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Subject |
Related Preparation |
1) |
Introduction to the course |
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2) |
History of Southeastern Europe |
Paschalis Kitromilides, “’Imagined Communities’ and the Origins of the National Question in the Balkans”, European History Quarterly, vol. 19 (1989), pp. 149-192; Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balkans, увод под насловом “Balkanism and Orientalism: Are they Different Categories?”, pp. 3-20; Laura Silber and Allan Little, The Death of Yugoslavia, BBC Books, Penguin 1996; Ana Ljubojević, Changing Memoryscapes in post- Yugoslav Countries: Social (Re)construction of Places of Memory, Contemporary Southeastern Europe Special Issue, 2021, 8(2), 24-31.
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3) |
Cultures and Societies of Southeastern Europe
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Vjekoslav Perica, Balkan Idols. Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslav States, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002; Eric Gordy, The Culture of Power in Serbia: Nationalism and the Destruction of Alternatives, University Park, Pa.: Penn State University Press, 1999); Andrew Wachtel, Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998; Moritz Pfeifer, Neighbors: Where do Emir Kusturica and Slavoj Žižek meet in Underground (1995)? Vol 13: 2012, https://eefb.org/retrospectives/where-do-emir-kusturica-and-slavoj-zizek-meet-in-underground-1995/. |
4) |
The economics of transition in Southeastern Europe: Open Balkans |
Saul Estrin, Grzegorz Kolodko, Milica Uvalic (eds) (2007), Transition and Beyond, Palgrave Macmillan; Milica Uvalic (2010, 2012), Serbia’s Transition/Tranzicija u Srbiji, Palgrave Macmillan and Zavod za udzbenike; M. Uvalic (2001), “Regional cooperation in Southeast Europe”, Southeast Europe and Black Sea Studies, vol. 1, no.1; M. Uvalic (2002), “Regional Co-operation and EU Enlargement – Lessons Learned”, International Political Science Review, 23/3. Gojko M. Rikalović; Dejan S. Molnar; Sonja N. Josipović. THE OPEN BALKAN AS A DEVELOPMENT DETERMINANT OF THE WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES. In: Acta Economica, Vol 20, Iss 36 (2022); University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Economics, 2022. |
5) |
Social transformation in contemporary Southeastern Europe |
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, “Deconstructing Balkan particularism: the ambiguous social
capital of Southeastern Europe,” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 5:1 (2005), pp. 49-68; Kathleen M. Dowley and Brian D. Silver, “Social Capital, Ethnicity and Support for Democracy in the Post-Communist States,” Europe-Asia Studies, 54:4 (2002), pp. 505-527; Ruby Gropas, “Integrating the Balkans in the European Union: Addressing social capital, the informal economy and regional co-operation challenges in Southeast Europe,” ELIAMEP, 2006.; Joel Hellman, “Winners Take All: The Politics of Partial Reform in Post-Communist Transitions," World Politics 50:2 (January 1998), pp. 203-234; Luljeta Demolli, property rights, economic dependence and the glass ceiling for women in Kosovo, Perspectives Southeastern Europe #10: Women in Western Balkans - Rights and Fights, HEINRICH-BÖLL-STIFTUNG, 2020, ss. 77-80.
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6) |
WRAP UP AND Q&A |
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7) |
Midterm Exam |
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8) |
European integration and enlargement |
Desmond Dinan, Europe Recast: History of European Integration, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2007; Dorian Jano, The Europeanization of the Western Balkans, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller; 2010; Heather Grabbe, The EU’s Transformative Power: Europeanization through Conditionality in Central and Eastern Europe, Palgrave Macmillan; 2006; Horvat, Srećko & Štiks, Igor. (2012). Welcome to the Desert of Transition!: Post-Socialism, the European Union, and a New Left in the Balkans. Monthly Review. 63. 38. 10.14452/MR-063-10-2012-03_4. Abdullah Sencer Gözübenli, and Nazli Tekeshanoska. “Europeanization of the Balkans vs. Balkanization of Europe: A Vision Limited by Realities.” 2018 UBT International Conference (2018). |
9) |
EU Policy towards South-Eastern Europe (SEE) |
Sabrina Ramet (ed.). Central and Southeast European Politics since 1989, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010; Mieczyslaw P. Boduszynski, Regime Change in the Yugoslav Successor States, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010; Tamara Banjeglav, ‘We Were Refugees Ourselves!’ Discursive Framing of the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Croatia and Collective Memories of the 1990s War Contemporary Southeastern Europe Research Articles, 2022, 9(1), 11-32; Eşref Yalınkılıçlı, FROM NEO-BALKANIZATION TO EUROPEANIZATION: INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND REGIONAL COOPERATION IN THE WESTERN BALKANS, Balkan Araştırma Enstitüsü Dergisi, Cilt/Volume 3, Sayı/Number 2, Aralık/December 2014, ss. 127-149. |
10) |
Human rights and minority protection in Southeastern Europe |
Joseph Marko, „Ethnopolitics. The Challenge for Human and Minority Rights Protection“, in: C. Corradetti (ed.): Philosophical Dimensions of Human Rights. Some Contemporary Views, Springer Publisher 2012; J. Marko, „The Law and Politics of Diversity Management: A Neo-institutional Approach“, in: European Yearbook of Minority Issues, Vol. 6, 2007/08 (2008); Ch. Ingrao, Th. Emmert (eds.), Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies. A Scholars’ Initiative, Purdue UP, 2009; Boris Pavelić, a Croatian story: “an extraordinary EU Member” at the price of human rights, Perspectives Southeastern Europe #8: "Stabilocracy" and/or radicalisation, HEINRICH-BÖLL-STIFTUNG, 2019, ss. 40-45. |
11) |
Presentations
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The Pre-accession strategy & The accession negotiations: Slovenia, Croatia |
12) |
Presentations |
The Pre-accession strategy & The accession negotiations: Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania |
13) |
Presentations |
The Pre-accession strategy & The accession negotiations: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo |
14) |
WRAP UP AND Q&A |
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
1) |
To have a grasp of basic mathematics, applied mathematics and theories and applications in Mathematics |
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2) |
To be able to understand and assess mathematical proofs and construct appropriate proofs of their own and also define and analyze problems and to find solutions based on scientific methods, |
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3) |
To be able to apply mathematics in real life with interdisciplinary approach and to discover their potentials, |
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4) |
To be able to acquire necessary information and to make modeling in any field that mathematics is used and to improve herself/himself, |
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5) |
To be able to tell theoretical and technical information easily to both experts in detail and non-experts in basic and comprehensible way, |
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6) |
To be familiar with computer programs used in the fields of mathematics and to be able to use at least one of them effectively at the European Computer Driving Licence Advanced Level,
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7) |
To be able to behave in accordance with social, scientific and ethical values in each step of the projects involved and to be able to introduce and apply projects in terms of civic engagement, |
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8) |
To be able to evaluate all processes effectively and to have enough awareness about quality management by being conscious and having intellectual background in the universal sense, |
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9) |
By having a way of abstract thinking, to be able to connect concrete events and to transfer solutions, to be able to design experiments, collect data, and analyze results by scientific methods and to interfere, |
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10) |
To be able to continue lifelong learning by renewing the knowledge, the abilities and the competencies which have been developed during the program, and being conscious about lifelong learning, |
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11) |
To be able to adapt and transfer the knowledge gained in the areas of mathematics ; such as algebra, analysis, number theory, mathematical logic, geometry and topology to the level of secondary school, |
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12) |
To be able to conduct a research either as an individual or as a team member, and to be effective in each related step of the project, to take role in the decision process, to plan and manage the project by using time effectively. |
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