The article analyzes the role of humanitarian education in the formation of civic values among students. Attention is paid to the theoretical approaches of understanding civic values as a complex, multifaceted, multilevel dynamic structure. The basic civic values that make up the core of modern Russian citizenship are considered. It is emphasized that the specifics of civic values is due to the fact that they are an effective tool in the system of citizen–state relations only when they are internalized by a person and become a part of his/her civic consciousness and self-awareness. The emerging negative trend towards a decrease in the role of civic values in the personal life space urgently requires an increase in the subjects of the socio-humanitarian cycle in the formation of professional programs. The possibilities of social and humanitarian disciplines make it possible to increase the level of civic competence of students, to form the ideological foundations of civic consciousness for the personal self-realization of young people as active participants in the transformations of modern Russian society.