Civilization and religion
More than 10,000 years have passed since the first human civilizations appeared. For the first religious cults, this distance is even greater – perhaps 50,000 years or even more. Almost everything we touch in our daily lives is related to civilization and religion, often not with one specific, but with a special mixture of several. […]
Performance management
This course will help students to understand the elements of an effective, integrated system for performance and development as key to achieving effectiveness and efficiency in the organization. Students will develop a vision for the HRM as a managerial process. They will learn how to: • Understanding the HRM schemes • Develop the skills to […]
Talent Management and Employer Branding
The aim of this course is to provide a perspective for understanding the basic concepts and the concepts of talent management, Students will understand the operation of market laws in the labor market, the marketing approach in the management and development of human resources. They will learn how to develop technology marketing strategies for the […]
Change Management
Change management is becoming a key element of leadership and at the same time an important university discipline. Every organization experiences changes – planned or surprising and their management is of great importance for organizational survival and efficiency. Trends in recent decades show that the number and extent to which organizations will undergo change will […]
Industrial organization
The course offers an additional perspective for business organizations: structure of companies and industries, transaction costs, imperfect competition, market signaling, asymmetric information, market entry and exit. It is based on new but well-established scientific results from the last twenty years. Interesting problems for the strategic behavior of companies, competition and market regulation are addressed. Duration: […]
Intercultural Communication
The course aims to develop students’ communication skills in intercultural communication, incl. listening, writing, asking questions, interviewing and presenting skills. During the classes the emphasis is on the different stages of mastering the skills through role-playing games and practical developments. Duration: 2 days, 3 academic hours each day
Rhetoric and Debate
The course aims to provide basic knowledge of rhetoric and to develop skills for speaking in public and conducting debates. The focus is on the speaker and the rhetorical situation. The appeals of ethos, logos and pathos are examined thoroughly. A number of speeches delivered by prominent speakers are analyzed while preparing students to perform […]
Introduction to Language Structure
The course presents basic information about the structure of the natural language, which will be the basis for easier learning and comparison of the languages studied in the program, to establish the levels of asymmetry in translation. Duration: 2 days, 3 academic hours each day
Structural and Corpus Linguistics
Corpus linguistics is a methodology that involves computer-based empirical analyses (both quantitative and qualitative) of language use by employing large, electronically available collections of naturally occurring spoken and written texts, so-called corpora. Corpus-based studies and other empirical research have shown that speakers’ intuitions oftentimes provide only limited access to the open-ended nature of language, which […]
Cultural history of Canada
The course presents major socio-political and historical phenomena and institutions in order to adequately interpret the dominant values in contemporary Canadian society. Duration: 2 days, 3 academic hours each day
