Semester 1

• [MCGR1011] [6 ECTS] Resеаrch Methodology
  The goal of this course is to explain the methodologies and techniques of scientific work, which mostly create many difficulties for student beginners. Practical exercises are desiged to help us in the way how we should behave in the library, how to write an essay, papers or something else. Within this course will be included the following topics: defining the topic, bibliography, citation rules, scientific codes, organizing work.
• [MCGR1010] [6 ECTS] Theory of Valency
  Within this course students will become familiar with the structure of the German language under the theory of valency. It will also be discussed its core issues. In the first part of this scientific event will lead discussion on the history of the theory of valency and the draft think about valeny described in the work of Tesniere and will be discussed also its shortcomings and contradictions. Furthermore this course will include the following topics: rection, dependency, valency, subject - valency and depedeny, the basic questions of the theory of valence and its holders. In the second part will be treated the question for making the distinction between aktant and cirkumstant (Ergänzungen und Angaben bzw. Aktanten und Zirkumstanten). The discussion about valency for a long time was treated apart from the question but also by the request of specific criteria for distinguishing between these two terms, with a tendency, valency to not be understood as dichotomous, but rather as a gradual phenomenon. In this seminar will be presented and discussed different approaches and processes. In the third part of the course as a central issue will be treated the pattern of sentences and valency of the other types of words (especially adjectives and nouns).
• [MCGR1020] [6 ECTS] Applied Linguistics
  This course aims to familiarize students with the most important concepts of applied linguistics. It examines the communicative function of language in all spheres of social practice, in terms of the usage of its results obtained in practice. Applied linguistics in the classical tasks includes the study of language, contrastive linguistics- it means comparison of German language and German-Albanian-Macedonian language, intercultural communication, translation and interpretation, professional language and terminology. Through this applied linguistics studies the professional and general communication in institutions and media.
• [6 ECTS] Elective course
  • [MCGR1040] Authors and Classical Works of German Speaking Countries
    It is expected extensive knowledge and understanding of the terminology of German literature through the centuries from the period from XV to XVII century. Is expected to apply their literary knowledge and understanding in their occurrences, processes and works of the period from XV to XVII century. Collection, evaluation and interpretation of relevant data and information within the German literature of the German literature period mentioned above will be examined. Discussions of German literature from this period and working with specific examples from selected authors will be realized. Students will develop learning skills that are relevant and necessary for the further education of their own in the German literature of the above mentioned period. This course includes: reading literature, literary analysis, preparation of written and oral theses of papers and discussion regarding the most developed scientific literature on the most eminent authors (with selected works), from the German speaking countries from late medieval German literature and the classic literature epoch (middleage: Hartman von Auer, Volfram fon Eschenbach, Gottfried von Strassburg, from renesance untill 18 h century : Grifius, Grimmelshausen, Viland, Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Büchner, Kleist, Novalis, Tik, Hoffman, Aeichendorf, Arnim, Brentano, Hajne, Keller, Stifter, Meier, Hebel, Hauptmann; Fontane).
  • [MCGR1030] History of German Culture and Civilisation
    This course enables students to: - Self-processing theories of civilization or culture. - Understanding the basic elements of civilization systems, processes and developments. - Determination of specific events, personalities and achievements by civilization and cultural significance. - Scientific knowledge and understanding of germanspeaking civilization / culture in Europe and globally. Course Content - Review of germanspeaking civilization and culture - Determination of germanspeaking civilization and culture in a European framework - The role of germanspeaking civilization and culture worldwide - Foreign influences of germanspeaking civilization and culture - Germanspeaking epochs of civilization and culture - Paradigmatic events of germanspeaking civilization and culture - Exemplary figures and their works / achievements - Theories of civilization and culture and experience of applying germanspeaking history.
  • [MCGR3012] Theory and Practice in Teaching of German as a Foreign Language
    This course aims to familiarize students with major concepts and models of teaching methodology and didactics of German as a foreign language atuniversity level. Also will be read and discuss the most current and importantmethodological-didactic debates of nowdays. By the end of thesemester students will be able to: - Demonstrate a wideknowledge and understanding of the development, courses and current trends inmethodology of teaching German as a foreign language, or the correlation andintegration of content from compatible subjects: Language, Linguistics,Cultural, Literature and other less compatible curricula. - To apply theirknowledge and understanding in their work or their profession as future teachersof German language and to devise and develop solutions to problems andarguments in the methodology of teaching German as a foreign language. - To collect,evaluate and interpret relevant data and information within this area. - To discussinformation, problems and solutions in this particular area. - To develop learning skills they need to further their own education.
  • [MCGR3040] Contemporary German Literature
    This course is designed to equip students with: - Self-processing of the theoretical foundations of modern literary interpretation - Model processing interpretation paradigms under various genres of modern literature - Paradigmatic studies of selected authors and works of modern germanspeaking literature under philosophical, sociological, psychological, hermeneutic and aesthetic -poetics aspects . Description of the course: - Review of modern germanspeaking literature and discussion for selected authors and works. - Review of the genre aspects - Review of poetics grounds or theories of authors - Introduction to reference science and science literature - Paradigmatic analyzes and interpretations - Characteristics and location of modern germanspeaking literature in European and global frameworks - International Relations and receptions of modern literature.
  • [MCGR3020] Pragmatics
    The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the fundamental importance of pragmatics as a linguistic discipline and its intercultural significance. In this context, exploring methods of Austin, Searle i Wunderlich, relations between the linguistic communities and users of signs and the question about the context in which signs are used. Will also be given an introduction in terminology and in the working research methods of linguistic pragmatics, especially in the area of grammar. The difference between the universal use and culture-related differences in pragmatics based on comparing the languages and culture - the Albanian-German and Macedonian-German. This field complements builds and binds the traditional disciplines of linguistic intonation (phonetics), vocabulary, syntax and semantics.
  • [EMCGR3010] Intercultural Communication
    This course aims to enable students to: - Self-processing theories of history and critical reflection of theoretical approaches - Establishing the paradigmatic events and empirically based models of reception processes among diverse cultures - Scientific description, analysis and interpretation of reciprocal receptions in selected historical periods. Course Content: - Anthropological, sociological, ethnological and psychological implications of the perception of others - Imagination of strangers and the other - Other and group dynamics - Strange, making the strange, alienation - Constructions of alienation - Ethnocentrism and other centrism - Nationality and the reception of alien - Epistemic function of reception of the other and the strange - Theories of civilization / culture and theories of intercultural reception - Hermeneutics and Intercultural and Science.
  • [EMCGR3011] Language Policy and Multilingualism in Europe
    The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the problems of language policy and multilingualism in Europe. What exactly is language policy and who manages it? Besides clarification of these issues will be actual the discussion about the beginnings of the German language policy and current issues, particularly in relation to the EU. What role has played German language and other important languages such as: English, French, Spanish and other languages in the European Union Institutions? Do German-speaking consider an advantage if their language plays an important role in the EU institutions? If yes, how can be possible to strengthen the position of the German language as a business language in the EU? In this context, will be discussed the various positions on language policy in the EU. This course complements and deepens the basic knowledge in this area.
• [6 ECTS] Elective course
  • [MCGR1040] Authors and Classical Works of German Speaking Countries
    It is expected extensive knowledge and understanding of the terminology of German literature through the centuries from the period from XV to XVII century. Is expected to apply their literary knowledge and understanding in their occurrences, processes and works of the period from XV to XVII century. Collection, evaluation and interpretation of relevant data and information within the German literature of the German literature period mentioned above will be examined. Discussions of German literature from this period and working with specific examples from selected authors will be realized. Students will develop learning skills that are relevant and necessary for the further education of their own in the German literature of the above mentioned period. This course includes: reading literature, literary analysis, preparation of written and oral theses of papers and discussion regarding the most developed scientific literature on the most eminent authors (with selected works), from the German speaking countries from late medieval German literature and the classic literature epoch (middleage: Hartman von Auer, Volfram fon Eschenbach, Gottfried von Strassburg, from renesance untill 18 h century : Grifius, Grimmelshausen, Viland, Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Büchner, Kleist, Novalis, Tik, Hoffman, Aeichendorf, Arnim, Brentano, Hajne, Keller, Stifter, Meier, Hebel, Hauptmann; Fontane).
  • [MCGR1030] History of German Culture and Civilisation
    This course enables students to: - Self-processing theories of civilization or culture. - Understanding the basic elements of civilization systems, processes and developments. - Determination of specific events, personalities and achievements by civilization and cultural significance. - Scientific knowledge and understanding of germanspeaking civilization / culture in Europe and globally. Course Content - Review of germanspeaking civilization and culture - Determination of germanspeaking civilization and culture in a European framework - The role of germanspeaking civilization and culture worldwide - Foreign influences of germanspeaking civilization and culture - Germanspeaking epochs of civilization and culture - Paradigmatic events of germanspeaking civilization and culture - Exemplary figures and their works / achievements - Theories of civilization and culture and experience of applying germanspeaking history.
  • [MCGR3012] Theory and Practice in Teaching of German as a Foreign Language
    This course aims to familiarize students with major concepts and models of teaching methodology and didactics of German as a foreign language atuniversity level. Also will be read and discuss the most current and importantmethodological-didactic debates of nowdays. By the end of thesemester students will be able to: - Demonstrate a wideknowledge and understanding of the development, courses and current trends inmethodology of teaching German as a foreign language, or the correlation andintegration of content from compatible subjects: Language, Linguistics,Cultural, Literature and other less compatible curricula. - To apply theirknowledge and understanding in their work or their profession as future teachersof German language and to devise and develop solutions to problems andarguments in the methodology of teaching German as a foreign language. - To collect,evaluate and interpret relevant data and information within this area. - To discussinformation, problems and solutions in this particular area. - To develop learning skills they need to further their own education.
  • [MCGR3040] Contemporary German Literature
    This course is designed to equip students with: - Self-processing of the theoretical foundations of modern literary interpretation - Model processing interpretation paradigms under various genres of modern literature - Paradigmatic studies of selected authors and works of modern germanspeaking literature under philosophical, sociological, psychological, hermeneutic and aesthetic -poetics aspects . Description of the course: - Review of modern germanspeaking literature and discussion for selected authors and works. - Review of the genre aspects - Review of poetics grounds or theories of authors - Introduction to reference science and science literature - Paradigmatic analyzes and interpretations - Characteristics and location of modern germanspeaking literature in European and global frameworks - International Relations and receptions of modern literature.
  • [MCGR3020] Pragmatics
    The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the fundamental importance of pragmatics as a linguistic discipline and its intercultural significance. In this context, exploring methods of Austin, Searle i Wunderlich, relations between the linguistic communities and users of signs and the question about the context in which signs are used. Will also be given an introduction in terminology and in the working research methods of linguistic pragmatics, especially in the area of grammar. The difference between the universal use and culture-related differences in pragmatics based on comparing the languages and culture - the Albanian-German and Macedonian-German. This field complements builds and binds the traditional disciplines of linguistic intonation (phonetics), vocabulary, syntax and semantics.
  • [EMCGR3010] Intercultural Communication
    This course aims to enable students to: - Self-processing theories of history and critical reflection of theoretical approaches - Establishing the paradigmatic events and empirically based models of reception processes among diverse cultures - Scientific description, analysis and interpretation of reciprocal receptions in selected historical periods. Course Content: - Anthropological, sociological, ethnological and psychological implications of the perception of others - Imagination of strangers and the other - Other and group dynamics - Strange, making the strange, alienation - Constructions of alienation - Ethnocentrism and other centrism - Nationality and the reception of alien - Epistemic function of reception of the other and the strange - Theories of civilization / culture and theories of intercultural reception - Hermeneutics and Intercultural and Science.
  • [EMCGR3011] Language Policy and Multilingualism in Europe
    The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the problems of language policy and multilingualism in Europe. What exactly is language policy and who manages it? Besides clarification of these issues will be actual the discussion about the beginnings of the German language policy and current issues, particularly in relation to the EU. What role has played German language and other important languages such as: English, French, Spanish and other languages in the European Union Institutions? Do German-speaking consider an advantage if their language plays an important role in the EU institutions? If yes, how can be possible to strengthen the position of the German language as a business language in the EU? In this context, will be discussed the various positions on language policy in the EU. This course complements and deepens the basic knowledge in this area.

Semester 2

• [MTGR2010] [24 ECTS] Master Thesis
  This module enables students to transfer their skills and knowledge to research and make more complex task of Master-Thesis. The module is designed to be fully practical and students to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to approach writing the thesis. The modul is therefore more collaborative than a strict lecture-based course; students are expected to be active in class, and to engage with the discussions to the best of their ability.The module has unique return result-to enable students to write the master thesis with minimal difficulties, and with maximum efficiency. The course aims to improve research techniques and writing style.
• [6 ECTS] Free elective course
  • [MFE01] Rhetoric
    During its long history of 2,500 years, rhetoric was used to indicate many different things; but rhetoric nowadays is considered as the art of persuasion through language. Rhetoric marks the way that an individual is linked to a particular theme or idea in order to convince the others. Rhetoric is characterized by several distinguishing features.
  • [MFE02] Multilingualism and multiculturalism
    The purpose of this subject will be multilingualism in multicultural societies as a social phenomenon. This phenomenon is massive in the world. During the lectures, more precise terms such as monoculturalism and multiculturalism will be considered. The term ‘linguistic nationalism’ has at least two forms of this nationalism, which collide with each other: for the leaders of the most powerful countries nationalism means expansion, and for minorities it takes the form of defiance and struggle for the affirmation of identity, despite such pressure. The emphasis during the program will be multiculturalism in education. In the schools curricula consists of contents from different cultures.
  • [MFE03] Selected Advanced Topics in IT Applications for Preparing a Scientific Paper
    The aim of this subject is: To display the technical elements, the structure of the text and design of a scientific research. To enable students to acquire advanced knowledge and skills from selected advanced chapters of IT applications that will be needed in preparing the scientific and research paper. Practical application of these objectives in preparing student’s individual research paper.
  • [MFE04] Selected Advanced Topics in Applications for Statistical Data Processing
    The aim of this subject is: To display the technical elements in the field of statistics: organizing, processing, comparing through analysis and publication of data. To enable students to acquire advanced knowledge and skills from selected advanced chapters of the applications for statistical data processing. Practical application of these objectives in statistical processing of data obtained from questionnaires, reports, scientific studies and other documents.
  • [MFE05] Professional Communication
    The course is focused on the development of those communication skills that are essential for effective functioning in the professional world. Students will study the process for analysis of different communication situations, and will accordingly comprehend them. Among the themes that will be covered are communication in organization, interpersonal and group communication, oral presentations, interviews for employment, professional business letters and interpersonal skills including group dynamics and teamwork.
  • [MFE09] Labor Market
    The main aim of the course “Labor Market” is to provide second cycle students with basic and in-depth knowledge in the field of labor market theory and the mechanism of functioning of the market economy. The objective of the course Labor Market is to provide and teach students about categories, laws and basic principles through which the labor market functions. The course makes a detailed analysis of behavior pattern and the role that key agents play in labor market: individuals, companies and government. The analysis is based on two basic categories - labor demand and labor supply, which are applied in almost all the topics that are addressed in this course. The knowledge gained by the students from this course, serves as essential theoretical basis necessary to understand and grasp the different theories and policies that are applied in the labor market. The course teaches students to understand how labor markets distribute and use efficiently the rare factor of production- the labor. Lectures include knowledge about the concepts of labor demand and labor supply and their practical application; behavior of individuals in the labor market, in order to maximize their usefulness; behavior of companies in the labor market, aiming profit maximization; government's role in the labor market, the different structures of labor markets: labor market in full competition, monopoly in the labor market, the role of unions in the labor market, the bilateral monopoly in the labor market. Lectures and class discussions cover material that may not be in the book and some aspects of the material contained in the basic literature will not be discussed in class, but are left for active studying of the student. Therefore in order the student to achieve success in learning the course is to be present in lectures and workshops by participating actively in the discussion of various issues related to labor market.
  • [MFE08] Methodology of Teaching
    The aim of the course is to introduce the students to the basic teaching approaches and methods. They are expected to gain knowledge and skills in order to be able to apply the active educational tools. The course also offers development, learning and teaching as concepts and basic practices that allow teachers to teach about the development of thinking. Throughout this course, students will gain both theoretical background and entirety of strategies that will enable them to reflect and develop both their own and their students' critical thinking.
  • [MFE10] Philosophy of Social Sciences
    This module covers information that will provide the learner to gain knowledge, skill and competence of the social sciences, including general methodology (explaining, theorizing, testing), the application of philosophy (especially individualism versus holism), the nature of rationality, and the history of theories and concepts. This module offers an advanced survey of current debates about the ontology, methodology, and aims of the social sciences. It will focus on the central issues of the social sciences: Ethno methodology; Evolution; Phenomenology; Rationality; Relativism; Scientific Methods; Тextual Interpretations. Learning outcomes: On successful completion of the course, students will be able to: Understand the goal of social sciences. Tell the difference between explaining and understanding human behavior; To explain the different approach in explanation of the social sciences compare the natural sciences, the peculiarities about human beings and social phenomena; To understand the social structures, practices, norms, institutions, etc. The relationship between individuals and larger social structures; To explain the rely not only on facts about individuals and their mental states, but also the cases in which social phenomena cannot be explained in terms of individual behavior; To understand the value-laden in a different way or to a different degree than natural science, the possibility to have a value-free social science, the possibility to have an objectivity in social science.
  • [MFE11] Project Management
    On successful completion of the course, students will be able to: plan the activities necessary to implement the project, identify their interdependencies, their duration and costs; prepare the necessary reports and perform all the required communication between the project and the client, as well as among the team members and the other stakeholders. structure the project to its constituent activities; prepare a Gantt-chart and a network plan for the project and identify the shortest time needed to complete the project; use MS Project as a tool in the process of planning, implementation and review of the project; define the project, identify its scope and objectives and develop project specification;
  • [MFE12] Optimization Methods
    The aim of this course is to present techniques of modeling and optimization in order to prepare students for developing their ability to prepare models for solving real problems in the field of computer science. The course explore the importance of matrix factorizations as an important tool which offers modality for optimizing the solutions of different numerical algorithms which are of basic interest for problem solving in the area computer sciences. The course introduces optimization theory and approach to find the optimum. The different methods of optimization will be analyzed such as the simplex method, duality problem and sensitivity of the problems of linear programming. The aim is to explore a computer implementation for each of the problems followed by the proposal of the corresponding model for optimization.
  • [MFE13] Ethical and Legal Issues in Information Technology (IT)
    Aims of the course program: to develop an understanding of the relationship between computing, technological change, society and the law; to emphasize the powerful role that computers and computer professionals play in a technological society; to provide an understanding of legal areas which are relevant to the discipline of computing; to provide an understanding of ethical concepts that are important to computer users and professionals; to provide experience in the consideration of ethical matters and the resolution of ethical dilemmas.
  • [MFE14] Protection of Human Rights
    The purpose of this course is: to introduce students with the concept of international law on human rights, their implementation, influence of those rights in the creation of national policies; to encourage students to critically reflect on the relationship between international law and national law; make them aware of current international events, how they affect the daily lives of people in the world; encourage students to contribute in matters of drafting laws for the protection of human rights hoping that, the law makers will consult them same during the creation and implementation of state policies.