Name of qualification Name of qualification: Magister filozofije/magistrica filozofijeAdd to comparison
Translated title (no legal status) Translated title: Master of Arts in philosophy
Type of qualification Type of qualification: Master’s degree
Category of qualification Category of qualification: Educational Qualification
Type of education Type of education: Master's education
Duration Duration of education:
2 years
Credits Credits: 120 credits
Admission requirements Entry conditions:
  • A completed first-cycle programme in philosophy; or
  • a completed first-cycle study programme in another field, if prior to enrolment the candidate has completed course units essential for further study consisting of 10–60 credits; or
  • a completed professional higher education programme, adopted before 11 June 2004, in a relevant field (social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, engineering); or
  • a completed professional higher education programme adopted before 11 June 2004 in another field, if prior to enrolment the candidate has completed course units essential for further study consisting of 10–60 credits.
ISCED field Field:
Arts and humanities
ISCED subfield subfield: philosophy and ethics
Qualification level

SQF Level: SQF 8
EQF Level: EQF 7
EOVK Level: Second level

Learning outcomes:
The qualification holder will be able to:
(general competences)
  • analyse in depth and critically, synthesise and anticipate solutions and consequences,
  • demonstrate mastery of research methods, procedures and processes,
  • show critical and self-critical judgement,
  • apply knowledge in practice and solve problems originally and creatively,
  • perform professional work autonomously,
  • develop communication skills, particularly in the international environment,
  • demonstrate ethical thinking and a commitment to professional ethics,
  • demonstrate cooperativeness and work in a group (including in an international environment),
  • use sources and quote them appropriately (Harvard method),

(subject-specific competences)

  • demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the theories and arguments of leading thinkers based on their works, and show awareness of certain controversies of interpretation,
  • apply historical doctrines to shed light on modern debates,
  • demonstrate mastery of the main theories and arguments in core disciplines such as logic, epistemology and ontology,
  • demonstrate mastery of the main theories and arguments in disciplines such as ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, etc.,
  • identify problems that underlie various debates,
  • analyse the structures of complex and controversial problems and understand strategies for their resolution,
  • attentively read and interpret texts from different traditions with sensitivity for the context,
  • evaluate the success of an argument,
  • appropriately understand and apply philosophical terminology,
  • demonstrate a capacity to abstract, analyse and construct arguments,
  • recognise convincing strategies that do not hold to philosophical rigorousness,
  • consider other positions and appropriately modify one’s own,
  • engage with the problems of everyday life: reflection, problematisation, the search for assumptions and implications, etc.
  • articulate the problems of everyday life as philosophical problems and find appropriate solutions to them.

Assesment and completion:
Examination performance is graded as follows: 10 (excellent); 9 (very good: above-average knowledge but with some mistakes); 8 (very good: solid results); 7 (good); 6 (adequate: knowledge satisfies minimum criteria); 5–1 (inadequate). In order to pass an examination, a candidate must achieve a grade between adequate (6) and excellent (10).

Progress:

In order to progress to the second year, students must complete at least 44 credits from first-year course units.

Magister filozofije/magistrica filozofije

SQF 8

EQF 7

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Doktor znanosti/doktorica znanosti s področja filozofije

Doktor znanosti/doktorica znanosti s področja filozofije in teorije vizualne kulture

SQF 10 / EQF 8

Progression:

Third-cycle doctoral study programmes (SQF level 10)

Conditions for obtaining a public document:

In order to complete the programme, students must complete all course units prescribed by the programme, for a total of at least 120 credits.

Awarding body:

University of Maribor, Faculty of Arts

URL

Awarding body URL:
http://www.ff.um.si/oddelki/filozofija/studijski-programi.dot
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