Visit from the Pontifical University in Krakow
During the last week of May, the Department of Journalism of our Faculty of Arts and Letters welcomed visitors from the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow.
The dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences Michal Drozdz and the director of the Institute of Journalism Katarzyna Drag visited our institution within the framework of the Central European Exchange Program for University Studies (CEEPUS). The visitors were hosted by the dean Marek Babic and the chair of the department of journalism Pavel Izrael. Besides the talks and consultations, the goal of their visit was to deepen the cooperation between the two institutions in the area of journalism.
Visit from the Yarmouk University
Within the framework of Erasmus+ program, our University is establishing cooperation with new partners from the countries outside of the European Union.
We are excited to have started this cooperation also with Yarmouk University from Jordan. During this week, we are hosting the first visiting scholars from this institution. Mrs. Raidah Al-Ramadan and Mr. Bilal Sayaheen come from the program of translation studies and are giving talks about various aspects of translation and language use mainly for English students.
The Catholic Universities Partnership 2019
The Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest (Hungary) hosted on May, 10-12, 2019, conference entitled “Sustainability: on a social, legal, political and environmental basis”.
The Catholic University in Ružomberok was represented by M. Kozová, vice-rector for science, art and foreign relations, M. Babic, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters and the Institutional Erasmus+ Coordinator M. Moldová Chovancová.
A Course on Instagram
During the summer semester of 2018/2019, our Department of English Language and Literature opens a course on visual culture focusing on Instagram.
Students experienced in taking pictures or using Instagram habitually will be able to enhance their skills to utilize this social media platform. The instructor of the course, David Palatinus, designed a course that exploresthe ways in which Instagram has become a global visual cultural phenomenon in its own right, redefining ways of image production and consumption alike. By the end of the course, students will be able to identify the underlying debates about images and forms of visualization.