General information
| Study programme title | Master’s degree (M.Ed.) programme in Croatian Language and Literature (Single Honours); Teaching Module |
| Type of study programme | Graduate |
| Duration | 2 years (4 semesters) |
| ECTS points | 120 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, editorial work, literary-critical work, editing and proofreading, as well working in journalism, protocol work, cultural management, and public relations, etc. |
Course list
| Year 1 | |||
| Semester I | Semester II | ||
| Rhetorics | 3 ECTS | Basics of Media Literacy | 2 ECTS |
| Literature for Children and Young People | 3 ECTS | Basics of Teaching Croatian Language and Literature | 4 ECTS |
| Educational Psychology 1 – Psychology of Teaching and Learning | 5 ECTS | Interpretation and Analysis of Literary Texts | 3 ECTS |
| General Education | 5 ECTS | Didactics 1 | 4 ECTS |
| Developmental Psychology | 5 ECTS | Educational psychology 2 – Individual differences and class interactions | 4 ECTS |
| Elective Course 1 | 3 ECTS | Educating Students with Special Needs | 4 ECTS |
| Elective Course 2 | 3 ECTS | Elective course 1 | 3 ECTS |
| Elective Course from the Teaching Module | 3 ECTS | Elective course 2 | 3 ECTS |
| Elective Course from the Teaching Module | 3 ECTS | ||
| Year 2 | |||
| Semester III | Semester IV | ||
| Grammar and Communication | 3 ECTS | Academic Discourse and Analysis of Scientific Texts | 3 ECTS |
| Linguistic Heritage | 3 ECTS | Readings of Contemporary Croatian Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Literary-anthropological Readings of Older Croatian Literature | 3 ECTS | Croatian Language and Literature in School Practice | 3 ECTS |
| Methodology of Language and Literature Education | 5 ECTS | Story and Narration in Class | 2 ECTS |
| Didactics 2 | 4 ECTS | Elective Course 1 | 3 ECTS |
| Elective Course 1 | 3 ECTS | Elective Course 2 | 3 ECTS |
| Elective Course 2 | 3 ECTS | Elective Course from the Teaching Module | 3 ECTS |
| Elective Course from the Teaching Module 1 | 3 ECTS | Master’s Thesis | 10 ECTS |
| Elective Course from the Teaching Module 2 | 3 ECTS |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| THEORY OF LANGUAGE AND CONTEMPORARY STANDARD CROATIAN LANGUAGE | 1. Correctly interpret the concepts and settings of recent linguistic theories. 2. Compare and combine contemporary and traditional approaches to methodology when describing and analysing linguistic phenomena, from the level of the individual speaker to the level of society. 3. Recognise and explain the features of different discourses and/or functional styles of Croatian standard language and substandard varieties. 4. Edit and proofread texts according to appropriate linguistic norms (spelling and grammar). |
| DIACHRONIC GROUP OF LANGUAGE COURSES | 1. Identify the linguistic and stylistic features of Croatian printed and manuscript texts from all periods. 2. Independently and correctly interpret grammatical rules in older Croatian grammars. 3. Define diachronic and synchronic interpretations of units and inventory of accent systems of Croatian language dialects and accent typology. 4. Outline the role of Croatian dialect texts in a particular abstract system. |
| LITERARY THEORY | 1. Explain literature as a subject of theory. 2. Know the historical development of literary theoretical concepts. 3. Define the relationship between concepts in different directions of literary theory. 4. Understand the position of literary theory in the teaching of literature. 5. Recognise the variety of approaches to literary texts. |
| CROATIAN AND GLOBAL LITERATURE | 1. Interpret the expressive, subject, thematic and structural features of works created in a particular literary-historical period or works from the literary works of an individual writer from Croatian and global literature 2. Explain and analyse poetic, social-cultural, constructive, and thematic-motive changes throughout the history of prose/drama/poetry in general, prose/drama/poetry in a particular area, and prose/drama/poetry in an individual author’s works or literary phenomena from Croatian or global literature. 3. Apply, compare, and combine contemporary and traditional methodologies in the study of literature when making an independent analysis of works from a selected period, thematic area, or the works of an individual writer within Croatian or global literature. 4. Define, compare, interpret, and critically evaluate themes/periods/poetics/literary works of individual writers, works, themes or phenomena from Croatian and global literature. |
| METHODOLOGICAL COURSES | 1. Plan and prepare teaching and extracurricular activities in the teaching of Croatian language and literature, in accordance with contemporary theories of language and literary education. 2. Specify and apply procedures that encourage and develop linguistic and literary abilities, skills, and knowledge; As well, determine the evaluation criteria (monitoring, checking and evaluation) for all kinds of language and literary education, with a particular focus on the evaluation of pupil composition. 3. Describe and explain the functional involvement of language activities in the realization of all contents of the Croatian language school subject. 4. List and apply the components of pupils’ language development, especially those related to pupils’ vocabulary, reading and writing, and distinguish between theories of language learning and teaching. 5. Prepare and participate in all forms of linguistic and literary education, especially when conducting regular classes in teaching the Croatian language in primary and secondary schools. |
Elective learning outcomes
| Collective learning outcomes | Individual learning outcomes |
|---|---|
| 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 connection between the wider cultural context, different oral literary genres, and artistic literature, from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. |