Subjects in English 2021/2022
Bachelor and Single-cycle

Student will be able to use English to deepen their professional knowledge by searching for information and data in cooperation with other courses. They will be able to recognise the langauge of academic writing and learn how to write professionally oriented essays and report on them.  
They will critically assess their social and communicative performance skills in interdisciplinary teams.

The student will be able to understand the economic background of functioning of the EU and its policies in relation to national policies and their general effects and the effects on the public sector of the EU Member States. Additionally, he/she will be able to link the content of course with other courses and scientifically and professionally address certain economic issue/problem associated with the EU and to transfer findings to the others.

The course gives the foreign students basic information on international labour law and selected universal and regional labour standards.

Students will be able to recognize and understand the role and importance of employees' behaviour, will be able to structure, maintain, control and predict employee's behaviour in contemporary organizations. They will know and be able to manage interconnecting action agents, affected organizational behaviour in contemporary organizations. They will have ability to use knowledge and skills of organizational behaviour in contemporary organizations. Students will learn active and critical evaluation and to reflect events of organizational behaviour in contemporary organization and gain critical evaluation skills and experiences of organizational behaviour in contemporary organization.

Students will understand project management issues: goals, models, project organisation, planning and supervising of project performance, be able to use PRINCE project model at the management of whole investment project life-cycle and be capable of taking governance or management role in an investment project. Students will be able to judge project results in term of their meaning and interprets influence of the data modification on the effects of calculations and of transparent project presentation, their goals and conditions for their achievement to the end users.

Students will acquire more detailed and profound knowledge in the field of EU crisis and its implication on constitutional rights as well as vice versa (interdependence). They will understand consequences of crisis in different fields of EU.

This course offers students knowledge about business communication and communication skills. They will learn about forms of business communication, cross-cultural communication and business etiquette.

In this course students will learn about definition and methodological approach for studying business environment of firms, methodology for analysing external environment of firms, competitiveness of locations, macroeconomic environment, microeconomic policy for competitiveness and technological environment. The course offers knowledge in competitiveness, organisation of markets in relationships between companies, international business environment, financial system, organization of a society, politics and economy, stakeholders and socialy and environmentaly responsive management and internal environment.

Students will learn that the consumer is a key to market success, study about consumers as individuals, buyers as decision makers, external influences in consumer behavior and consumer behavior, marketing and society.

The course introduces the role of corporate finance, the goal of the firm, stakeholders, time value of money, valuation of stocks and bonds, risk and return, the CAPM. Capital budgeting: cash flow estimation, cost of capital, risk, financial decisions: capital structure, leverage, payout policy, long-term financing decisions: common stock, long-term debt, lease and preferred stock financing, working capital: working capital policy and financing, cash cycle, cash and marketable securities, inventory, accounts receivable, accounts payable, short-term financing.

The subject includes: drivers for diversity management (demographic changes in developed world, other forces to extend one’s work life: increasing labor demand, the changing nature of work, financing retirement and the cost of social support programs, mass migrations and open labour market, gender diversity at workplace); drivers for diversity management on organizational level (am drivers on organizational level, gender issues, issues arising out of managing culturally diverse workforce); the am model: a systemic aproach towards older employees (changing mental models, human resource management in the light of older employees, knowledge management and succession management, health management (prevention and cure), managing working environment for employees of all ages, managing different generations at workplace); resolving gender issues at workplace (examples and effects of good practice (SLO, EU), integrated approach towards diversity management – the best practice); HRM in the light of culturally diverse workforce (making (cultural) diversity work, organizational communication regarding workplace diversity and inclusion)).

This course consists of chapters in History and evolution of the EU, International trade and the theory of comparative advantages, Microeconomic tools of economic integrations, Economic integration and preferential liberalisation, Effects of economic integration, Institutions and EU law; Principles of decision making in the EU, Criteria for the EU membership;
Slovenian accession to the EU, History of the EMU, European monetary union (EMU), Fiscal policy of the EU, Financial Framework of the EU, EU regional policy and funds and Current Slovenian economic problems and its position in the EU.

In this course students will gain knowledge in globalization, basics of international trade theory and glob. Students will understand and learn appreciation of glob, about future of glob, institutional framework of glob. Couse will cover global patterns of inequality, poverty, and economic development levels, multilateral trade liberalization and economic glob, economic glob. specifics, glob. of international flows, glob. and labour markets, economic glob. and development gaps. It will include and overview of potential national development strategy models, Slovenia in the global economy, some glob. challenges for small economies, Slovenia as the EU member, glob. and financial and economic crisis after 2008 and specifics of glob. in the EU.

Students will be able to recognize and understand the role and importance of employees' behaviour, will be able to structure, maintain, control and predict employee's behaviour in contemporary organizations. They will know and be able to manage interconnecting action agents, affected organizational behaviour in contemporary organizations. They will have ability to use knowledge and skills of organizational behaviour in contemporary organizations. Students will learn active and critical evaluation and to reflect events of organizational behaviour in contemporary organization and gain critical evaluation skills and experiences of organizational behaviour in contemporary organization.

The course gives the foreign students basic information on international labour law and selected universal and regional labour standards.

The course is appropriate for students of geology and other disciplines who are interested in phenomena and processes related to the sedimentary rocks. Previous knowledge of petrology is not required. Course has 45 hours of lectures and 30 hours of laboratory excercises and 4 days of field trip.

In the course you will learn:

Origin, classification, and occurrence of sedimentary rocks

Sedimentary texture

Sedimentary structure

Siliciclastic sedimentary rocks:

• composition and classification: conglomerates, sandstones, mudstones and shales
• diagenesis and porosity
• provenance of siliciclastic sedimentary rocks

Carbonate sedimentary rocks

• composition and classification: limestones, dolomites
• diagenesis of limestones
• dolomitization and dolomites

Carbonate clastic rocks

Other chemical/biochemical sedimentary rocks and carbonaceous sedimentary rocks: evaporites, cherts, iron-rich sedimentary rocks, phosporites and carbonaceous sedimentary rocks