Masters study: Humanities

The concept of human sciences opens up an interdisciplinary approach within the field of second-level education, so that it offers a broad base of knowledge in the fields of humanities and  encourages students towards an independent scientific research. Humanistic science is linking anthropological, philosophical and linguistic disciplines. The study programme is structured in a way that it utilises the horizontal and vertical connectivity content to the maximum. In the first year, students become familiar with the basic subjects (epistemology, anthropology of gender, historical anthropology and social communication and the media), while the content design of elective courses, which are available in both years, and coincides with the structural semantics of the above-mentioned basic subjects. Moreover, it allows the students to follow the specific nature of their study path. In the first year, students acquire the basics of humanistic knowledge and upgrade it in the second year, both through independent research as well as through educational processes, dictated by individually designed curriculum. The programme combines knowledge of humanities, arising from traditionalist schools and disciplines and, at the same time, follows contemporary science, which is based on critical perspective, innovative methods, approaches and perspectives: these are now widely seen as progress and actualisation of humanism.

ISH organises study of Humanities on the 2^nd level (Master’s degree) as a meeting point of different disciplines, from which students acquire basic knowledge of the main fields of humanities: linguistics, public speaking, anthropology, historical anthropology, gender anthropology, philosophy, Balkan anthropology, theory of media and film, as well as transversal discipline of epistemology, which enables understanding of the concepts of humanism, classification of information, and developing argumentative tools, and links all subjects as a basic methodological framework. This way, the student obtains the basic ‘navigation tool’ for the professional exploration of the master’s study at the very start. At the same time, epistemology represents an introduction to the culture of the mentality, habits of thought, and opens access to basic scientific trends that have changed and shaped humanities. Humanities are not only interdisciplinary field, but also a way of life, behaviour, communication, enabling the understanding of the role of a citizen and citizen understanding of culture and education, and promoting and cultivating certain values ​​by humanists personally lived from ancient times until today, in often ‘invisible’ continuity. Through the structure of subjects, students gain an insight into the immanent anthropology and history of intellectuals, which allows them to locate their place within the scientific fields after graduation. This does not signify isolation, but the opposite, the willingness to gain experiences and analysing them, through constant professional, field and practice-related accomplishes done under mentors supervision.

In the intersection of humanistic disciplines, which are entirely based on current discussions in the areas of theory and methodology, the student, with the help of tutors and mentors, chooses a process and starting point that best reflects his/hers individual interests.