Summary of literature of compulsory and optional subjects of the study program Didactics of Philosophy relevant to the content of the subject of the state exam.
Šuch, J.: Vybrané problémy z vyučovania filozofie, Prešov, Metodicko-pedagogické centrum, 2002. Petersen, W.H.: Učebnica všeobecnej didaktiky. Bratislava, 1993. Petlák, E.: Všeobecná didaktika. Bratislava, 1997. Petty, G.: Moderní vyučování. Praha, 1996. Kyriacou, Ch.: Klíčové dovednosti učitele, Praha, 1996. Novotný, Z.: Jak (se) učit filosofii. Olomouc, 2004.
Thematic areas:
1. A. Specific objectives in philosophy classes; B. Lesson presentation on a selected problem or figure in pre-Socratic philosophy.
2. A. Critical thinking in philosophy classes - affective strategies (description, explanation); B. Lesson presentation on a selected problem in Plato's philosophy.
3. A. Critical thinking in philosophy classes - cognitive strategies (description, explanation); B. Lesson presentation on a selected problem in Aristotle's philosophy.
4. A. Critical thinking in philosophy classes - cognitive strategies (description, explanation); B. Lesson presentation on a selected problem or a personality from medieval philosophy.
5. A. Organisation of teaching in the philosophy class; B. Lesson presentation on a selected problem or figure in Renaissance philosophy.
6. A. Classification and alternative forms of assessment in philosophy classes; B. Lesson presentation on a selected problem in modern rationalist philosophy.
7. A. Structure and writing philosophic papers and essays; B. Lesson presentation on a selected problem in modern empirist philosophy.
8. A. Criteria for assessment of written papers, essays in philosophy;
B. Lesson presentation on a selected problem in Kant's philosophy.
9. A. Material resources in philosophy classes; B. Lesson presentation on a selected problem or figure in19th century philosophy.
10. A. The personality of the philosophy teacher, graduation examination and secondary school professional activity in philosophy; B. Lesson presentation on a selected problem or figure in 20th century philosophy.
The students can take the state exam
a) After obtaining at least such number of credits that after obtaining credits for successful completion of state exams, they achieve the necessary number of credits for the proper completion of studies,
b) After successful completion of compulsory subjects, compulsory elective subjects, and elective subjects in the composition determined by the study program,
c) After fulfilling the student's obligations arising from § 71, par. 3 letter b of the Higher Education Act, d) If no disciplinary action is taken against them.
Successful completion of the state exam is one of the conditions for successful completion of the study program. The subject of the state exam is evaluated by the committee for state exams using the grading scale A-FX. The evaluation of the state exam or its part is decided by the exam committee by consensus. If the exam committee does not reach a consensus, the evaluation of the state examination or its part is decided by voting.
On the basis of the wording of the study regulations of the faculty (Internal Rules and Regulations 5/2020, Art. 15), the framework dates of state exams are set by the dean in accordance with the faculty’s academic schedule. Departments are obliged to publish the dates of their state exams on the website no later than 5 weeks before they take place. The student registers for the state exam through the academic information system (AIS) at least three weeks before it takes place.
The student is entitled to one regular and two resit attempts of the state exam. The regular attempt is the one for which the student applied for the first time within the deadline set for state exams. If the student was evaluated with the FX mark on the regular attempt of the state exam, the student may take resits of the state exam
a) on the following dates assigned for state exams in the relevant academic year, or
b) on the dates assigned for state exams in one of the following academic years in accordance with § 65, par. 2 of the Higher Education Act.
If the student is unable to come on the day of the state exam for which they have registered on serious grounds, they are obliged to apologize in writing to the chairman of the exam committee in advance or no later than three working days after the date of the state exam or its part, if there were serious obstacles that prevented them to do so in advance. If the student does not attend the state exam or its part without an excuse within the specified period, or if the chairman of the exam committee does not accept their excuse, they are assessed with the FX grade from that attempt of the state exam.
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1. The student arrives on the registered date of the state exam according to the schedule set by the department.
2. The student receives a question from the subject of the state exam, which is submitted in writing and anonymously in the form of a random selection from printed questions or a generator.
3. The exam committee will provide the student with reasonable time to prepare an oral answer to the question.
4. The student presents the prepared answer to the question in front of the exam committee and answers the additional questions.
5. After the student finishes their answer, the exam committee decides on the results of the state exam in a closed session of the exam committee.
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After successfully passing the state final examination in the subject Didactics of Philosophy, students have adequate theoretical knowledge in the field of didactics of philosophy, as well as practical skills in conceiving, conducting and organizing a teaching lesson in philosophy at secondary school. On the basis of an oral answer to one selected question, consisting of two sub-questions from the subject Didactics of Philosophy (one question concerning theoretical knowledge would use in the design of a model lesson in the teaching of philosophy), the student demonstrates the ability to interpret and practically demonstrate the acquired knowledge on the subject, as well as to respond promptly in the course of the discussion to the questions raised.
1. Kolář, Peter - Svoboda, Vladimír. Logika a etika. Úvod do metaetiky. Praha: Filosofia, 1997. ISBN: 80-7007-100-1.
2. BRÁZDA, Radim: Ethicum. Zlín: VeRBuM, 2010. ISBN: 978-80-904273-9-6.
3. LONGINO, Helen. Usmerňovanie sociálneho obratu vo filozofii vedy. Filozofia. 2009. roč. 64, č. 4, s. 312-324. ISSN 0046-385X (Available on: http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/filozofia/2009/4/312-323.pdf).
5. SZAPUOVÁ, Mariana, NUHLÍČEK, Martin, CHABADA, Michal (eds). Veda, spoločnosť a hodnoty. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, 2019. ISBN 978-80-223-4749-5
(selected chapters)
6. GAHÉR, František. Logická sémantika a všeobecná teória prekladu. Bratislava: Stimul, 2010. ISBN 978-80-89236-97-8. Available on: https://stella.uniba.sk/texty/fg-lsavtp.pdf
7. GAHÉR, František, ŠTEVČEK, Marek, BRAXATORIS, Martin. Nástroje a pravidlá produkcie a interpretácie koncízneho textu (s osobitným zreteľom na normativitu). In: Jazykovedný časopis. 2019, roč. 70, č. 1, s. 75-94. ISSN (online) 1338-4287.
8. GAHÉR, František. Vetné operátory: ich interakcie (s vektormi času, kauzality a epistemickej relevancie) a ich konštrukcie. In: Jazykovedný časopis. 2020, roč. 71, č. 2, s. 197-212. ISSN (online) 1338-4287.
9. BIELIK, Lukáš. Metodologické aspekty vedy. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, 2019. ISBN 978-80-223-4788-4
10. DALY, Chris. An Introduction to Philosophical Methods. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-55111-934-2.
11. H. Holzhey, W. Röd: Filosofie 19. A 20. století. II. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2006.
12. R. Thurnher, W. Röd, H. Schmidinger: Filosofie 19. A 20. století. III. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2009.
13. J. Bodnár, P. Cmorej, I. Hrušovský, A. Riška, ed.: Logický empirizmus a filozofia prírodných vied. Antológia z diel filozofov, 9. zv. Bratislava: VPL, 1968.
Thematic areas: History of Philosophy:
1. Phenomenological method, the phenomenological understanding of consciousness and intentionality, and the phenomenological critique of naturalism and historicism (Husserl, Heidegger).
2. Existentialism and its view of the authentic form of the life of the human individual and the philosophical approach to existence and being. The issue of freedom and the meaning of human existence (Sartre, Jaspers).
3. Heidegger's philosophy of being and his analysis of the structures of human existence. The concept of the existential and ontological differentiation.
4. Theory of knowledge and understanding of truth and science in classical pragmatism (Peirce, James, Dewey).
5. Critical theory of the Frankfurt School: neo-Marxist critique of Western civilization and the theory of communicative rationality (Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas).
6. Radical critique of metaphysics and different conceptions of metaphysics in 20th century philosophy (logical positivism, Heidegger, pragmatism, Frankfurt School, Derrida).
7. The notion of structure and the basic features of the structural method in French structuralist and post-structuralist philosophy (Lévi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, Althusser).
8. The turn to language and the role of modern logic in early analytic philosophy (Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein). Conceptual analysis as a method of philosophy. Fregean semantics.
9. The concept of philosophy and the philosophy of science in logical positivism and logical empiricism (Vienna Circle, Berlin Society for Empirical Philosophy).
10. Philosophical reflection on the postmodern situation in society and science (Lyotard). Deconstructive reading of texts as a way of philosophizing (Derrida)
Social and ethical problems of science:
1. The social turn in the philosophy of science, its assumptions and consequences
2. Values in science and the problem of value neutrality of scientific knowledge
3. Feminist epistemology and the problem of the social nature of scientific knowledge
4. Science as a social institution and the normative structure of science
5. Ethics in science and ethics of science (internal and external ethics of science)
Methods of science and philosophy
1. Sources of knowledge and classification of statements
2. Thought experiments and their function in science and philosophy
3. Conceptual analysis and definition
4. Testing: scientific hypotheses and philosophical theses
5. Scientific theories: structure and functions
The students can take the state exam:
a) After obtaining at least such number of credits that after obtaining credits for successful completion of state exams, they achieve the necessary number of credits for the proper completion of studies,
b) After successfully completing the compulsory subjects, compulsory elective subjects, and elective subjects in the composition determined by the study program,
c) After fulfilling the student's obligations arising from § 71, par. 3 letter b of the Higher Education Act, d) If no disciplinary action is taken against them.
Successful completion of the state exam is one of the conditions for successful completion of the study program. The subject of the state exam is evaluated by the committee for state exams using the grading scale A-FX. The evaluation of the state exam or its part is decided by the exam committee by consensus. If the exam committee does not reach a consensus, the evaluation of the state examination or its part is decided by voting.
On the basis of the wording of the study regulations of the faculty (Internal Rules and Regulations 5/2020, Art. 15), the framework dates of state exams are set by the dean in accordance with the faculty’s academic schedule. Departments are obliged to publish the dates of their state exams on the website no later than 5 weeks before they take place. The student registers for the state exam through the academic information system (AIS) at least three weeks before it takes place.
The student is entitled to one regular and two resit attempts of the state exam. The regular attempt is the one for which the student applied for the first time within the deadline set for state exams. If the student was evaluated with the FX mark on the regular attempt of the state exam, the student may take resits of the state exam
a) On the following dates assigned for state exams in the relevant academic year, or
b) On the dates assigned for state exams in one of the following academic years in accordance with § 65, par. 2 of the Higher Education Act.
If the student is unable to come on the day of the state exam for which they have registered on serious grounds, they are obliged to apologize in writing to the chairman of the exam committee in advance or no later than three working days after the date of the state exam or its part, if there were serious obstacles that prevented them to do so in advance. If the student does not attend the state exam or its part without an excuse within the specified period, or if the chairman of the exam committee does not accept their excuse, they are assessed with the FX grade from that attempt of the state exam.
Slovak
1. The student arrives on the registered date of the state exam according to the schedule set by the department.
2. The student receives a question from the subject of the state exam, which is submitted in writing and anonymously in the form of a random selection from printed questions or a generator.
3. The exam committee will provide the student with reasonable time to prepare an oral answer to the question.
4. The student presents the prepared answer to the question in front of the exam committee and answers the additional questions.
5. After the student finishes their answer, the exam committee decides on the results of the state exam in a closed session of the exam committee.
The course of the state exam and the announcement of its results are public.
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In the final state examination in the subject Philosophy, the students demonstrate adequate knowledge of the history of philosophy (history of philosophy of the 20th century), as well as of the profile, compulsory elective and elective subjects. On the basis of an oral answer to two selected questions from the subject Philosophy (one question from the history of philosophy and the other from systematic philosophy), the students demonstrate the ability to interpret the acquired knowledge on a given issue, as well as respond promptly in the discussion to the questions raised.
Primary and secondary literature according to courses taken.
The student presents his/her knowledge of the history of German Austrian and Swiss literature (authors and works according to a detailed list published on the department's website) in the form of an oral examination. The student presents knowledge of German phraseology in the form of an oral examination.
A student may take the state examination a) after obtaining at least the number of credits necessary for the proper completion of studies after obtaining credits for successful completion of state examinations, b) after successful completion of compulsory courses, compulsory elective courses and elective courses in the composition determined by the study programme, c) after fulfilling the student's obligations arising from Section 71, paragraph 3, letter b of the Higher Education Act, d) if there are no disciplinary proceedings against him/her. Successful completion of the subject of the state examination is one of the conditions for successful completion of the study programme. The subject of the state examination shall be evaluated by the State Examination Board with classification grades A to FX. The marking of the state examination or part thereof is decided by consensus by the examination board. If the Board of Examiners fails to reach a consensus, the marking of the State examination or part thereof shall be decided by vote. In accordance with the wording of the Faculty's study regulations (VP 5/2020, Art. 15), the framework dates for state examinations are set by the Dean and with the Faculty's study schedule. Departments are obliged to publish their state examination dates on the website at least 5 weeks before the examination. The student shall register for the state examination via the academic information system at least three weeks before the date of the examination. A student is entitled to one regular and two make-up examination dates. The regular examination date is the one for which the student first applied on the date set for the national examinations. If a student has been awarded a grade of FX in the regular state examination, the student may take the make-up state examination dates (a) on subsequent state examination dates in the relevant academic year, or (b) on state examination dates in any of the following academic years in accordance with section 65(2) of the Higher Education Act. If a student is unable, for serious reasons, to attend a state examination date for which he or she has registered, he or she shall be obliged to apologise in writing to the chair of the examination board in advance or, at the latest, within three working days after the date of the state examination or part thereof if there were serious obstacles preventing him or her from apologising in advance. If the student fails to appear for the state examination or part thereof on the specified date without an excuse, or if the chairman of the examination board does not accept the student's excuse, the student shall be marked with a grade of FX for that date of the state examination. The student must achieve a pass mark of at least 60% in all parts of the state examination.
1. The student shall attend the registered date of the state examination according to the schedule set by the department.
2. The student presents knowledge of the history of modern German, Austrian, and Swiss literature and his/her own reading experience with selected works according to the list of works published on the department's website. This part of the state examination is carried out in the form of an oral examination.
3. The student is able to make a structural, semantic and pragmatic analysis of the selected phraseology on the basis of an authentic text and to describe it also in terms of lexicography and contrast; this part of the state examination is carried out in the form of an oral or written examination.
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The student has an overview of selected works of modern German, Austrian and Swiss literature and is able to place them in the context of the overall work of the authors and the broader socio-cultural discourses of the period. Emphasis is placed on one's own reading experience and ability to interpret a given literary work. The student is proficient in the basic theoretical knowledge of German phraseology and can demonstrate active phraseological competence.
Gemeinsamer europäischer Referenzrahmen für Sprachen: lernen, lehren, beurteilen. 2001 Europarat, Strassburg..
Bimmel, P.; Kast, B; Neuner, G.: Deutschunterricht planen. Fernstudieneinheit 18. 2003 Goethe-Institut, München.
Huneke, H.-W.; Steinig, W.: Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Eine Einführung. 2010 Berlin
In the form of an oral examination, the student presents knowledge from the field of didactics of German as a foreign language as well as from the development of didactic theories and methods with an emphasis on important components of communicative teaching.
The student must achieve a grade of at least 60% in each part of the state examination.
Preparation of a lesson based on a didactic objective
Didacticisation of authentic material (textual, visual, auditory media)
Analysis of the proposed lesson, theoretical justification of the procedures
Basic communication skills: reading, listening, writing, speaking
Teaching pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar in the classroom
Motivation, learning styles and strategies, learner autonomy
Phases of the lesson, method of didactic analysis
Media in foreign language teaching
Theories and methods of foreign language acquisition
The graduate is able to design a lesson on the basis of didactic principles in order to meet the didactic objectives. The student is able to work independently with different types of media (e.g. textual, visual, auditory) and use them effectively in the classroom. Can support and justify his/her practices with didactic theory.