Subjects in English 2022/2023

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.

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 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.

The course is introducing students with the physical- and human geography amenities of Slovenia, their importance for landscape complex, and as well for former, present and future development of the state. Student is capable of analysing the interdependencies among physical- and human geographical components (on selected examples) and is aware of actual geographical issues of Slovenia, its landscapes/regions.

Content (Syllabus outline):

1. The position and consequences of position of Slovenia in the middle geographical latitudes and in the junction of major European natural units.
2. Relief of Slovenia and recent surface transformation processes.
3. Soils and their degradation and threatenes.
4. Weather and climate heterogeneousity and changeability.
5. Water resoures of Slovenia and their importance.
6. The essential transformation processes in Slovenian cultural landscapes during the 20th Century (industrialization, deagrarization, motorization, uniformity, corridors, peripherialization).
7. The key restructuring factors of Slovenian cultural landscapes at the beginning of the 21st Century (deindustrialization, tertialization, globalization, glokalization, networking).
8. The issues of contemporary Slovenia (economic developments, traffic, environmental issues, energy, health, Slovenes in the ethnical areas and diaspora).
9. Demographic processes of Slovenia
10. Regionalization of Slovenia.

The student learns to play of up to four-voice vocal scores, in which different clefs are used (G-, C-, F-clef). The student is familiar with the way of writing down vocal musical works in scores from the early polyphony to modern times and can perform the scores in a reduced way on keyboard instruments. With the reduction of the score and performing on an instrument, the student deepens their knowledge of musical structure of the specific work.

The course is introducing students with the physical- and human geography amenities of Slovenia, their importance for landscape complex, and as well for former, present and future development of the state. Student is capable of analysing the interdependencies among physical- and human geographical components (on selected examples) and is aware of actual geographical issues of Slovenia, its landscapes/regions.

Content (Syllabus outline):

1. The position and consequences of position of Slovenia in the middle geographical latitudes and in the junction of major European natural units.
2. Relief of Slovenia and recent surface transformation processes.
3. Soils and their degradation and threatenes.
4. Weather and climate heterogeneousity and changeability.
5. Water resoures of Slovenia and their importance.
6. The essential transformation processes in Slovenian cultural landscapes during the 20th Century (industrialization, deagrarization, motorization, uniformity, corridors, peripherialization).
7. The key restructuring factors of Slovenian cultural landscapes at the beginning of the 21st Century (deindustrialization, tertialization, globalization, glokalization, networking).
8. The issues of contemporary Slovenia (economic developments, traffic, environmental issues, energy, health, Slovenes in the ethnical areas and diaspora).
9. Demographic processes of Slovenia
10. Regionalization of Slovenia.

In this course, students will learn about reasons for international trade, gains from free trade in the classic theory of international trade, gains from free trade in the neo-classic theory of international trade, gains from free trade in "new trade theories" and economic arguments for departing from free trade. They will gain knowledge about patterns of trade liberalisation, WTO and economic integration and of global world economy.

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.

This course covers the definitions of globalization, patterns, major issues, evolution of the global economy. Students will learn about globalization and its patterns, globalization in connection to services, inequality/poverty, convergence, growth and social implications of globalisation.

The aim of this course is to teach students about the demand and supply side, organisation, the health care market, its efficency and the role of Government in health care.

After the course International Marketing, students will have knowledge about global and local marketing challenges and trends, analytical approach to marketing: PEST analysis, international marketing research, international marketing information system, development of an international marketing strategy: market selection and entry mode, the concept of a marketing mix, standardization vs. adaptation in international marketing, cultural and ethical issues in marketing, including negotiations and regional aspects: marketing specifics in EU, South-eastern, ex-socialist, Asian and other markets.

In the course students will learn about business process, phases in the business process, business process resources, assets and liabilities in an organization, theoretical aspects of production and their relation to business practice in companies and other organizations, costs and their different classifications, pricing in organizations, performance of organizations and investments.

This course offers knowledge in fundamentals of management, functions of planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Students will learn through case studies of organizations in practice and role-modelling and trends recognition and trend-setting in contemporary management practice.

In this course students will study about channel design, segmentation for marketing channel design: service outputs, supply-side channel analysis, gap analysis, channel power, channel conflicts and coordination, channel implementation, retailing, e-channels and franchising, wholesaling, logistics and supply chain management, vertical integration and strategic alliances and legal constraints on marketing channel policies.

Studens will acquire marketing communications and integrated marketing communications process, advertising as a marketing communication tool and other tools of marketing communication, evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of marketing communication and marketing communications at the inter-organizational and international markets.

In Mathematics for Business and Economics students will gain knowledge about sets, relations, mappings, sequences and series, functions of one variable, functions of two and more variables, linear algebra, mathematics of finance and probability calculus.

This course offers knowledge about theory of demand and supply, theory of individual behavior, individual and market demand, production, costs, perfect competition, the firm in the economic theory, monopoly, monopolistically competitive markets, oligopoly and cartel, labor markets and capital markets and land markets.

In Operations Management students will learn about strategic role of operations, layout of facilities, operations planning and control system, forecasting, facilities decisions, aggregate planning, master production scheduling, independent demand inventory, materials requirements planning, shop floor scheduling and control and managing quality.

The aim of this course is for students to understand the users as the key factor of market success, to know the impact of psychological factors on users' behaviour, to get familiar with the decision making process, to know the impact of external factors on users' behaviour, to present the meaning of consumption and consumer care and to get familiar with topics such as consumption and protection of users.

The course describes marketing in the modern firm and main marketing concepts, customer value, satisfaction and loyalty, strategic marketing process and plan, challenges and adaptations of marketing in the 21st century, the marketing environment, the marketing research, forecasting and measuring demand, consumer behavior, target marketing - segmentation, targeting and positioning, product, service and other entities, product/entity life cycle and development of new products/entities, brands, price, marketing channels and marketing communications.

In this course, students will get to know the basics of C#.Net programming, data types and data access, decisions and loops, object-oriented programming, ASP-MVC, adding a Controller, a View, and a Model.

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.

When completed this course, students will have knowledge in data sources and data collection, survey methods, descriptive statistics, probability and discrete distributions, normal distributions and Sampling distributions, confidence intervals, testing hypotheses about a population, testing differences in means and variances, analysis of variance, chi-square test, correlation and simple linear regression, multiple regression, regression model building and time series.

The course covers the following topics: introduction to strategic management, analysis of a company's general and industry environment, analysis of a company's resources, capabilities and knowledge, forecasting in a company, holistic (comprehensive) analysis, mission, vision and strategic objectives, corporate strategies, business strategies, functional strategies, strategy evaluation and choice, strategy implementation, strategic control and organization of strategic management.

The Law of Business Organisations and Business Law includes topics such as arbitration and alternative dispute resolution (ADR), company law, intellectual property rights, introduction to the law of obligation, contracts for the sale of goods, consumer protection and commercial paper.

After this course, students will know the basic management functions, will be able to manage various providers in the tourism sector, will know the future of tourism management. The course also includes illustrative examples from practice.

This course covers brief survey of Slovenian political history, the independent Slovenia and the South-Eastern Europe, the present political system, the economic structure, the main problems of the transition, privatisation, the reformed system of social security, health-care, education, the ethnic situation, the role of religion The harmonization with the European Acquis communautaire and the necessary changes in Slovenia, the national defence and NATO and Slovenian emigrants in the world.

This course offers knwledge of  running business in the information era, e-business models (B2B, B2C, virtual organizatons), e-strategy (Supply Chain Management, Customer Relation Management, Product lifecycle Management), standards in e-business and IS support, mobile business, legal and ethical aspects of E-business and e-government.

Students will learn about the Entrepreneurial perspective: the nature and importance of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. The course includes the following topics: the individual entrepreneur, innovations and entrepreneurial opportunities, from the opportunity to the business plan: Developing solutions, prototyping, understanding your customer, market analysis. Business models, marketing plan, operations and R&D plan, organizational plan, assessment of risk. financial plan, funding of the new and young ventures, institutional support for entrepreneurship, legal aspects of setting up a business, entrepreneurial growth and harvesting.

After this course, the students will have knowledge about financial reports for different information users, role of accounting information for external users, regulative framework of financial reporting in Slovenia and the European Union, annual report, accounting measurement of income, assets and liabilities, financial statements, introduction to management accounting and managerial decision making, relevant accounting categories for decision making, cost volume profit analysis, full cost estimation, budgeting and control and short term and long term decisions evaluation.

Global Business Communications includes topics such as: the basics of business communication, persuasive communication: Psychological and social elements of communication, positive consequences of global environment, persuasive communication using different assertiveness techniques, cross-cultural communication, Business Etiquette, business negotiations, virtual meetings and effective cross-cultural communication.

The course Global Finance offers knowledge about concept of global finances, balance of payments, exchange rates and foreign exchange markets, international parity conditions, international monetary system, specific risks in international finance and management of these risks(exchange rate risk, country risk), instruments for financing international market and international capital flows (public and private).

The purpuse of this course is to illustrate the whole history of economy since the beginning. The course includes topics such as: methodological aspects of the history of economic thought, the beginnings of economic thought, mercantilism, early classical authors, classical political economy, socialist economic thought, Marginalist revolution and the rise of neoclassical economics, institutionalism, theories of the business cycle, Keynesian revolution in economic theory, theories of imperfect competition, neoclassical synthesis, monetarism and the theory of rational expectations, New Keynesian and Post-Keynesian economics and new neoclassical synthesis.

Students will gain knowledge of analytical approaches, such as market, Pest, C and other analysis/methods. The focus of the course is the understanding of diffent levels and approaches of internationalization to Chinese market and Chinese international qrowth. The course also elaborates on entrance strategies and modes of internationalization on MNC/SMEs levels and introduce the institiutional view of Chinese international business development. The last part of the course is dedicated to marketing issues and specifics of consumer behaviour, focusing also on cultural issues and cross-cultural management.

This course covers the following topics: definition and goals of Human Resource Management, HR analytics and planning, job analysis and design, recruitment, selection & placement, training & development, performance management, employee relations, compensation - base pay, compensation - pay for performance, retention and downsizing, legal issues in employment relationship, international Human Resource Management, ethical issues in HRM and HR trends & challenges.

This course covers the following topics: business informatics and business competitiveness, information technology, business information systems, operational information systems, business intelligence solutions, e-business, business informatization, information resources management and information resources security.

This course covers the following topics: international business environment and its analysis, globalization and internationalization of firms, economic integrations and regional influences on international business, triggers and motives of doing international business, tariffs, trade barriers and trade flows, market entry modes and ways of doing business, risk and financing in international business, culture and international business, negotiations in international business, transportation, logistics and international supply chains and ethics and future challanges in international business.

This course will cover the following topics: Management operations particularities and organization of companies in international space, offensive and creative business strategies and policies, functional and process aspects of multinational operations, fast growing methods of international business, development entry strategies of companies for international markets, culture and ethics in the international business environment and expected development of multi-national management operations.

The course covers the following topics: statistical measurement, secondary data sources, primary data collection, data preparation and visualisation, relative numbers: structures, relative numbers: coefficients, relative numbers: simple indices, ranking and frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, relative numbers: aggregate indices and measures of variability and concentration.

In this course students will learn about basic economic institutions, macroeconomic processes and national income accounting, macroeconomic model of full employment, Three markets,  AS/AD model, general equilibrium, macroeconomic model of unemployment, Keynesian model,  IS/LM model, disequilibrium, money and banking system, fiscal system and politics, international markets, exchange rate mechanisms, economic problems and EU: economic growth and productivity, business cycles, unemployment, inflation, economic policy. Tolls and instruments and use economic reasoning.

The course covers the following topics: analysis of the current marketing situation, customer needs and buying processes, strengths and weaknesses of the current marketing mix elements, analyzing competitors, SWOT analysis, setting marketing objectives for each product/service, formulating positioning strategy for each product/service, required marketing programmes - the marketing mix, resources, timing and responsibilities and monitoring the marketing plan's implementation.

In this course students will gain knowledge about the role of marketing research and an overview of the marketing research process, defining the marketing research problem and developing an approach, research design formulation, basic research designs, exploratory research design, descriptive research design, Causal research design, measurement and scaling, questionnaire design, sampling, data collection, analysis and reporting, data preparation, basic data analysis, hypotheses testing, correlation and regression, report preparation and presentation and ethics in marketing research.

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 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 aim of this course is to offer knowledge about planning sales promotions programs, selecting consumer-promotion tools, trade-promotion tools and sales force promotion tools, designing and executing sales promotion programs, integrating sales promotion with other marketing communications tools, evaluating sales promotion effectiveness and efficiency and legal and ethical issues in sales promotion.

After this course, students will have knowledge about services in the modern economy, understanding Service Processes, customer contact with a service company, service from the customers viewpoint, productivity and quality as the main challenge for a service company, managing relationships and building customer loyalty, complaint handling and service recovery, service positioning and new service development, core service and supplementary services, designing service delivery, price and other costs of services, marketing communication and integrating marketing with other management functions.

In this course students will study about public goods, political economy, the health system, social security system, income redistribution, the personal income tax, the corporate income tax, deficit finance, taxes on consumption and wealth, tax harmonisation in the EU  and EU Budget.

Student will be able to integrate creative movement with the learning and teaching process as an active learning method. Through theoretical lectures and practical workshops,they will create and build various connections between physical experiences and the curriculum.
This promotes holistic and collaborative learning, imagination, and creativity.
As a result, students will know how to use different movement activities when teaching language, mathematics, science, social science and arts in kindergarten/school.

Students get acquainted with the basic principles of the English phonology, and learning and teaching strategies of English pronunciation for young learners. Students get to know the main characteristics of the individual sounds in English and their production in speech (pronunciation and activities for learning and teaching the pronunciation of consonants, vowels, and consonant/vowel clusters), phonemic transcript and its use in the classroom, the characteristics of syllables, word stress and sentence stress. Students improve their pronunciation of English sounds, especially those that are different from their native language ones. They compare English sounds to their native ones and learn how to correct pupils’ and their own mistakes.

Students develop the four language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing) with the use of various learning strategies, they broaden their vocabulary, become more aware of the language system and acquire public speaking skills. They read and listen to authentic texts and develop creativity by changing the texts or writing their own ones. They set learning aims, follow their own progress, and evaluate and assess their own work. Students get acquainted with the content of international exams (e.g. CAE, IELTS) and develop strategies for taking international language exams.

The Students will be able to be open to and reflective about varied expressions of art and culture, use knowledge and basic skills of the art education, recognize and describe basic trends, directions and techniques of different art fields (music, fine arts, dance, theatre, film), notice the diversity and resemblance in the art of different countries in Europe, motivate pupils to be interested in arts and provoke their creativity, develop aesthetic sensitivity of pupils, support pupils’ self-expression through arts, use teaching and learning methods in and through the art (learning by doing), and adjust an individual approach in art education.

The Students will be able to use science concepts, models and theories which are important for explaining and reasoning about sustainable development, plan and carry out research, record the results in various forms and explain them by using appropriate terminology, explain the relationship between the natural environment and the historical heritage of the region/country, justify the need for a rational human and social satisfaction as a condition for sustainable development, discuss the technological possibilities and consequences for sustainable development, be familiar with different types of hazards in contemporary society which are results of human activities, and transform some parts of the content into teaching units.

The student will be able to explain analyses and present historical background of some essential mathematical concepts, and describe discoveries of mathematicians by demonstrating them with examples.

The Students will be able to describe a part of the mathematical learning landscape including the thresholds of the guest country; describe differences and similarities between the landscape of his own country and that of the guest country; build some learning materials, contexts and context problems to allow primary school pupils to obtain the respective landmarks/thresholds; develop a series of lessons to allow his pupils to obtain a landmark in the mathematical landscape; distinguish the three levels in the learning process: informal, semi-formal and formal.

The student will be able to demonstrate problem-solving skills for finding the strategy by: formulating a problem, comprehending a problem, finding patterns, identifying knowledge needed for solving problems, making conjectures, generalizing, choosing appropriate representation of a problem, proving, and accompanying children in horizontal and vertical mathematization.

The Students recognize adequate language learning opportunities, such as cross-curricular approaches, CLIL, ICT, community learning. etc. The Students are able to mobilize linguistic and intercultural competences adequately in the educational context, act in a multilingual and multicultural classroom, select and develop adequate plurilingual and multicultural materials and activities, encourage and support children’s language learning strategies, use the knowledge about European language policies for fostering plurilingual education in his professional environment, make use of European tools and networks and link them with their own school contexts (initiating and participating in national and international partnerships, using ICT in language education). The students are able to reflect on the value of languages and cultures in the diverse European context, reflect on the development of his own and others’ linguistic and cultural identities and reflect on the language development processes in plurilingual contexts.

The module aims to provide students with knowledge and understanding of sociological and philosophical backgrounds of educational theories and practices in Europe and the contextual differences in a number of European countries. This will support them in setting up a pedagogical discourse and to relate it with cultural traditions and political developments. As a result students will be able to deal in a professional way with equity, diversity and communalities in the field of education.

The aim of the course is to provide students with the knowledge about basic geographical characteristics of Slovenia and comparing them with home countries of participating exchange students. The course will focus on the natural- and socio-geographical characteristics,environmental issues, school systems, ethnic identity, literature, music etc.

The course offers an overview of main perspectives on human mind and related views on knowledge creation and learning. It aims at revealing the connections between brain, experience and learning to future teachers and lecturers. In collaborative setting the course guides students through the following themes:

• Am I computer? What is learning in computers and what in humans?
• Am I brain? From molecular to functional level of brain operation we explore connections between emotions, feelings, reason and reflection.

What is neuroeducation? How does the brain learn?

• Am I body? What is the role of the body in cognition and knowledge creation? The importance of interaction with environment, movement, and physicality for learning and comprehending.
• Am I experience? The role of consciousness. The experience of learning. Different modalities of thinking and related strategies of knowledge creation and understanding. Introspection: how do I think and how do I learn? Reporting on first-person inquiry of one’s own modes of thinking.

Students will learn about the biological, psychological, sociological, historical, and cultural aspects of eating habits, and other factors that influence the human diet. They will be able to use their knowledge and understanding of human nutrition in health related fields; analyse the composition and quality of various foods and diets; analyse the nutritional habits of different groups of people; explain the risk factors of an unhealthy diet; make nutrition plans for children and adults. They will be able to cook typical cuisines of certain European countries, and will be able to select and implement appropriate methods while teaching about nutrition.

Students will develop all four language skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening) in meaningful context and through the following topics:

• student life in Slovenia and abroad,
• environment,
• time and place,
• films and media,
• energy sources and their future,
• differences and similarities between life in the countryside and life in the city,
• modern world communication,
• health and society,
• charity,
• work and work-related characteristics of the modern society,
• academic success, etc.

The course explores the role of mathematics and physics in contemporary society, presents selected research methods and recent achievements in different fields of mathematics and physics (for instance, graph theory, algebra, seismology, particle physics, etc.) and discusses public reports about these achievements.Then an overview of tools for communication and circulation of scientific ideas and discoveries by means of traditional (radio, TV, press) and new media is provided (world wide web, e-mail, scientific blogs and forums, movies, video recordings and video conferences, social networks, group collaboration tools, etc.).
Further, the students are provided with an introduction to different means of promotion and raising public awareness about the importance of scientific achievements in mathematics and physics. The students will be able to follow public presentations and lectures for different target audiences, workshops, debates, group experiments, competitions, contests, exhibitions, theatrical shows, artistic projects, concerts, and artistic sculptures. They will learn to adapt content to different target audiences, for example preschool, primary, secondary school youth, educated public, and general public. The students will also develop their understanding of the relation between a popularized and wide acceptable versus a scholarly and in-depth approach. They will be provided with the presentation of selected successful examples from home and international practice, such as mathematical or physical exhibitions, museums, festivals, traditional and specific situational projects (The Chain Experiment, Project MARS, world year of Physics, International year of Astronomy, Mathematics of Planet Earth, etc.).

The prerequisite for effective foreign language learning is to learn how to learn a foreign language, therefore the students first get familiar with different learning styles and multiple intelligences, they find out their own
learning styles, and afterwards they become aware of strategies for vocabulary acquisition, memorising and use of vocabulary and language
structures as well as other linguistic and intercultural information. Simultaneously, they develop their language skills and acquire skills
for working with preschool children. They develop metacognitive techniques for organising, guiding and evaluating their own learning, they develop effective strategies for creating positive emotions and relationships, they develop social strategies for cooperating with other students in the learning process and cognitive strategies for connecting new information with the existing one as well as for their analysing and classification, they develop memory and  compensation strategies and at the same time they expand their vocabulary in English, become aware of the language system andacquire basic skills of public speaking.

The students read, listen, watch, write, analyze and evaluate texts related to the Primary School curriculum with the main emphasis on the texts which refer to the instruction in the first and second triad of the primary school. The students acquire, notice and use the terms that are characteristic of the texts and teaching materials in English language of the following school subjects/areas: Mathematics, Human and Natural Sciences, Sport, Arts, Music etc.   The students use different kinds of texts, for example, teaching materials, textbooks, journal articles, newspaper articles, audio and video recordings etc. Furthermore, they acquire and use a selected set of academic vocabulary typical of abstracts in journal articles.

The student will be able to achieve/mobilize knowledge of pedagogical terminology and apply terminology properly in various contexts, present and explain the characteristics of selected European educational systems, and refer to the historical and sociocultural context of their creation and transformation, distinguish and evaluate elements of didactic/teaching situations and to extract critical points which influence the effectiveness of teaching – and then apply changes in his plans to increase the effectiveness of the teaching and facilitate the learning process, make a critical analysis of teaching situations, its project/plan, operation and effects (pre-reflection, reflection in action, reflection over action) and cooperate in team work.

This course provides students with the basic knowledge about information and communication technology (ICT) in education, and provides an overview of certain ICT aspects used for teaching and learning. They will become familiar with the selection, design, and production process of ICT-supported learning materials; as well as with ICT-based tools used in assessments and evaluations. Another important area in the course are ICT-supported tools for communication, distance collaboration studying, and access to various informational services and resources. Students are also taught about social, ethical, health, and legal aspects when using ICT in education. The course is particularly focused on the use of ICT technology in the field of special needs education. Students will become familiar with standard and customized supporting ICT for various types of special needs.

The module aims to provide students with knowledge about the importance of outdoor play and learning for children. The students will be able to use didactic approaches to the management of children when learning about different ecosystems, like forest, meadow, pond and stream, organize and deal with safety at outdoor activities with preschool and primary school children. They will be familiar with animal farming and cultivation of
plants in the kindergarten and in the school. The students will be able to use the method of learning about animals through direct experiences and teaching approaches which enable students to learn about the characteristics of living organisms and their needs.

Students will learn about the biological, psychological, sociological, historical, and cultural aspects of eating habits, and other factors that influence the human diet. They will be able to use their knowledge and understanding of human nutrition in health related fields; analyse the composition and quality of various foods and diets; analyse the nutritional habits of different groups of people; explain the risk factors of an unhealthy diet; make nutrition plans for children and adults. They will be able to cook typical cuisines of certain European countries, and will be able to select and implement appropriate methods while teaching about nutrition.

Oral communication in a foreign language is one of the main goals of learning a foreign language.

In this course the students will learn about the main differences between written and spoken English, and about the characteristics of a variety of speech acts (monologue, interview), as well as about the types of speech acts (questioning, thanking, making excuses, proposing, etc.). By analysing video recordings of native speakers they will get acquainted with the importance of body language and the use of communication strategies, e.g. how to get involved in a conversation, how to change the topic of conversation, how to use fillers in a language, how to communicate with insufficient knowledge of the language, and the like.

Through various activities such as information gaps, communication games, role-plays, simulations, and discussions they will develop the above mentioned communication strategies and at the same time practise their speaking skills in English.

Students will learn about the characteristics of successful presentations, e.g. planning with regard to the target audience, topics and the time of presentation, use of visual aids and multimedia, and the like.

Some of the students' speech acts will be videotaped for better self-reflection and group analysis.

The purpose of the course is to provide a student with a basic knowledge in the field of the Civil Medical Law. The students will gain special knowledge on topics of medical ethics, rights of personality and human rights and liberties and also on the relevant questions in Civil and Tort Law. The above stated will contribute to formation of special skills and abilities of understanding and judging of the concrete medical-law cases in practice.

The purpose of the course is to provide a student with a profound knowledge in the field of the Diplomatic and Consular Law as one of the legal sub-disciplines of public international law. In order to upgrade the theoretical knowledge students develop the ability to resolve the concrete practical issues by analyzing the relevant treaty provisions and case-law of the International Court of Justice and other international judicial bodies and tribunals.

The purpose of the course is to provide a student with a profound knowledge in the field of protection of human rights at national and international level (in the framework of the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the European Union). In order to upgrade the theoretical knowledge students develop the ability to resolve concrete practical issues by analyzing relevant treaty provisions and caselaw of the European Court of Human Rights and strengthen basic skills for preparing applications to the European Court of Human Rights.

The course gives foreign students some basic information on activities of the international organizations and the EU in the field of social security law, as well as the legal regulation of social security in distinctive countries.

The purpose of the course is to provide a student with a profound knowledge in the field of the international criminal law. In order to upgrade the theoretical knowledge students develop the ability to resolve the concrete practical issues by analyzing the relevant statutory and customary law as well as case-law of the international tribunals.

The purpose of the course is to enroll the students in an in-depth analysis of judicial proceedings taking place in Luxembourg at the Court of Justice of the EU as well as of relevant national court proceedings in which EU law is applied. Direct actions filed with the Court, the General Court and the EU Civil Service Tribunal, as well as indirect judicial review via the preliminary rulings procedure will be assessed. The evolution of relevant provisions of primary and secondary legislation as well as seminal case-law will be analyzed.

The main goal of the course is to give students a broad overview of the key issues and of the main steps in the mergers, acquisitions and corporate restructuring process. The role and motives of the various participants in a transaction are discussed: buyers and sellers, boards of directors, executives, advisors, financial institutions and regulators. In addition, the course is covering some more advanced and legally more complex topics: LBOs, MBOs, privatization transactions, corporate bankruptcy and bank restructuring.

The students will be encouraged to learn the most important Latin legal terms and their modern transliterations. They will get acquainted with the basic structure of Roman law and with the way it influenced modern law. They will be taught how to solve concrete cases related to different areas of Roman law.

The course gives the foreign students some basic information on historical development of political units on present Slovenian territory as well as the most typical lines of development of the law in force in the same territory.

The goal of the subject is to understand the foundations of English legal terminology with adequate understanding of the main body of legal terminology, as well as concepts of the constitutional, civil, penal, international and European laws. This shall provide the ability to use and correctly understand different legal acts and scientific texts in English, familiarity with the fundamental aspects and terminological differences in key relevant legal orders (the European Union, Great Britain and USA) and the ability to translate and compose legal texts in English.

The purpose of the course is to provide a student with a profound knowledge in the field of Constitutional Law of the European Union. In order to upgrade the theoretical knowledge students develop the ability to resolve the concrete practical issues by analyzing relevant treaties, constitutional provisions and the caselaw of the European Court of Justice.

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

The purpose of the course is to provide students with an overview of the regulation of equality and discrimination. To this end, the course focuses on the conceptual and theoretical aspects of the protection against discrimination and the promotion of equality through law. By using a thematic approach, the course illuminates the key issues in discrimination law in general, while at the same time providing a detailed account of the specific legal context by referring to the legal framework of EU non-discrimination law and the prohibition of discrimination under the ECHR.

The purpose of the course is to give a student a profound knowledge in the field of law of the sea as one of the legal sub-disciplines of international law. In order to upgrade the theoretical knowledge students develop the ability to resolve the concrete practical issues by analyzing the relevant treaty provisions and the case-law of the International Court of Justice as well as other international judicial bodies and tribunals.

Course available in both semesters:
2 ECTS per week of practice

Course available in both semesters:
2 ECTS per week of practice

Course available in both semesters:
2 ECTS per week of practice

Course available in both semesters:
2 ECTS per week of practice

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

The course gives the student the knowledge that will enable him or her to first place the position of sociology as a science in the study of sport in society. To give him the understanding of sociological dimension of the phenomenon of sport in the world and at home. Encourage the student to ask questions and think critically about sports as part of social life.

The course gives the student the knowledge that will enable him to recognize the position of sociology as a science in the field of sport and society. To give him the sociological dimension of the phenomenon of sport in the world and at home. Encourage the student to ask questions and think critically about sports as part of social life. Let the student know that he or she will be able to learn about sports and society through literature (books) and the Internet (articles).

The students will be able to plan, to safe carry out and to evaluate the programmes of basic swimming learning, which are part of school curriculum.

The goal are: to learn various notions and their meanings as well as the basis of spiritual direction; to discover the role and importance of spiritual conversation and spiritual discernment through works of various authors; to compare spiritual direction to other ways of personal help provided for individuals; to learn how to evaluate spiritual conversation and supervision as two means of both personal / professional growth and quality help; to face with the first-hand experience of both providing and being provided with spiritual direction.

Bioethics is an interdisciplinary subject that connects the natural sciences and humanities with ethics. The course is divided into two parts: the first part deals with ethical principles in bioethics, the second focuses on specific areas. The following topics will be discussed: abortion, stem cell research, artificial insemination, genetic engineering, organ transplantation, euthanasia, transhumanism, attitude towards non-human living beings.

The sacraments are the means of salvation they should be understood as instruments of unity. As they make real, renew and strenghten man's union with Christ, by that very fact they make real, renew or strenghten his union with the Christian community. And this second aspect of the sacraments, the social aspect, is so intimately bound up with the first that it can often be said, indeed in certain cases it must be said, that it is through his union with the community that the Christian is united to Christ.

The course is introducing students with the physical- and human geography amenities of Slovenia, their importance for landscape complex, and as well for former, present and future development of the state. Student is capable of analysing the interdependencies among physical- and human geographical components (on selected examples) and is aware of actual geographical issues of Slovenia, its landscapes/regions.

Content (Syllabus outline):

1. The position and consequences of position of Slovenia in the middle geographical latitudes and in the junction of major European natural units.
2. Relief of Slovenia and recent surface transformation processes.
3. Soils and their degradation and threatenes.
4. Weather and climate heterogeneousity and changeability.
5. Water resoures of Slovenia and their importance.
6. The essential transformation processes in Slovenian cultural landscapes during the 20th Century (industrialization, deagrarization, motorization, uniformity, corridors, peripherialization).
7. The key restructuring factors of Slovenian cultural landscapes at the beginning of the 21st Century (deindustrialization, tertialization, globalization, glokalization, networking).
8. The issues of contemporary Slovenia (economic developments, traffic, environmental issues, energy, health, Slovenes in the ethnical areas and diaspora).
9. Demographic processes of Slovenia
10. Regionalization of Slovenia.

The course is introducing students with the physical- and human geography amenities of Slovenia, their importance for landscape complex, and as well for former, present and future development of the state. Student is capable of analysing the interdependencies among physical- and human geographical components (on selected examples) and is aware of actual geographical issues of Slovenia, its landscapes/regions.

Content (Syllabus outline):

1. The position and consequences of position of Slovenia in the middle geographical latitudes and in the junction of major European natural units.
2. Relief of Slovenia and recent surface transformation processes.
3. Soils and their degradation and threatenes.
4. Weather and climate heterogeneousity and changeability.
5. Water resoures of Slovenia and their importance.
6. The essential transformation processes in Slovenian cultural landscapes during the 20th Century (industrialization, deagrarization, motorization, uniformity, corridors, peripherialization).
7. The key restructuring factors of Slovenian cultural landscapes at the beginning of the 21st Century (deindustrialization, tertialization, globalization, glokalization, networking).
8. The issues of contemporary Slovenia (economic developments, traffic, environmental issues, energy, health, Slovenes in the ethnical areas and diaspora).
9. Demographic processes of Slovenia
10. Regionalization of Slovenia.

The aim of this course is to present the following topics: macroeconomic model of aggregated supply and demand, determining the level and growth of prices, as well as the scope of production, newer economic growth models with implications for growth policies, realistic business cycles, consumption, investment and unemployment, inflation and monetary policy, budget deficit and fiscal policy and coordination of economic policies within the EU.

Objective of this course is to give the students knowledge about different contemporary approaches to business process management. The focus is on the business aspects and practical application.

The aim of this course is mastering a conceptual framework and tools for analysis of local, regional and global consumers and the competence of applying these to marketing in hypercomeptitive global environments, understanding of pre- and post-purchase consumer behavior in culturally, socially and economically diverse markets and competence for marketing planning and implementation in the context of diverse stakeholders operating in the multi-cultural and global environment.

Aim of the course is to gain in-depth knowledge of the course Corporate finance 1. Knowledge is than extended to upper level classic and financial business themes.

The aim of this course is to introduce students to modern methods of management of information resources. Present the trends in information technology and highlight the most promising areas of IT implementation. Make students ready to guide the development of information systems in the company to be in line with company business plans and on the other hand also to participate in the business planning so that the opportunities offered by the rapid development of IT are used.

The purpose of the course is to familiarise students with the characteristics of the firm’s external (i.e. economic environment, government and institutions) and internal environments (interactions with various firm constituencies).

Aims of this course are to develop knowledge about different concepts, modes and evaluations of competitiveness at firm, industry and country level, to develop competences of competition and comparative advantages analysis at different levels of measurement, to develop competences of critical thinking and creative upgrading of existing models and concepts of competitiveness, to develop knowledge about relations between competititveness and firm performance in international markets, to develop competences and skills of team work, individual research work and presentations and to develop competences of data collection and usage of existing sources, analytical tools and methods of reserach (seminar/project work).

This course emphasises a synthesis of economic theory, decision sciences and various fields of business administration studies. It examines how they interact with each other as a firm attempts to reach optimal managerial decisions in the face of constraints. How managerial decisions are actually made in the real world is given a special emphasis. The course will increase decision-making effectiveness by expanding and sharpening the analytical framework used by managers to make decisions.

The aim of this course is for students to get acquainted with the advanced microeconomics and to provide students with the knowledge about the topics that are necessary for other disciplines which are related to the advanced level microeconomics.

Introduction to mathematical concepts and methods needed to pursue economic analysis, in particular, to optimization methods.

The course deals with the role of managers in learning organisations, the planning function, organising function, leading function, the management of misbehaviour and workplace ethics.

The students will obtain the knowledge and skills for modern econometric analysis. They will be able to apply this knowledge to the investigation of economic processes, and also understand the econometric methods, approaches, ideas, results and conclusions met in the majority of economic and business books and articles. The students will understand essential differences between time series, cross-section data and panel data, and the specific econometric problems met when working with these types of data. The students should get the skills for construction and development of multiple regression models. The considered methods and models will be mastered practically on real economic data bases with modern econometric software.

Key objectives and competences of the course are thus the following:

• To expand the knowledge of basic econometric models used in applied economic analysis, where a formal treatment of the models is complemented with empirical applications.
• To prepare the students to be able to use econometrics for research at an advanced masters level at the end of the course.

The aim of this course is to prepare student for individual and group research work to support his/her (a) master thesis preparation process and (b) informed decision-making process in practice.

This course includes the following topics: team definition and team taxonomy, team organization: Team composition and teamwork context, team development and stages of team maturity, team characteristics, processes and emerging states: cognitive, affective and behavioral aspects, organizational and system embeddedness of contemporary teams, management of multi-team systems, featured teams: Virtual teams, Top management teams, New venture teams, emergence and team outcomes (performance) and characteristics of high performance teams.

Aims of the course are to repeat and upgrade the knowledge on tourism gained in the undergraduate studies, to learn about the importance of tourism for the global, national and regional economy, and to learn about the functioning of tourism market and the economic function of tourism, to acquaint students with theoretical concepts and their critiques, to acquaint with basic theoretical approaches to assessing the economic impacts of tourism and to train students to apply theoretical knowledge on practical cases.

The aims of this course are to revise and upgrade knowledge in the field of tourism from under graduate study level, get familiar with the concept and illustrations of tourism policy, develop of format and instruments of the tourism policy and its power, develop capabilities for shaping and practical employment of the tourism policy instruments on the cases from practice, with respect of the limitations from broader environment and qualify students to use theoretical knowledge on practical examples.

This course includes the following topics: the communication process, persuasive communication: Psychological and social elements of communication, communicating with coworkers (different tricky situations), persuasive communication using different assertiveness techniques, cross-cultural communication, business etiquett business negotiations, communication within group of co-workers and effective presentations: Public speaking and presentations.

This course covers the following topics: short history of Central Asia, overview of Central Asian economies: key economic indicators, competitiveness and key challenges, business environments of Central Asian markets: similarities and differences, Central Asia and the world economy: foreign trade and FDIs, cultural differences, similarities and specifics of Central-Asian countries and cross-cultural comparisons with western culture, Central Asia’s business culture, etiquette and negotiations, marketing and consumers in Central Asia, sustainable development and key challenges and project presentations.

In the last decade corruption became an extremely important issue in development economics. Corruption is recognized as a major obstacle to the economic development as well as to making effective use of development aid in many undeveloped countries. Moreover, corruption is considered as a factor that negatively affects economic growth in developed countries.

The course intends to examine the reasons for corruption occurrence and its social, political and economic consequences. The course has three objectives. First, to consider a theoretical framework, forms and consequences of corruption for economic development. Secondly, to study domestic and foreign corrupt cases in order to examine specific forms of corruption and the difficulty in identifying phenomena and in obtaining and analyzing data. And thirdly, to examine best practices in detecting and preventing corruption worldwide.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a contemporary business practice designed to put an enterprise into closer touch with its customers in order to learn more about them on an individual level and, on this basis, deliver greater value to each of them. It includes a set of approaches to understand the principles of acquisition, retention and growth of the value of consumer base, and influence customer behaviour via establishing meaningful communication with each customer. If implemented properly, CRM may become an invaluable source of sustainable competitive advantage, creating higher value for the customers, as well higher profits for the firm. Hence, CRM is much more than software or technology solution that helps track data and information about customers to enable better customer service. It is a business philosophy that has to permeate the entire organisation in order to produce results.
In this course the students will understand customer-cantered marketing approaches. They will get acquainted with methods and technics related to different types of CRM (strategic, operational and analytical) which, together with information technology, enable generating marketing intelligence and lead to effective and efficient management of relationship with customers.

The main objective of the course is to broaden and deepen the understanding and knowledge of the students about those economic policies of the EU that have direct and / indirect impact on activities of economic and other institutions on the intenral market of the EU. Based on this course, students will be able to understand the practical operation and theoretical logic of key EU economic policies. They will also be able to understand the division of responsibilities between the member states and the EU in determining the concept, implementation and monitoring the effects of EU economic policies.

The purpose of the course is to prepare the future managers for successful introduction of risk management into the strategic management function within the company. The course develops the methodology of risk management across several different risks that are present within various institutions (companies, banks, insurance companies, investment funds, and pension funds). The goal of the course is to equip the students for comprehensive evaluation of these risks in both the qualitative and quantitative way.

The aims of this course are to introduce to students environmental issues in tourism and the basics of environmental policy in the field of tourism, to provide background knowledge for ecological (and economic) behavior of individual entities of tourism industry: both at national and the enterprise level of operation and to emphasize the economic dimension.

The aims of this course are upgrading of the knowledge about financial institutions, as it was covered in other courses. Students are expected to become familiar with different types of risks important for financial intermediaries (e.g. interest rate risk, credit risk,…). The emphasis is on the risk aspects, that are more important from the point of view of financial intermediaries.

The aim of this course is to familiarize the students with the functioning of multinational firms, their specifics and their impact on competitors and host-country characteristics, comprehend the rigorous mathematical models of multinational firms in the context of trade models and to analyze the role multinational firms play in the age of globalization.

The subject includes: international financial environment (balance of payment, exchange rates, international monetary system); foreign exchange markets and international parity conditions (foreign exchange markets and their characteristics, international parity conditions); specific risks in international finance and their management (foreign exchange risks, political risks); international sources of equity capital (direct foreign investments, portfolio equity investments); international sources of debt capital (loans, bonds).

The objective of the course is to make students aware of the people-related challenges arising from the internationalization of business, and teach them HRM strategies, policies and practices, which multinational companies (MNCs) pursue to effectively address these issues. 

Upon completion of the course the students will be able to:

• understand human resource management systems and their main challenges in multinational companies and improve their performance accordingly, 
• efficiently implement specific IHRM activities in multinational companies, 
• make better strategic decisions about people in international settings and 
• design effective IHRM systems and practices for MNCs.

The course also facilitates cross-cultural sensitivity, systemic thinking, context screening, and ethical behavior in international setting.

The aim of this course is for students to develop marketing knowledge about market/regional diversity (local,regional, global perspective), gain competence of understanding and developing market strategies, gain competence and knowledge of cultural and other diversity of markets and their influence on marketing strategy development (entrance, m.mix etc.)on regional level, develop competence of team work, presentation, competence of analyis, synthesis, problem solution and develop critical thinking.

The main objective is to present public finance issues at a more advanced level. In particular, this means a rigorous presentation of the theory of optimal taxation and to present some theoretical features of the personal income tax, corporate income tax, VAT and the expenditure tax.
Further, to present some theoretical features related to private insurance and social insurance. To present efficiency and equity issues in social protection systems.
To present some theoretical foundations for the analysis of income redistribution.
To present the 2001 GFS methodology and its definitions of public finance categories.

The aim of this course is to provide students with the knowledge about the relationship between strategic management and corporate governance, the theories about the sources of competitive advantage, the theory of growth strategies, the theory of retrenchment strategies, the role of environmental strategies and corporate social responsibility, selected topics on strategy implementation and strategic control, and the process of strategic management in non-profit organizations, to teach students how to use and critically evaluate the literature in the field of strategic management, link the acquired knowledge with current practical problems and enable them for further professional and research work in the field of strategic management and to help students actually understand the discussed theoretical concepts, methodological tools and practical examples, so that they can better implement them in practice and become, with some additional work experience, top experts in the field of strategic management.

The aims of this course are to know the importance of a holistic tourist offer that is formed in a tourist destination, to know the definitions and typology of tourist destinations, to know the subjects and factors active in tourist destinations, to know the methodology and design systems of tourist destinations, to know the organization and management of tourist destinations,  to know the marketing of tourist destinations, to know the monitoring of competitiveness of tourist destinations and to know the examples of tourist destination managtouement.

This course covers the following topics: the process and challenges of globalization, different types of the generic MNC in line with the traditional Bartlett and Ghoshal typology of managerial mentalities of internationally active organizations, different strategies and strategic focuses of internationally active organizations in various types of markets, different organizational structures of internationally active organizations and link them to managerial implications, key management and leadership issues connected with internationally active organizations and importance of social and cultural contexts connected to internationally active organizations.

This course covers introduction to artificial intelligent systems: artificial perception, artificial intelligence, soft computing, machine learning, autonomous agents, and ambient intelligence, intelligent problem solving: problem decomposition and reduction, graph representation of problems, and graph search - exhaustive and heuristic search algorithms., expert systems: expert system components and human interfaces, procedural and declarative knowledge, and reasoning process, knowledge representation: production rules, fuzzy production rules, and representation based on the Petri nets and inference: forward and backward chaining, fuzzy inference, and probabilistic inference.

In Autonomus mobile systems, students will learn about autonomous mobile systems and definition of the agent concept, categorization of such systems regarding their properties such as: autonomy, mobility, different agent performance, systems structures, driving mechanism, goals, sensing and interactions with environment and areas of applicability, agents architecture and some examples of construction, multi-agent systems (MAS) as a subfield of artificial intelligence, introduction of principles for complex systems construction using agents as basic entities and possible areas of applications, classification based on different properties and capabilities and properties and disadvantages of such system usage.

The course includes the following topics: spectrums, ranges, electrical dimensions, technologies, plan of attack, RF systems: WLAN, GSM, GPS, Sensors, RF Biomedical systems, research equipmnet (NMR), common RF modules, short introduction to theory basics: waves, lines, abstract models, S and X parameters, imedance and admitance matrices, ABCD matrix, Smith chart, tunning, modelling, CAD tools, RF simulations and RF measurements.

Course covers the aims of computer vision, the origins of computer vision, and related fields and computer vision trends and application domains.

In this course the following topics will be introduced: design of new products, innovation process, product development cycle, technology market development phases, new product design approaches, cost analyses, electrical, mechanical, thermal and product design requirements, amortization period and safe disposal the device, economic aspects of the construction and operation of electronic devices, basics of reliability theory of electronic systems, probability distribution functions, environmental influences, Arhhenious plot, part stress analysis prediction, reliability databases, redundancy basics and fault tolerant design.

The course concentrates on humans and their needs for light. With the help of selected chapters it shows the effects of light on humans and how we can use these effects in connection with lighting and modern light sources to improve our lives. Today lighting should not only enable our vision but should also stimulate our entire organism. Beside that lighting should be energy-efficient and have minimal negative impacts on our environment.

System analysis classification, algorithm division, signal analysis (excitation and disturbance signals), the area of use. Least squares method, regression method, bias and consistency of estimates. Dynamical model parameter estimation, model parameterisation, extended least squares method, instrumental variables method, recursive versions of least squares, the adaptation for time varying systems – weighted least squares and exponential forgetting, the influence of unknown steady states, numerical problems. Identification of non-parametric models.

The objective of the course Biomechanics is to familiarize students with fundamental laws of mechanics and to present how these can be applied to understanding and analyzing the living systems. In the perspectives of transferring solutions from the nature the knowledge on biomechanics is fundamental in development of robotic systems, artificial organs, biomaterials, rehabilitation products, simulation models, and intelligent devices for exercise in rehabilitation and sport.

Definition of human-robot interaction problem; Human factors: perception, motor skills, social aspect of interaction, safety; Haptic robots: kinematics, dynamics, collision detection, collision force rendering, control and stability analysis; Teleoperation systems: architectures, force and position scaling, control, virtual fixtures, micro/nano manipulation; Soft robots based on variable impedance actuators; Medical robotics: surgical robotics, robot-supported diagnostics, micro-robots in the human body, nanorobors at the cell level; Rehabilitation and assistive robotics: motor rehabilitation, exoskeletons, robotic prosthetics.

Exercises are provided at the training reactor. Each exercise consists of practical (individual) experimental work and theoretical introduction. Reactor instrumentation with reactivity meter is used to perform all the measurements and exercises. Basic knowledge of reactor physics, kinetics and radiation detection is required to perform all the exercises. A set of exercises is chosen to match the measurements that are necessary for the operation of a nuclear reactor (including nuclear power plant).

To acquire basic knowledge about properties and the behaviour of materials and the effects of irradiation on material properties. Application of thermodynamics, properties of solid materials combined with irradiation effects to understand the properties of materials. Ability to solve problems of materials in nuclear engineering.

Nuclear safety principles:

• Levels (measures) of nuclear safety, defence-in-depth.
• Definitions and principles of safety, risk, reliability and availability of systems, structures and devices.
• Safety systems and their characteristics: redundancy, independence, separation, variety, fail-safe principle and single failure
• Safety analyses. Analyses of transients and accidents. - Basic probability theory and Boolean algebra.
• Databases and probabilistic models. Methods for evaluation of safety and reliability - Theory and Practice: fault tree, event tree, analysis of failure modes and effects.
• Common cause failure - methods and examples. - Safety culture - the organization and management. - Measures of reliability and safety of systems and facilities. Risk criteria. - Risk based decision making. - Periodic safety review. - Quality assurance: program, procedures, implementation.

Nuclear reactions with neutrons and fission, characteristics of the cross-sections for the most important nuclides.

Prompt and delayed neutrons, fission products.
Chain reaction and multiplication factor.
Boltzmann equation for neutron transport in a matter.
Diffusion approximation and its validity.
Time-independent cases, non-fissile and fissile agent.
Slowing down the neutrons in the moderator, resonant absorption, thermalisation.
Solving the time-dependent transport and diffusion equations, the derivation of point kinetics equations.
Linear kinetics of the reactor and control over the chain reaction.
Feedback effects on the reactivity and non-linear kinetics.

The program is determined each year, and typically covers topics in physics and related fields research. Students can choose the seminar topic among the available topics or through the choice of the supervisor - teacher at the faculty. Students will perform literature search in various databases and on internet. Lecture can be up to 40 minutes long, allowing 5 minutes for discussion. Lecture is based on computer slides. After the lecture, final written version of the seminar must be submitted in two weeks. Text should not exceed 12 pages. Final form of the text must suitable for publication at the conference or in a journal. During the 1st semester students also attend some of the presentations at Seminar II in order to identify research areas rthey are interested in and conact potential supervisors.

The program is determined each year, and typically covers topics in physics research which are pursued at the faculty as well as in the related institutions. Supervisors of students are lecturers at UL as well as researchers at related institutions.