The "Research and Protection of Cultural and Environmental Heritage" is a unique study program in Latvia providing academic education at the Bachelor's level in the Natural Sciences. The uniqueness of this study program is in its pronounced interdisciplinarity – it has been developed in close cooperation with the Art Academy of Latvia. Apart from the lecturers from the Academy and the Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences, the courses are taught also by the teaching staff from the Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, and Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Latvia.

Graduates of the bachelor’s programme will be able to work in the diplomatic service, embassies, NGOs, political, cultural and social research, public relations and policymaking and evaluation, city and regional administration, the tourism industry and culture as well as in research centres, think tanks, and business structures engaged in East-West communication.

The study programme provides students with a solid base of anthropological knowledge and research skills upon which to build in their later academic or professional career.

Prepare the intercultural communication specialists with foreign language skills for the work in EU institutions and other international organizations.

The aim of the program is to provide the students with an opportunity to acquire basic academic education and the Bachelor’s Degree in English and German language and culture studies, or in the English and Russian language and culture studies, or in the English and French language and culture studies, Spanish language and culture studies...