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.

Readings defined and coordinated by the work mentor in agreement with one of the course leaders, either for the field of linguistics or literary studies.

Seminar paper (extended) with oral presentation (100%)

Kristina Pranjić is an associate professor in literary studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica. She works in the areas of literary methodology, as well as the history and theory of European avant-gardes with contemporary intermedia artistic phenomena.

1. PRANJIĆ, Kristina. Change must come: Yugoslav avant-gardes and metropolitan Dada. In: BRU, Sascha (ed.). Crisis: the avant-garde and modernism in critical modes. European avant-garde and modernism studies, vol. 7. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022, pp. 297–312.
2. PRANJIĆ, Kristina. The emergence and establishment of Yugoslav dada: from Prague to Zagreb (1920–1922). Svět literatury, 2021, vol. 31, no. 64, pp. 89–103.
3. PRANJIĆ, Kristina. Zenitistični koncept barbarogenija kot kritika zahodnoevropske kulture = Zenithist Concept of a Barbarogenius as a Critique of the Western European Culture. Primerjalna književnost. 43.3 (2020). 139–157.
4. PRANJIĆ, Kristina. Premagati silo gravitacije na presečišču umetnosti in tehnologije: primer ruskega konstruktivizma = Overcoming Gravity at the Intersection of Art and Technology: The Example of Russian Constructivism. Časopis za kritiko znanosti Journal for the Critique of Science, Imagination & New Anthropology. 277.47 (2019). 102–116.
5. PRANJIĆ, Kristina. Brezpredmetnost in ekonomičnost v poeziji = Objectlessness and Economy in Poetry. Slavica Tergestina 22 (2019). 50–68.

Franc Marušič, professor of linguistics at the University of Nova Gorica and director of the linguistic part of the study program

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 partic
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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.