Western and South-Asian Countries. Eastern -Asian Countries and their Characteristics. Countries of Northern, Central and Western Africa. Main Characteristics of Southern and Eastern-African Countries. Australia and Oceania as a Region of the World.

1. Dakhno I.I. Krainy svitu / I.I.Dakhno. — K.: Mapa, 2004. — 606 s
2. Dubovych I. A. Krainoznavchyi slovnyk-dovidnyk / I.A.Dubovych. — L.: Liha-pres, 2005. — 819 s.
3. Ihnetiev P.M. Krainoznavstvo. Krainy Azii / P.M.Ihnetiev. – Chernivtsi: Knyhy KhKhI, 2004. – 384 s.
4. Krainoznavstvo: navch. posibnyk / Ia.B.Turchyn; L.O.Dorosh, O.N.Horbach. – Lviv: Vydavnytstvo Lvivskoi politekhniky, 2012. – 276 s.
5. Krainoznavstvo: dovidnyk / Ia.B.Turchyn; L.O.Dorosh, O.N.Horbach. – Lviv: Vydavnytstvo Lvivskoi politekhniky, 2012. – 296 s.
6. Masliak P.O. Krainoznavstvo. Pidruchnyk / P.O.Masliak. - 2-he vyd., vypr. - K.: Znannia, 2008. - 292 s.
7. Trokhymchuk S.V. Politychna heohrafiia svitu / S.V.Trokhymchuk, O.V.Fedun. – 2 –he vyd., pererob. i dop. – K.: Znannia, 2007. – 422 s.
8. Iatsenko B.P. Krainoznavstvo: osnovy teorii / B.P.Yatsenko, V.K.Babarytska. – K.: Lybid, 2009. – 312 s.

Current control: (40%) questioning, presentations at the seminars, essay writing.
Final control: (60%) exam (three-level testing)