German Language and Culture in Professional Communication (PhD.)
- Field of study: philology
- Form of study: FULL-TIME or PART-TIME
- Level of study: 3rd, PhD.
- Length of study: 3 years for full-time / 4 years for part-time
- Language of instruction: English and German
General characteristics of the professional profile of a graduate of the study programme German Language and Culture in Professional Communication
1. Knowledge:
The graduate has professional and methodological knowledge of theoretical and applied linguistic disciplines such as pragmalinguistics, corpus linguistics, grammaticalization theory, syntactic theory and modern linguistics, modern methodological discourses, language contact and other areas of the field of study serving as a basis for innovation and originality in practice or research. Demonstrates a highly specialized disposition and knowledge of the principles and guiding principles of the field of study in his/her relational-interpretive complexity, argumentative persuasiveness, and propositional value, including interactions with related disciplines. The student is familiar with the theoretical-methodological aspects and scientific methods of research with a focus on contextual linguistics, innovative processes in the German language, cultural-historical, cultural-theoretical and critical reflection on cultural phenomena in the German-speaking area.
2. Skills:
The graduate is characterized by independent, critical and analytical thinking, which he/she applies in dynamically changing conditions. He/she has developed the prerequisites for solving challenging research problems with a high degree of originality and societal contribution, for creative formulation and programming of scientific tasks. He/she is able to reflect on the ethical and socio-cultural aspects of scientific work, the publication of its results and their creative application in practice. He/she is able to select the objects of scientific research, to choose techniques of discovering, acquiring, verifying and processing data, and to handle the diagnosis and forecasting of scientific research.
3. Professional competences:
The graduate is prepared to design individually and in groups, to organize professionally, to clearly determine the focus of research, to coordinate a research team productively and to socially cultivate scientific research in a defined field as a professionally-communicatively competent and methodologically knowledgeable specialist with a considerable interdisciplinary background. He/she is aware of the development trends and application possibilities of research in the field of German studies and is able to reflect on the ethical and socio-cultural aspects of scientific work and its creative use in practice. He/she is able to argue convincingly the relations between theory and empirics, to come up with his/her own conclusions, original proposals and progressive solutions to problems in the main areas of the field of study.
4. Transferable competences:
The graduate is able to conceptualize scientific problems effectively and apply the main principles of scientific collaboration in domestic and international contexts. He/she respects the main managerial conditions and principles of critiquing and processing domestic and international scientific proposals, projects and concepts. Masters the procedures of scientific discussion, selection and use of means and forms of research metacommunication for publishing results in competitively demanding conditions and applies them independently in front of the professional community and the wider cultural public in the Slovak Republic and abroad. He/she is able to perceive the ethical and social aspects of scientific work, to present results, to contribute to the development of the field of study, including with regard to practice. Plans his/her own development and further systematic education.
- university lecturer
- secondary school teacher
- professional/researcher in scientific institutions
- diplomatic officer/diplomat
- staff member of specialised international institutions (UNESCO, ...)
- employee or manager of institutions mediating contacts between the Slovak Republic and German-speaking countries
- specialised, highly professional interpreter/translator (law, science, fiction, ...)
- court interpreter/translator
- a worker or manager in cultural institutions of a national or international nature (museums, foreign cultural centres, ...)
- worker or manager in international trade
- personnel officer or manager (recruitment and care of foreign workers from German-speaking areas) tourism officer or manager
- highly qualified tour guide
- worker or manager in non-profit organisations
- curator of exhibitions in museums, galleries, ...
- publicist
- political scientist
- professional commentator, reporter in public or private media.
German language and culture in professional communication / full-time, external/
Applications for admission to PhD studies - until 30 April 2024
Detailed information about PhD studies on the department's website
Topics of dissertations available HERE.
Do you have questions about the study programme? Ask the main supervisor
prof. Peter Ďurčo, CSc.
: peter.durco@ucm.sk