Teaching KES

The Department of Economic Studies (KES) provides teaching of economic professional subjects mainly for students of the study programme Finance and Management, partly for students of the study programme Tourism and the senior study programme Economics and Management, which is represented at the VŠPJ by two study programmes:

• FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT, for which KES is the subject department and teaches most of its courses, and
• the field of TRAVEL TRAFFIC, in which the courses provided by KES make up approximately a quarter of the profile courses.

The remaining non-economic fields of study and programmes offer courses introducing the basics of economics, taxation or accounting.

Finance and Management programme/field curriculum and its structure

The three-year bachelor's degree program in Finance and Management includes (for students entering in 2019 and later) required, required and elective courses with a total required load equivalent to 180 credits (an average of 60 credits per year and 30 per semester). The recommended curriculum for the full-time form of study can be found here, and for the combined form here.

Required Courses

Mandatory courses include:

• Microeconomics/Microeconomics
• Macroeconomics/Macroeconomics
• Business Economics 1 and 2
• Management/Management (AJ)
• Marketing/Marketing (AJ) / Marketing auf Deutsch
• Foreign language (English or German)
• Academic writing
• Mathematics/Mathematics
• Mathematical Methods in Economics
• Statistics/Statistics
• Introduction to ICT
• Enterprise Informatics
• Law
• Basics of Accounting
• Financial Accounting
• Taxes
• Financial Management
• Money, Banks, Fin. markets/Money, Banks, Fin. Markets
• Managerial Accounting
• Quality Management
• Human Resource Management
• Marketing Communications
• Strategic Management
• Bachelor Thesis 1 and 2
• Internship (15 weeks)

Mandatory electives

Mandatory electives are grouped into two blocks. Each student must complete at least 1 course from each block. Each student must obtain 12 credits from all required electives (Block 1, Block 2).

PV-Block I             

• Project Management 1
• Public Sector Economics
• Industrial Logistics
• Project Management 2
;                              
• Days for corporate practice

PV-Block II            

• Practicum in accounting on PC
• Management simulation games
• Practice Company
• Managerial Ethics
• Psychology and Sociology
;                             

The subjects can also be studied individually as electives.

Optional

The following subjects are included in the category of electives:

• sport (max. 2 credits can be earned)
• foreign language other than compulsory
• foreign language subject (see below)
• Business Solution - Practical Applications
• Tax records
• Electronic Trading for Economists
• Firm training and retraining for adults
• Career counselling
• Personal Development Management
• Marketing applications
• Media communication
• International Marketing
• Personal entrepreneurship
• Microeconomics Review
• Social and Management Skills Training
• Creation of simulation models
• Introduction to Accounting
• Small Business Start-up

Foreign Language Education, Foreign Language Courses

In the Finance and Management programme, students are required to study 1 foreign language - they choose between English and German.

Another obligation is to study 1 subject in a foreign language - either an alternative to the compulsory subject or an elective subject.

Foreign language courses

foreign language alternative to compulsory courses sponsored by the Department of Economic Studies

• Business Economics 2 (English, alternative to Business Economics 2)
• Financial Management (English, alternative to the course Financial Management of the Enterprise)
• Macroeconomics (English, alternative to Macroeconomics)
• Management (English, alternative to Management)
• Marketing (English), Marketing auf Deutsch (German, alternatives to Marketing)
• Microeconomics (English, alternative to Microeconomics)
• Money, Banks, Fin. Markets (English, alternative to the course Money, banks, fin. markets)
• Strategic Management

foreign language electives offered by the Department of Economic Studies

• Decision-making in Management (English)
• Einführung in moderne PR (German)
• Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (English)
• International Marketing (English)
• Introduction into PR (English)
• Project Management (English)
• Starting Business - Project (English)
• Sustainability in Business (English)

In addition to these courses, an optional course International Business Week (English) is also offered, allowing students to spend a week abroad in conjunction with teamwork with students from foreign universities on a given topic.