Graduate Profile: The study programme is specified in the structure compulsory courses – compulsory optional courses – optional courses. We offer compulsory courses that reflect the present-day needs of doctoral studies: in the field of methodology development and development of ethical and philosophical issues. The study programme Slovak National History focuses on student specialization based on the chosen topic of dissertation. Seminars and colloquiums are tailored to the chosen topic. The aim of these seminars and colloquiums is to facilitate deep understanding of the researched issue, so that the specific topic of dissertation will be original and beneficial for Slovak and international academia. Thanks to his/her own pedagogical activity, a doctoral student acquires skills to elaborate semestral courses on adequate level, prepare study materials and communicate with students. In terms of optional courses, a doctoral student acquires credits for the completion of a study mobility in foreign academic and scientific institutions, where they obtain important benefits for participation in internationally accepted scientific and development activity. A doctoral student is evaluated for publications and his/her own contribution to the individual projects.
Graduate Employment: Graduate is able to individually perform scientific, research, publication and pedagogical tasks, as well as other specified and scientifically complex tasks. He/she can be employed in academic and university environment, as well as memory and collection institutes (archives, museums and galleries, monuments preservation institutes, libraries) or in third sector organisations and institutes, foundations and citizen’s associations. He/she is able to work at leading positions requiring extensive knowledge of methodology and approaches in historical sciences also aimed at scientific, publication, project and creative activity. He/she can work at positions in archives, organise and process archive units and funds use them based on their historical and context appropriateness in their scientific, publication and project outcomes, they can work in museums and galleries mostly at leading positions like an expert custodian with the ability to process collections (records and cataloguisation) as well as to evaluate them mostly in the historical context of Slovak national history in wider Central European environment. He/she can apply his/her knowledge and skills in modern museum work and non-museum presentations, as well as in the field of active preservation of monuments and terrain administration as independent researcher.
