Magister slovenistike/magistrica slovenistike

The qualification holder will be able to:

General competences

• demonstrate mastery of research methodology and carry out independent research,
• demonstrate autonomy in professional work and scientific research,
• show autonomy in decision-making,
• identify scientifically interesting topics,
• express critical judgement and responsibility,
• engage in scholarly activity, write and present own scholarly work,
• show creativity,
• search for new sources of knowledge in the relevant professional and academic field,
• demonstrate readiness for lifelong learning.

Subject-specific competences

Linguistics

• demonstrate knowledge of main streams of a scientific approach to the study of a language;
• demonstrate knowledge of the basics of syntax, phonology and semantics as the three core disciplines of language studies;
• demonstrate knowledge of key issues in the modern linguistic theory;
• understand the position of scientific linguistics within the cognitive sciences;
• demonstrate knowledge of the development possibilities for scientific linguistics in combination with other natural sciences, especially neurology and biology;
• demonstrate mastery of a scientific apparatus for language study, especially the basics of a formation and transformational grammar;
• demonstrate knowledge of the key possibilities of transforming linguistic behaviour into practice, especially in the field of computer science and computer-supported analysis of speech and texts;
• demonstrate knowledge of the foundations of linguistics in the context of humanities and social sciences;
• demonstrate knowledge of theoretical basics for work with specific language phenomena and communication in society: business communication, public speaking, recognising psychological, social and anthropological foundations of communication;
• enhance and maintain own linguistic competences;
• put linguistic schools, streams and flows in broader epistemological contexts;
• develop critical analysis of discourses in public (in media, advertising, political, economic, cultural and other environments);
• pragmatically resolve complex and real problems in specific environments of linguistics and communication;
• create effective texts.

Literary Studies

• demonstrate knowledge of main streams of a scientific approach to the study of a language;
• demonstrate knowledge of the basics of literary theory, literary history and literary methodology as the three core disciplines of the study of literature;
• demonstrate knowledge of key issues of the modern literary science;
• understand the position of literary sciences in the framework of a comparative science;
• understand and put the Slovenian literature in a broader context of regional literatures;
• demonstrate knowledge of the development possibilities of literary sciences, especially in areas which are easy to compare with the Slovenian area;
• demonstrate mastery of scientific apparatus for the study of literature from the point of view of methodological starting points of empirical literary science, feminist theory, post-colonial theory and receptive aesthetics;
• analyse and autonomously interpret relationships in a literary text and it’s relation to text repertoire;
• demonstrate knowledge of main possibilities for transferring the findings of literary sciences into practice;
• demonstrate knowledge of an interdisciplinary link with history, sociology and partly philosophy, which enable graduates to know the basics of literary sciences in the context of humanities and social science;
• demonstrate knowledge of other literatures of smaller nations and neglected, or less known, literatures;
• demonstrate knowledge of the concept of minorities’ literatures;
• put various methods of literary science in broader epistemological contexts;
• demonstrate the ability to combine methodological starting points with the skill of literary text interpretation, which they acquire in conducting independent research and writing seminary papers, and which enables them to create competent critical and literary science texts.