University of Szeged

Szeged, Hungary

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The course plans to introduce their temporary place of residence for the foreign visiting students. In the framework of contemporary cultural and social theory it aims to open up the contemporary social and cultural changes of the town. On the lectures selected pieces of the cultural landscape of the town will be presented. This will be contextualised by some insights on the cultural and psychological effects of migration.

The aim of the lecture is to enable students to know and use the basic notions and theories of business ethics. Students learn to recognize and analyse the moral dilemmas of business life (such as discrimination, fair wages, environmental pollution etc.). Based on theoretical knowledge, they understand the moral, social and economic environment, in which these questions arise. Moreover, students get to know ethical frameworks to use in analysis and ethical audit.

The course will give knowledge to the participants in theory and practice as well. It will show a colourful picture of different type of fighting games, combat sports and self defence. The course will focus on the base technics of combat sports.

To understand the importance and basic concepts of first aid, as well as the steps of patient-centered care and be able to make independent decisions or seek help in an out-of-hospital setting. The goal is to develop first aid skills in prehospital situations that are difficult to deal with in many circumstances and to identify the most common diseases without diagnostic options. Get to know the up-to-date, new professional protocols and approach to rescue.

The course is designed to help students starting their artistic and/or pedagogical career. Laws, institutions, non-profit and for-profit organizations, public support, sponsorship, self-management, value-based strategic planning, contractual and financial strategies will be examined from theoretical point of view during the first term. The second term will focus on practical skills: students write an effective CV, plan their diploma concert, make a recording of their music performance and upload it on the net.

Aim of the course is to introduce basics of food safety. How can be produce food for human consumption taking the strict food safety background, which is authorized worldwide? Subjects: Definitions: definition of food, food safety. Food safety in the EU: EC regulation 178/2002. Principles of the general food law. EFSA and RASFF. HACCP. Risk assessment, management and communication. Principles of HACCP. „From farm to fork” concept: Agriculture: food safety aspects of crop cultivation and husbandry. Food safety aspects of food processing. GMP, GHP, new technologies. Distribution of foods. Food retail. Food safety aspects for the catering industry and for home made foods. Hygiene: Cleaning and disinfection in the food industry. Hygiene at home.

The course presents a review of two culture-related areas in sociopragmatic research: cross-cultural pragmatics, which deals with differences in verbal behavior across languages and cultures, and intercultural pragmatics, which examines actual communication between speakers of different languages and cultures. The course presents empirical research in both areas, reviews different explanatory frameworks used to account for the observed differences, and addresses methodological issues related to these two subfields of pragmatics.

The course ends in a final written exam.

This course aims at introducing everyday life in Hungary through lectures, readings, discussions and field trips. Among others, students get a chance to visit places that tourists coming to Hungary could not. Sessions held in the classroom will serve with background information and will also give the participants opportunity to discuss the experiences students had during their visits.

Since the time of the visits very much depends on the receiving institution sometimes the sessions will be held at a time, which is different from the one announced in the schedule. Participants are not expected to speak Hungarian, the instructor will provide a translation.

Different issues of actual problems are discussed like globalization of public administrative law, international administrative law, new tendencies and developments in administrative science or happenings which create challenges to public administration and the law determining its structure and functioning.

This course summarizes all the recent knowledge on proteins used in medical treatment. The topics include information on the application of molecular biology techniques in production of drugs for therapeutic purposes; give description of the analytical methods how to characterize proteins together with the Hungarian and international quality control of the biotechnological products of pharmaceutical industry; explain the challenges in introduction of biosimilar drugs; concern the development and manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals; elucidate the possibilities of genetic engineering of medicinal plants; demonstrate several new aspects such as the gene therapy, stem cell research or new drug delivery systems.

To practice conscious awareness of the other person and to develop empathy and verbal and non-verbal communication skills. The student should be able to communicate in a congruent manner in the individual and professional field. Learn about the features of assertive communication and conflict management and deepen their application methods in practice. The practice also aims to develop the students self-knowledge.

The aim of this course is to acquaint the students with the main themes of business as well as the various situations where people communicate in the world of business. The course is based on several authentic materials, and besides focusing on acquiring the special vocabulary, emphasis is laid primarily on oral activities. The overriding goal is to provide students with a solid communication base to make them be able to communicate effectively in several business contexts. By the end of this course students should know what strategies and techniques to employ in unique and different business situations. Students are required to actively and creatively participate in the course, and do individual as well as group assignments.

To introduce students into the basic concepts of sociology and health promotion, the sociodemographical determinants of health will be discussed and the sociological foundations and explanations of lifestyle and deviances will be analysed.

The course deals in detail with the essence of the businesses, the basic concepts of economic decisions, and the decision-making principles. Its main topics are the economic content of the enterprise (business) interest, property interest; the types of companies together with company outcome measures and the design principles of the organizational structure. The system of corporate resources and their economic characteristics, businesses and their relationship with the environment. After providing the basic knowledge, the subject introduces students to the characteristics of the agricultural enterprises. In the end, the subject deals with the economy and the organization of the different plant production sectors (cereals, industrial crops, fodder crops and plantation sectors).

The overall aim of teaching the subject is to provide basic knowledge for agricultural engineer students about the characteristics of the economic problems in the agricultural sector, the essence and major elements of the agricultural policy with special regard to the circumstances of Hungarian agriculture. It is particularly important in today’s era to have agro-economics knowledge based on the theories of modern agricultural economics, and to know about the agro-ecological practices, experiences and ideas for the future dissemination of the developed market-economy countries. This is compared to the characteristics of the Hungarian agriculture, so evaluating our situation, the potential and limitations of the agricultural economy in the future development process

Aim of the course is to introduce the main points of quality control, which belongs to different business sectors too. Subjects: Understanding and Interpreting Quality: The Meaning of Quality – Concepts, Dimensions and Standards of Quality; The Evolution of Quality Management; Quality Management Systems: Approaches and Principles; Improving Quality: Quality Control Tools and Techniques; Economic Aspect of Quality; Quality Control in the Food Industry; Complex food quality; Quality and value creation; Students’ presentations – Students should prepare and deliver presentation about topics that are related to quality control; Teamwork – working in groups to solve problems related to quality control and elaborating case studies; Research Paper Studies – Technical papers will be assigned to the class, and Students are required to study these papers and write summary reports.

Folklore and music are two important hallmarks of Hungarian culture, also well known outside the country. Although there is no more living folklore in Hungary, heritage culture is an important part of daily life as well as tourism and intercultural communication. This survey course of cultural studies introduces the students to the basic notions of Hungarian ethnography with a special interest in folklore, that is the cultural production of Hungarian rural civilization. As a continuation, the course gives a brief outline of the major chapters of Hungarian music history focusing especially on those aspects which demonstrate the strong mutual inspiration of Hungarian folk and high music (Liszt, Bartók, Kodály).

The course aims to trigger an understanding of central arguments in political philosophy and of the historical context in which political ideas developed; to foster the ability to analyse and discuss arguments in political philosophy and to communicate both orally and in writing arguments in political philosophy; to develop the ability to link and apply arguments of political philosophy to social and political issues; and the capacity to learn new ideas and approaches, and to apply them in research.

The course provides opportunity for students to learn the following skills (1) knowing the basics of therapeutic communication; (2) taking responsibility for communication with the patient, (3) being able to apply assertive communication and active/understanding attention techniques; (4) targeting communication to resolve a conflict; (5) treating patients appropriately and objectively in emotionally difficult situations; (6) informing patients independently about how to use the medication; (7) knowing the difficulties of communicating with patients belonging to special patient groups (in terms of age and gender); (8) being able to have clear, unambiguous self-expression; (9) knowing patient personality types; (10) Recognize the role of the patient’s personality in treatment and deal with it appropriately; (11) knowing the psychological background of health and patient behavior; (12) knowing the psychological background of stress management and its relationship to social support; (13) being able to apply stress management techniques in communication.

The aim of the course is to help students learn a variety of musical skills (sight-reading, transposing, finding their way around the keys of C, playing difficult rhythms, memorising). In addition to the exercises practised in class, they are given a tune to sing from a collection of solfege songs, week by week. The level of difficulty of each task depends on the level of the group, so it varies from year to year.