Faculty Of Public Policies in Opava

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Head of the Institute:

doc. PhDr. Paedr. Kamil Janiš, CSc.

List of Courses

The Institute of Pedagogical and Psychological Sciences provides a three-year bachelor’s degree course called Social Pathology and Prevention. Simultaneously, the institute prepares its education students for secondary school teaching at the Faculty of Philosophy and Science and at the Mathematical Institute of the Silesian University, teaching disciplines related to education, psychology and their related applied disciplines.

The coursework for students enrolled in Social Pathology and Prevention is comprised of compulsory courses in psychology and applied psychology (general, developmental and social psychology, personality and communication psychology, introduction to psychotherapy, crisis intervention), educational sciences (general pedagogy, theory of education, didactization of pathological social phenomena, special pedagogy, behavioural disorders, leisure time education), social sciences and social pathology (social policy, social pathology, social work, sociology) as well as others (psychiatry, family law, research methods and techniques, philosophy). Within each year of the degree programme, students may choose from a number of compulsory courses, e.g. Maltreated and Abused Children, Volunteering, Human and Children’s Rights, Solving Model Situations in Educational Process, Drug Addictions, Introduction to Gender Studies, Family Pedagogy, etc.

In the course of the study programme, students participate in numerous volunteer events and activities, including students’ involvement in the Red Ribbon campaign, which is organized annually as part of the World AIDS day under the auspices of the Czech Family Planning Association and the Czech AIDS Help Society. Furthermore, close cooperation has been established with Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), an internationally recognized non-governmental organization working in more than 120 countries.

Students may also benefit from the close ties the Institute of Pedagogical and Psychological Sciences maintains with other Czech higher education institutes and other organizations, e.g. the Faculty of Education at the University of Hradec Králové, the Pedagogical Faculty at the University of Ostrava, the Faculty of Humanities at Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín, Silesian Grammar School in Opava, the Psychiatric Hospital in Opava, as well as Opava’s correctional facility. Within the framework of the Erasmus Programme, the university cooperates with several Polish institutes, including the Institute of Educational Sciences of the Faculty of History and Pedagogy at the University of Opole,  the Institute of Pedagogy at the University of Wroclaw, and last but not least, with the Faculty of Education at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.

The specialization of the institute is directed toward research of stress and anxiety in children and adolescents as well as social support and the quality of life in children and adolescents. In addition, our efforts are focused on research projects involving educational, psychological and didactic competencies, as well as family and sex education.