Lectures, classes, seminars and discussion sessions illustrated with visits to the museum collections and impor-tant places (monuments, artistic institutions), reproductions, slides and films as well as participation in artistic events and commenting on them - these are the major forms of education provided by our Institute for students from their first to the fifth year. The basic course of history of art covers subsequent cultures and civilisations, from the Paleolithic phase to the latest phenomena pervading artistic culture. History of philosophy makes students acquainted with traditional philosophical problems and disciplines (from the Greeks to the 20th century philosophy). Theory and history of culture present a broader anthropological context and relations between art and major aesthetic ideas as well as development tendencies in various epochs.