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 predecessor of today’s Faculty of Social Sciences was established in 1961 under the name the College of Political Sciences, which in a few years developed and was renamed into the College of Sociology, Political Sciences and Journalism. In 1970, after becoming a member of the University of Ljubljana, the college was renovated and remodelled into the Faculty of Sociology, Political Sciences and Journalism (former FSPN). In 1991 the Faculty was renamed to the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Study programmes
The faculty offers interdisciplinary study programmes in the fields of Sociology, Communication Studies, Journalism, Political Science, and Cultural Studies. The newly established interdisciplinary doctoral programme Humanities and Social Sciences, which comprises 62 specialised areas, facilitates collaboration between the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Social Sciences, the Faculty of Theology, the Faculty of Computer and Information 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, which consists of 19 different research centres. The faculty also has its own publishing house, founded in 1995, which publishes scholarly books and research monographs and provides support to academic staff across all research disciplines. They annually publish around 30 works, some of which 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 constitutes one of the largest faculty libraries at the University of Ljubljana with more than 160,000 items of library material. The library has its own website.
International cooperation
The faculty offers a wide and comprehensive group of graduate and postgraduate courses in English.
The faculty boasts an impressive number of bilateral agreements and partner institutions the world over. It participates in the European student exchange and internship programme SOCRATES/ERASMUS, which allows students to spend a year studying in the following counties: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and Great Britain.
FDV Gallery, Gallery for Social Questions and Answers
In 2008 the faculty established a public exhibition space which would serve as an interdisciplinary space for communication. The inaugural exhibition, titled Pluralism of Art Practices, featured the work of postgraduate students of Academy of Fine Arts and Design. The gallery is welcomes international projects as well as visualisations of the students' research, such as the exhibitions Brand Images, a visual journey through the advertising history of Fructal and Labello, and Josip Broz Tito.
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
External links
- Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana website
- Jože Goričar Central Social Sciences Library website
- Who's afraid of the Red? - a student video created for the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Faculty of Social Sciences, 2011