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 (Teaching Module) | 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 Education | 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)* |
| Elective Course from the Teaching Module | 3 ECTS | Educating Students with Special Needs | 2 ECTS (4 ECTS)* |
| Year 2 | |||
| Semester III | Semester IV | ||
| Methodology of Language and Literature education | 5 ECTS | Readings of Contemporary Croatian Literature | 2 ECTS |
| Style and Composition of Written and Spoken Texts | 3 ECTS | Croatian Language and Literature in School Practice | 3 ECTS |
| Didactics 2 | 2 ECTS (4 ECTS)* | Elective Course | 3 ECTS |
| Elective Course | 3 ECTS | Master’s Thesis | 6 ECTS |
| Elective Course from the Teaching Module | 3 ECTS | ||
| * NOTE: The number of ECTS credits for each Core Course in the Teaching Module are shown in brackets, half of which are allocated to each Honours programme in the Joint Honours programmes. |
| Elective Courses (The offer of elective courses will be decided and specified in the syllabus for each academic year) | |
| Academic Discourse and the Analysis of Scientific Texts | 3 ECTS |
| Basics of Semiotics | 3 ECTS |
| Climate Fiction | 3 ECTS |
| Cognitive Linguistics | 3 ECTS |
| Contemporary Chakavian Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Contemporary Croatian Dialectal Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Contemporary Croatian Drama and Theatre | 3 ECTS |
| Contemporary Croatian Popular Novels | 3 ECTS |
| Contemporary Croatian Sociolinguistic Situation | 3 ECTS |
| Contemporary Literary Theories | 3 ECTS |
| Critical Hagiography and Medieval Saints’ Cults of the Eastern Adriatic | 3 ECTS |
| Croatian Dialectal Phraseology | 3 ECTS |
| Croatian literature and society of spectacles | 3 ECTS |
| Czech Language (system and standard) | 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 |
| Editing and Proofreading | 3 ECTS |
| Field Research into Oral Literature | 3 ECTS |
| From Parchment to Digital Codex | 3 ECTS |
| Grammar and Communication | 3 ECTS |
| Introduction to Media Literacy | 3 ECTS |
| Kamov in Context | 3 ECTS |
| Language in Electronic Media | 3 ECTS |
| Linguistics of Linguistic Contact | 3 ECTS |
| Literature and Memory | 3 ECTS |
| Literature and Society | 3 ECTS |
| Literature for Children and young people: research of the library collection | 3 ECTS |
| Macedonian Language 6 | 3 ECTS |
| Metatextuality in the Croatian Novel | 3 ECTS |
| Novels in World Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Older Croatian linguistics | 3 ECTS |
| Onomastics | 3 ECTS |
| Phraseological Research | 3 ECTS |
| Polish Cinematography | 3 ECTS |
| Polish Language 6 | 3 ECTS |
| Polish Language 7 | 3 ECTS |
| Polish Language 8 | 3 ECTS |
| Polish Language for non-Philologists | 3 ECTS |
| Pragmalinguistics | 3 ECTS |
| Proofreading Exercises | 3 ECTS |
| Reading a Literary Work | 3 ECTS |
| Readings of Contemporary Croatian Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Selected Themes from Croatian Literature of the 19th Century | 3 ECTS |
| Selected Themes of Old Croatian Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Selected Topics from Contemporary Croatian literature | 3 ECTS |
| Selected Topics from Recent Croatian Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Standard Croatian Language in the 20th Century | 3 ECTS |
| Stories and Narration in Class | 3 ECTS |
| Television Series | 3 ECTS |
| Text, Meaning and Communication | 3 ECTS |
| The Language of Advertising | 3 ECTS |
| The Language of Public Communication | 3 ECTS |
| Theory of Language Standardization | 3 ECTS |
| Verbalism | 3 ECTS |
| World Literature readings | 3 ECTS |
| Elective Courses for the Teaching Module | |
| Croatian as a Second and Foreign Language | 3 ECTS |
| Emphatic Norms and Usage in the Teaching of Croatian Language and Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Film Art in the Teaching of Croatian Language and Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Lexicological Topics in the Teaching of Croatian Language and Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Literary and Journalistic Student Groups | 3 ECTS |
| Literary Theory in the Literature Teaching | 3 ECTS |
| Lyric in the Teaching of Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Psycholinguistic Aspects in Language Teaching | 3 ECTS |
| Reader Interests and Reading | 3 ECTS |
| Reading a Literary Text in Literature Classes | 3 ECTS |
| Syntactic topics in the Teaching of Croatian Language and Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Topics from the History of Croatian Literary Language in Teaching the Croatian Language | 3 ECTS |
| Bioethics and the Women’s Question | 3 ECTS |
| Civic Education | 3 ECTS |
| Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Education | 3 ECTS |
| Critical Thinking for Teachers | 3 ECTS |
| Didactic Docimology | 3 ECTS |
| Education and Sustainable Development | 3 ECTS |
| Educational Communication | 4 ECTS |
| Effective Learning Methods | 3 ECTS |
| Evolution and Values | 3 ECTS |
| Families and Children at Risk | 3 ECTS |
| Moral Reasoning | 3 ECTS |
| Neuroscience and Education | 3 ECTS |
| Philosophy of Education | 3 ECTS |
| Psychology of Gifted Students | 3 ECTS |
| Psychology of Parenting | 3 ECTS |
| Research Methodology in Education | 4 ECTS |
| Rhetorics | 3 ECTS |
| School Education | 3 ECTS |
| School Management | 3 ECTS |
| Scientific Opinion | 3 ECTS |
| Sociology of Education | 3 ECTS |
| Special Needs Support in Regular Teaching | 3 ECTS |
| State, Rights, Community, Individual | 3 ECTS |
| Teaching and Learning a Foreign Language in Early School Years | 3 ECTS |
| Teaching for Creativity | 3 ECTS |
| Use of Computers in Teaching | 3 ECTS |
Learning outcomes
Core learning outcomes
| Collective learning outcomes | Individual learning outcomes |
|---|---|
| STYLISTICS OF THE CONTEMPORARY CROATIAN STANDARD LANGUAGE | 1. Analyse different communication contexts and use stylistic adaptations of general stylistic standards in concrete communication. 2. Analyse a scientific and/or professional text in terms of its formal language features, structure, and organisation. 3. Examine the relationship between different discourse types and standard language norms, and recognise permissible deviations from these norms, interpreting them in terms of the author’s communicative goals. 4. Demonstrate the ability to create spoken and written texts that respect the given stylistic standards of the expressive medium. |
| LINGUISTIC HERITAGE IN THE TEACHING OF CROATIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE | 1. Interpret and evaluate selected representative works in the Chakavian, Kajkavian and Shtokavian dialects in contemporary Croatian literature, and critically review selected dialectal literature in contemporary Croatian language reading primers for primary schools. 2. Explain the role of regional language in pupils’ communication competencies. 3. Critically assess the methodology of analysing texts from earlier periods of the Croatian language in elementary and high school textbooks about the Croatian language. |
| LITERARY THEORY | 1. Interpret literary theoretical studies from Russian formalism to new media theories and theories of new genre systems. 2. Interpret a literary template by applying different interpretative paradigms. |
| CROATIAN AND GLOBAL LITERATURE | 1. Provide an historical overview of global literature for children and young people, which systematises phases and periods, types and dominant themes, and singles out significant works and authors in global literature. 2. Interpret basic readings in Croatian literature for children and young people. 3. Analyse, interpret and compare literary texts and approach them as anthropological documents. 4. Integrate the analysis of literary texts of Croatian literature with acquired knowledge from other humanities and some social disciplines 5. Define synchronic and diachronic aspects of changes in the relationship between literature and society. |
| COURSES IN TEACHING METHODS | 1. Employ basic methodological terminology in the teaching of Croatian language and literature. 2. Select and design procedures and activities that develop pupils’ language skills and refer to listening, speaking, reading, and writing strategies 3. Employ basic procedures when preparing oral interpretations of a literary text. 4. Analytically and critically consider, as well as adequately use the procedures of scientific and pedagogic interpretation. 5. Analyse and evaluate pupils’ progress in the acquisition of communicative language competences. 6. Compile and select appropriate teaching materials, teaching methods and procedures, teaching resources and aids, as well as social forms of work. 7. Describe how everyday stories can be used in the work of Croatian language and literature teachers. 8. Prepare and participate in all forms of linguistic and literary education, especially when conducting regular classes in the teaching of the Croatian language in primary and secondary schools. |
| WRITING METHODOLOGY FOR THE MASTER’S THESIS | 1. Carry out scientific or professional research about the Croatian language and literature. 2. Write a scientific or professional paper according to the standards for writing scientific and professional papers in the humanities. |
Elective learning outcomes
| Collective learning outcomes | Individual learning outcomes |
|---|---|
| SLAVIC LANGUAGES | 1. Use at least one Slavic language (Polish, Macedonian, Slovenian) in listening, speaking, reading, and writing (in accordance with the number of semesters). 2. Understand different Slavic cultures in the past and present. 3. Determine the relation between the wider cultural context, different oral literary genres, and artistic literature, from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. |