Duration of the study: Three-year study programme; 180 ECTS.

Admission requirements: High school certificate, including the required subjects of the state high school exit examinations (level 4.2 or higher of the Croatian qualifications framework).

Knowledge, understanding, and the application of knowledge

Upon the completion of the undergraduate study programme students will be able to:

• understand core concepts and theories from ethnology, anthropology and folkloristics, their focuses of inquiry, and their interrelationships
• recognize and understand contexts and specificities of various cultural practices, both locally and globally
• understand the history and development of anthropology, ethnology and folkloristics
• recognise and understand cultural diversity, both locally and globally
• recognize and understand the regional cultural significance and specificities
• use basic qualitative methods of research, particularly ethnography
• describe and compare differernt aspects of culture
• the ability to solve problems

Students will be able to:

• recognise cultural differences and simillarities and develop critical thinking in cross-cultural comparasion
• observe the cultural processes which shape human reality
• critically interpret ethnographic texts
• recognize how cultural beliefs are related to notions of identity and how they vary from place to place and over time
• appreciate cultural diversity and develop a critical stance towards any form of cultural stereotyping.

Practical Competencies and Skills

Students will be able to:

• describe heritage processes to various audiences
• work in a team structure and adapt to the needs of local communities
• identify cultural and social forces in everyday life issues.

Skills learned

Students will be able to:

• review professional and scientific literature in Croatian and foreign languages
• summarise results and communicate ideas clearly in writing, or in any other forms, to various audiences
• apply the professional ethics of anthropology.

Professional title acquired upon finishing the study programme: Bachelor of Ethnology and Anthropology (univ. bacc. ethnol. et anthrop.).

Course list by semesters

Duration of the study: Two-year study programme; 120 ECTS points

Admission requirements: Completed undergraduate university study programme (6th degree of the Croatian qualifications framework).

The learning outcomes of the completed master’s program are:

knowledge, understanding and the application of:

• broad array of anthropological theories and approaches
• research, methods and outcomes developed for the purpose of understanding cultural diversity with its continuity and change, locally and globally, and the necessity of the intercultural dialogue
• research, methods and outcomes developed for the purpose of understanding regional cultural specificities and the social and historical contexts that produced them
• research, methods and outcomes developed for the purpose of understanding of any contextual analysis related to the cultural complexity and its links to identity issues
• research, methods and outcomes developed for the purpose of understanding of various representational forms of cultural practices (texts, language, visual media, sound, oral traditions, oral histories, life stories)
• anthropological research methods in developing and carrying out independent research projects.

critical thinking:

• analytical thinking about issues within the discipline
• evaluation of various sociocultural concepts of ‘difference’, such as language, ethnicity, gender, race, class, and understanding of how different practices related to these concepts inscribe social relations and subjectivities
• the ability to assess the role of cultural heritage, and it usage, in expressing and producing local, regional and national identity.

research skills and presentations:

• ability to initiate, plan, and carry out small ethnographic projects
• ability to develop project presentations and reports and communicate clearly project results to various audiences
• ability to initiate and plan projects on the management of cultural heritage through participation in the internship program
• ability to apply an independent approach to knowledge and evaluate issues related to protected natural and cultural areas and design ways of working with local communities.

skills learned

• independent use and valorization of professional literature in Croatian and foreign languages
• independent use of contemporary communication technologies
• applying professional ethical guidelines in individual and group research and fieldwork
• informed participation in intercultural and interdisciplinary considerations of cultural issues and projects related to them
• applying anthropological skills in evaluation and problem solving of present-day concerns.

Professional title acquired upon finishing the study programme: Master in Ethnology and Anthropology (mag. ethnol. et anthrop.).

Course list by semesters