Department for Advanced Undergraduate Studies (DAUS) of the Belgrade Open School educates and networks outstanding students aiming to develop democratic society based on the European values.

Department apprehends its mission through the program of Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Studies in social sciences and humanities, which is designed for the best senior students at Belgrade University as well for students who want to expand their knowledge in the fields of civil culture, its values and European integration processes. Program is based on multidisciplinary modules, skills, internship program, tutorial work and writing Final Paper.

lectures

Lectures have been used to introduce students into the problems they are going to discuss. Lectures have 30 minutes for introduction. Other 60 minutes are intended for the discussion among students and the lecturer. Students actively participate in lectures and are free to interrupt a lecturer at any moment, to put questions, or to influence a course and even the structure of lectures they listen to. In order to prepare themselves for the lecture, students obtain handouts, an article connected to the topic and bibliography in advance.

This method is mostly used in the Department for Advanced Undergraduate Studies.

tutorials

This is the basic form of work in education adapted to an individual. In the Belgrade Open School it is especially used in Department for Advanced Undergraduate Studies, trough the Internship programme. This form is one of the most important teaching methods for the students of the Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Studies. Each student is requested to choose a tutor depending on the field he or would like to study.

Tutorials aim to improve student’s knowledge in a specific field and to prepare them for future scientific and professional work. All students are expected to submit a paper as a final result of tutorials. Recommended papers are published in the Collection of Essays of the Belgrade Open School.

panel diskussions

Panel discussions make the school up-to-date and dynamic. They promote dialogue and connect theory with everyday experience. They mostly cover the topic voiced in different and opposing opinions of the scientific and professional public. Two or three specialists for a given topic are invited to confront their opinion and discuss it with students (participants).

workshops

Workshops are organized for smaller groups of students (or participants). There are various types of workshops, but for the purposes of BOS/DAUS students psychological, creative and problem solving workshops are implemented. Each workshop is goal oriented, covering specific topic and based on specific rules that are to be set and followed both by the facilitator and the participants.

Trainers are providing basic information using previously prepared flip charts with concise and convenient drawings and graphs and presenting various tasks that should be solved. On presenting results the participants are taught to give comments and listen to others remarks. Training consists of introductory presentations, creative games, questionnaires, specific tasks and giving comments to what was done concerning team building.

A simulation is a synthesis of exercises for activists, through a set of “inconvenient” or “difficult situations” which can occur in their future career. Simulation consists of three main phases: preparatory phase, in which the facilitator sets the rules, realization phase and discussion phase in which the facilitator sets the rules, realization phase and discussion phase in which the realization of the simulation is being analyzed (based on video materials). The great advantage of this method is that it can be implemented to people with various educational backgrounds.

lecturers

DAUS lecturers, tutors and other associates are lecturers at universities or research fellows of scientific institutes as well as prominent individuals involved in various scientific and social fields. Lecturers are invited according to the interest, evaluation of students and the School's programme scheme. They participate in the education process realized by all three departments but mostly in the Department for Advanced Undergraduate Studies (BOS/DAUS). For the time being BOS does not have full-time lecturers.

trainers

BOS trainers and instructors are members of BOS staff, BOS lecturers and some alumni who have been trained at various seminars in Serbia and Montenegro and abroad for trainings and simulations.

professional team

DAUS professional team consists of young professionals who have been working and co-operating for several years in NGO sector. They are responsible for the creation and realization of the programmes within the Department for Advanced Undergraduate Studies.

Department for Advanced Undergraduate Studies (DAUS) of the Belgrade Open School educates and networks outstanding students aiming to develop democratic society based on the European values.

Department apprehends its mission through the program of Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Studies in social sciences and humanities, which is designed for the best senior students at Belgrade University as well for students who want to expand their knowledge in the fields of civil culture, its values and European integration processes. Program is based on multidisciplinary modules, skills, internship program, tutorial work and writing Final Paper.

lectures

Lectures have been used to introduce students into the problems they are going to discuss. Lectures have 30 minutes for introduction. Other 60 minutes are intended for the discussion among students and the lecturer. Students actively participate in lectures and are free to interrupt a lecturer at any moment, to put questions, or to influence a course and even the structure of lectures they listen to. In order to prepare themselves for the lecture, students obtain handouts, an article connected to the topic and bibliography in advance.

This method is mostly used in the Department for Advanced Undergraduate Studies.

tutorials

This is the basic form of work in education adapted to an individual. In the Belgrade Open School it is especially used in Department for Advanced Undergraduate Studies, trough the Internship programme. This form is one of the most important teaching methods for the students of the Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Studies. Each student is requested to choose a tutor depending on the field he or would like to study.

Tutorials aim to improve student’s knowledge in a specific field and to prepare them for future scientific and professional work. All students are expected to submit a paper as a final result of tutorials. Recommended papers are published in the Collection of Essays of the Belgrade Open School.

panel diskussions

Panel discussions make the school up-to-date and dynamic. They promote dialogue and connect theory with everyday experience. They mostly cover the topic voiced in different and opposing opinions of the scientific and professional public. Two or three specialists for a given topic are invited to confront their opinion and discuss it with students (participants).

workshops

Workshops are organized for smaller groups of students (or participants). There are various types of workshops, but for the purposes of BOS/DAUS students psychological, creative and problem solving workshops are implemented. Each workshop is goal oriented, covering specific topic and based on specific rules that are to be set and followed both by the facilitator and the participants.

Trainers are providing basic information using previously prepared flip charts with concise and convenient drawings and graphs and presenting various tasks that should be solved. On presenting results the participants are taught to give comments and listen to others remarks. Training consists of introductory presentations, creative games, questionnaires, specific tasks and giving comments to what was done concerning team building.

A simulation is a synthesis of exercises for activists, through a set of “inconvenient” or “difficult situations” which can occur in their future career. Simulation consists of three main phases: preparatory phase, in which the facilitator sets the rules, realization phase and discussion phase in which the facilitator sets the rules, realization phase and discussion phase in which the realization of the simulation is being analyzed (based on video materials). The great advantage of this method is that it can be implemented to people with various educational backgrounds.

lecturers

DAUS lecturers, tutors and other associates are lecturers at universities or research fellows of scientific institutes as well as prominent individuals involved in various scientific and social fields. Lecturers are invited according to the interest, evaluation of students and the School's programme scheme. They participate in the education process realized by all three departments but mostly in the Department for Advanced Undergraduate Studies (BOS/DAUS). For the time being BOS does not have full-time lecturers.

trainers

BOS trainers and instructors are members of BOS staff, BOS lecturers and some alumni who have been trained at various seminars in Serbia and Montenegro and abroad for trainings and simulations.

professional team

DAUS professional team consists of young professionals who have been working and co-operating for several years in NGO sector. They are responsible for the creation and realization of the programmes within the Department for Advanced Undergraduate Studies.