Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Dean: Prof. RNDr. Zdenek Stuchlik, CSc.
Address: Bezrucovo namesti 13, 746 01 Opava, Czech Republic
Phone: +420 653 684 241
Fax: +420 653 216 984
E-mail: dekanat@fpf.slu.cz
Web site address: http://www.fpf.slu.cz
Studentsī organisations:
ASPSU – Asociace studentu a pratel Slezske univerzity (Association of Students and Friends of the Silesian University)
Address: ASPSU
Bezrucovo namesti 13,
746 01 Opava
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 653 684 270
E-mail: freloub@axpsu.fpf.slu.cz
The Institutes and other bodies of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences:
Institute of the Czech Language and Librarianship
Head: Doc. PhDr. Jiri Urbanec, CSc.
Bachelor studies:
Czech literature:
The content of the study programme is focused on grammatical disciplines,
history of Czech, Slovak and world literature, literary theory, literary history, rudiments of journalism, editorial practice and literary criticism.
The graduates can work as editors at editor offices, publishing houses, radio and television studios, literary museums etc.
Librarianship:
The study programme emphasises library and information technology, bibliographical and analytical methods of handling documents, building library and information systems, and information marketing and management.
Master studies:
The Czech language:
This study programme prepares prospective secondary school teachers of Czech. It is studied in combinations with another study programme for teachers.
Research:
The Czech literature after 1945
Institute of Foreign Languages
Head: Prof. PhDr. Ales Svoboda, DrSc.
Bachelor studies:
English – German
English – Italian
German – Italian
English – Computer Science
These programmes focus on excellent command of languages in both spoken and written form. Regional studies are parts of the programmes.
Master studies:
English
German
These programmes prepare prospective secondary school teachers of English and German and can be studied in combination with other teacherīs programmes.
Research:
Comparative linguistics
Institute of History and Museology
Head: Doc. PhDr. Dan Gawrecki, CSc.
Bachelor studies:
History – Museology
Medieval Archeology
The courses concentrate on acquiring theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the area of preservation, documentation and conservation of historic monuments and collections. The programmes consist of the rudiments of history and museology. Moreover, the medieval archeology is focused on the rudiments of archeology and medieval history.
The graduates can work at museums, state administration, or are engaged in antique evaluation and conservation. The medieval archeology graduates are prepared for reconnoitering the terrain, for working at archeological institutes and museums.
Master studies:
History – Museology
This study programmme follows the bachelor study. It consists of specialized historiography and an extended language program.
History
These programmes prepare prospective secondary school teachers of history and can be studied in combination with other teachersī programmes, or can be studied separately as history alone with traditional content.
Research:
The history of Silesia; the theory of documentation and preservation of cultural heritage, the premedieval and medieval settlements in Silesia and Northern Moravia.
Institute of Computer Science
Head: Prof. RNDr. Jozef Kelemen, DrSc.
Bachelor studies:
Computer Science and Computing
The aim of the programme is to prepare qualified PC users and software product developers so that they could make use of their knowledge at companies concentrating on development and commercial activities in the field of computer science and software. This programme can be combined with other bachelor study programmes.
English - Computer Science
This programme is a combination of two bachelor programmes. The emphasis is laid on the command of English, enabling the graduates to work in companies cooperating with foreign partners in the field of software products.
Master studies:
Computer Science and Computing
The graduates are professionals in the field of the development and the maintenance of software products.
Research:
The theoretical research is focused on the decentralization of computing tasks and the distribution of calculations in computing systems; grammatical systems; formal logic.
Institute of Physics
Head: Prof. RNDr. Zdenek Stuchlik, CSc.
Bachelor studies:
Applied Physics
The study programme consists of the basic courses in mathematics, physics and applied physics and further offers the following options:
1) optoelectronics
2) ionizing radiation
3) astrophysics
The graduates of optoelectronics can work in the field of telecommunication and industry. Those who studied ionizing radiation can apply their knowledge in the state administration, in the commercial monitoring of radiation of the environment, in diagnostics, and in medical technology.
Computer Science and its Applications
The study programme consists of the basic courses in physics, mathematics and computer science, computing, and of an extended course of obligatory optional subjects connected with the computing.
The graduates can work in areas where computers are used for measuring and controlling purposes. Moreover, they can use their knowledge for the development of computer activities.
Master studies:
Theoretical Physics
The study programme is focused on the traditional content of this branch of study.
Teacher training programmes:
Mathematics – Physics
This programme prepares prospective secondary school teachers of mathematics and physics. It consists of basic courses in mathematics, physics, the courses in mathematics and physics for teachers, and the courses in pedagogy, psychology and special didactics. A teaching practice forms a significant part of the study.
Research:
Detection and dosimetry; the migration of radionuclides in the environmental components; software and hardware of monitoring systems; spectral analysis, digital processing of pictures, quantum physics of molecules, theory of elementary particles and gravitation, quantum field theory, and the application of the above theories in astrophysics and cosmology.
Institute of Creative Photography
Head: Prof. PhDr. Vladimir Birgus
Bachelor studies:
Creative Photography
The programme includes both the theoretical and the practical treatment of the art of photography. It is opened as an extramural study programme. The graduates can work as professional photographers, photography historians and theoreticians, and in editorial offices, publishing houses and museums.
Research:
The history of the Czech photography.
Institute of Social Sciences
Head: Doc. PhDr. Bohumil Koukola, CSc.
Bachelor studies:
Regional Administration and Regional Policy
The programme is focused on attaining knowledge in areas such as law, market economy, regional administration, management and organization, marketing, psychology and public relations. The graduates can work in state administration, and in public non-profit organizations.
Research:
The problems of violence in society, victimology, social ethics, and social theology.
Cabinet of Physical Education
Head: RNDr. Dalibor Musil
The cabinet is in charge of all the courses in physical education at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
School of Business Administration
Dean: Doc. Ing. Tibor Paulik, CSc.
Deanīs Office: Univerzitni namesti 76, 733 40 Karvina, Czech Republic
Phone: +420 69/ 63 98 212
Fax: +420 69/ 63 98 317
E-mail: dekanat@opf.slu.cz
Web site address: http://www.opf.slu.cz
Studentsī organizations:
AIESEC – branch office of the international organization
Address: AIESEC,
Univerzitni namesti 76,
733 40 Karvina
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 69 63 98 292
Fax: +420 69 63 12 950
E-mail: aiesec@opf.slu.cz
The (Cultural and Educational) Fund - Student
The organization publishes studentsī magazine and organizes various cultural events.
Address: Nadace Student kancelar B 005,
Univerzitni namesti 76,
733 40 Karvina
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 69 63 98 291
Fax: +420 69 63 12 069
E-mail: nadacestudent@opf.slu.cz
Departments of the School of Business Administration
Department of Economics
Head: Doc. Ing. Tibor Paulik, CSc.
Bachelor studies:
Economics of Entrepreneurship in Trade and Services
This programme offers the following options:
European Union
The study programme is focused on theoretical and practical problems of the integration processes and their specific European features, the Czech economy in connection with its integration into European Union structures, and on the comparative analysis of the position of the Czech economy in the European Union.
National Economy
The study program concentrates on theoretical and pratical economic policy, theoretical-metodical approaches to creation of the economic policy conceptions, the effectivity evaluation of their realizations, questions of ethical dimension in political decisions, partial economic policy, economic policy segments, and macroeconomic analysis and prognosis.
Economics in Travel Industry
The study programme is focused on attaining the theoretical knowledge and the practical skill in the area of home and foreign tourism.
Master studies:
Economics of Entrepreneurship in Trade and Services
These programmes extend the theoretical knowledge and the practical skill aquired in the bachelor programmes of the same name. They are offered in the following options:
European Union
National Economy
Research:
The research activities are focused on the analysis and the evaluation of the globalization and integration processes in the Czech economy.
Department of Marketing
Head: Doc. Ing. Frantisek Nemec, Ph.D.
Bachelor studies:
Economics of Entrepreneurship in Trade and Services
This programme offers the following option:
Marketing and Management
The study programme concentrates on training the marketing specialists in the area of management.
Master study:
Economics of Entrepreneurship in Trade and Services
This programme offers the following option:
Marketing and Management
The course follows the bachelor study programme. It is, however, extended in the field of theoretical, methodological and applied approaches to solving the problems of the particular subject.
Research:
The development of small and medium enterprises with an emphasis on applying marketing approaches and logistic systems.
Department of Management and Entrepreneurship
Head: Doc. Ing. Eva Wagnerova, CSc.
Bachelor studies:
Economics of Entrepreneurship in Trade and Services
This programme offers the following option:
Marketing and Management
The study programme is focused on theoretical principles and management practice, on the function and economy of the subjects in the field of enterprise, on the principles of an effective company control with the use of accounting and financial analysis, the economic-mathematical modelling and the use of computers.
Master studies:
Economics of Entrepreneurship in Business Trade and Services
This programme offers the following option:
Marketing and Entrepreneurship
The programme follows the bachelor study programme but it extends the theoretical, methodological and application approaches. The emphasis is laid on the development and realization of the strategic company goals, on the development and use of the marketing plans, and on the innovation policy.
Research:
The development of small-scope and medium-scope enterprises with an emphasis on the management and the company economy; the function and control of the subjects in the field of enterprise; the innovation processes in the field of enterprise.
Department of Finance
Head: Prof. PhDr. RNDr. Stanislav Poloucek, CSc.
Bachelor studies:
Finance
This programme offers the following options:
Banking
The study programme is based on the theory and practice of the monetary policy, the development trends in both home and world economic policy, on the operation mechanisms of the financial systems in the Czech Republic and in economically advanced countries, on the analysis of financial documents, financial markets and financial institutions, on the management of the banking sector and the capital trades.
Monetary and Postal Services
The study programme is focused on the modern principles of the monetary and postal management, the legal and ethic norms in postal institutions, on attaining the knowledge of all the basic banking and monetary transactions, the basic monetary and postal agendas, including the norms of the home and the international payment and accounting.
Financial and Customs Control
The study programme is focused on gaining the command of all financial and customs agendas, including the forms of both the Czech and the international payment and forwarding services, on attaining the knowledge of legislative conditions in financial and customs administration agenda.
Company Finance
The study programme is focused on attaining the knowledge of the structure of the company financing, of the problems of taxes and their function in the company policy, of the theoretical and practical approaches to dividend policy applications, and finally of the basic approaches to investment decision making and the company evaluation.
Master studies:
Finance
This programme offers the following options:
Banking
Monetary and Postal Services
Financial and Customs Administration
Company Finance
The study programmes follow the bachelor study programmes broadening and deepening them in the field of theory and practical applications.
Research:
The influence of globalization and integration on financial system changes, the European monetary system and the Czech economy; the monetary policy and inflation processes; the changes in the bank sector, and the comparison of countries and regions.
Department of Accounting
Head: Ing. Eva Sikorova, CSc.
The department is in charge of the subject Accounting taught in a number of study programmes of the School.
Research:
The development of small-scope and medium-scope entrepreneurship activities with the emphasis on accountancy and tax problems.
Department of Mathematical Methods in Economics
Head: Prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Ramik, CSc.
The department is in charge of the courses in mathematics, statistics, the problems of application of mathematical methods in economics.
Research:
The development of th methods of the multicriterial decision making; the use of fuzzy set in mathematical optimization models, their application in financial and banking systems; the application of statistical methods in economics.
Department of Computer Science
Head: Doc. RNDr. Frantisek Koliba, CSc.
Bachelor study:
Economics of Entrepreneurship in Trade and Services
This programme offers the following options:
Computer Science and its Application in Trade and Services
The study programme gives instruction in the development and the maintenance of the information systems in companies, the company management with the focus on consulting and selling activities in the field of computing, bureau and information technologies and programmme facilities; the application of personal computers and modern information technologies.
Master study:
Economics of Entrepreneurship in Trade and Services
This programme offers the following options:
Computer Science and its Applications in Trade and Services
The study programme follows the bachelor study programme, extending the theoretical knowledge and the practical application.
Research:
The building of information structures and information centres in connection with Euroregions; the development of small-scope and medium-scope enterprises and the analysis of their needs in the field of information centres in the regions.
Department of Social Sciences
Head: Dr. Vojtech Malatek, CSc.
Bachelor studies:
Social Management
This programme offers the following option:
Staff Management and Social Work
The study programme deals with the problem of personnel management and the social work in bothprivate and state-owned companies and organizations in the new political and economic conditions.
Research:
Historical and social restructuralization of the job market in the Moravian-Silesian region; the unemployment in the region as an economic and social problem.
Department of Communication
Head: PaedDr. Jiri Mezulanik, CSc.
Bachelor studies:
The department is in charge of the two obligatory foreign languages in all the programmes, and also provides the tuition of optional subjects like rhetoric for entrepreneurs, persuasion techniques, business corespondence, etc.
Master studies:
The department is in charge of the two obligatory foreign languages in all the programmes, and also provides the tuition of optional subjects like rhetoric for entrepreneurs, persuasion techniques, business corespondence, etc.
Research:
Pragmatic aspects of the communication in the workplace, communicative barriers, intercultural communication.
Department of Physical Education
Head: PaedDr. Jiri Helesic,Ph.D.
The department is in charge of the physical education for all the study programmes.
Institutes of the School of Business Administration:
Institute of Consulting
Head: PhDr. Oldrich Berka
The institute is engaged in the research into the educational systems in the countries of the European Union, and concentrates on consulting activities in the field of vocational consulting.
Institute of Small-scope and Medium-scope Entrepreneurial Activities
Head: Ing. Jiri Vanek, CSc.
The main aim of the institute is the research into the development and operational conditions within small-scope and medium-scope entrepreneurial activities.
Information Centre
Head: RNDr. Zdenek Franek
The information centre is in charge of the information systems of the School and the operation of the school computer net OPFNET. The centre also provides the hardware and software for the tuition and the administration tasks, and runs the academic net CESNET.
Mathematical Institute of the Silesian University
Head:Prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Smital, DrSc.
Address: Bezrucovo namesti 13, 746 01 Opava, Czech Republic
Phone: +420 653 684 341
Fax: +420 653 215 029
E-mail: math@math.slu.cz
Web site address: http://www.math.slu.cz
Bachelor studies:
Applied Mathematics
The study programme includes the courses in mathematics, physics, computer science and applied mathematics.
Mathematical Methods in Economics
The study programme consists of the courses in mathematics, computer science, and mathematical methods in economics, trade and management, financial insurance, and selected parts of law.
Master studies:
Mathematics
The programme offers the following options:
Geometry
Mathematical Analysis
Computer Geometry
The students can choose from these blocks in the basic master course: mathematics (analysis, algebra, geometry, the seminar in mathematics and computer science), and a special course in mathematics (algebraic structure, typology, optimization, differential geometry, functional analysis, differential equations, dynamical systems, global analysis, geometrical methods in physics), the basics of physics and computer science, computer geometry (descriptive geometry, computer graphics, applied programs in geometry), optional lectures and a dissertation course.
Teacher training programmes:
Mathematics – Physics
This study programmes prepare prospective secondary school teachers of mathematics in combinations with other study programmes for teachers.
Doctoral studies:
Mathematical Analysis
It is focused on dynamical systems and differential equations.
Geometry and Global Analysis
It is focused on differential geometry, variational analysis on manifolds and mathematical physics.
Research:
Differential geometry, mathematical analysis, mathematical physics, and variational analysis.
Departments of the Mathematical Institute:
Department of Global Analysis:
Head: Prof. RNDr. Demeter Krupka, DrSc.
Research:
Differential geometry, variational analysis on manifolds, mathematical physics, differential analysis on manifolds, global analysis.
Department of Mathematical Analysis:
Head: Doc. RNDr. Kristina Smitalova, CSc.
Research:
Dynamical systems, differential analysis.
Department of Applied Mathematics:
Head: Ing. Jaromir Sykora, CSc.
Research:
The activities during the computer science at the laboratory Macintosh.
About the University
The Silesian University is the youngest university in the Czech Republic. It was founded in 1991. The university is situated in Opava, the historical centre of the Czech part of Silesia, a region in the northeast of the Czech Republic.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Mathematical Institute are located in Opava. Opava is a city with rich cultural history and a significant cultural background. It is the place where the oldest and the third-biggest museum in the Czech Republic – the Silesian Regional Museum – can be found. Other cultural establishments are the Silesian Theatre with the Opera House, the Regional Archives (the third-biggest archives in the Czech Republic) and a number of libraries.
The School of Business Administration is located in Karvina (approximately 50 km away from Opava). For the last few decades, the town has gone through an extensive reconstruction. These changes are related to the development of mining, which influences the nature of the entire Karvina region. The School is very modern and it offers pleasant background for students.
In the year 2001, the Silesian University in Opava has a student body of nearly 3,500 students.
The Silesian University develops very dynamically. It is a university with a wide range of study programmes and significant contacts with universities in Europe and overseas.
The university organizes conferences at an international level and displays both extensive and intensive publication activities. The quality and the extent of study programmes can be well compared with other Czech universities.
The University is the seat of the editorial office of Differential Geometry and its Applications – a renown international journal – published by Elsevier Science Publishers / North Holland.
Special Resources
The Silesian University is equipped with libraries, laboratories and computer facilities in a standard way. The students of humanities can also make use of the Library of the Institute of Silesian History, the Czech Academy of Sciences.The university also makes use of the own fund of the Austrian library.
Research Areas
The Czech literature after 1945
The history of Czech photography
The history of Silesia
The archeology of Silesia
Museum and society
The dramatic activities of English and German origin in the Euro region Silesia since the 17th century
The contrastive analysis of lexical and pragmalinguistic aspects of English, German, Czech and Italian utterances
Relativistic and particle physics and its astrophysical applications
Coherently dependent optical spectral interferometry
Theoretical computer science - models of decentralised calculations
The analysis and evaluation of globalisation and integration impacts on the sectors of the Czech economy and their influence on further development
The socio-economic aspects of the process of the formation of Euro regions, the analysis of their position in changing world economic conditions, and the shape of their development
The problems of goods market and labour market, employment and socially professional groups of population
The impact of globalisation and integration on changes of the financial system
The concept of building information structure and information centres in connection with Euro regions and with the development of small-scale and medium-scale enterprise: the development of systems supporting decision making
The influence of the globalisation and integration on the development of small-scale and medium-scale enterprise, the problems of management, of infrastructures, of marketing, of logistic systems, and the problem of information services in connection with the development of small-scale and medium-scale enterprise
Dynamic systems
Geometry and global analysis
Applied mathematics
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