Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
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19 Jan 2021
Mitja Velikonja (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana), author of the Post-Socialist Political Graffiti in the Balkans and Central Europe, participating in online discussion, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Belgrade,
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27 Apr 2016
Contextualizing Female Migration and Human Trafficking, a lecture by Simona Zavratnik (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana) and Sanja Cukut Krilić (Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU), Slovene Academy of Science and Arts), supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Washington,
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17 Jan 2014
8 Feb 2014
The Links, an exhibition of unique wood designs by Klara Zalokar and Klemen Zupančič (Handmade in Moste), OLoOP Design, Dejan Pfeifer (Studio Drevo), Tobias Putrih, Samo Gašperšič, Arne Vehovar, Nena Gabrovec and, Kaja Lipnik Vehovar, as well as the students of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana and Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana,
Background
The precursor of today’ Faculty was established in 1961 under the name College for Political Sciences, which after a few years developed and renamed into College for Sociology, Political Sciences and Journalism. In 1970, after joining to the University of Ljubljana, the College was renewed and remodelled as the Faculty for Sociology, Political Sciences and Journalism (former FSPN). In 1991 the Faculty was renamed to to Faculty of Social Sciences.
Study programmes
The Faculty has interdisciplinary study programmes in the field of Sociology, Communication Studies, Journalism, Political Science, Cultural Studies. The newly established interdisciplinary doctoral programme of Humanities and Social Sciences with 62 subject tracks enables links between the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Theology, the Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science, the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, and the Academy of Music at the University of Ljubljana.
Other activities
Within the Faculty operates the Institute of Social Sciences with 19 different research centres. The Faculty also has its own Publishing House which was founded in 1995. It is aimed for publishing reference literature, research studies and support for scientific development at the Faculty. Annually, they publish around 30 new works. Selected works are published as e-books and are available online (in Slovenian or English).
The Jože Goričar Central Social Sciences Library is a part of the Faculty and is with more than 160,000 units of library material one of the largest Faculty libraries at the University of Ljubljana. The Library has its own website.
International cooperation
The Faculty offers many undergraduate and graduate courses from different disciplines in Social Sciences in English.
The Faculty has an extensive range of bilateral agreements and partners institutions across the world. It has established a student exchange and internship programme SOCRATES/ERASMUS within the European university network (in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and Great Britain).
FDV Gallery, Gallery for Social Questions and Answers
In 2008 the Faculty established a public exhibiting space as an interdisciplinary space for communication. It kicked off with the exhibition Pluralism of Art Practices by the postgraduate students of Academy of Fine Arts and Design. The gallery is open to international projects as well as to visualisations of the students' researches (e.g. the exhibition Brand Images on the Fructal and Labello advertising history, Josip Broz Tito) also in collaboration with the civil society.
See also
- Institute of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
- Jože Goričar Central Social Sciences Library, University of Ljubljana
- Javnost (‘The Public’) Quarterly Journal
- Teorija in praksa Journal