The Department of Social and Economic Disciplines of the Educational and Research Institute No. 4 (Training of specialists in information and analytical support and cybersecurity of the National Police of Ukraine) of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs was established in June 2013 on the basis of the Department of Humanities and Economics and the Department of Sociology and Social Work of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, which provides training for specialists of all educational and qualification levels, including cadets, students, master's students, and adjuncts. Until 2024, the Department was part of the Faculty No. 2 (Criminal Police).

The Department is a graduate department for the training of specialists for the National Police units in the field of knowledge 07 “Management and Administration” in the specialty 071 “Accounting and Taxation” (Accounting Analytics). It provides training in the disciplines of the educational and professional program “071 Accounting and Taxation (Accounting Analytics)”, as well as disciplines: “Logic”, ‘Finance and Credit’, ‘Forensic Accounting’, ‘Sociology’, ‘Economic Statistics’, ‘Financial Analysis’.

The educational and methodological activities of the Department are formed in accordance with changes in the current legislation, new theoretical scientific developments and generalized positive experience of law enforcement activities of the National Police of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, and contribute to the acquisition of certain general and a number of subject competencies of higher education students.

The Department organizes the annual International Scientific and Practical Conference “Current Problems of Legal, Economic and Social Development of the State”.

The main areas of research interests of the Department are: research of problems of financial security; counteraction to economic and financial crime; vectors of sociological research; theoretical and practical principles of human rights in a legal democratic state, etc. Both practical employees of the National Police and employees of the financial and credit industry are involved in the educational and methodological work and additional classes in certain disciplines.

The main tasks of the Department are:

• education of future specialists in professional and business character traits, ability to abstract thinking, analysis and synthesis, ability to conduct research at the appropriate level, formation of a civic position on the assessment of social phenomena, ability to solve research or innovative tasks in the field of accounting and taxation, etc;

• development of a unified concept for the implementation of the content of education in the disciplines taught at the department in order to combine theoretical training with the practical orientation of training specialists for the units of the National Police of Ukraine;

• organization and implementation of the educational process at a high scientific and methodological level by forming the scientific content and practical orientation of each discipline, taking into account the individual educational trajectory of higher education students;

• development and systematic updating of scientific and methodological support for the disciplines taught at the department, their multimedia support, electronic textbooks (textbooks);

• development and implementation of the latest forms, methods and technologies of training, conducting basic and applied research on contractual topics, publishing the results and implementing them in practice;

• development and approval of unified assessment criteria and means of diagnosing the level of knowledge acquisition and mastery of program competencies, monitoring and analysis of the quality of knowledge and skills through the system of current and final control, state certification;

• development of relevant documents on scientific and methodological support of educational and scientific activities of higher education institutions with specific learning conditions, preparation, review and publication of educational, scientific, methodological literature (textbooks, manuals, lecture courses, dictionaries, reference books, research tasks, methodological developments, etc.) for the units of the National Police of Ukraine and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

Contact information:
Address: L. Landau avenue, 27, Kharkiv, 61080, Ukraine
Tel.: 73-98-017
Email: ksed2015@ukr.net