THE PROBLEM OF UPDATING THE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL COMPONENT OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
The article expresses the author's position on the theory and practice of implementing the historical and cultural component of professional training at the university of civil engineering. The principles of formation of this component, the practical experience of its implementation, available to date, as well as problems related to both teaching and the perception of subjects of the historical and cultural cycle by students, have been investigated. New concrete approaches to updating the content and teaching methods of the disciplines "History," "Cultural Studies," "History of World Civilizations" are recommended. The purpose of the article is to investigate the theoretical and practical aspects of the implementation of the historical and cultural component of professional training at the university of civil engineering in order to develop proposals for its improvement and updating. The methodological basis of the study is competent and systematic approaches to managing the quality of professional activities of scientific and pedagogical workers. The results and practical significance of the study lie in the author's recommendations on updating both the content of the taught disciplines of the historical and cultural cycle, and on the methodological improvement of this component. The creation of an innovative educational environment, the introduction of practical-oriented mechanisms and personal-oriented technologies into the educational process meets the tasks of implementing the most complete and consistent process of forming a vocational-oriented and socially active person. Further development of the problem of updating the historical and cultural component of professional training will contribute to the creation of new mechanisms for maintaining the high quality of scientific and educational activities at the university of civil engineering.