General information
| Study programme title | Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) programme in Croatian Language and Literature (Single Honours) |
| Type of study programme | University |
| Duration | 3 years (6 semesters) |
| ECTS points | 90 ECTS |
| Academic qualification | Bachelor of Arts in Croatian Language and Literature(univ. bacc. philol. croat.) |
| Title and qualification code in the C.Q.F. Register | – |
| Study completion requirements | Passing all the exams and successfully completing the undergraduate dissertation. |
| Possibilities of continuing education | At the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, students can enrol on the M.A. in Croatian Language and Literature (General Module). |
| Employment possibilities | Students will have acquired skills for editorial work, literary-criticism, editing and proofreading, as well working in journalism, protocol work, cultural management, and public relations, etc. |
| Enrolment conditions | Further details about enrolment can be found on: Postani student |
Course list
| Year 1 | |||
| Semester I | Semester II | ||
| Phonology of Standard Croatian | 4 ECTS | Croatian Renaissance Literature | 5 ECTS |
| Croatian Medieval Literature | 4 ECTS | Croatian Language in the Middle Ages | 3 ECTS |
| Old Slavic language | 5 ECTS | Morphology of Standard Croatian | 4 ECTS |
| Theory of Language | 5 ECTS | Basics of Language Culture | 3 ECTS |
| Introduction to the Science of Literature 1 | 5 ECTS | Orthographic Norms | 4 ECTS |
| Physical Education 1 | 1 ECTS | Introduction to the Science of Literature 2 | 4 ECTS |
| Elective course 1 | 3 ECTS | Physical Education 2 | 1 ECTS |
| Elective course 2 | 3 ECTS | Elective course 1 | 3 ECTS |
| Elective course 2 | 3 ECTS | ||
| Year 2 | |||
| Semester III | Semester IV | ||
| Croatian Literature in the 17th and 18th Centuries | 5 ECTS | Croatian Pre-Romanticism, Romanticism and Pre-Realism | 4 ECTS |
| Literary Text | 2 ECTS | Lexicology of Standard Croatian | 4 ECTS |
| Forms of Croatian Oral Literature | 4 ECTS | History of Standard Croatian | 4 ECTS |
| Semantics | 2 ECTS | Syntax of Standard Croatian 1 | 2 ECTS |
| World Literature 1 | 4 ECTS | World Literature 2 | 4 ECTS |
| Word Formation in Standard Croatian | 2 ECTS | Introduction to Dialectology in the Croatian Language | 5 ECTS |
| Introduction to the Historical Grammar of the Croatian language | 4 ECTS | Physical Education 4 | 1 ECTS |
| Physical Education 3 | 1 ECTS | Elective Course 1 | 3 ECTS |
| Elective Course 1 | 3 ECTS | Elective Course 2 | 3 ECTS |
| Elective Course 2 | 3 ECTS | ||
| Year 3 | |||
| Semester V | Semester VI | ||
| Avant-garde Trends in Croatian Literature | 2 ECTS | Croatian Literature between the Two World Wars | 4 ECTS |
| Chakavian dialect | 3 ECTS | Croatian Literature after the Second World War | 4 ECTS |
| Croatian Realism and Modernity | 4 ECTS | Stylistic Methods and Application | 4 ECTS |
| Overview of Stylistic Schools and Directions | 4 ECTS | Text linguistics | 4 ECTS |
| Syntax of Standard Croatian 2 | 4 ECTS | Elective Course 1 | 3 ECTS |
| World literature 3 | 4 ECTS | Elective Course 2 | 3 ECTS |
| Elective Course 1 | 3 ECTS | Elective Course 3 | 3 ECTS |
| Elective Course 2 | 3 ECTS | Undergraduate Dissertation | 5 ECTS |
| Elective Course 3 | 3 ECTS |
| Elective Courses (The offer of elective courses will be decided and specified in the syllabus for each academic year) | |
| Andrija Kačić Miošić and his Followers | 3 ECTS |
| Avant-garde in Croatian Modern Works | 3 ECTS |
| Basics of Filming and Editing | 3 ECTS |
| Controversial Places in Croatian Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Croatian Culture and Civilisation | 3 ECTS |
| Croatian Historical and New-historical Novel | 3 ECTS |
| Croatian Historical Drama in the Renaissance | 3 ECTS |
| Croatian Humanism and Latinism | 3 ECTS |
| Croatian Literary Language in the 16th Century | 3 ECTS |
| Croatian Literary Language in the 17th Century | 3 ECTS |
| Croatian Literary Language in the 18th Century | 3 ECTS |
| Croatian Literary Language in the 19th Century | 3 ECTS |
| Croatian Literature and other Literatures in the 19th and 20th Centuries | 3 ECTS |
| Croatian Literature and the European Middle Ages | 3 ECTS |
| Croatian Love Lyric Poetry of the 15th and 16th Centuries | 3 ECTS |
| Croatian Picaresque Novels | 3 ECTS |
| Croatian Short Story | 3 ECTS |
| Dialectology of the Croatian Language: Field Research | 3 ECTS |
| Digital Humanities in Literary Research | 3 ECTS |
| Genres in the Enlightenment | 3 ECTS |
| Glagolitic Monuments in North Croatian Coastal Areas and Istria | 3 ECTS |
| History and Structure of the Crime Novel | 3 ECTS |
| History of Croatian Oral Literature | 3 ECTS |
| History of Film | 3 ECTS |
| History of Linguistics | 3 ECTS |
| History of the Novel | 3 ECTS |
| Hungarian Language 1 | 3 ECTS |
| Hungarian Language 2 | 3 ECTS |
| Hungarian Language 3 | 3 ECTS |
| Hungarian Language 4 | 3 ECTS |
| Intercultural Context of Recent Croatian literature | 3 ECTS |
| Interpreting the Novel | 3 ECTS |
| Introduction to Comics | 3 ECTS |
| Introduction to Hungarian Culture and Civilization | 3 ECTS |
| Introduction to Phraseology | 3 ECTS |
| Introduction to the Theory of Film | 3 ECTS |
| Introduction to Theatre Studies | 3 ECTS |
| Korean Culture and Civilization | 3 ECTS |
| Korean language 1 | 3 ECTS |
| Korean Language 2 | 3 ECTS |
| Linguistic Stratifications and Norms | 3 ECTS |
| Literary Theory Colloquium | 3 ECTS |
| Literary Works of Marija Jurić Zagorka | 3 ECTS |
| Lyrics | 3 ECTS |
| Macedonian Culture and Civilization | 3 ECTS |
| Macedonian Language 5 | 3 ECTS |
| Macedonian Literature of the 19th and 20th centuries | 3 ECTS |
| Methodology in Producing Academic and Professional work | 3 ECTS |
| Narrator and Character | 3 ECTS |
| Oral Narrative Forms | 3 ECTS |
| Polish Culture and Civilization | 3 ECTS |
| Polish Language 5 | 3 ECTS |
| Polish Language for non-Philologists | 3 ECTS |
| Polish Literature of the 19th and 20th centuries | 3 ECTS |
| Post-Yugoslav Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Reading / Analysis of Media Texts | 3 ECTS |
| Rijeka in Stories | 3 ECTS |
| Science Fiction | 3 ECTS |
| Selected Topics from Contemporary Macedonian Literature | 3 ECTS |
| Slavic Language 1 | 3 ECTS |
| Slavic Language 2 | 3 ECTS |
| Slavic Language 3 | 3 ECTS |
| Slavic Language 4 | 3 ECTS |
| Slavic Script | 3 ECTS |
| Slovenian Language 1 | 3 ECTS |
| Slovenian Language 2 | 3 ECTS |
| Slovenian Language 3 | 3 ECTS |
| Slovenian Language 4 | 3 ECTS |
| Stylistic Analysis | 3 ECTS |
| Text and Context of Contemporary Croatian prose | 3 ECTS |
| The Novel in the Šenoa Period | 3 ECTS |
| The Novella in Croatian Modernity | 3 ECTS |
| Women’s Writing | 3 ECTS |
Learning outcomes
Core learning outcomes
| Collective learning outcomes | Individual learning outcomes |
|---|---|
| THEORY OF LANGUAGE AND CONTEMPORARY STANDARD CROATIAN | 1. Apply primary linguistic concepts. 2. Analyse texts and language units at the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and lexicological levels and correctly use professional terminology. 3. Summarise and critically evaluate the processes of orthographic and grammatical standardisation, as well as the dynamic relationship between linguistic norms and practice. 4. Apply the acquired knowledge to harmonise texts using the norms of Croatian standard language (spelling and grammar). |
| DIACHRONIC GROUP OF LANGUAGE COURSES | 1. Define the fundamental principles of language disciplines: Paleo-Slavic studies, historical grammar, history of Croatian literary language and Croatian dialectology, and explain the terms used within these disciplines. 2. Interpret the genesis of the Slavic languages from Proto-Slavic, especially the Old Slavic language, the genesis of Croatian dialects and Croatian literacy. 3. Interpret the grammatical structure of the Old Slavic language, the development of the phonological and morphological systems, as well as other selected features of the Croatian language, interpret diachronic and synchronic readings of linguistic features in Croatian language dialects, the relationships between these dialects during the process of standardising the Croatian language, as well as evaluating processes of standardization. 4. Independently identify and interpret the linguistic and stylistic features of Old Church Slavic canon, Croatian texts from different time periods, functional styles from the Middle Ages to the 19th century and differentiate between various language levels when determining a system of dialect texts. |
| LITERARY THEORY | 1. Explain the concept of literary theory in a diachronic and synchronic context. 2. Master the fundamentals of literary theory conceptual apparatus. 3. Know the primary concepts in different branches of literary theory. 4. Define the problem of literary genres. 5. Know the fundamentals of literary periodisation. 6. Apply theoretical concepts to concrete literary texts. |
| STYLISTICS | 1. Define and explain the concepts of style and stylistics in a diachronic and synchronic context. 2. Master the foundations of the metalanguage of stylistics. 3. Know the features of different stylistic schools and directions and explain their theses. 4. Recognise stylistic features at all textual levels and correctly interpret them with regards to content and genre. 5. Using the knowledge acquired from the courses interpret and analyse literary models. |
| CROATIAN AND GLOBAL LITERATURE | 1. Define and analyse fundamental concepts in a diachronic set of literary works up to the present day in both Croatian and global literature, and literature for children and young adults, while correctly using professional terminology. 2. Define and recognise the historical literary features and stylistic characteristics of different periods in Croatian and global literature, as well as the literary features and stylistic characteristics in literature for children and young adults. 3. Interpret and explain expressive, subject headings and structural characteristics of works created within different literary periods of Croatian and global literature. 4. Apply the acquired historical, theoretical, and critical literary parameters in an independent analysis of works from Croatian and global literature. 5. Compare works from Croatian literature and relate them to the literary tradition and works of a given period in global literature |
| ORAL LITERATURE AND FOLKLORE STUDIES | 1. Apply knowledge about the theory of oral literature and folklore in the presentation of Croatian cultural assets. 2. Explain the importance of intangible cultural heritage and the place of Croatian traditions on the UNESCO list of intangible protected assets. 3. Determine the synchronic and diachronic connections between the wider cultural context, different oral literary genres, and artistic literature. |
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 both the past and present |