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KGE / VMEGS
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KGE
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VMEGS
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Academic Year
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2023/2024
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Academic Year
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2023/2024
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Title
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Upbringing and Thinking in Global Contex
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Form of course completion
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Pre-Exam Credit
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Form of course completion
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Pre-Exam Credit
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Long Title
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Upbringing and Thinking in Global Context
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
2
Cred.
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Type of completion
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-
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Type of completion
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-
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Time requirements
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Lecture
2
[Hours/Week]
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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Yes in the case of a previous evaluation 4 nebo nic.
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Included in study average
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NO
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Language of instruction
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Czech
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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Yes in the case of a previous evaluation 4 nebo nic.
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Summer semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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17 / -
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Included in study average
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NO
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Winter semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Minimum (B + C) students
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10
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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Czech
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
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Evaluation scale |
S|N |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Fundamental course |
No
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Evaluation scale |
S|N |
Substituted course
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None
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
Graphic PNG
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XLS
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Course objectives:
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The aim of this course is to make students aware of global issues of the world and globalization and engage them into the reflection on these problems and possibilities of contribution to their solution in general and personal level.
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Requirements on student
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Students must demonstrate the knowledge from lecture topics by test (70% - good).
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Content
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The course includes these items:
- A definition of globalization and fundamental concepts. The emergence of the globalization process and its principal participants. Analysis of selected global issues on model examples (e.g. the dynamics of demographic growth and sustainability, human settlements and sustainable development, diseases, health and globalization trends in contemporary society, threats to the diversity of life on the Earth).
- Index of human development, human rights, cultural differences. Human settlements and sustainable development.
- Global diseases - HIV / AIDS.
- Global migration within the context of Czech Republic.
- Climate changes - causes, the status and prognosis of the development of the global problem. Media coverage and political aspects of the problem. Interpretation of the topic at school. Interdisciplinary context of the topic.
- The definition of the concept ?sustainable development?. The origin, development and critical evaluation of the conception of sustainable development. Basic principles of sustainable development. Sustainable development indicators. Approaches to education of sustainable development.
- Economic globalization - economic development at the turn of the 20th and 21th century and its close relationship to globalization, the role of transnational corporations and foreign investment in this development, the international production network, the role of a state in the background of economic globalization.
- Modern-day changes in the society and in the world economy, the speed of progress in technology and communication (technology development and innovation as basic determinants of globalization, technology and economic transformation, technology virtually shrinking time and space, technological changes of the production, geography of innovation).
- The role of science in sustainable development, promotion of education, education towards sustainable development.
- The role of international organizations in the global world.
- Europe and the world, the importance of the European Union (the development of European integration, geographic potential of the European Union and its application).
- Czech Republic and globalization.
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Guarantors:
Doc. PaedDr. Alena Matušková, CSc. (100%),
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Lecturer:
Doc. PaedDr. Jaroslav Dokoupil, Ph.D. (100%),
Mgr. Martin Kebza (100%),
Mgr. David Klika ,
Doc. RNDr. Jan Kopp, Ph.D. (100%),
Doc. PaedDr. Alena Matušková, CSc. (100%),
RNDr. Jiří Preis, Ph.D. (100%),
RNDr. David Vogt, Ph.D. (100%),
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Literature
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Basic:
Mezřický, Václav. Globalizace/. Praha : Portál, 2003. ISBN 80-7178-748-5.
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Basic:
Baar, V., Houdková, Z. Výchova k myšlení v evropských a globálních souvislostech. Praha, 2010. ISBN 978-80-86034-83-.
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Recommended:
Barnett, Tony; Whiteside, Alan. AIDS in the twenty-first century : disease and globalization. Houndmills : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. ISBN 1-4039-0005-1.
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Recommended:
Capra, F. Bod obratu, Věda, společnost a nová kultura.. Praha: DharmaGaia a Maťa, 2002. ISBN 80-85905-42-6.
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Recommended:
Beck, Ulrich. Co je to globalizace? : omyly a odpovědi. Brno : Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury (CDK), 2007. ISBN 978-80-7325-123-9.
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Recommended:
Moldan, Bedřich. Ekologická dimenze udržitelného rozvoje. Praha : Karolinum, 2001. ISBN 80-246-0246-6.
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Recommended:
Evropská unie od A do Z : příručka evropské integrace ; z něm. orig. přel. Alois Mikeštík a Marie Bednaříková. Praha : Karolinum, 1997. ISBN 80-7184-413-6.
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Recommended:
Antošová, N. Globální problémy lidstva. Ostrava: VŠB, 2006. ISBN 80-248-1048-4.
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Recommended:
Barros, Vicente. Globální změna klimatu. Praha : Mladá fronta, 2006. ISBN 80-204-1356-1.
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Recommended:
Gordon, Anita; Suzuki, David. Jde o přežití. 1. vyd. Beroun : Baroko & Fox, 1994. ISBN 80-85642-10-7.
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Recommended:
Fukuyama, Francis. Konec dějin a poslední člověk. Praha : Rybka Publishers, 2002. ISBN 80-86182-27-4.
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Recommended:
Tomeš, Jiří; Festa, David; Novotný, Josef. Konflikt světů a svět konfliktů : střety idejí a zájmů v současném světě. Praha : P3K, 2007. ISBN 978-80-903587-6-8.
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Recommended:
Fromm, Erich. Mít, nebo být?. Vyd. tohoto překladu 1. Praha : Aurora, 2001. ISBN 80-7299-036-5.
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Recommended:
Toffler, Alvin; Toffler, Heidi. Nová civilizace : třetí vlna a její důsledky. Praha : Nakladatelství Dokořán, 2001. ISBN 80-86569-00-4.
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Recommended:
Nováček, P. Ohrožená planeta na prahu 21. století. Olomouc, UP, 1998. ISBN 80-901890-859-3.
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Recommended:
Cabada, L., Šanc, D. Panregiony ve 21. století. Plzeň, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7380-357-5.
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Recommended:
Meadows, Donella H.; Meadows, Dennis L.; Randers, Jörgen. Překročení mezí : konfrontace globálního kolapsu s představou trvale udržitelné budoucnosti. 1. vyd. Praha : Argo, 1995. ISBN 80-85794-83-7.
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Recommended:
Moldan, Bedřich. Příroda a civilizace : Životní prostředí a rozvoj lidské civilizace. 1. vyd. Praha : Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1997. ISBN 80-04-26434-4.
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Recommended:
Lomborg, Bj?rn. Skeptický ekolog : jaký je skutečný stav světa?. Praha : Dokořán, 2006. ISBN 80-7363-059-1.
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Recommended:
Huntington, Samuel P. Střet civilizací : boj kultur a proměna světového řádu. Praha : Rybka Publishers, 2001. ISBN 80-86182-49-5.
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Recommended:
Šíbl, Drahoš; Šaková, Beáta. Svetová ekonomika : internacionalizácia, integrácia, globalizácia, interdependencia. Bratislava : Sprint, 2004. ISBN 80-88848-60-1.
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Recommended:
Cihelková, Eva. Světová ekonomika : nové jevy a perspektivy. Praha : C.H. Beck, 2001. ISBN 80-7179-311-6.
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Recommended:
Jonáš, Jiří. Světová ekonomika na přelomu tisíciletí. Praha : Management Press, 2000. ISBN 80-7261-016-3.
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Recommended:
Vallin, Jacques; Rychtaříková, Jitka. Světové obyvatelstvo. Praha : Academia, 1992. ISBN 80-200-0437-8.
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Recommended:
Fromm, Erich. Umění být. 1. vyd. Praha : Naše vojsko, 1994. ISBN 80-206-0225-9.
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Recommended:
Kočárek, E. Vědy o Zemi a medicína. Praha : Karolinum., 2004.
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Recommended:
Porritt, Jonathon. Zachraňme Zemi. Praha : Brázda, 1992. ISBN 80-209-0217-1.
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Recommended:
Jeníček, Vladimír; Foltýn, Jaroslav. Životní prostředí a trvale udržitelný rozvoj v soustavě globálních problémů. Praha : Vysoká škola ekonomická-Fakulta mezinárodních vztahů, 1996. ISBN 80-85368-94-3.
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On-line library catalogues
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Time requirements
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All forms of study
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Activities
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Time requirements for activity [h]
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Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40)
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40
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Contact hours
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13
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Total
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53
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Prerequisites
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Knowledge - students are expected to possess the following knowledge before the course commences to finish it successfully: |
None |
Skills - students are expected to possess the following skills before the course commences to finish it successfully: |
no specific |
Competences - students are expected to possess the following competences before the course commences to finish it successfully: |
none |
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Learning outcomes
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Knowledge - knowledge resulting from the course: |
critically assess the positive and negative aspects of globalization, its perspectives |
to understand, be able to explain and apply in context the concepts of globalization, global problems of humanity, globalization in trade, economics, culture, etc., local and regional problems in relation to global problems |
to include in time the origin of the process of globalization and to name its main actors |
to consider and critically assess information sources related to global issues, with an effort to verify their credibility and veracity |
to name, assess and consider the possible effects of global problems, directly affecting humans and as individual human beings (the problem of spreading diseases and drugs, the problem of poverty, terrorism, problems of illegal migration of people, etc.) on society (in global and regional perspective) and on individuals
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to seek, identify and understand global changes and problems in the environment, try to understand and, to the extent possible, contribute to their non-deepening, consider possible strategies |
Skills - skills resulting from the course: |
make a geographical description of the region |
evaluate the potential and assumptions of the development of the region |
Competences - competences resulting from the course: |
N/A |
evaluate the position of administrative regions in the state |
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Assessment methods
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Knowledge - knowledge achieved by taking this course are verified by the following means: |
Test |
Continuous assessment |
Oral exam |
Skills - skills achieved by taking this course are verified by the following means: |
Seminar work |
Continuous assessment |
Written exam |
Competences - competence achieved by taking this course are verified by the following means: |
Written exam |
Continuous assessment |
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Teaching methods
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Knowledge - the following training methods are used to achieve the required knowledge: |
Lecture |
Lecture with visual aids |
Lecture supplemented with a discussion |
Self-study of literature |
One-to-One tutorial |
Skills - the following training methods are used to achieve the required skills: |
Lecture supplemented with a discussion |
Task-based study method |
Individual study |
Competences - the following training methods are used to achieve the required competences: |
Lecture supplemented with a discussion |
Seminar |
Individual study |
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