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
North America – history, culture, society
The course builds a cognitive basis for creating the ability of students to understand the historical development of the studied countries as part of the development of culture locally, regionally and globally. Methods are used for modern reading of history in comparison with the native history, whose understanding and creative application is an integral part […]
Academic skills in English
This is a course that introduces students to the language, requirements and atmosphere of the university environment, through real-life academic tasks. Based on the good knowledge and skills of students in English for general purposes, it helps to understand the main differences between the language for general purposes and the language for academic communication and […]
Political Anthropology: Power, Ritual and Group
This course examines politics and power through an anthropological perspective Duration: 2 days, 3 academic hours each day
Leadership Behavior
The aim of the course is for students to acquire in-depth knowledge of – and master the basic skills related to – exercising leadership in various situations. Additional Information: Link Duration: 2 days, 3 academic hours each day
