Europe from the Visegrad Perspective

Current Students

Study plan

During the course of the studies, students must collect at least 120 ECTS credits, of which 87
ECTS for compulsory courses and at least 33 ECTS for optional courses. Students make
effective choices of courses with a view to earning the required number of credits. While the
obligatory courses must be taken in each semester, the number and selection of optional
courses is only a recommendation. Students may choose any strategy on how to distribute the
number of optional courses during the academic years, with respect to their scholarly
interests, the overall required number of credits for optional courses, and the minimum
required number of credits per academic semester. Each semester, the students must collect
at least 30 ECTS.

Program curriculum

Semester	Compulsory (bold) and optional courses	ECTS
1. [Kraków] 30 ECTS	History and Theory of International Relations	5
	Current Developments in International Public Law	5
	Political and Social History of CEE in the 20th Century: from the turn of Centuries to the end of World War II	5
	Europe as Normative Power: Central European Perspective	5
	Culture and Society in Central Europe. Dilemmas of Identity and Pluralism	5
	Security and Democracy in Europe after 1989. A Central European Perspective	5
	Religion, Diversity and Toleration in Central and Eastern Europe	5
	Academic Skills Workshop	5
	Foreign Language	6
2. [Brno] 30 ECTS	Europe in Global Economy	8
	European Governance and Multilevel Politics	8
	Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe	8
	Social Science Methodology	8
	Politics of Euroscepticism	5
	EU foreign policy toward Russia and Eastern partnership countries	5
	How do they see us? The Czech Republic and its European Partners	3
	Comparative Politics of EU countries	6
	Theory of International Relations and European Integration	3
3. [Pécs] 30 ECTS	Political Culture in CEE/V4 in Comparative Perspective	6
	V4 in Transition – Democracy in V4	6
	International Political Economy – the V4 States and the Economic Transformation	6
	MA Thesis Seminar Part One	6
	Ecopolicy and Sustainable Development in CEE/V4	6
	Civil Society in CEE/V4	6
	Geography of Elections	4
4. [Banská Bystrica] 30 ECTS	Political System of Visegrad Countries	4
	Contemporary International Relations Theories	5
	Security Environments in the Visegrad Group Countries	5
	MA Thesis Seminar Part Two	4
	MA Thesis and Exam	10
	Intenational Migration and Migration Policy	5
	International Economic Relations	5
	Theory and Practice of Diplomacy	5

Compulsory (bold) and optional courses in Brno

Code	Name
VISn4001	European Governance and Multilevel Politics
VISn4002	Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe
VISn4003	Europe in Global Economy
EGOn5005	Politics of Euroscepticism
EGOn5006	EU foreign policy toward Russia and Eastern partnership countries
EVSn5067	How do they see us? The Czech Republic and its European Partners
IREn5016	Comparative Politics of EU countries
IREn5502	Theory of International Relations and European Integration
ESSn4001	Social Science Methodology