Graduates are proficient in the historical method and able to work critically with research sources and literature. They have a grounding in selected political, cultural and economic milestones of European development from the

Middle Ages to the present, are proficient in the most important aspects of expert discourse and are able to explain the historical basis thereof.

The graduate is equipped with knowledge of Russian language which matches the B2 level of the European Reference Frame of Languages. He disposes of knowledge about the area of East Europe. He disposes of necessary preconditions to continue in the follow-up M.A. study programmes.