Kazan University’s department of journalism transformed into Institute of Mass Communications and Social Sciences

The Kazan Federal University’s academic council has ruled to set up an Institute of Mass Communications and Social Sciences on the grounds of the department of journalism.
The dean, Vasil Garifullin, told Tatar-inform the transformation was stipulated by the department’s development plan, approved by the academic council in November 2010. Establishing the institute would allow obtain a certain financial independence, open new areas of training, with the previous ones intact, and increase the research activity, he explained.
Kazan Federal University has therefore only two departments left, of law and of philosophy.
Journalist training at Kazan University is 50 years old. The department has over the half century released about 3,650 journalists.