The Department of Economic and Social Geography named after Professor Oleg Shabliy prepares highly qualified specialists in educational and professional programs for achieving a range of degrees:
• Bachelor’s degree in specialty 106 Geography (OPP “Economic and Social Geography”, “Geography”, “Urban Studies, Spatial Planning and Regional Development”); 014.07 Secondary Education. Geography;
• Master’s degree in specialties 106 Geography and 014.07 Secondary Education (Geography);
• Doctor of Philosophy in the specialty 103 Earth Sciences, specialization Economic and Social Geography.
The surety of the EPP “Economic and Social Geography” at the bachelor’s level is Professor I. Rovenchak, EPP “Geography” – Associate Professor Iryna Hudzeliak, EPP “Secondary Education. Geography” – Associate Professor O.I. Mamchur.
The department employs 13 people, including one professor – Doctor of Geography, four associate professors, an assistant, a candidate of geography and three assistants, the head of the educational laboratory, an engineer, two senior laboratory assistants. There are three postgraduate students.
The Department has a training laboratory for atlas and thematic mapping.
Since its inception, the Department has been formed as the scientific core of the Lviv Social and Geographical School and a center for the creation of fundamental knowledge in Ukraine and the world, whose longtime leader was Doctor of Geography, Honored Professor of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Honorary Member of the Ukrainian Geographical Society, Honorary Member and Chairman of the Geographical Commission of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, Head of the Geographical Department of the Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Laureate of the International Prize for Geography. In 2023, the department was named after Professor Oleg Shabliy.
Professor O. Shabliy is the founder of Ukrainian systemic social geography at the newest stage of its development: he revealed the laws of social geography; substantiated the system of methods of social geography and the essence of the main category of social geography – the geospatial organization of society; initiated mathematical and geographical research in Ukrainian social geography.
The main scientific areas of scientific work of the scientist in the field of social geography: theoretical and methodological, mathematical and geographical, complex atlas mapping, geographical Ukrainian studies, regional studies and local history, history of Ukrainian geography, geographical biography, political geography and geopolitics, military geography, geohumanistics. Professor O. Shabliy is the author of almost a thousand scientific, methodological, scientific and journalistic writings, the most cited scientist in Ukraine in the field of social geography.