Master in Slovene Studies – Literary Science (admission until 2021/22)

Study programme:	Master in Slovene Studies - Literary Science
Main fields of study:	Literary Science
Programme code:	2SI1
Programme cycle:	Second cycle master’s degree
Name of the qualification:	Master's
Qualification title:	Master of Slovene Studies
Qualification abbreviation:	mag. slov.
Final examination:	no
Dean:	prof. dr. Peter Purg

Programme description

The Masters program IInd level Slovenian studies – direction Literary Science is a 2-year masters program, which gives a wide range of basic knowledge focusing on literature and linguistic.

The most important properties of the program are: focus on individual research work, a number of electives covering all the major linguistic disciplines, the program’s international connections and relevance, and constant improving of the program.

The program is evaluated with ECTS (European credit transfer system). This allows the students to enter other comparable programs across Europe (Where ever ECTS is used) during or after they finish this program. Participation in student exchange programs is strongly encouraged at the School of Humanities of University of Nova Gorica.

Admission requirements

Anybody with a finished 180 ECTS Ist level program in Slovene Studies, Comparative literature, Classical Philology or any other humanistic program from the field of literary science is eligible to enroll in the 1st year of this Master’s program.

Candidates who finished a 240 ECTS program in these fields can enroll directly in to the 2nd year of

In case the number of candidates exceeds the number of available positions, the candidates will be selected based on their GPA from their undergraduate study.

Educational and professional goals

The main goal of this program is to give the students a comprehensive knowledge of literary science with all of its auxiliary sciences. Graduates of this program will have the knowledge and skills to approach topics related to literary science in a scientific way and to solve them using the most up-to-date methodology.

Access to further studies

With a Master’s degree in hand, the students can enroll in any PhD program with limitations imposed by the specific programs.

Assessment

During their 1st year, the students take the three mandatory courses (27 ECTS) which comprise of two core fields of literary science (methodology and literary theory) and obligatory linguistic course Syntax.

The rest of the ECTS is gained through electives divided into three modules: Slovene literature from the Middle Ages to Romanticism, Literatures of minorities and small nations, Gender Studies and literature.

The Masters thesis, which should summarize the research done, is worth 12 ETCS.

1. year

Compulsory courses	Hours	ECTS
Contemporary literary theory	270	9
Individual research work I	270	9
Methodologies in Intercultural studies	270	9
Methodology of literary scholarship	270	9
Syntax	180	6
General elective courses	Hours	ECTS
Analysis of a less familiar language	180	6
Baroque and Enlightenment in the Slovenian Literature	180	6
Chapters from the minoritarian literatures	180	6
Digital humanities	180	6
Feminist literary criticism	180	6
Gender stereotypes in the Slovene Youth literature	180	6
IImages of Women in the World of Myths and their Reception in Slovenian Literature	180	6
Literary Production in a Foreign Language Environment	180	6
Literary sociology and esthetics of minority literatures in the European context	180	6
Literature of the Slovenians in Italy	180	6
Logic and analytic philosophy	180	6
Migrations and multiculturality	180	6
Post-colonial theories and gender studies	180	6
Psyholinguistics	180	6
Representations of genders in the Slovenian literature	180	6
Rhetorics, literary theory, linguistics and the idea of beauty in Europe from the Middle Agess to Enlightenment	-	6
Slovenian literature in diaspora	180	6
Slovenian theater: from the beginnings to Enlightenment	180	6
Slovenian theatre: historical and theatrological aspects	180	6
Sociology of gender	180	6
Women writers in the European literatures	180	6

2. year

Compulsory courses	Hours	ECTS
Individual research work II	720	24
Masters thesis	360	12
General elective courses	Hours	ECTS
Baroque and Enlightenment in the Slovenian Literature	180	6
Chapters from the minoritarian literatures	180	6
Feminist literary criticism	180	6
Gender stereotypes in the Slovene Youth literature	180	6
IImages of Women in the World of Myths and their Reception in Slovenian Literature	180	6
Literary sociology and esthetics of minority literatures in the European context	180	6
Literature of the Slovenians in Austria	180	6
Literature of the Slovenians in Italy	180	6
Migrations and multiculturality	180	6
Post-colonial theories and gender studies	180	6
Representations of genders in the Slovenian literature	180	6
Rhetorics, literary theory, linguistics and the idea of beauty in Europe from the Middle Agess to Enlightenment	-	6
Slovenian literature in diaspora	180	6
Slovenian theater: from the beginnings to Enlightenment	180	6
Sociology of gender	180	6
Women writers in the European literatures	180	6
Obligatory selective	Hours	ECTS
Obligatory selective (course from Master in Slovene Studies – Linguistics)	180	6