The proposed methodological manual is designed for 1st year students of all forms of study: full-time (daytime, evening), in which students listen to a full course of lectures on all topics stated in the manual, and part-time, in which students listen to a short course of lectures and engage in independent preparation for exams and tests. The manual contains a brief program of classes, a detailed thematic outline on thirty-two topics studied during the semester, a list of literature recommended for the course of lectures, questions for exams, topics for essays, seminar classes, as well as approximate topics for diploma and term papers. The manual is intended to consolidate the material covered in the lecture, as well as for independent study of the topic in case of missing a lecture class. Each of the thirty-two topics is covered in the manual in the form of a detailed outline, to which is attached a list of references on this specific topic indicating the pages on which the information contained in the outline is presented in detailed form.