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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:4 / 6
Course supervisor:Karina Palkova
Study type:Full time
Course level:Doctor
Target audience:Business Management; Information and Communication Science; Social Welfare and Social Work; Political Science; Juridical Science; Management Science; Sociology; Social Anthropology
Language:English, Latvian
Branch of science:Pedagogy; University Pedagogy

Objective

To improve doctoral student's teaching skills as a university teaching staff by strengthening the acquired theoretical and practical knowledge and to ensure that this knowledge is transferred to students in an understandably structured way.

Prerequisites

Learning and teaching in the higher education and science area, Science Philosophy, Research Principles, Methods, and Praxis of Social Science in Interdisciplinary Perspective.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

Able to demonstrate that knows and understands the most current scientific and practical knowledge in the learning and teaching higher education space, as well as the principles and requirements of the modern, interdisciplinary study process.

Skills

Is able to independently evaluate and choose the most appropriate teaching methods, provide a new understanding of these methods, as well as integrate the material into innovative pedagogical technologies.

Competence

Able to solve significant or innovation tasks related to the transfer of knowledge in the area of higher education learning and teaching process by performing independent, critical analysis, synthesis and evaluation. Able to conduct interactive lectures, classes, develop study material, course descriptions, reviewing works. Able to demonstrate professional, pedagogical, communicative and methodological competences.