Friday, 03 September 2010
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About the Programme

Information Science is new and perhaps the most dynamic trend of having cognizance of the world. The development of Information Science is connected to the processes of informatisation and universalisation of information methods and globalization of information processes. The Library-information studies branch, as the result of applying informative and communicational technologies, is markedly changing the content, form and methods of work and only slightly deals with the traditional concepts of Library Science. It leads up to the general communication of information, management of knowledge and seeking methods of orientation of a human being in the global information environment. We are recently witnesses of the effort of uniting Europe in all the fields of social life, which is reflected also in the struggle to create European multicultural dimension. At the same time, this effort is accompanied with the need to keep and protect the national cultural heritage as a unique means for creating national awareness. Without documentation of national past and without keeping its present it is impossible to understand the national future in the context of unified Europe. Thus, exactly in this context we see the importance, necessity and value of the study programme Documentation of Cultural Heritage.

About the Faculty of Science

The Faculty of Science, which is the youngest faculty of the University of Zilina, was established in August 1998 to train teachers and provide instruction in mathematics and natural sciences. At present the faculty offers the Bachelor's degree programme in Applied Mathematics which in the Master's degree programme specializes in economic, financial, technical and physical issues. The Faculty also offers Bachelor's and Master's degree study programmes to prepare teachers of Mathematics, Physics, Informatics, English Language and Literature and Evangelical Religion, Ethics, Civics, Music (the students choose two of these subjects) and Playing the Musical Instrument. The Faculty provides Bachelor's degree study programmes in Social Pedagogy, Work with children and young people, Mediamatics and Documentation of Cultural Heritage. The Faculty of Science is authorized by City & Guilds Pitman Qualifications to provide English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) examinations.

Concerning the structure of the University of Žilina, the Faculty has ideal conditions to joint scientific and pedagogical potential in a field of basic science (Mathematics, Physics, Biology) with technical and economical science. This is fully applied in education of our students and postgraduates. Aspiration of our Faculty is to offer such study programmes, which are suitably personally and materially guaranteed and which are at the same time conceived in a way to enable our graduates to assert themselves on the Slovak and also on the European labour market.

Significant role of the Faculty is to provide also education of subjects in general fields for all six university faculties.

International Links

The Faculty of Science cooperates with the Mathematical Institute at the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic in Prague (CZ), Technical University Brno (CZ), University of Plzeň (CZ), University of Fukuoka (Japan), Institute of Mathematics of University of Technology of Poznaň (Poland), Mathematical Institute at the Hungarian Academy of Science (Hungary) and other mathematical institutions.

Extended Socrates Erasmus cooperation includes University of East London (UK), University of Derby (UK), Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), Linkoping University (Sweden), Aalborg University (Denmark), Roskilde Univesity (Denmark), Univesity of Patras (Greece), Technische Universität Graz (Austria), Fachhochschule Mittweida (Germany), Technische Universität Cottbus (Germany).

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