Department of Psychology, University of Ljubljana

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Oddelek za psihologijo, Univerza v Ljubljani

Aškerčeva 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://psy.ff.uni-lj.si

Phone386 (0) 1 241 1150

Managed byFaculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana

Klas Matija Brenk, Head of Department

km.brenk@ff.uni-lj.si

Phone386 (0) 1 241 3595

The Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana has a respectable history. On the university level it has been taught since 1919, the year when University of Ljubljana was founded. Today, the Department offers undergraduate, taught postgraduate and guided research programmes in Psychology.

History

Psychology was taught at the Faculty of Arts since 1919 when the first teacher, philosopher Franc Veber, was the first to gave lectures. Karel Ozvald from Department of Pedagogy was the second but they both had Little or no influence on the establishment of the independent Department of Psychology.

On the initiative of Mihajlo Rostohar, professor from Charles University in Prague, the Department was constituted after the Second World War in 1950. The same year, on Rostohar’s initiative the Institute of Psychology was established. His main field of study was general psychology, child psychology, social psychology, psychology of disability and history of psychology. Rostohar became the first Head of Department.

In the first decade, the Department went through several changes. It also introduced new chairs, chair of general psychology, chair of developmental psychology, chair of educational psychology, chair of clinical psychology, chair of industrial psychology, chair of statistics and psychometrics. The Department was reorganised, the two-subject programme was cancelled and only one-subject study programme was possible.

In the 80s, the Department started to organise the postgraduate programme and with the cooperation with the Centro Studi Universitari Internacionali (CSUI) from Lugano, Switzerland introduced the Master programme.

Today

At the moment, the Department holds seven chairs: general psychology, psychological methodology, developmental psychology, social psychology, clinical psychology, educational psychology and psychology of work. At the moment, the Department offers seven undergraduate courses taught in English. Besides full-time and part-time undergraduate study, the student can obtain a Master degree and on the doctoral level acquire the title Doctor of Psychological Science. Students can follow four PhD study tracks: experimental psychology, developmental studies in psychology, psychology of personality, applicative psychological studies. The students are active in the student association and publish their own student journal Panika (Panic).

The Department is active in international cooperation. It has several partnerships with regional universities and also within the ERASMUS/SOCRATES student exchange network in Austria (Alpen-Adria Univeristaet, Klagenfurt), Belgium (Lessius Hogeschool), France (Universite de Reims Champagne-Ardenne), Hungary (University of Pecs), Germany (Freie Universitaet Berlin), Netherlands (University of Maastricht), Norway (University of Bergen), Portugal (ISLA), Slovakia (Comeniuis University, Bratislava), Spain (University of Granada, University of Laguna, University of Salamanca, Autonomous University of Barcelona, University of Jaen), Switzerland (University of Basel).

The Slovene Psychological Association publishes journal Psihološka obzorja (Horizons of Psychology). The articles and papers are published in Slovenian and in English, the full texts are available as pdf files in DLib.si - Digital Library of Slovenia.

See also

• University of Ljubljana
• Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
• Department of Psychology Library, University of Ljubljana

External links

• Department of Psychology, University of Ljubljana website (in English)
• Slovene Psychological Association (in Slovenian and English)
• Digital Library of Slovenia (in Slovenian and English)