General information
| Study programme title | Master’s degree (M.Ed.) programme in Croatian Language and Literature (Joint Honours); Teaching Module |
| Type of study programme | Graduate |
| Duration | 2 years (4 semesters) |
| ECTS points | 60 ECTS |
| Academic qualification | Master of Education in Croatian Language and Literature (univ. mag. educ. philol. croat.) |
| Title and qualification code in the C.Q.F. Register | – |
| Study completion requirements | Passing all the exams and successfully completing the master’s thesis. |
| Possibilities of continuing education | Students can continue their education on an appropriate Doctoral study programme. Students who want to remain at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka can enrol on the Doctoral programme “History and Dialectology of the Croatian Language”. |
| Employment possibilities | After completing the M.Ed. study programme, students will have acquired the skills to work in schools, engage in editorial work, literary-critical work, editing and proofreading, as well work in journalism, protocol work, cultural management, and public relations, etc. |
Course list
| Year 1 | |||
| Semester I | Semester II | ||
| Rhetorics | 3 ECTS | Linguistic Heritage | 2 ECTS |
| Literature for Children and Young People | 3 ECTS | Basics of Teaching Croatian Language and Literature | 4 ECTS |
| Educational Psychology 1 – Psychology of Learning and Teaching | 2,5 ECTS (5 ECTS)* | Interpretation and Analysis of Literary Texts | 3 ECTS |
| General Pedagogy | 2,5 ECTS (5 ECTS)* | Didactics 1 | 2 ECTS (4 ECTS)* |
| Developmental Psychology | 2,5 ECTS (5 ECTS)* | Educational Psychology 2 – Individual Differences and Classroom Interactions | 2 ECTS (4 ECTS)* |
| Teaching Module Elective Course | 3 ECTS | Educating Students with Special Needs | 2 ECTS (4 ECTS)* |
| Year 2 | |||
| Semester III | Semester IV | ||
| Readings of Modern Croatian Literature | 2 ECTS | Croatian Language and Literature in School Practice | 3 ECTS |
| Grammar and Communication | 3 ECTS | Elective Course | 3 ECTS |
| Methodology of Language and Literature Education | 5 ECTS | Master’s Thesis | 6 ECTS |
| Didactics 2 | 2 ECTS (4 ECTS)* | ||
| Elective Course | 3 ECTS | ||
| Teaching Module Elective Course | 3 ECTS | ||
| * NOTE: The number of ECTS credits shown in parentheses is the total for each compulsory course in the Teaching Module; half of these credits are allocated to each component of a joint honours combination. | |||
| Elective Courses (The elective courses offered and delivered are determined each academic year in the study programme’s course delivery plan) | |
| Academic Discourse and the Analysis of Scientific Texts | 3 ECTS |
| Czech Language (System and Standard) | 3 ECTS |
| Readings of Dramatic Texts | 3 ECTS |
| Readings of Contemporary Croatian Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Readings of World Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Reading a Literary Work | 3 ECTS |
| Dialectology of the Croatian Language: Accentuation | 3 ECTS |
| Dialectology of the Croatian Language: Lexicology and Lexicography | 3 ECTS |
| Dialectology of the Croatian Language: Morphology | 3 ECTS |
| Dialectology of the Croatian Language: Syntax | 3 ECTS |
| Dramatology | 3 ECTS |
| Social Criticism in the Contemporary Croatian Novel | 3 ECTS |
| Ecocriticism | 3 ECTS |
| Ecolinguistics | 3 ECTS |
| Research Ethics in Philology | 3 ECTS |
| Phraseological Research | 3 ECTS |
| The Glagolitic Tradition | 3 ECTS |
| Croatian Dialectal Phraseology | 3 ECTS |
| Croatian Literature and the Society of the Spectacle | 3 ECTS |
| Standard Croatian in the Twentieth Century | 3 ECTS |
| Identity in Modern Croatian Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Language of Electronic Media | 3 ECTS |
| Language of Public Communication | 3 ECTS |
| Language of Advertising | 3 ECTS |
| Kamov in Context | 3 ECTS |
| Climate Fiction | 3 ECTS |
| Literature and Society | 3 ECTS |
| Literature and Memory | 3 ECTS |
| Literature for Children and Young People: Researching Library Collections | 3 ECTS |
| Cognitive Linguistics | 3 ECTS |
| Critical Hagiography and Medieval Saints’ Cults of Eastern Adriatic Communes | 3 ECTS |
| Proofreading Exercises | 3 ECTS |
| Contact Linguistics | 3 ECTS |
| Macedonian Language 6 | 3 ECTS |
| Metatextuality in the Croatian Novel | 3 ECTS |
| Recent Linguistic Theories | 3 ECTS |
| From Parchment to Digital Codex | 3 ECTS |
| Selected Topics in Nineteenth-Century Croatian Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Selected Topics in Modern Croatian Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Selected Topics in Older Croatian Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Selected Topics in Contemporary Croatian Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Onomastics | 3 ECTS |
| Basics of Media Literacy | 3 ECTS |
| Fundamentals of Semiotics | 3 ECTS |
| Polish Cinema | 3 ECTS |
| Polish Language 6 | 3 ECTS |
| Polish Language 7 | 3 ECTS |
| Polish Language 8 | 3 ECTS |
| Polish for Non-Philologists | 3 ECTS |
| Pragmalinguistics | 3 ECTS |
| Editing and Proofreading | 3 ECTS |
| The Novel in World Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Older Croatian Linguistics | 3 ECTS |
| Contemporary Chakavian Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Contemporary Croatian Dialect Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Contemporary Croatian Drama and Theatre | 3 ECTS |
| The Contemporary Sociolinguistic Situation in Croatia | 3 ECTS |
| Contemporary Kajkavian Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Contemporary Literature for Children and Young People: Social, Thematic and Intermedial Contexts | 3 ECTS |
| Contemporary Literary Theories | 3 ECTS |
| The Contemporary Croatian Popular Novel | 3 ECTS |
| Text, Meaning and Communication | 3 ECTS |
| Television Series | 3 ECTS |
| Theory of Language Standardisation | 3 ECTS |
| Field Research into Oral Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Teaching Module Elective Courses | |
| Reading Literary Texts in Literature Teaching | 3 ECTS |
| Reader Interests and Required Reading | 3 ECTS |
| Croatian as a Second and Foreign Language | 3 ECTS |
| Lexicological Topics in Teaching Croatian Language and Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Lyric Poetry in Literature Teaching | 3 ECTS |
| Students’ Literary and Journalism Clubs | 3 ECTS |
| Accentual Norms and Their Application in Teaching Croatian | 3 ECTS |
| Psycholinguistic Aspects of Language Teaching | 3 ECTS |
| Syntactic Topics in Teaching Croatian Language and Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Topics from the History of Croatian Literary Language in Teaching Croatian | 3 ECTS |
| Literary Theory in Literature Teaching | 3 ECTS |
| Film Art in Teaching Croatian Language and Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Bioethics and the Women’s Question | 3 ECTS |
| Didactic Docimology | 3 ECTS |
| State, Rights, Community and the Individual | 3 ECTS |
| Evolution and Values | 3 ECTS |
| Philosophy of Education | 3 ECTS |
| Rhetorics | 3 ECTS |
| Critical Thinking for Teachers | 3 ECTS |
| Effective Learning Methods | 3 ECTS |
| Research Methodology in Education | 3 ECTS |
| Moral Reasoning | 3 ECTS |
| Neuroscience and Education | 3 ECTS |
| Families and Children at Risk | 3 ECTS |
| Education and Sustainable Development | 3 ECTS |
| Education for Democratic Citizenship | 3 ECTS |
| Pedagogical Communication | 3 ECTS |
| Support for Students with Special Needs in Regular Teaching | 3 ECTS |
| Teaching for Creativity | 3 ECTS |
| Teaching and Learning a Foreign Language in Early School Years | 3 ECTS |
| Using Computers in Teaching | 3 ECTS |
| Psychology of Gifted Students | 3 ECTS |
| Psychology of Parenting | 3 ECTS |
| Sociology of Education | 3 ECTS |
| Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Education | 3 ECTS |
| School Pedagogy | 3 ECTS |
| Education Management | 3 ECTS |
| Scientific Thinking | 3 ECTS |
Learning outcomes
Compulsory Learning Outcome Sets
| Study Programme Learning Outcome Set | Individual Study Programme Learning Outcomes |
| Stylistics of Contemporary Standard Croatian | 1. Analyse different communicative contexts and adapt general stylistic standards to specific communicative purposes 2. Analyse an academic and/or professional text in terms of its formal linguistic features, structure and organisation 3. Examine how different discourse types relate to standard-language norms, identify permissible deviations from prescribed norms and explain them in terms of the author’s communicative intention 4. Demonstrate the ability to produce spoken and written texts in accordance with the prescribed stylistic conventions of the medium |
| Linguistic Heritage in Teaching Croatian Language and Literature | 1. Interpret and evaluate selected representative works in Chakavian, Kajkavian and Shtokavian varieties of contemporary Croatian literature and critically reassess the selection of dialect literature in contemporary Croatian-language textbooks for primary schools 2. Explain the role of the local language variety in pupils’ communicative competence 3. Critically assess methods of analysing texts from earlier periods of the Croatian language in Croatian-language textbooks for primary and secondary schools |
| Literary Theory | 1. Explain the theories of literary studies from Russian Formalism to new media theories and theories of new genre systems 2. Interpret literary texts using different interpretive paradigms |
| Croatian and World Literature | 1. Outline the history of world literature for children and young people, systematising its stages and periods, genres and dominant themes, and identify significant works and authors of major world literatures 2. Interpret core reading texts in Croatian literature for children and young people 3. Analyse, interpret and compare Croatian literary texts, approaching them as anthropological documents 4. Integrate the analysis of Croatian literary texts with knowledge acquired in other humanities disciplines and selected social sciences 5. Define synchronic and diachronic aspects of changes in the relationship between literature and society |
| Teaching Methodology Courses | 1. Use the basic terminology of teaching methodology in Croatian Language and Literature 2. Select and design procedures and activities for developing pupils’ language skills and introduce listening, speaking, reading and writing strategies 3. Use basic procedures when preparing oral interpretations of literary texts 4. Reflect analytically and critically on, and appropriately apply, procedures of scholarly and classroom interpretation 5. Analyse and evaluate pupils’ progress in acquiring communicative language competence 6. Compile and justify the selection of appropriate teaching materials, methods and procedures, teaching resources and aids, and forms of social organisation of learning 7. Describe ways of using everyday stories in the work of Croatian Language and Literature teachers 8. Prepare for and participate in all forms of language and literature education, particularly the regular teaching of all curriculum areas of Croatian Language in primary and secondary schools |
| Methodology of Preparing a Master’s Thesis in Croatian Language and Literature | 1. Conduct scholarly or professional research in Croatian Language and Literature 2. Write a scholarly or professional paper in accordance with conventions for academic writing in the humanities |
ELECTIVE LEARNING OUTCOME SETS
| Study Programme Learning Outcome Set | Individual Study Programme Learning Outcomes |
| Slavic Language | 1. Use at least one Slavic language (Polish, Macedonian or Slovenian) in listening, speaking, reading and writing at a level appropriate to the number of semesters completed 2. Understand different Slavic cultures, past and present 3. Establish connections between broader cultural contexts, different genres of oral literature and literary works from synchronic and diachronic perspectives |