Lecturers

 

 

  Guranda Tchelidze

 

Education:

 

  • Ph.D in History

 

Workplace / position

 

  • Caucasus University School of Humanities and Social Sciences affiliated Professor

  • Head of the BA Program in European Studies at Caucasus University

  • Author/co-author of 37 scientific articles and textbooks, expert and coordinator of various EU projects. Member of the History Higher Education Sectoral Council

 

Course Title:

 

  • EU Eastward Enlargement
  • Introduction to Political Science
  • Modern History of Europe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Natia Panjikidze

 

Education:

 

  • Doctor of Psychology

 

Work place / position:

 

Associate Professor at Caucasus University, Head of the Master's Program in Clinical Art Therapy at Caucasus University,

Art therapist, founder of the "Kamara" Center for Psychotherapy and head of the therapy program; Representative of the American International Clinical Art Therapy Open Type Clinics Network "Living Museum" in Georgia

 

Course Title:

 

  • Therapeutic approach theories
  • Art therapy in mental disorders
  • Art therapy methods
  • Pathopsychology 1
  • Pathopsychology 2
  • Pathopsychology 3

 

 

 

 

Flora (Keso) Esebua

 

Education:

 

  • Doctor of Sociology 

 

Workplace / position

 

  • Professor at Caucasus University
  • Head of the Undergraduate Program in Sociology at Caucasus University
  • Senior Researcher - Analysis and Consulting Group "ACT"

 

Course Title:

 

  • Sociology of Culture
  • Sociology of Media

 

 

 

 

 

Maia Matchavariani-Tsereteli

 

Education

 

  • Doctor of Psychology

 

Workplace/Position

 

  • Affiliated Associate Professor of the Caucasus University School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Head of Caucasus University Georgian-language and English-language undergraduate educational programs of Psychology
  • High-profile clinic "New Hospitals", clinical neuropsychologist, leading specialist. 

 

Course Title: 

 

  • Fundamentals of neuropsychology
  • Health psychology
  • Biopsychology

Introduction to Clinical Psychology


 

 

 

 

 

Mariam Manjgaladze

 

Education:

 

  • Doctor of Philology

 

Workplace/Position:

 

  • Affiliated Professor of the Caucasus University School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Head of the Caucasus University Georgian Philology undergraduate educational program
  • TSU - guest lecturer
  • Member of the Expert Commission of the State Language Department
  • Member of the Expert Commission for Education Quality Development
  • Rustaveli Foundation expert
  • Founder and Deputy Chairman of Language Modeling Association

 

Course Title  

 

  • Phonetics of the Georgian language, morphology of the name
  • Georgian verb morphology
  • Introduction to Linguistics
  • Digital processing of linguistic data
  • Fundamentals and components of e-learning
  • Academic writing
  • Grammar 1
  • Grammar 2
  • Georgian as a foreign language

 

 

 

 

Davit Tinikashvili

 

Education:

 

  • Doctor of History

 

Workplace/Position 

 

  • Affiliated Professor of the Caucasus University School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Head of the Caucasus University history undergraduate educational program

 

Course Title:

 

  • History of the relationship between atheism and Christianity
  • A History of World Religions
  • History of the Orthodox Church of Georgia

 

Ketevan Chigogidze

 

Education:

 

  • Doctor of Psychology

 

Workplace/Position

 

Affiliated Professor of the Caucasus University School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Head of the Caucasus University Master's Educational Program in Clinical Psychology

 

Course Title  

  • Basics of psycholinguistics
  • Legal psychology
  • Environmental and design psychology
  • Forensic psychology
  • Criminological psychology

 

Psychology in the penitentiary system

Psychodiagnostics and psychological portraiture techniques

  

Nana Sharikadze

 

Education:


Musicologist; PhD in Art Studies

 

Position / Affiliation:


Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Caucasus University

  • Head of the International Research Center on Georgian Studies
  • Head of the Bachelor’s Program in Art Studies, together with Eka Kiknadze
  • Author/co-author of more than 50 scholarly articles
  • Author of the monograph Introduction to Georgian Music: An Introduction to Georgian Art Music – Sense-Making through Music (2023)
  • Recipient of various international research fellowships and scholarships, including Fulbright, DAAD, and others

 

Course Title:

 

  • Soviet art
  • Art of the Nazi period
  • XVII-XIX centuries - Musical culture and fine arts

 

    

Ketevan Grdzelidze

 

Education:

 

  • PhD in Philology

 

Position / Affiliation:

 

  • Affiliated Professor at Caucasus University;
  • Head of the English Philology Program at Caucasus University
  • Invited Lecturer at Tbilisi State University (TSU)
  • Translator and literary scholar

 

Courses:

 

  • English Literature: Early Middle Ages and the Renaissance
  • English Literature: XVII-XVIII Centuries
  • English Literature: XIX Century
  • Shakespeare

 


Aluda Goglichidze

 

Education:

  • Faculty of Social Sciences (Georgian Institute of Public Affairs);
  • Faculty of Economics (Tbilisi State University).

 

Workplace/position:

Associate Professor of Caucasus University; Head of the Integrated Bachelor’s- Master’s Program of Primary School Teacher of General Education (Initial Teacher Education or Training ITET).

 

Course Title:

  • Education Policy;
  • Conflict Management and Formation of Non-Violent Environment.

 

Giorgi Nozadze

 

Education:

  • International Law Faculty (Moscow Institute of International Relations);
  • Faculty of Mechanics-Mathematics (Tbilisi State University).

 

Workplace/Position:

  • Professor of Caucasus University, Co-head of the Integrated Bachelor’s- Master’s Program of Primary School Teacher of General Education; Coordinator in Mathematics.

 

Course Title:

  • Methodology of Teaching Mathematics 1 (Primary);
  • Methodology of Teaching Mathematics 2 (Primary);
  • Innovative Methods of Teaching Mathematics on primary stage.

 

Paata Papava

 

Education:

  • Faculty of Philosophy-Sociology (Tbilisi State University);
  • Faculty of Education (Ilia Chavchavadze State University).

 

Workplace/position:

  • Associate Professor of Caucasus University; Module Coordinator of the Integrated Bachelor’s- Master’s Program of Primary School Teacher of General Education.

 

Course Title:

  • Development of Literacy Skills on the primary stage – Reading Strategies Working on a Text and Writing Strategies

 

Maya Zibzibadze

 

Education:

  • Faculty of Biology (Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University)

 

Workplace/Position

  • Associate Professor of Caucasus University; Coordinator in Natural Sciences of the Integrated Bachelor’s- Master’s Program of Primary School Teacher of General Education;
  • National Center for Teacher Professional Development;
  • Expert-Consultant of the Thematic Group in Biology.

 

Course Title:

  • Concept of Teaching Biology on Primary Level;
  • Practical Approaches of Teaching Biology on the Primary Level;
  • School Practice – 3 (Natural Sciences).

 

Nikoloz Silagadze

 

Education:

  • Faculty of Humanities (Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University)

 

Workplace/Position:

  • Caucasus University Associate Professor; Coordinator of the Module of Social Sciences of the Integrated Bachelor’s- Master’s Program of Primary School Teacher of General Education;
  • Coordinator of the National Curriculum Development of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia.

 

Course Title:

  • Society and I (I and II parts);
  • Our Georgia (I and II parts);
  • School Practice 3 (Social Sciences).