Faculty of Languages, Cultures and Comunications

Albanian Language and Studies Department

Study Programs

The University includes provisions for a secondary-school teacher training program and for professional and continuing teacher training. The training program comprises pedagogical methodology and liberal arts subject training.

Combining pedagogic training and up-to-date knowledge in the liberal arts subjects, the purpose of the teacher-training program is to respond to the need of ensuring an adequate supply of professionally well prepared teachers, whether prospective or currently in service.

Within this central objective, however, it is important to recognize that not all prospective teacher candidates will find actual teaching positions upon graduation. Many will be obliged, therefore, to seek employment in other market sectors. Similarly, a teaching career is often the gateway to other job opportunities, particularly in the public service and/or the service sector. Combining a strong foundation in basic skills and knowledge with a pronounced orientation toward broader applications, the program provides teachers with not only the skills necessary to imparting their knowledge, but also to adapting it to the wider work place.

In this way, the program achieves two objectives. Graduates will be well-qualified to teach as well as to apply their knowledge and skills to other professional pursuits. Simultaneously, they will be equipped to share these same skills with their students and thereby to better prepare them for the ever-changing market place.

The program will be implemented under the aegis of a single faculty of Pedagogy within the SEE University. It will consist of three inter-related components:

• Pedagogic Methodology
• Liberal Art Subject Training
• Professional and Continuing Training of Teachers

The first two will run concurrently as a four-year course of studies leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree. The third will consist of a more autonomous set of activities, though organized within the same faculty. The two semesters of the Pedagogic Methodology set of activities will consist of courses on general pedagogy, psychology, didactics, and research methodology, which will be available to all students. The remainder of the program will concentrate on teaching methodology concerning the specific subjects (majors) chosen by individual students.

Curriculum

Teacher Training - Common Curriculum - Semester 1

COURSES	W/S	Credits
English: Introductory spoken and written English	W	8
IT Skills: Training in packages and internet use	W	4
Approaches & Methods: Techniques of analysis, critique presentation	W	2
European Studies I	W	4
Macedonian Language and Studies	W	3
Albanian Language and Studies	W	3
Communication Technology: Impact on schools and society	W	2
Development, Education and Learning: Psychological perspectives, cross-cultural psychology	W	4
Totals	W	30

Teacher Training - Common Curriculum - Semester 2

COURSES	W/S	Credits
English Language II: intermediate spoken and written English	S	4
European Studies II- Institutions and Political Systems	S	4
Teaching and Learning Methodologies: cooperative education, multiple intelligence approach, problem-based learning, teaching and learning with multimedia	S	8
Albanian Language and Studies	S	4
Macedonian Language and Studies	S	4
Multicultural Issues in Education and Cross Cultural Education	S	4
Multicultural Action Research Seminar	S	2
Totals	S	30

Albanian Language and Studies - Semester 3

COURSES	W/S	Credits
Literature of Albanian romanticism and pre-romanticism I	W	6
Discourses for literature writing I	W	6
Selected chapters from general literature I	W	5
Translating Technique I	W	2
Phonetic I	W	4
Dialectologies I	W	4
General Linguistics I	W	3
Totals		30

Albanian Language and Studies - Semester 4

COURSES	W/S	Credits
Literature of Albanian romanticism and pre-romanticism II	S	6
Discourses for literature writing II	S	6
Selected chapters from general literature II	S	5
Translating Technique II	S	2
Phonetic II	S	4
Dialectologies II	S	4
General Linguistics II	S	3
Totals		30

Albanian Language and Studies - Semester 5

COURSES	W/S	Credits
Albanian literature of the first part of XX century I	W	6
Literary theory with literary theories I	W	6
European modern poetry I	W	3
Lexicology with semantics I	W	5
Albanian contemporary morphology I	W	5
Balkan Linguistics I	W	5
Totals	W	30

Albanian Language and Studies - Semester 6

COURSES	W/S	Credits
Albanian literature of the first part of XX century II	S	6
Literary theory with literary theories II	S	6
European modern poetry II	S	3
Lexicology with semantics II	S	5
Albanian contemporary morphology II	S	5
Balkan Linguistics II	S	5
Totals		30

Albanian Language and Studies - Semester 7

COURSES	W/S	Credits
Albanian literature of the second part of the XX century (contemporary) -Poetry I	W	6
Literature of the second part of the XX cen (contemporary)- Prose I	W	6
Southeast Europe Comparative Literature and selected chapters from general literature I	W	3
Contemporary Albanian Syntax I	W	5
History of the Albanian language I	W	5
Sociolinguistic I	W	5
Totals	W	30

Albanian Language and Studies - Semester 8

COURSES	W/S	Credits
Albanian literature of the second part of the XX century (contemporary) -Poetry II	S	6
Literature of the second part of the XX cen (contemporary)- Prose II	S	6
Southeast Europe Comparative Literature and selected chapters from general literature I I	S	3
Contemporary Albanian Syntax II	S	5
History of the Albanian language II	S	5
Sociolinguistic II	S	5
Totals	S	30