Diploma seminar

• To provide students with the methodological foundations and various skills necessary for carrying out professional research tasks and writing professional scientific reports or contributions in the field of Slovene studies, both literary studies and linguistics (the student chooses one of the fields) or on the field of cultural history.

First and second year obligatory courses.

The Diploma Seminar is designed to equip students with the methodological foundations and skills necessary for conducting independent research and writing professional scientific reports or papers in the field of Slovene and Cultural studies. This seminar focuses on developing the essential competencies for producing an extended seminar paper, which incorporates all key elements required for a diploma (BA graduate) paper. Students will choose to focus on either literary studies or linguistics within Slovene studies or studies within Cultural history. This syllabus provides a clear path from research inception to the final submission of an extended seminar paper, covering all necessary academic, methodological, and writing skills for BA students in Slovene and Cultural studies.

• Understand and apply research methodologies relevant to Slovene literary studies or linguistics or cultural history.
• Identify a research problem, formulate research questions, and set clear objectives.
• Conduct a literature review and use appropriate citation practices.
• Design and execute a research plan, including data collection and analysis.
• Produce a well-structured extended seminar paper that meets academic standards at BA (undergraduate) level
• Present and defend their research findings in a professional setting.

Seminar paper (extended) with oral presentation 100 %.

Assoc. prof. dr. Ivana Zajc works in the fields of digital humanities, literary theory, narratology, literature didactics, and the history of emotions. She teaches at the School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica, and is a researcher at the Research Centre for the Humanities at the same university.

1.) MIHURKO, Katja, ZAJC, Ivana, ILIN, Darko, MARINKOVIĆ, Mila. Analize omrežij v elektronski zbirki Pisma: vidik metapodatkov in semantičnih povezav besedišča. Primerjalna književnost. avg. 2024, letn. 47, št. 2, str. 31-44.
2.) ZAJC, Ivana. Analiza 90 slovenskih romanov in opusa Ivana Cankarja z računalniško stilometrijo. Primerjalna književnost. avg. 2024, letn. 47, št. 2, str. 113-126.
3.) ZAJC, Ivana. Becoming a woman writer: the self-representations in the letters of woman writers of the Slovene moderna. Literaturna misʺl. 2023, vol. 66, no. 2.
4.) ZAJC, Ivana. Scoring of essays in L1 in the secondary school-leaving exam. Pedagoška obzorja: časopis za didaktiko in metodiko. 2023, letn. 38, št. 1, str. 19-31.
5.) ZAJC, Ivana. Kaj je literarna zmožnost in kako jo preverjamo z maturitetnim esejem. V Novi Gorici: Založba Univerze, 2023.
6.) ZAJC, Ivana, PURG, Peter. Digitalna humanistika in literatura. Nova Gorica: Založba Univerze, 2023.

Franc Marušič, full professor of linguistics at the University of Nova Gorica.

Selected works:

1. MARUŠIČ, Franc, MIŠMAŠ, Petra, ŽAUCER, Rok. Placement and ordering of the (en)clitics. V: ŠIPKA, Danko (ur.), BROWNE, Wayles (ur.). The Cambridge handbook of Slavic linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Str. 365-384. Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics.
2. MARUŠIČ, Franc. Circumfixation. V: ACKEMA, Peter (ur.). The Wiley Blackwell companion to morphology. Hoboken (New Jersey): Wiley Blackwell, 2023. Vol. 1, str. 419-444, ilustr. The Wiley Blackwell companions to linguistics.
3. MARUŠIČ, Franc, ŽAUCER, Rok. Dual in Slovenian. V: HOFFHER, Patricia Cabredo (ur.). The Oxford handbook of grammatical number. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Str. 428-444, ilustr. Oxford handbooks in linguistics.
4. MARUŠIČ, Franc, ŽAUCER, Rok, SAKSIDA, Amanda, SULLIVAN, Jessica, SKORDOS, Dimitrios, WANG, Yiqiao, BARNER, David. Do children derive exact meanings pragmatically? : evidence from a dual morphology language. Cognition. [Print ed.]. Feb. 2021, vol. 207, str. 1-12.
5. MARUŠIČ, Franc, ŽAUCER, Rok. Investigation of Slovenian copular agreement. V: FRANKS, Steven (ur.), TIMBERLAKE, Alan (ur.), WIETECKA, Anna W. (ur.). Selected proceedings of the 14th meeting of the Slavic linguistics society : in honor of Peter Kosta. Berlin [etc.]: Peter Lang, 2021. Str. 141-170, ilustr. Potsdam linguistic investigations, Vol. 34,

Jasna Fakin Bajec is Assistant Professor in Cultural History at the School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica. She works in the field of cultural heritage studies, ethnology, anthropology and history of the 20th Century. Her theoretical research focuses on the development of participatory methods in the management of cultural heritage.

Selected articles:

1.FAKIN BAJEC, Jasna, KRANJC, Darja. Significance of cultural heritage practices in karst landscape management : 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Carbonates and evaporites. Feb. 2023, vol. 38, iss. 1.
2. FAKIN BAJEC, Jasna (avtor, fotograf). An integrated approach to the revitalization, safeguarding and management of cultural heritage : how to establish a durable and active local group of stakeholders. Annales : anali za istrske in mediteranske študije. Series historia et sociologia. [Tiskana izd.]. 2020, letn. 30, št. 2, str. 285-300.
3. FAKIN BAJEC, Jasna. Procesi ustvarjanja kulturne dediščine : na razpotju med neoliberalizmom in prostovoljstvom v okviru dediščinskih društev. Etnolog : glasnik Slovenskega etnografskega muzeja. [Nova vrsta]. [Tiskana izd.]. 2020, letn. 30 = 81, str. 69-88.
4. FAKIN BAJEC, Jasna. The interpretation and utilization of cultural heritage and its values by young people in Slovenia : is heritage really boring and uninteresting?. Etnološka tribina : godišnjak Hrvatskog etnološkog društva. 2019, vol. 49, [no.] 42, str. 173-193.
5. POLJAK ISTENIČ, Saša, FAKIN BAJEC, Jasna. Luxury food tour : perspectives and dilemmas on the "luxurification" of local culture in tourism product. Acta geographica Slovenica. [Tiskana izd.]. 2021, 61, št. 1, str. 169-184.