Culturology education in 21st century

The phenomena related to the reforms of higher education, including in the field of culturology education, in the system of training for the humanities are studied. The serious difficulties that have arisen at the intersection of the main trends of mass culture and fundamental changes in the formation of professional skills of humanitarians are exposed. The analysis is subjected to the reduction of the educational process, expressed in simplistic approaches to the selection of scientific and educational literature, manifested in the refusal to work with large texts, in disregard of the method of observation, in the elimination of erudition as an obligatory quality of the future scientist. The source of many problems is the changes occurring in the mass consciousness of the modern man, in reduced cultural demands, explained largely by the development of computer technology, creating the illusion of the non-necessity of classical competences, brought up in the bosom of higher education.