Course description:
In addition to secure and comprehensive topographical understanding, our graduates will be familiar with a wide-range of geography-environmental knowledge which they can use in studying other subjects and in everyday life. They will be capable of teaching in any school form responding to the educational needs of different age groups. Furthermore, they will develop complex approach, visual and environmental intelligence.
Careers:
With Hungary’s EU accession the individuals and communities’s scopes of activity have expanded. Orientation in the changing world increases the need for geographical competences. On the other hand, geography and georaphy teachers working in public education play key roles in the forming of European identity spanning generations.
The proportion of graduates in the region is considerably below the average. In Heves county there has been a strong demand for some jobs requiring a degree, including geograpy teachers in primary schools. The main objectives of Northern-Hungarian Operative Program (ÚMFT 2007-2013) are based on a complex regional development model: creation of competitive local economy, strengthening of tourism potential, regional development, development of human communal infrastructure and regional transport. It will be important to organize public education considering the regional specialities and develop its infrastructure. This priority cannot be realised without trained geography teachers.
Focus of the training:
Geography as a general subject has been an integral part of public education but owing to constantly renewing knowledge training and retraining of geography teachers is also indispensable.
General information:
- Name of qualification in the degree: certified teacher of geography
- Course length: 5 semesters (parallel obtaining of two teacher qualifications) 150 credits (80 credits for the specialisation+40 credits for the pedagogical and psychological knowledge+30 credits for practice)
- Form of study: full-time and correspondence training
- Language requirements: state-accredited intermediate language exam or an equivalent secondary school leaving certificate
- Entry requirements: motivational interview, which aims to establish the candidate’s general familiarity with different questions of the chosen field of study, and also with the spatial principles of the arrangement of geosystems. Analysis of natural processes of the geographical environment, presentation of natural landscapes formed as interaction of natural processes. Geographical explanation of relationship between geographical environment and society in general and spatial terms. During the entrance exam maximum 100 points can be obtained. Interview: max. 50 points, college or university degree: max. 40 points. Up to 10 extra points can be earned.
Peculiarities:
- The course makes up the new possibilities of virtual world as an inexhaustible source of knowledge (special methodology) and their joint spatial evaluation (space informatics)
- Students develop their knowledge and skills by doing a lot of field work on the slopes of the Matra and Bükk mountains, which offer them a great variety of field and settlement structures.
- Within geography the course pays particular attention to natural and social trends in addition to social handling of increasing risks.
Contact:
Address: Eszterházy Károly Főiskola
3300. Eger, Leányka út 8.
Contact person: Dr. Pajtókné dr. Tari Ilona
Head of department
pajtokil [kukac] ektf [dot] hu
36/520-400/4158
