Social sciences, Business and Law
Joint study programme

In the CREOLE programme the following anthropology departments collaborate:

- University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts
- University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland
- Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Université Lumière Lyon II, Lyon, France
- University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan, Poznan, Poland

The professional title received: Master of Social and Cultural Anthropology (abbreviation: MSc in Social and Cultural Anthropology).

The main objectives of the programme are:
The main objective of the joint master’s degree programme Creole - Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes is to provide advanced knowledge in the broad field of social and cultural anthropology and ethnology. The main advantage of the joint degree programme is the synergy of the expertise of the professors and staff of the seven departments, which goes far beyond the expertise of the individual department. The elective courses at the partner departments complement each other (both regionally and thematically), as they originate in different historical development of departments. By choosing modules, lectures and mentors, individual students can acquire additional knowledge that they would otherwise not be able to acquire at a single institution.

Programme structure:
The joint study programme offers the opportunity to study in at least two partner institutions. Within the study programme, student mobility can take place in several ways. The minimum mobility required by the programme is a two-semester study exchange at at least one of the partner institutions. There are two options for student mobility: Study abroad in the second and third semesters or in the third and fourth semesters. Students complete the first semester at the home institution. The fourth semester is usually devoted to intensive work on the master's thesis (research, data analysis, writting). The Creole programme has a pronounced research emphasis: students determine their research focus and prepare a disposition for the Master's thesis in the first year of study. They present their research during the Intensive Programme, which takes place in a form of a one-week summer school organised by one of the partner universities. The Intensive Programme is also an opportunity for the students to meet their colleagues and professors from all seven universities.

 

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The programme offers essential knowledge of management and organisational management, activity of public administration and European Union institutions. It expands knowledge in the field of implementing market criteria for public sector performance on the basis of policy and practice, analyses issues of budget financing and forms of privatisation, and compares them to various financing solutions in other market economies. The programme offers knowledge in the field of good governance and skills of strategic management. The students will master the service and customer orientation of administration with the support of knowledge and skills in the field of public relations. The study programme covers new management methods, including e-administration, and research tools that allows students independent critical study of phenomena related to management in public administration. It trains students for independent analysis and synthesis of conditions when searching for solutions for more demanding professional problems with the help of appropriate approaches and methods. For that reason, it includes a special course on methodology, whereas other courses are suitably orientated towards practical application. The knowledge upgrade allows an in-depth, independent solving of even scientific problems.

The acquired knowledge and skills compose a set of competencies that offers students the skills to manage the problems of organisation and conducting business in administration.
The acquired general and course-specific competencies help the students manage the most demanding projects and conducting the most demanding professional and managerial work in the public sector, in the first career class at the level of consultants, secretariats, secretary-general, chairmen and directors of services, directors and managers in public institutions and corporate entities, which cooperate with the public sector. The programme is designed as a basis for further third-cycle study in the field of administration, organisation, and business.