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Study Programmes

BIOLOGY 3

CHEMISTRY 18

GENERAL ECOLOGY 38

INFORMATICS 54

GEOGRAPHY (Landscape Structure and its Transformation) 71

MATHEMATICS 87

PHYSICS 98

Study programme Biology(Full-time bachelor)

Code Title ECTS Credit Hours/week Assessment Recommended Year/Semester

Compulsory courses

ÚBEV/ACL/03 Human Anatomy 5 2/2 Examination 1/1 ÚBEV/CYT1/02 Cytology 7 3/2 Examination 1/1 ÚBEV/BO1/03 Botany I 5 2/2 Examination 1/1ÚBEV/SDB1/03 Biological History

Seminar2 -/2 Assessment 1/1

ÚCHV/ZAC2/03 Basic Chemistry 6 2/2 Examination 1/1 ÚCHV/CHV1/99 Chemical Calculations 2 -/2 Assessment 1/1ÚCHV/ULP/03 Introduction to Laboratory

Work1 -/14s Assessment 1/1

ÚBEV/HIS1/03 Histology 7 3/2 Examination 1/2 ÚBEV/VB1/03 General Botany 7 3/2 Examination 1/2ÚBEV/BOT1/03 Botany II 5 2/2 Examination 1/2ÚFV/FPB/01 Physics for Biologists 4 2/1 Examination 1/2 ÚBEV/MKB1/03 Microbiology 6 2/2 Examination 2/3 ÚCHV/BCHU/03 Biochemistry 5 3/- Examination 2/3ÚBEV/PMZ1/03 Comparative Animal

Morphology5 2/1 Examination 2/3

ÚBEV/FR1/03 Plant Physiology 7 2/3 Examination 2/4ÚBEV/MOB1/03 Molecular Biology 8 3/3 Examination 2/4 ÚBEV/IKT1/03 Information and

Communication Technologies

2 -/2 Assessment 2/4

ÚBEV/TCB1/03 Botany Fieldwork 2 -/5d Recognition 2/4ÚBEV/GE1/03 Genetics 8 3/3 Examination 3/5 ÚBEV/VEK1/03 Introduction to Ecology 3 2/- Examination 3/5ÚBEV/ZO1/03 Zoology I 5 2/2 Examination 3/5 ÚBEV/ZOO1/03 Zoology II 5 2/2 Examination 3/6ÚBEV/FZ1/03 Animal Physiology 8 3/3 Examination 3/6 ÚBEV/TCB1/03 Zoology Fieldwork 2 -/5d Recognition 3/6ÚBEV/BPa/04 Bachelor Work 2 -/- Recognition 3/5 ÚGE/BPb/04 Bachelor work 6 -/- Recognition 3/6

Compulsory elective courses

ÚCHV/PBC2/99 Biochemistry Practical 4 -/4 Assessment 2/3 ÚBEV/BS1/03 Biostatistics 6 2/2 Examination 2/3 ÚBEV/BTR1/06 Plant Biotechnology 6 -/3 Examination 3/5 ÚBEV/BFL1/03 Biochemical Laboratory

Methods in Physiology4 -/4 Assessment 3/5

ÚBEV/BI1/03 Basic Bioinformatics 6 2/2 Examination 3/5

ÚBEV/LR1/03 Healing Plants 3 2/- Examination 3/5ÚBEV/FPP1/03 Phytopathology 6 2/2 Examination 3/5ÚBEV/BFA1/03 Biopharmacology 5 2/2 Examination 3/ 6ÚBEV/BFP1/99 Biophysical Principles of

Physiological Processes3 2/- Examination 3/6

ÚBEV/ETB1/99 Experimental Techniques in Biology


ÚCHV/ANCH3/03

Analytical Chemistry 6 2/2 Examination 3/6

ÚMV/IMAC1/03 Mathematics I 6 2/2 Examination 2/3 ÚBV/SVK/04 Student Scientific

Conference 4 -/- Assessment 2/4, 3/6

Elective courses

ÚFV/BME1/00 Introduction to Physics of Biological Membranes

3 2/- Examination 2/4

ÚFV/FCH1/02 Physical Chemistry for Biological Sciences

6 3/2 Examination 3/6

Course units

Compulsory courses

Title Human AnatomyCode ÚBEV/ACL/03 Teacher Miklošová MáriaECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with knowledge of the anatomic systems of man.Content Anatomic terminology, skeleton and muscles, gastrointestinal system,

respiratory system, circulatory and lymphatic system, urogenital system, sensory organs, nervous system, ontogenesis of man.

Alternate courses ÚBEV/ACL1/00Recommended reading

Kahle, W., Leonhardt, H., Platzer, W.: Color Atlas and Textbook of HumanAnatomy in 3 Volumes: Volume 1: Locomotor System, Volume 2: Internal Organs and Volume 3: Nervous System and Sensory Organs. Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. New York, 1993Anne M. R. Agur: Grant´s atlas of anatomy. Williams et Wilkins, USA, 1991

Title CytologyCode ÚBEV/CYT1/02 Teacher Mišúrová EvaECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with knowledge of the basic principles of cells and their

microscopic and sub-microscopic structure and function.

Content Levels of living system organisation. Characteristics and comparison of prokaryotic and eukaryotic plant and animal cells. Microscopic, sub-microscopic and molecular structure and function of individual cell components. Nucleus and cell division.

Exclusive courses ÚBEV/CYTF/03Alternate courses ÚBEV/CYT1/99 or ÚBEV/CYT1/01Recommended reading

Alberts, B., Bray, D., Lewis, J. et al. Molecular Biology of the Cell. Garland Publishing Inc., New York, London, 1994

Title Botany ICode ÚBEV/BO1/03 Teacher Bačkor MartinECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To introduce students to the biology of lower plants.Content Morphology, cytology, ecology, evolution and taxonomy of all main groups

of lower plants: Cyanobacteria and algae (cyanophyta, prochlorophyta, glaucophyta, rhodophyta, heterocontophyta, haptophyta, cryptophyta, dinophyta, euglenophyta, chlorarachniophyta, chlorophyta); slime moulds (plasmodiophoromycota, dictyosteliomycota, acrasiomycota, labyrinthulo-mycota); fungi (oomycota, hyphochytriomycota, chytridiomycota, zygomycota, ascomycota, basidiomycota); lichens; bryophytes.

Alternate courses ÚBEV/BO1/01 or (ÚBEV/BO1a/00,ÚBEV/BO1b/00)Recommended reading

Deacon, J.W.: Modern Mycology. Blackwell Science Ltd., 1998Van den Hoek, C. at al.: Algae, an introduction to phycology, 1995

Title Biological History SeminarCode ÚBEV/SDB1/03 Teacher Bačkor MartinECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 1T/L method PracticalObjective To present the basic turning points in the history of biology from ancient

times, through the middle ages, to modern times. Content Overview of the history of biology from ancient time, through the middle

ages, to modern times. Recommended reading

Magner, L.N.: A history of the life sciences. Marcel Dekker, Inc. 2002

Title Basic ChemistryCode ÚCHV/ZAC2/03 Teacher Martinková Miroslava, Reháková

MáriaECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with basic knowledge of inorganic and organic

chemistry.Content General and inorganic chemistry, focusing on the periodic table of elements,

electronic structure of atoms, chemical bonding, chemical reactions; the relation between the structure and properties of gases, liquids, solids; the

properties and concentrations of solutions; pH; non-metallic elements and their compounds; transition metal chemistry; coordination compounds; elements important for biological systems.Introduction to organic chemistry, focusing on alkanes, alkenes, alkynes; aromatic compounds; haloalkanes; alcohols and phenols; aldehydes; ketones; carboxylic acids and their derivatives; heterocyclic compounds; carbo-hydrates; lipids; nucleotides; peptides.

Exclusive courses ÚCHV/VCH/03 or ÚCHV/VCHU/03Recommended reading

K. C. Timberlake: Organic and Biological Chemistry, Benjamin Cummings Publishing Company, Inc., San Francisco 2002

Title Chemical CalculationsCode ÚCHV/CHV1/99 Teacher Potočňák IvanECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 1T/L method PracticalObjective To teach students how to calculate material balances in the systems with or

without chemical processes and how to work equations concerning chemical equilibrium.

Content Expression of clear matter amount and system composition. Stoichiometric formula. Material balances for the preparation, dissolving and mixing of solutions and for separation of mixtures. Material balances for combined processes. Chemical equations and material balances in systems with chemical processes. Acid-Base equilibrium and pH calculations. The solubility product and solubility.

Title Introduction to Laboratory WorkCode ÚCHV/ULP/03 Teacher Potočňák IvanECTS credits 1 Hrs/week -/14sAssessment Assessment Semester 1T/L method PracticalObjective To teach students basic operations necessary for work in a chemical

laboratory.Content Basic laboratory techniques necessary for ordinary laboratory practices.

Work with glass. Measuring of the mass and volume of samples. Separating and purifying samples: atmospheric and low pressure filtration, decantation, crystallisation, desiccation, distillation, sublimation. Verification of the purity and composition of solutions: determining boiling and melting point, density of liquids. Preparation of a solution with defined composition.

Title HistologyCode ÚBEV/HIS1/03 Teacher Daxnerová ZuzanaECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide the students with knowledge of the basic morphology of animal

tissues.Content Epithelium and glands. Connective tissue. Cartilage. Bone. Muscle. Nervous

system tissue. Blood and hemopoiesis. Circulatory system. Lymphoid

system. Endocrine system. Integument. Respiratory system. Digestive system. Urinary system. Female reproductive system. Male reproductive system. Special senses.

Prerequisite courses ÚBEV/CYT1/02,ÚBEV/ACL/03Exclusive courses ÚBEV/HISF/03Alternate courses ÚBEV/HIS1/01Recommended reading

Gartner, L.P., Hiatt, J.L.: Color Texbook of Histology. W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, 1997Juanqueira, L.C., Carneiro, J., Kelley, R.O.: Basic Histology. Prentice Hall International Inc., Apleton & Lange, 1992

Title General BotanyCode ÚBEV/VB1/03 Teacher Macková AnnaECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with information concerning the structure and function

of plant cells, tissues and organs.Content Plants cells. Differences between the cells of higher plants and animals.

Tissues (primary and secondary meristems, mechanical tissue, conductive tissue, mesophyll, secretory tissues, parenchyma, epidermis, periderm, intercellular space). Organology: development, function, morphology, arrangement and metamorphosis of single plant organs (stem, root, leaf, flower, fruit and seed). Life cycle of a moss, fern, and seed plant.

Prerequisite courses ÚBEV/CYT1/02Alternate courses ÚBEV/VB1/01 orÚBEV/VB1/02Recommended reading

Fahn,A.: Plant anatomy. 3d ed. Elmsford, NY: Pergamon Press. 1982Cutter, E. G.: Plant anatomy. Part I: Cells and tissues. 2d ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc. 1978Raven, P. H., Evert, R. F. and Eichhorn S. E.: Biology of Plants. W. H. Freeman and Company, New York 2003

Title Botany IICode ÚBEV/BOT1/04 Teacher Mártonfi PavolECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with knowledge and methodology concerning the study

of tracheophytes.Content Historical and contemporary plant systems. Approaches to plant

classification. Principles of cladistics and of molecular taxonomy. Tracheophytes, clades of lycophytes, ferns and their allies. Seed plants. Gymnosperms and their evolution: cycads, ginkgos, conifers, gnetophytes. Angiosperms. Evolution and general description. Basal clades and magnoliid clade. Monocots. "Basal tricolpates" and caryophyllanae. Rosid and asterid clades of tricolpates.

Practicals are devoted to study of the most important families of tracheophytes. Fossil evidence of ferns and allies from the Palaeozoic age. Tropical and subtropical flora. Ferns. Practical study of conifers. Selected families of angiosperms (magnoliaceae, araceae, liliaceae, amaryllidaceae,

cyperaceae, poaceae, ranunculaceae, papaveraceae, caryophyllaceae, euphorbiaceae, violaceae, fabaceae, rosaceae, betulaceae, brassicaceae, boraginaceae, plantaginaceae, lamiaceae, apiaceae, asteraceae). Study of other seed plants; plant identification according to key.

Prerequisite courses ÚBEV/TCB1/03Alternate courses ÚBEV/BOT1/03 orÚBEV/BOT1/01 or(ÚBEV/BO2a/99,ÚBEV/BO2b/99)Recommended reading

Judd W. S., Campbell Ch. S., Kellogg E. A. & Stevens P. F., Donoghue M. J.: Plant Systematics. A phylogenetic Approach, 2nd ed. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, 2002

Title Physics for BiologistsCode ÚFV/FPB/01 Teacher Uličný JozefECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with an introduction to the application of physical laws

to to explain biological properties and processes. Content Physical basis of biological phenomena. Sound, hearing, echolocation,

optics, absorption and emission of light, radiation biophysics, mechanics of animal motion, molecular biophysics, heat in biological systems, nerve signals.

Recommended reading

F. R. Hallet, R.H. Stinson, W.G. Graham, P.A. Speight, Physics for the Biological Sciences. Concept Press, Toronto, 2000R. A. Serway, Physics for Scientists & Engineers with Modern Physics. Saunders Coll. Publishing, Philadelphia e. a., 1992

Title Botany FieldworkCode ÚBEV/TCB1/03 Teacher Mártonfi PavolECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/5dAssessment Recognition Semester 2T/L method PracticalObjective To provide students the means to determine and identify common central

European plants. Content Plant identification in different habitats. Plant determination. Floristic

records.Alternate courses ÚBEV/TCB1/99Recommended reading

Marhold K. a Hindák F. (eds.): Zoznam nižších a vyšších rastlín Slovenska. Checklist of non-vascular and vascular plants of Slovakia. - Veda, Bratislava 1998Krejča J. (ilustr.): Veľká kniha rastlín - Bratislava (various editions)

Title MicrobiologyCode ÚBEV/MKB1/03 Teacher Kropáčová KatarínaECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with basic knowledge of micro-organisms.Content Classification and basic characteristics of micro-organisms. Structure and

composition of viruses. Prokaryotic cell structure. Bacterial anatomy.

Endospores and sporulation. Nutrition, growth and cultivation of bacteria. Microbial genetics. Gene expression in prokaryotes. Plasmids. Bacterio-phages. Bacterial virulence factors. Antimicrobial agents. Survival of micro-organisms in the natural environment. Fungi and yeast.

Prerequisite courses (ÚCHV/ZAC2/03 or ÚCHV/OCHU/03),ÚBEV/CYT1/02Exclusive courses ÚBEV/MKC1/01Alternate courses ÚBEV/MKB1/01

Title BiochemistryCode ÚCHV/BCHU/03 Teacher Podhradský Dušan, Sedlák Erik,

Tomášková Nataša, Chomič JozefECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 3/-Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method LectureObjective To provide students with knowledge of living organisms on the basis of their

molecular structure and metabolism.Content Protein structure and function; exploring proteins. DNA and RNA and the

flow of genetic information; exploring genes. Enzymes: basic concepts and kinetics; catalytic and regulatory strategies. Functions and properties of carbohydrates (monosaccharides, disaccharides, polysaccharides). Lipids and cells: membranes, membrane channels and pumps. Metabolism: basic concepts and design; signal-transduction pathways. Glycolysis and gluconeogenesis; glycogen metabolism. The citric acid cycle and the glyoxylate cycle. Oxidative phosphorylation; the light reactions of photo-synthesis. The calvine cycle and the pentose phosphate pathway. Fatty acids metabolism; urea cycle. DNA replication and transcription (RNA synthesis). Protein synthesis and degradation; the integration of metabolism.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/VCHU/03 or ÚCHV/ZAC2/03

Title Comparative Animal MorphologyCode ÚBEV/PMZ1/03 Teacher Panigaj ĽubomírECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To give students understanding of the basic principles of animal

morphology, their relationship to animal evolution, and their importance in the creation of zoological taxonomy.

Content Anatomy, morphology and evolution of the tegumentary, motor, vascular, digestive, respiratory, excretory, sexual and sensual systems of animals.

Alternate courses ÚBEV/PMZ1/00 orÚBEV/PMZ1a/99

Title Plant PhysiologyCode ÚBEV/FR1/03 Teacher Repčák MiroslavECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 2/3Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with the knowledge and methodology of plant

physiology.

Content Water balance: water potential; absorption, transportation and transpiration. Mineral nutrition: essential nutrients, uptake and transport. Photosynthesis: light absorption, electron and proton transport, carbon fixation, photorespiration, ecophysiology. Phloem translocation. Respiration: sugar degradation. Lipid metabolism. Heterotrophy. Secondary metabolism. Growth and development. Hormones. Photoreceptors. Dormancy and germination. Flowering. Rhythms and photoperiodism. Movements. Stress.

Prerequisite courses ÚBEV/VB1/03Alternate courses ÚBEV/FR1/01 or(ÚBEV/FR1a/99,ÚBEV/FR1b/00)Recommended reading

Hopkins W.G. Huner N.P.A. Introduction to plant physiology. 3rd ed., Wiley, New York 2004

Title Molecular BiologyCode ÚBEV/MOB1/03 Teacher Solár PeterECTS credits 8 Hrs/week 3/3Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide the students with knowledge of the molecular basis of the

inheritance and control of gene expression and development.Content Structure and properties of information macromolecules. Molecular

mechanisms of DNA replication and repair, transcription and translation. Prokaryotic and eukaryotic genome. Control of gene expression in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Control of the cell cycle.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/BCHU/03Alternate courses ÚBEV/MB/01,ÚBEV/CMB/01Recommended reading

Lodish, H., Baltimore, D., Berk, A. et al.: Molecular Cell Biology. Sci. Amer. Books Inc., W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, 1995Myers, R.A.: Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. VCH Publishers Inc., New York, 1995

Title GeneticsCode ÚBEV/GE1/03 Teacher Čellárová EvaECTS credits 8 Hrs/week 3/3Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with knowledge of basic genetic principles of

inheritance.Content Mendel´s principles of inheritance. Gene interactions. Sex-linked traits.

Cytogenetics, mutations and mutagenesis. Structure and function of DNA, mRNA, tRNA and rRNA. Genetic code. Mechanism of replication, transcription and translation. Post-transcriptional and post-translational modifications. Regulation of gene expression. Genetic mechanisms at the subcellular level. Genetics of bacteria. Cytogenetics and mutations. Basis of human genetics. Population genetics. Quantitative traits. Human genome project.

Prerequisite courses ÚBEV/MKB1/03,ÚBEV/MB1/01 or ÚBEV/MOB1/03Exclusive courses ÚBEV/GE2/03Alternate courses ÚBEV/GE1a/00,(ÚBEV/GE1b/00 or ÚBEV/GE1c/99)Recommended Darnell, J., Lodish, H., Baltimore, D.: Molecular Cell Biology. Scientific

reading American, New York, 1992Lewin, B.: Genes IV. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990Loewy, A. G., Ciekewitz, P., Menninger, J. R., Gallant, J. A. N.: Cell Structure and Function. Saunders College Publ., Philadelphia, 1991Russell, P. J.: Genetics. Harper Collins Publ., New York, 1992Van Dam-Mieras, M. C. a kol.: Genome Management in Eukaryotes. Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., Oxford, 1993

Title Introduction to EcologyCode ÚBEV/VEK1/03 Teacher Hudec IgorECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 2/-Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method LectureObjective To provide students with knowledge of the fundamental parameters and

relations in ecological science.Content Ecological factors and relations in environment (air, water, soil); influence

of ecological factors on individuals (morphological adaptations, behavioral reactions); populations and communities; ecosystems (impact assessment); conservation and biodiversity.

Alternate courses ÚBEV/VEK1/99Recommended reading

Begon, M., Harper, J. L., Townsend, C. L.: Ecology: individuals, populations, and communities. Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1990

Title Zoology ICode ÚBEV/ZO1/03 Teacher Panigaj ĽubomírECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students basic knowledge of invertebrate taxonomy, including

monocytozoa, the develop their understanding of the importance and function of chosen individual taxons and of phylogenetic relations.

Content Anatomy, morphology and development of separate groups of invertebrates, e.g., Porifera, Cnidaria, Plathelminthes, Nemathelminthes, Mollusca, Anelida, Arthropoda, Echinodermata. Characteristic species.

Prerequisite courses ÚBEV/PMZ1/03Alternate courses ÚBEV/ZO1/01

Title Zoology IICode ÚBEV/ZOO1/03 Teacher Stanko MichalECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide fundamental knowledge of the taxonomy and morphology of

vertebrates.Content Systematic and phylogenetic relationships of vertebrates. Review of

important groups of fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.Prerequisite courses ÚBEV/ZO1/03Alternate courses ÚBEV/ZOO1/01

Title Fieldwork In ZoologyCode ÚBEV/TCZ/03 Teacher Panigaj ĽubomírECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/5dAssessment Recognition Semester 6T/L method PracticalObjective To give students field experience in the observation of of vertebrate

morphology.Content Systematic and phylogenetic relationships of vertebrates. Review of

important groups of fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals using direct observation in the field.

Alternate courses ÚBEV/TCZ1/99

Title Animal PhysiologyCode ÚBEV/FZ1/03 Teacher Ahlersová Eva, Šmajda BeňadikECTS credits 8 Hrs/week 3/3Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with basic knowledge about physiological processes in

human and animal organisms.Content The physiology of blood and hemopoietic organs. Physiology of respiration.

Physiology of the heart and circulatory system. Physiology of the gastro-intestinal tract. Functions of the liver. Energetic metabolism and the physiology of nutrition. Water and mineral composition of the organism. Physiology of endocrine secretion. Physiology of reproduction. Physiology of excretion. General neurophysiology. Functions of neurons and neuronal networks. Sensory and motor functions of CNS. Associative functions of CNS. Functions of the vegetative nervous system. Physiology of muscle contraction and active motion. Physiology of work. Physiology of the senses.

Prerequisite courses ÚBEV/HIS1/03Alternate courses ÚBEV/FZ1a/01,ÚBEV/FZ1b/01Recommended reading

Ganong, W. F.: Review of medical physiology. Prentice-Hall, Appleton & Langer, 1993Varder, A. J., Sherman, J. H., Luciano, D. S.: The mechanisms of body functions, McGraw-Hill, 1990Schmidt, R. F., Thews, G.: Human Physiology, Springer-Verlag, 1989


Title Biochemistry PracticalCode ÚCHV/PBC2/99 TeacherECTS credits 4 Hrs/week -/4Assessment Assessment Semester 3T/L method PracticalObjective To allow students to learn, through practical experience which complements

the lectures, a variety of experimental techniques currently used in biochemical research.

Content Important biochemical laboratory methods: quantitative methods assignments of amino acids and proteins; isolation of casein from milk and the assignment of the isoelectric point of casein. Isolation of gluthation from

yeast. Assignment of proteins concentration by the Lowry method and the dialysis of proteins. Reactions for identification of sugars. Extraction of fat from anise seeds by use of the Soxlet apparatus. Fats constants: definition of the iod number by using the Yasud method and the assignment of a saponification number. Reactions for demonstration of the presence of cytochrome oxidase, succinate dehydrogenase and xantin dehydrogenase. The substrate specifity for glycosidases: sacharases and alpha-amylases; pH influence on alpha-amylase activity. Influence of the concentration of a substrate on initial rate of a reaction: assignment of Km and Vmax for urease. Isolation of nucleic acids: DNA from spleen and RNA from yeast.

Alternate courses ÚCHV/PBC1/99 or ÚCHV/PBC1/00Recommended reading

http://kosice.upjs.sk/~kbch/

Title BiostatisticsCode ÚBEV/BS1/03 Teacher Šmajda BeňadikECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with knowledge of the basic principles of statistical

methods used in biology and their scope of applicationContent Sources and theoretical background of biostatistics. Basic principles of the

probability theory. Descriptive statistics: variables, measures of mean value and variability of data. Theoretical and empirical distributions. Experimental sampling from normal distributions. Testing of hypotheses. One-way and multiple analysis of variance. Tests for multiple comparisons. Regression analysis. Correlations. Non-parametric methods.

Alternate courses ÚBEV/BST1a/01,ÚBEV/BS1b/99Recommended reading

Hassard, T. H.: Understanding biostatistics. Mosby Year Book, 1991Snedecor,G.W., Cochran,W.G.: Statistical methods. The Iowa state university, Ames, 1972

Title Plant BiotechnologyCode ÚBEV/BTR1/06 Teacher Čellárová EvaECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/3Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To gain theoretical and practical knowledge on plant tissue culture in vitro.Content Genetics and physiology of plant cell and tissue culture, protoplasts,

embryoids and organs cultured in vitro under sterile conditions. Use of tissue culture in research and praxis. Cryopreservation of plant cells and tissues. Immobilised plant systems. Genetic transformation of plants and expression of foreign genes.

Recommended reading

Dodds, J. H. and Roberts, L. W.: Experiments in Plant Tissue Culture. Cambridge University Press, 1985 Periodicals and internet sources

Title Biochemical Laboratory Methods in PhysiologyCode ÚBEV/BFL1/03 Teacher

ECTS credits 4 Hrs/week -/4Assessment Assessment Semester 5T/L method PracticalObjective To provide information for students about the most frequently used

biochemical methods in physiological research and to improve their ability to apply these methods in laboratory practice.

Content Biochemical methods used for determination of individual fractions of lipids and lipid-peroxides in blood and tissue samples. Determination of lipoprotein classes in blood serum. Determination of basic parameters of sugar metabolism. Determination of glucocorticoids in serum and adrenals.

Recommended reading

Murray, R. K., Grammer, D. K., Mayes, P. A., Rodwell, V. W.: Harper‘s Biochemistry. Prentice-Hall, Appleton & Lange, 1993

Title Basic BioinformaticsCode ÚBEV/BI1/03 Teacher Saxová Patrícia, Čellárová EvaECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To allow students to use interdisciplinary methods and approaches involving

mathematics and computer science in solving selected problems in molecular biology, as, for example, the analysis of nucleotide and protein sequences, genome study, etc.

Content The introductory lectures in Bioinformatics involve the comparison of nucleotide and protein sequences, molecular evolution, evolutionary trees, work with biological databases, use of neuron networks and HMM in Bioinformatics. Practical experience is provided by student use of concrete bioinformatic programmes accessible on the Internet.

Alternate courses ÚBEV/BI1/01Recommended reading

Grau D. & Li W.-H.: Fundamentals of Molecular Evolutions, Sinuar Associates, 2000. Durbin, R., Eddy, S., Krogh, A. & Mitchison, G.: Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids, CUP, 1999

Title Healing PlantsCode ÚBEV/LR1/03 Teacher Repčák MiroslavECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 2/-Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method LectureObjective To provide students with knowledge of the healing principles of plants and

of the production of drugs.Content History and present state of the field. Pharmacotherapeutical and toxic

effects of drug. Active substances. Inheritance, chemotypes and breeding. Cultivation and post-harvest technology. Essential oil and extracts production. Special focus: claviceps, angelica, valeriana, drosera, levandula, digitalis, hypericum, althaea, calendula, silybum, chamomilla, arctostaphylos, melissa, mentha, hyssopus, thymus, salvia, agrimonia, rosa, tilia, achillea, plantago, panax and other tonic plants.

Alternate courses ÚBEV/LR1/00Recommended reading

Pahlow M.: Healing plants. New York 1993

Title PhytopathologyCode ÚBEV/FP1/03 Teacher Suvák MartinECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with fundamental knowledge both of plant diseases

developing from abiotic and biotic factors of the environment and of plant protection.

Content Influence of environment on occurrence and development of plant diseases. Abiotic disease. Injurious biotic agents. Specific symptoms of surplus and lack of nutrients. Symbiosis (mycorrhiza and bacteriorrhiza). Parasite and pathogen. Parasite-plant and pathogen-plant relationships. Intermediate host. Pathognomic symptoms. Viroids, viruses, bacteria and actinomycetes as plant disease sources. Important disease connections between cultivated plants and the classes archimycetes, phycomycetes, ascomycetes, basiomycetes and deuteromycetes. Integrated plant protection. Biological control. Genetics of the relationship of host-plant and pathogen.

Alternate courses ÚBEV/FP1/99 or ÚBEV/FP1/00 or ÚBEV/FP1/01Recommended reading

Agrios G. N. (1978): Plant pathology. 2nd. ed. Academic Press, New York.

Title BiopharmacologyCode ÚBEV/BFA1/03 Teacher Gálik JánECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with basic knowledge of the classification and

mechanism of action of the most important pharmaceuticals.Content Pharmaceutical principles. Classification of drugs. Absorption, biotrans-

formation and excretion of drugs from the organism. Pharmacogenetics. Molecular mechanisms of drug effects. Drug-receptor interactions. Chronic administration of drugs. Teratogenity and cancerogenity of drugs. Development and introduction of drugs for clinical use. Principle of chronopharmacology.

Alternate courses ÚBEV/BFA1/99Recommended reading

Clark, W. G., Braber, D.C., Johnen, A.R.: Goth‘s medical pharmacology. Mosby Year Book, 1992

Title Biophysical Principles of Physiological ProcessesCode ÚBEV/BFP1/99 Teacher Šmajda BeňadikECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 2/-Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method LectureObjective To provide students with knowledge of basic biophysical principles of

physiological processes in animals.Content Fundamentals of information theory and theory of regulation. Energetics and

kinetics of muscle contraction. Properties of biological membranes. Biophysical mechanisms of cell excitability. Biomechanics of bones and

joints. Physiological acoustics. Physical principles of light perception. Biophysics of blood circulation and respiration

Recommended reading

Berne, L.: Principles of physiology. Mosby, 1990

Title Experimental Techniques in BiologyCode ÚBEV/ETB1/99 Teacher Solár PeterECTS credits 4 Hrs/week -/4Assessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method PracticalObjective To provide students with knowledge of basic experimental techniques in

biology.Content Handling of laboratory animals. Narcotizing of animals. Operating

techniques. Basic research methods. Recommended reading

Zutphen, L. F. M., Baumans, V., Beynen, A. C.: Principles of Laboratory Animal Science. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1993

Title Analytical ChemistryCode ÚCHV/ANCH3/03 Teacher Reiffová Katarína, Bazeľ YaroslavECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To introduce students to the basic principles and methods of analytical

chemistry.Content Explanation of the field. Basic principles, classification and selection of

analytical methods. Qualitative and quantitative analysis. Qualitative analysis: separation by selective precipitation. Quantitative methods: general principles of gravimetry and volumetric methods. Preparation of accurate solutions. Indication of equivalency point. Titration curves and calculations in volumetric analysis. Acidimetry. Alkalimetry. Manganometry. Iodometry. Complexometry. Argentometry. Instrumental methods of analytical chemistry: basic principles, instrumentation and applications of electroanalytical, optical and separation methods.

Recommended reading

D.Harvey: Modern Analytical Chemistry. McGraw Hill, Boston, 2000.D.A.Skoog: Principles of Instrumental Analysis. Saunders Col. Publishing, New York 1985.E.Prichard: Quality in the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, Wiley, 1995

Title Mathematics ICode ÚMV/IMAC1/03 Teacher Studenovská DanicaECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students basic knowledge of the functions of one variable and

their properties; to be able to apply the theory in concrete exercises.Content Functions, basic properties. Elementary functions. Continuous functions.

Limits. Derivation and its geometric applications. Theorems of continuous functions. Behaviour of functions. Indefinite integrals, basic methods of integration. Definite integral and its applications.

Exclusive courses ÚMV/MAR1a/03Recommended reading

S.Lang: A first course in calculus, Springer Verlag, 1998

Elective courses

Title Introduction to Physics of Biological MembranesCode ÚFV/BME1/00 Teacher Fabriciová Gabriela, Miškovský

PavolECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 2/-Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method LectureObjective To introduce students to the fundamental processes occurring in biological

membranes. Content Structures and models of membranes. Physico-chemical properties of

biological membranes. Functions of membranes. Propagation of nerve impulse and the process of vision. Physical methods for the study of membranes.

Recommended reading

C.Hidalgo: Physical Properties of Biological Membranes,Plenum Press, New York 1988 van Winkle I. J.: Biomembrane transport, Academic Press, San Diego 1999 Stein W. D.: Channels, carriers, and pumps, Academic Press, San Diego 1990 Glaser R.: Biophysics, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 1999 Pollard T. D., Earnshaw W. C.: Cell biology, Saunders, Philadelphia 2004 Alberts: Molecular biology of the cell, Garland Science, New York 2002

Title Physical Chemistry for Biological SciencesCode ÚFV/FCH1/02 Teacher Jancura Daniel, Miškovský PavolECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students fundamental knowledge of selected parts of physical

chemistry with emphasis on the utilisation of these knowledges for the study of the physico-chemical properties of biomacromolecules and biological systems.

Content Description of macroscopic systems, energy and the law of thermodynamics and (1) entropy and (2) energy and equilibrium state, chemical potential, binding constants of ligand-macromolecule interactions, biophysical applications of the thermodynamics. Solutions, electrolytic solutions, electrochemical equilibrium, electrodes, electrochemical potential. Statistical thermodynamics: the interpretation of energy, heat, entropy and information; the partition functions, biological applications of statistical thermodynamics, the conformational transitions in proteins and nucleic acids. Chemical reactions, chemical and biochemical kinetics, dynamics of chemical reactions, kinetics of enzymatic reactions, inhibition of enzymes. Transport processes, molecular diffusion, membrane transport and their significance for biological organisms.

Recommended reading

P. Atkins and J. de Paula, Physical chemistry (7th Edition), Oxford University Press, 2002. D. Eisenberg and D. Crothers, Physical chemistry with applications to the life sciences, Benjamin/Cummings, 1979.

K. van Holde, W. Johnson and P. Ho, Principles of physical biochemistry, Prentice Hall, 1988.

Study programme Chemistry(Full-time bachelor)


Compulsory courses

ÚCHV/VCH/03 General Chemistry 11 4/4 Examination 1/1 ÚCHV/CHV1/99 Chemical Calculations 2 -/2 Assessment 1/1 ÚCHV/ISC1a/03 Cheminformatics I 3 -/3 Assessment 1/1 ÚFV/CHF1a/03 Physics I 6 3/2 Examination 1/1ÚMV/IMAC1/03 Mathematics I 6 2/2 Examination 1/1 ÚCHV/ACH1/03 Inorganic Chemistry I 5 2/1 Examination 1/2ÚFV/CHF1b/03 Physics II 6 3/1 Examination 1/2 ÚMV/IMA1/03 Mathematics II 5 2/2 Examination 1/2 ÚCHV/OCH1a/03 Organic Chemistry I 7 3/1 Examination 1/2 ÚCHV/PACH/03 Inorganic Chemistry

Practical6 -/6 Assessment 1/2

ÚFV/ZP2/99 Physics Practical 3 -/3 Assessment 1/2 ÚCHV/ACH2/03 Inorganic Chemistry II 7 3/2 Examination 2/3 ÚCHV/BCH1a/03 Biochemistry I 3 2/- Examination 2/3 ÚCHV/FCH1a/03 Physical Chemistry I 7 3/2 Examination 2/3 ÚCHV/OCH1b/03 Organic Chemistry II 7 3/2 Examination 2/3ÚCHV/POC1/03 Organic Chemistry

Laboratory6 -/6 Assessment 2/3

ÚCHV/ANCH1a/03 Analytical Chemistry 5 2/1 Examination 2/4 ÚCHV/BCH1b/03 Biochemistry II 5 3/- Examination 2/4 ÚCHV/FCH1b/03 Physical Chemistry II 6 3/1 Examination 2/4 ÚCHV/PBC1/00 Biochemistry Practical 6 -/6 Assessment 2/4ÚCHV/PFCH/03 Physical Chemistry


ÚCHV/IKT/03 Information and Communication Technologies


ÚCHV/ANCH1b/03 Instrumental Analytical Chemistry


ÚCHV/MUS/03 Structure Determination: Spectroscopic Methods


ÚCHV/PANCH/06 Analytical Chemistry Practical


KFaDF/DF2p/07 History of Philosophy 4 2/1 Examination 3/5ÚCHV/BP1a/04 Bachelor Work 2 -/- Recognition 3/5 ÚCHV/BP1b/04 Bachelor work 6 -/- Recognition 3/6


ÚCHV/ST/03 Stereochemistry 5 2/1 Examination 3/5 ÚCHV/FUMC1/03 Introduction to Material

Chemistry5 2/1 Examination 3/5

ÚCHV/UECH/03 Introduction to Environmental Chemistry


ÚCHV/MB1a/03 Molecular Biology I 5 3/- Examination 3/5 ÚCHV/BAC1/04 Bioinorganic Chemistry I 5 2/1 Examination 3/5 ÚCHV/BACHZ/06 Fundamentals of

Bioanalytical Chemistry5 2/1 Examination 3/5

ÚCHV/ACPE1/03 Industrial Ecology 5 2/1 Examination 3/5 ÚCHV/MOC1/00 Organic Reactions

Mechanisms5 2/1 Examination 3/6

ÚCHV/PPOC/03 Advanced Organic Chemistry Laboratory


ÚCHV/ASM/03 Separation Methods 5 2/1 Examination 3/6 ÚCHV/ASC1/99 Separation Methods


ÚCHV/ISCH1b/03 Cheminformatics II 4 1/2 Assessment 3/6 ÚCHV/FMZ/04 Basic Principles of

Medicinal Chemistry3 2/- Examination 3/6

ÚCHV/FTEP1/03 Theory of Electrochemical Processes


ÚCHV/JCH1/04 Nuclear Chemistry 4 2/1 Examination 3/6 ÚCHV/BTC/03 Biotechnology 5 3/- Examination 3/6 ÚCHV/MB1b/03 Molecular Biology II 10 3/4 Examination 3/6 ÚCHV/PPB/03 Advanced Biochemistry


ÚCHV/PPA1/03 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Practical


ÚCHV/MIN1/00 Basis of Mineralogy 3 1/1 Examination 3/6ÚCHV/ZCV1/03 Basis of Chemical

Production3 1/1 Assessment 3/6

ÚCHV/SVKB/04 Student Scientific Conference

4 -/- Assessment 2/4, 3/6

Course units

Compulsory courses

Title General ChemistryCode ÚCHV/VCH/03 Teacher Potočňák IvanECTS credits 11 Hrs/week 4/4Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with knowledge about atoms, chemical bonds, physical

properties of elements and compounds.

Content Main terms used in chemistry. Atoms: models of atoms, electron configuration, chemical periodicity and its effect on the properties of elements, radioactivity. Chemical bonds and intermolecular interactions. Chemical structure and physical properties of matter. State of matter. Solutions. Chemical equilibrium. Basis of chemical thermodynamics and chemical kinetics. Classification of chemical reactions. Electrochemistry.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/CHV1/99Alternate courses ÚCHV/VCH1/02Recommended reading

Atkins P., Jones L.: Chemical Principles, 2nd ed., Freeman, New York 2002 Russel J. B.: General Chemistry, 2nd ed., McGraw Hill, London 1992 Books in the University Library


without chemical processes and how to work equations concerning chemical equilibrium.


Title Cheminformatics ICode ÚCHV/ISC1a/03 Teacher Potočňák IvanECTS credits 3 Hrs/week -/3Assessment Assessment Semester 1T/L method PracticalObjective To introduce students to the fundamental informatics techniques for

chemistry-related disciplines. Content A wide range of topics, including searching chemical information on the

Internet, searching for patent information and work with the primary and secondary literature. Researching, retrieval, and use of information in chemistry. Searching chemical information on the Internet (Scirus, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Web of Science, Medline, NIST) and e-journals. Use of "paper" resources (primary journals, Chemical Abstracts, Beilstein).

Recommended reading

R.E. Maisell: How to find Chemical Information, John Wiley, New York 1998 Internet resources for chemistry.

Title Physics ICode ÚFV/CHF1a/03 Teacher Vojtaník PavolECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with basic knowledge of mechanics, thermodynamics

and electrostatics and to have them apply the material to numeric solutions of relevant physical problems and exercises.

Content Kinematics and mechanics of a particle. Motion in the gravitational field. Newton’s laws of motion. Galileo’s and Lorentz’s transformations. Newton’s law of gravitation. Work and mechanical energy. Mechanics of a system of particles. 1st and 2nd impulse theorems. Rotational movement of particles. Moment of inertia. Deformation of solids. Hooke’s law. Mechanical oscillations: free, damped and forced. Mechanical waves. The wave equation. Interference and diffraction. Hydrostatics and hydrodynamics of fluids. Kinetic theory of gases. Thermodynamic laws. Entropy. Heat transfer. Structure of liquids. Surface tension. Capillarity. Phase transitions. Electricity and magnetism. Electrostatics. Coulomb’s law. Electrostatic field: intensity, work, potential and voltage. Capacity of conductors.

Recommended reading

H. E. Gettys, F. J. Keller, M. J. Skove: Physics – classical and modern, Mc Graw–Hill Book Co., New York, 1989F. J. Keller, H. E. Gettys, M. J. Skove: Physics, Mc Graw–Hill, Inc., New York, 1993

Title Mathematics ICode ÚMV/IMAC1/03 Teacher Studenovská DanicaECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students basic knowledge of the functions of one variable and





Title Inorganic Chemistry ICode ÚCHV/ACH1/03 Teacher Potočňák Ivan, Černák JurajECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with knowledge of the systematic chemistry of non-

metallic elements.Content Electronic configuration, abundance, use, physical and chemical properties,

preparation, reactivity of non-metallic elements: hydrogen, halogens, oxygen, sulphur, nitrogen, phosphorus, carbon, silicon, boron and rare gases. Binary and other compounds formed by these elements, their properties and reactivity.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/VCH/03Recommended reading

Greenwood, N. N., Earnshaw, A: Chemistry of the Elements. Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1984Shriver, D.F., Atkins, P.W., Langford, C. H.: Inorganic Chemistry. 2ndEd., Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995

Title Physics IICode ÚFV/CHF1b/03 Teacher Vojtaník PavolECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 3/1Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide basic knowledge of electricity and magnetism, electric

oscillations, electromagnetic waves, optics and quantum mechanics.Content Electrodynamics. Electric current. Ohm’s law. Kirchhoffs’ laws. Work and

power of electric current. Magnetism. Magnetic field. Electromagnetic induction. Transformers. Magnetic field energy. Magnetic materials in magnetic field. Types of magnetic materials. Domain structure. Electric oscillations. Alternating current. LCR circuits. Band theory of solids. Semiconductors. Thermoelectric effect. Electric current in liquids and gases. Electromagnetic waves. Maxwell’s equations. Flow of energy. Optics. Interference and diffraction of light. Polarisation. Sources of light. Radiation laws. Photoelectric effect. Lasers. Quantum mechanics. Wave function. The Schroedinger equation. Stark’s and Zeeman’s effects. Spin. Pauli exclusion principle. The hydrogen atom; multielectron atoms.

Prerequisite courses ÚFV/CHF/02Recommended reading

H. E. Gettys, F. J. Keller, M. J. Skove: Physics – classical and modern, Mc Graw–Hill Book Co., New York, 1989F. J. Keller, H. E. Gettys, M. J. Skove: Physics, Mc Graw – Hill, Inc., New York, 1993

Title Mathematics IICode ÚMV/IMA1/03 Teacher Studenovská DanicaECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide basic knowledge of linear algebra and geometry and of functions

of more variables and of series; to allow students to apply the theories in concrete exercises.

Content System of linear algebraic equations; determinants. Vector space. Analytic geometry of a plane and in a 3-dimensional space. Functions of more variables, continuity and limits, partial derivations. Some types of differential equations. Series, functional series, Taylor and MacLaurin series.

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/IMAC1/03Exclusive courses ÚMV/MAR1b/03Recommended reading

S.Lang: A first course in calculus, Springer Verlag, 1998W. Rudin: Real and Complex Analysis, McGraw-Hill International Editions: Mathematics Series, New York, 3rd edition, 1986

Title Organic Chemistry ICode ÚCHV/OCH1a/03 Teacher Potočňák Ivan, Gonda JozefECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 3/1Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide fundamental knowledge of the basics of organic chemistry to be

further developed and used in the second semester of this two-semester course.

Content Chemical bonding. Hybridisation and bonding. Covalent bonds. Double bonds and triple bonds. Structural formulas of organic molecules. Polar covalent bonds and electronegativity. Constitutional isomers. Alkenes. Electrophilic additions. Strong Bransted acids. Lewis acids (non-proton electrophiles) Electrophilic halogen reagents. Other electrophilic reagents. Reduction. Oxidation. Radical additions. Allylic substitution. Alkynes. Addition reactions. Hydrogenation. Electrophiles. Hydration and tautomerism. Hydroboration. Nucleophilile addition and reduction. Acidity of terminal alkynes (substitution of H). Alkyl halides. General reactivity substitution (of X). SN2 mechanism. SN1 mechanism. Elimination (of HX). Summary of Substitution v. Elimination. Substitution by metals elimination. Reactions of dihalides. Alcohols. Reactions of alcohols. Substitution of the hydroxyl H. Substitution of the hydroxyl group. Elimination of water. Oxidation of alcohols. Reactions of phenols. Acidity of phenols. Ring substitution of phenols. Oxidation to quinines. Aromatic compounds. Electrophilic substitution. A substitution mechanism. Reactions of substituted benzenes. Reaction characteristics. Reactions of disubstituted rings. Reactions of substituent groups. Nucleophilic substitution. Elimination and addition reactions. Amines. Basicity of nitrogen compounds. Acidity of nitrogen compounds. Important reagent bases. Reactions of amines. Electrophilic substitution of nitrogen. Preparation of 1° amines. Preparation of 2° and 3° amines. Reactions with nitrous acid. Reactions of aryl diazonium. Intermediates. Elimination reactions of amines. Oxidation states of nitrogen. Basic information: Aldehydes and ketones; carboxylic acids; carboxylic derivatives; natural products.

Alternate courses ÚCHV/OCH1a/02Recommended reading

http://uchv.upjs.sk/OCH1/ (passwd on demand)Organic Chemistry, 4th Edition, (Francis A. Carey)Organic Chemistry, 5th Edition, (John McMurry)

Title Inorganic Chemistry PracticalCode ÚCHV/PACH/03 Teacher Potočňák IvanECTS credits 6 Hrs/week -/6Assessment Assessment Semester 2T/L method PracticalObjective To provide practical experience in the preparation and study of inorganic

compounds and their physico-chemical properties through common laboratory techniques.

Content The utilisation of common laboratory techniques and also of work in anaerobic, inert and non-aqueous conditions in the preparation of elements (H2, O2, Cu, Ni), oxides (CO2, MnO2, Al2O3·xH2O), nitrides (Mg3N2), acids (HNO3, H3BO3), salts((NH4)2SO4, KMnO4), binary salts (KAl(SO4)2·12H2O), halides (CuCl, CuCl2·2H2O, CuBr2) and co-ordination compounds ([Cr2(CH3COO)4(H2O)2]).

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/VCH/03

Title Physics PracticalCode ÚFV/ZP2/99 Teacher

ECTS credits 3 Hrs/week -/3Assessment Assessment Semester 2T/L method PracticalContent To familiarise students with measurement methods, with types of errors,

with the calculation of mistakes, with measured results processing, and with the presentation of results.

Recommended reading

Degro, J., Ješková, Z., Onderová Ľ., Kireš, M.: Basic physical measurements I, Ed. PF UPJŠ Košice 2007 (in slovak)Brož, J. and all.: Fundamental physical measurements (I), SPN, 1967 (in czech)

Title Inorganic Chemistry IICode ÚCHV/ACH2/03 Teacher Potočňák Ivan, Černák JurajECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with a knowledge of the systematic chemistry of

metallic elements.Content Electronic configuration, abundance, use, physical and chemical properties

and reactivity of the elements of the 1st, 2nd groups, transition metal elements, elements of the 12th group, Al, Ga, In, Tl, Ge, Sn, Pb, As, Sb, Bi, Se, Te, Po, lanthanides and actinides. Binary and other compounds formed by these elements, their properties and reactivity. General properties, structure and bonding in metals, co-ordination and organometallic compounds.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/ACH1/03Exclusive courses ÚCHV/ACHU/03Alternate courses ÚCHV/ACH1b/99Recommended reading


Title Biochemistry ICode ÚCHV/BCH1a/03 Teacher Potočňák Ivan, Podhradský DušanECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 2/-Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method LectureObjective To provide understanding of life’s processes in molecular terms.Content Basic structures of biomolecules. Structures and functions of saccharides and

lipids. Amino Acids and nucleic acids. Techniques of protein and nucleic acid purification. Three-dimensional structures of proteins. Protein folding, Dynamics and structural evolution. Hemoglobin: protein function in a microcosm. Flow of genetic information. Proteosynthesis. Biosynthesis of nucleic acids, replication, transcription and translation. Enzymes: structure and function. Rates of enzymatic reactions Mechanisms of enzyme action and control of enzymatic activity.

Recommended reading

Lubert Stryer and col.: Biochemistry 5th edition, W.H.Freeman and Company, New York, 2003

Voet, Voet: Biochemistry 3rd edition, John Wiley & sons, England, 2004

Title Physical Chemistry ICode ÚCHV/FCH1a/03 Teacher Markušová KvetoslavaECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with knowledge of be basics of thermodynamics,

chemical and phase equilibria.Content State of aggregation. Laws for ideal and real gases, liquids and solids:

characteristics and properties. Principles of thermodynamics, thermodynamic equilibrium, characteristic thermodynamic changes, heat, work, internal energy, enthalpy, entropy, 1st, 2nd and 3rd law of thermodynamics, Gibbs energy. Thermochemistry, heat of reaction, 1st and 2nd thermometric laws, enthalpy of formation, enthalpy of combustion, calorimetry. Phase equilibria, Gibbs´ phase rule, phase diagrams for 1-, 2- and 3-component systems, colligative properties, activity. Adsorption, adsorption isotherms. Diffusion. Chemical equilibrium, van´t Hoff´s reaction isotherm, isobar and isochore, influence of temperature and pressure on chemical equilibrium. Electrochemistry. Conductivity of electrolytes, utilisation, Faraday´s law, strong electrolytes: theory, activity coefficients, ionic strength. Weak electrolytes, theories of acids and bases, buffer solutions, hydrolysis of salts.

Alternate courses ÚCHV/FCH1a/99Recommended reading

T. Engel, P. Reid: Physical Chemistry, Pearson Educat. Inc., San Francisco 2006 P.W. Atkins: Physical Chemistry,Oxford University Presss, Oxford 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998 W.J. Moore: Physical Chemistry,Longman, London 1972 and newer editions

Title Organic Chemistry IICode ÚCHV/OCH1b/03 Teacher Potočňák Ivan, Gonda JozefECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with more advanced knowledge of organic chemistry

based on the material mastered in the first part of this two-semester course.Content Reaction Mechanisms: Mechanisms of organic reactions, reactive

intermediates, ionic reactions, radical reactions. Bond energy. Reaction energetics. Activation energy. Reaction rates and kinetics. Thermodynamic and chemical stability. Aromaticity. Benzene and other aromatic compounds. Fused benzene ring compounds. Other aromatic systems. Factors required for aromaticity. Stereoisomers. Chirality and symmetry. Enantiomorphism. Polarimetry. Optical activity. Designating the configuration of stereogenic centers. The sequence rule for assignment of configurations to stereogenic carbons compounds having two or more stereogenic centers. Stereogenic nitrogen. Fischer projection formulas. Aldehydes and ketones. Natural products. Synthetic preparation properties of aldehydes and ketones. Reversible addition reactions. Hydration and hemiacetal formation. Acetal formation. Imine formation. Enamine

formation. Cyanohydrin formation. Irreversible addition reactions. Complex metal hydrides. Organometallic reagents. Carbonyl group modification. Wolff-Kishner reduction. Clemmensen Reduction. Hydrogenolysis of thioacetals. Oxidations. Reactions of the a-carbon atom. Mechanism of electrophilic a-substitution. The aldol reaction. Ambident enolate anions. Alkylation of enolate anions. Carboxylic acids. Natural products. Related derivatives. Preparation of carboxylic acids. Reactions of carboxylic acids. Salt formation. Substitution of hydroxyl hydrogen. Substitution of the hydroxyl group. Reduction and oxidation. Carboxylic derivatives. Reactions of carboxylic acid derivatives. Acyl group substitution. Mechanism reduction. Catalytic reduction. Metal hydride reduction. Diborane reduction. Reaction with organometallic reagents. Reactions at the a-carbon atom. Acidity of a C-H. The Claisen condensation mechanism. Synthesis applications. Carbohydrates. Glucose. The structure and configuration of glucose. Anomeric forms of monosaccharides. Glycosides. Disaccharides. Polysaccharides. Lipids. Fatty acids. Soaps and detergents. Fats and oils. Nucleic acids. Alkaloids. Terpenes.

Recommended reading


Title Organic Chemistry LaboratoryCode ÚCHV/POC1/03 Teacher Potočňák IvanECTS credits 6 Hrs/week -/6Assessment Assessment Semester 3T/L method PracticalObjective To familiarise students with the basic isolation and purification methods

used in a synthetic laboratory. Students should master basic laboratory techniques and be able to apply theoretical knowledge from the basic course in organic chemistry to simple synthetic projects.

Content Preparation, isolation, purification and identification of organic compounds. The emphasis is on gaining the experimental skills in synthesis of organic compounds, distillation, extraction, crystallisation, sublimation and thin-layer chromatography.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/OCH1a/03Recommended reading

Handout with experimental procedures http://kekule.science.upjs.sk/pochu.Organic chemistry lectures.

Title Analytical ChemistryCode ÚCHV/ANCH1a/03 Teacher Bazeľ Yaroslav, Gondová TaťánaECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To introduce students to the basic principles and methods of analytical

chemistry.Content Explanation of the field. Basic principles, classification and selection of

analytical methods. Qualitative and quantitative analysis. Qualitative analysis: separation by selective precipitation. Quantitative methods: general principles of gravimetry and volumetric methods. Preparation of accurate solutions. Indication of equivalency point. Titration curves and calculations

in volumetric analysis. Acidimetry. Alkalimetry. Manganometry. Iodometry. Complexometry. Argentometry. Instrumental methods of analytical chemistry: basic principles, instrumentation and applications of electroanalytical, optical and separation methods.

Recommended reading

D.Harvey: Modern Analytical Chemistry. McGraw Hill, Boston, 2000

Title Biochemistry IICode ÚCHV/BCH1b/03 Teacher Potočňák Ivan, Podhradský DušanECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 3/-Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method LectureObjective To teach students about living organisms on the basis of their molecular

structure and metabolism.Content Introduction to Metabolism; regulation of metabolic pathways. Basic

metabolic processes: oxidative phosphorylation, glycolysis, phentose phosphate pathway, citric acid cycle, gluconeogenesis, oxidation of fatty acids, amino acids degradation and the urea cycle. Photosynthesis. Transport through membranes. Lipid metabolism. Amino acid metabolism. Energy metabolism: Integration and Organ specialisation. Nucleotide metabolism. Principle of bioenergetic. Hormones and vitamins.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/BCH1a/03Recommended reading

Lubert Stryer and col.: Biochemistry 5th edition, W.H.Freeman and Company, New York, 2003.Voet, Voet: Biochemistry 3rd edition, John Wiley & sons, England, 2004

Title Physical Chemistry IICode ÚCHV/FCH1b/03 Teacher Oriňáková Renáta, Markušová

KvetoslavaECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 3/1Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To familiarise students with the principles of the chemical kinetics of

processes, to elucidate the kinetics and mechanisms of some reactions. To analyse particularly the equilibrium and kinetics of electrode processes.

Content Kinetics equations of elementary and complicated chemical processes. Theory of reaction rate and temperature dependence. Kinetics of complex and photochemical reactions. Explosion. Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. Adsorption and diffusion. Reaction mechanism. Electrochemistry. Charge transfer in electrolyte solutions. Conductance and molar conductivity. Hindering effects. Transport numbers. Equilibriums and processes on charged interfaces. Electrochemical cells and fuel cells. Electrode kinetics, activation and diffusive mechanism of charge transfer. Application of theoretical relationships on the solving of concrete problems and on the calculation of examples during seminars.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/FCH1a/03, ÚCHV/PFCH/03Alternate courses ÚCHV/FCP1b/99Recommended reading

T. Engel, P. Reid: Physical Chemistry, Pearson Educat. Inc., San Francisco 2006 P.W. Atkins: Physical Chemistry,Oxford University Presss, Oxford 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998

W.J. Moore: Physical Chemistry,Longman, London 1972 and newer editions

Title Biochemistry PracticalCode ÚCHV/PBC1/00 Teacher Potočňák IvanECTS credits 6 Hrs/week -/6Assessment Assessment Semester 4T/L method PracticalObjective To allow students to learn, through practical experience which complements


Content Important biochemical laboratory methods: quantitative methods assignments of amino acids and proteins; isolation of casein from milk and the assignment of the isoelectric point of casein. Isolation of gluthation from yeast. Assignment of proteins concentration by the Lowry method and the dialysis of proteins. Reactions for identification of sugars. Extraction of fat from anise seeds by use of the Soxlet apparatus. Fats constants: definition of the iod number by using the Yasud method and the assignment of a saponification number. Reactions for demonstration of the presence of cytochrome oxidase, succinate dehydrogenase and xantin dehydrogenase. The substrate specifity for glycosidases: sacharases and alpha-amylases; pH influence on alpha-amylase activity. Influence of the concentration of a substrate on initial rate of a reaction: assignment of Km and Vmax for urease. Isolation of nucleic acids: DNA from spleen and RNA from yeast.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/BCH1a/03Alternate courses ÚCHV/PBC1/99Recommended reading

http://kosice.upjs.sk/~kbch/

Title Physical Chemistry PracticalCode ÚCHV/PFCH/03 Teacher Markušová KvetoslavaECTS credits 6 Hrs/week -/6Assessment Assessment Semester 4T/L method PracticalObjective To introduce students to theoretical principles and the description of each

technique through appropriate physical chemistry experiments.Content Experimental verification of theoretical knowledge on thermodynamics,

thermochemistry, chemical equilibria (determination of enthalpy, phase diagrams), colligative properties (cryoscopy, ebulioscopy), adsoption.Experimental verification of theoretical knowledge on electrochemistry (conductivity, dissociation constants, potentials, electromotoric potentials of cells, activity coefficients, polarography) and chemical kinetics (determination of rate constants).

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/FCH1a/03,Recommended reading

B.P. Levitt: Findlay´s practical physical chemistry. Longman, London, 1973W.J. Moore : Physical Chemistry. Longman, London, 1972P.W. Atkins : Physical Chemistry. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 2002

Title Information-Communication Technologies

Code ÚCHV/IKT/03 Teacher Potočňák IvanECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 4T/L method PracticalObjective Provide the necessary skills in the areas of information and communication

technologies required for a basic ECDL certificate.Content Text processing. Table calculators. Database systems for storing data.

Presentations. Network services.Exclusive courses ÚBEV/UIKT/03 orÚCHV/UIKT/03 orÚFV/UIKT/03 orÚGE/UIKT/03

orÚINF/UIKT/03 orÚMV/UIKT/03Alternate courses ÚBEV/IKT1/03 orÚFV/IKT/03 orÚGE/IKT/03 orÚINF/IKT1/03

orÚMV/IKT/03Recommended reading

Guides for software packages.Support from faculty MOODLE server.

Title Instrumental Analytical ChemistryCode ÚCHV/ANCH1b/03 Teacher Andruch VasiľECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To gain and improve student knowledge of the theoretical principles and

instrumentation used in analytical chemistryContent Introduction. Analytical calibration. Sampling and sampling pre-treatment.

Spectrophotometry. Molecular spectroscopy. Equipment for molecular spectroscopy. Atomic spectroscopy. Mass spectrometry. NMR. Separation techniques. Solvent extraction. Chromatography. Gas chromatography. Liquid chromatography. Potentiometry. Coulometry. Voltammetry.

Recommended reading

Christian G.D. Analytical Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York – Chichester – Brisbane – Toronto – Singapore 1994Holtzclaw H.F., Jr., Robinson W.R. College Chemistry with Qualitation Analysis. D.C. Heath and Company 1988

Title Structure Determination: Spectroscopic MethodsCode ÚCHV/MUS/03 Teacher Potočňák Ivan, Imrich Ján, Hritzová

Oľga, Chomič JozefECTS credits 10 Hrs/week 3/4Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To familiarise students with the methods and importance of spectroscopy

and magnetic resonance.Content Fundamentals of molecular spectroscopy and magnetic properties study as

powerful tools for structure determination in chemistry: ultraviolet, visible, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and methods based on magnetic resonance (1H NMR, 13C NMR, NQR, EPR).

Recommended reading

L.G.Wade,Jr.: Organic Chemistry. Prentice Hall International, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, New Yersey 1995.

Title Analytical Chemistry PracticalCode ÚCHV/PANCH/06 Teacher

ECTS credits 6 Hrs/week -/6Assessment Assessment Semester 5T/L method PracticalObjective To allow students to apply theoretical knowledge to analytical laboratory

practice.Content Practical in qualitative and quantitative analysis. Qualitative analysis,

separation by selective precipitation. Quantitative methods. Gravimetry, general principles of method. Volumetric methods. Preparation of accurate solutions. Indication of equvivalency point. Titration curves, calculations in volumetric analysis. Acidimetry, alkalimetry. Manganometry. Iodometry. Complexometry. Argentometry. Instrumental analytical methods.

Recommended reading

D.Harvey: Modern Analytical Chemistry. McGraw Hill, Boston, 2000D.A.Skoog: Principles of Instrumental Analysis. Saunders Col. Publishing, New York 1985E.Prichard: Quality in the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, Wiley, 1995


Title StereochemistryCode ÚCHV/ST/03 Teacher Potočňák Ivan, Gonda JozefECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To introduce students to chemistry in three dimensions and to acquire

knowledge concerning the stereochemistry of molecules involving the counting of stereoisomers, their structure, energy, physical and spectral properties.

Content Isomerism, configuration and conformation isomers. Alkene stereoisomers, nature of cis-trans isomerism, nomenclature. Interconversion of cis-trans-isomers. Configurational stereoisomers of alkenes. Sequence rule for assignment of alkene configurations. Conformation and reactivity; Curtius-Hammet Principle. Cycloalkane stereoisomers, stability of cyclic molecules.Three, four, five–membered rings; rings larger than six-membered. Conform-ation and reactivity in cyclohexanes. Conformational stereoisomers; fused and bridged rings. Ethane conformations; butane conformations. Relationship between Ethane's and butane`s potential energy and its dihedral angle. Some important aspects of conformational stereoisomerism. Ring conformations; substituted cyclohexane compounds. Chirality and symmetry. Enantio-morphism, enantiomers, diastereoisomers. Polarimetry, chiroptical properties, optical activity. Designating the configuration of stereogenic centers. Absolute configuration; relative configuration. Determination of absolute and relative configuration. X-ray structure analysis; chemical correlation. Properties of stereoisomers; stereoisomer discrimination. Sequence rule for assignment of configurations to stereogenic carbons. Compounds having two or more stereogenic centers. Stereogenic nitrogen. Fischer projection formulas, zig-zag projection formulas, Harworth formulas. Interconversion from Fischer to zig-zag projection formulas. Achiral diastereomers (meso-compounds). Stereo-chemistry of carbohydrates, epimers, alfa/beta notification, mutarotation. Other configuration notations. Separation of stereoisomers, resolution of racemates, racemisation. Determination of enantiomer and diastereoisomer composition, NMR methods, chromatographic and related separation methods. Conformational enantiomorphism, heterotopic ligands and faces, prochirality. Conformations of biphenyls, atropoisomers, chirality in

molecules devoid of chiral centres, allenes, biphenyls, helicenes, stereoisomerism in disubstituted cyclohexanes. General summary of isomerism and molecular descriptors.

Recommended reading

Eliel L. E.: Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2001http://uchv.upjs.sk/

Title Introduction to Material ChemistryCode ÚCHV/FUMCH1/03 Teacher Oriňáková Renáta, Markušová

KvetoslavaECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To present the different types of functional materials, their atomic structure

and mechanical properties.Content Historical perspectives. Materials and human beings. Participation of natural

science in material engineering. Material revolutions. Classification of materials. Atomic structure and interatomic bonding. Amorphous and crystalline materials. Mechanics of materials. Imperfections in solids. Crystal lattice defects. Point defects. Line defects. Dislocations. Diffusion. Diffusion mechanisms. Deformations and failures, re-crystallisation. Deformations. Plastic deformations. Solid solutions. Intermediary phases. Phases in ceramic systems. Phase transformations. Crystallisation of metals. Phase identification methods. Stress and strain. Structure of metallic and ceramic materials. Alloys. Steel. Light metals. Metallic glasses. Gold. Inorganic non-metallic materials. Ceramic construction materials. Ceramic tools. Bio-ceramics. Ceramics in cosmos. High-temperature superconductors. Glass. Building binders. Polymers. Essence of polymers. Thermoplastics. Reactoplastics. Polymer structure. Mechanical properties of polymers. Natural materials. Wood. Bones. Teeth. Conchs and shells. Tectrices.

Recommended reading

W.D. Callister, Jr.: Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, 2001Brian S. Mitchell: An Introduction to Materials Engineering and Science: For Chemical and Materials Engineers, John Wiley & Sons,2004

Title Introduction to Environmental ChemistryCode ÚCHV/UECH/03 Teacher Markušová Kvetoslava, Oriňák

AndrejECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To introduce students to topics in environmental chemistry and to the basic

procedures for achieving environmental protection.Content Introduction to Environmental Chemistry. Chemical aspects of pollution and

environmental problems. Composition and behaviour of the atmosphere. Energy balance of the Earth and climate changes. Principles of photochemistry, photo processes in the atmosphere. Petroleum, hydrocarbons and coal (characteristics, sources and environmental

pollution). Soaps, polymers and synthetic surfactants. Halo-organics and pesticides. Environmental chemistry of some important elements (C, N, S, P, halogens, biologically important metals, etc.). Environmental chemistry in aqueous media. Aqueous systems, parameters, cycles and their protection. The Earth´s crust (rocks, minerals, soils). Natural and artificial radioactivity, utilisation. Energy and energy sources (fossil fuels, nuclear, geothermal, solar energy, wind and water energy). Solid waste disposal and recycling.

Recommended reading

Gary W. van Loon, Stephen J. Duffy : Environmental Chemistry - A Global Perspective, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003R.A. Bailey, H.M. Clark, J.P. Ferris, S. Krause, R.L. Strong : Chemistry of the Environment, Academic Press, San Diego 2002 G. Schwedt: The Essential Guide to Environmental Chemistry, Wiley and Sons, London 2001 R.N. Reeve, J.D. Barnes: General Environmental Chemistry, Wiley, London 1994 G. Burton, J. Holman, G. Pilling, D. Waddington: Chemical Storylines, Heinemann, Oxford, London 1994

Title Molecular Biology ICode ÚCHV/MB1a/03 Teacher Potočňák Ivan, Víglaský Viktor,

Kožurková Mária, Javorský PeterECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 3/-Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method LectureObjective To provide students with knowledge of the structure and function of RNA

and DNA and of genomes.Content The structure and biological function of proteins. RNA and DNA structure.

The structure of prokaryotic and eukaryotic chromosomes. Genetic information, genetic code, gene and transcription units of prokaryotes and eukaryotes, exons and introns, codon and anticodon. DNA in the nucleus and extrachomosomal DNA. Replication of bacterial genome. Chromosomal and plasmid DNA. Replication of eukaryotic genome. Transcription of bacteria genome, structural genes, rRNA and tRNA, transcription of eukaryotic genome, RNA polymerase II, I and III. Post-transcription modification of eukaryotic RNA, hnRNA, pre-mRNA, pre-tRNA. Translation of nucleic acids; post-translation modification of proteins. Regulation of gene expression in eukaryotes and prokaryotes on the transcription and translation levels. Life cycle of cells and its regulation, ontogenic development, DNA recombination, sexual transmission of genetic material. Heredity, inheritance disease, gene therapy, DNA transposition, essential of mutagenesis, DNA repair.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/BCH1b/03Alternate courses ÚCHV/BNK1a/01

Title Bioinorganic Chemistry ICode ÚCHV/BAC1/04 Teacher Reháková MáriaECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To introduce students to the important roles of metallic and non-metallic

elements in biological systems, in pharmacology and chemotherapy, and

related areas.Content Metallic and non-metallic elements and their roles in biological systems

(biometals, bulk biological elements, essential trace elements). Biocoordination compounds, bioligands. Biocatalyzers. Oxygen carriers and oxygen transport proteins. Photochemical process. Catalysis and regulation of bioenergetic processes involving alkaline earth metal ions. Calcium biominerals and biomineralisation. Toxic metals. Application of knowledge of bioinorganic chemistry in pharmacy, chemotherapy (e.g. platinum complexes in cancer therapy), radiodiagnostics, mineral biotechnology and in other branches of life.

Recommended reading

Kaim W., Schwederski B.: Bioinorganic Chemistry: Inorganic Elements in the Chemisry of Life. Wiley, Chichester 1998Wilkins P. C., Wilkins R. G.: Inorganic Chemistry in Biology. OCP, Oxford 1997Hay R. W.: Bio-inorganic Chemistry. John Wiley and Sons, New York 1989

Title Fundamentals of Bioanalytical ChemistryCode ÚCHV/BACHZ/06 Teacher Reiffová Katarína, Bazeľ YaroslavECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To familiarise students with the principles and theoretical background for the

application of analytical methods to bioanalysis.Content Introduction to bioanalytical chemistry. Biological samples; classification.

Sampling techniques, transport, sample storing and conservation. Selected methods of sample pre-treatment for bioanalysis. Conditions for analytical method selection. Presentation of analytical data evaluation. Optimisation of analytical procedure. Control and management of quality in the clinical laboratory. Molecules colouring and its analytical applications.

Recommended reading

Mikkelsen S.R, Cortón E.: Bioanalytical Chemistry, Wiley, 2004Wilson I., Bioanalytical Separations 4, (Handbook of Analytical Separations), Elsevier, 2003

Title Industrial EcologyCode ÚCHV/ACPE1/03 Teacher Bazeľ Yaroslav, Vojteková VieraECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To give chemistry, environmental ecology and teaching students the

opportunity to approach problems of environmental pollution, to appraise problems of the creation and protection of the environment, and to develop ecologically enlightened thinking in their working and personal lives.

Content Introduction to problems of the creation and protection of the environment. Selected chapters on industrial toxicology and evaluation of environmental stress. Toxic and potentially toxic matters in the living and working environment. Hydrologic, geologic and anthropogenic cycles from the environmental point of view. Environmental behaviour, education and culture in working and personal lives.

Recommended reading

Stanley E. Manahan: Environmental Chemistry, Boca Raton, New York, 2007

Stanley E. Manahan: Industrial Ecology (Hardcover), Boca Raton, New York, 1999

Title Organic Reactions MechanismsCode ÚCHV/MOC1/00 Teacher Potočňák Ivan, Walko Martin,

Kutschy PeterECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with an understanding of the organic reactions

mechanisms at the molecular level and with the ability to devise the course of organic reactions.

Content Analysis of important mechanisms of substitution (SN, SE, SR, SNi), addition (AdN, AdE, AdR) and elimination (E1, E2, Ei) reactions, molecular rearrangements and redox reactions.

Alternate courses ÚCHV/MOC1/99Recommended reading

March J., Smith, M. B.: March’s advanced organic chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Title Advanced Organic Chemistry LaboratoryCode ÚCHV/PPOC/03 Teacher Potočňák IvanECTS credits 6 Hrs/week -/6Assessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method PracticalObjective To familiarise students with advanced organic chemistry laboratory practices

as preparation for individual experimental work in a synthetic laboratory.Content Advanced organic chemistry laboratory practices focusing on mastering

advanced laboratory techniques and the methodology used in the synthesis of organic compounds (work in a small scale, chromatography, use of a equipment such as a magnetic stirring plates, vacuum rotary evaporator).

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/OCH1b/03Recommended reading

Harwood, L. M., Moody, CH. J. Experimental Organic Chemistry, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford London 1990

Title Separation MethodsCode ÚCHV/ASM/03 Teacher Gondová TaťánaECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with working knowledge of separation methods and

theory.Content Basic principles, classification, theory and applications of separation

methods. Extraction: SPE, SPME. Chromatographic methods: theory, classification. Optimisation of chromatographic separation. Data evaluation: qualitative and quantitative analysis. GC: principles, retention mechanisms, stationary phases (selection), instrumentation, applications. HPLC: principles, stationary phases, instrumentation, applications. Planar chromatographic methods: TLC, HPTLC. Electrophoretic methods: CZE, MEKC.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/ANCHU/03 orÚCHV/ANCH1a/03,ÚCHV/ANCH1b/03Alternate courses ÚCHV/ASM1/99 orÚCHV/ASM1/00Recommended reading

Skoog D.A.: Principles of Instrumental Analysis. Saunders Col. Publishing, New York 1985D.Harvey: Modern Analytical Chemistry. McGraw Hill, Boston, 2000

Title Separation Methods PracticalCode ÚCHV/ASC1/99 Teacher Gondová TaťánaECTS credits 5 Hrs/week -/5Assessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method PracticalObjective To allow students to apply theoretical knowledge gained in Separation

Methods.Content Application of separation methods in laboratory exercises: GC, HPLC, TLC,

HPTLC, IEC and ZE.Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/ASM/03Recommended reading


Title Cheminformatics IICode ÚCHV/ISCH1b/03 Teacher Potočňák Ivan, Török MarcelECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 1/2Assessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To introduce students to subject of cheminformatics, mainly chemical

structures representation, storing in databases, searching and retrieving. Basics of current approaches of delivering chemical information on the Internet. Using structural and factual databases (Beilstein, CSD, PDB, PubChem). Lectures are supplemented with practical training in a computer laboratory.

Content Representing and visualizing 2D chemical structures. Representing and visualizing 3D chemical structures. Chemistry databases: basics. Chemistry databases: substructure searching. Chemistry databases: similarity searching. Chemical information and web applications. Factual databases: Beistein CrossFire, PubChem, etc. Structural databases: CSD, PDB, etc.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/ISC1a/03Recommended reading

Gasteiger J.(Editor), Engel T.(Editor): Chemoinformatics : A Textbook. John Wiley & Sons, 2004, ISBN 3-527-30681-1 Internet resources

Title Basic Principles of Medicinal ChemistryCode ÚCHV/FMZ/04 Teacher Potočňák Ivan, Kutschy PeterECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 2/-Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method LectureObjective To familiarise students with the basic principles in the research and

development of chemical drugs and to provide understanding of structure-activity relationships including space structure and chirality and their

consequences on chemical and physico-chemical properties influencing biological activity. To allow students to gain knowledge of the present state in the field of selected important groups of drugs, such as antibacterial, antiviral or antitumor drugs.

Content Introduction, classification of drugs. Factors influencing design and activity of drugs of the third generation. Drug chirality. Search for new drugs. Structure-activity relationships. Chemotherapeutics of central, peripheral and vegetative nervous system. Antibacterial compounds, antibiotics, antitumor compounds, antiviral compounds.

Recommended reading

Medicinal Chemistry: Principles and Practice, King F. D., Ed., The Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham House, Cambridge, 1994Advances in Drug Discovery Techniques: Harvey A. L., Ed., Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1998Thomas G.: Medicinal Chemistry: An introduction. John Willey & Sons, 2000

Title Theory of Electrochemical ProcessesCode ÚCHV/FTEP1/03 Teacher Kladeková Daniela, Markušová

KvetoslavaECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with basic knowledge of the theory of electrochemical

processes.Content Fundamentals of electrochemical thermodynamics. Electrochemical

potential and equilibrium at the electrode/solution interface. Electric double layer: fundamental models of the double layer structure. Adsorption phenomena at the electrode/solution interface. Fundamentals of electrochemical kinetics. Polarisation curves and information provided by them (charge transfer coefficient, heterogeneous rate constant). Influence of transport processes on electrode kinetics (convection, diffusion, migration). Reversibility of electrode reactions. Influence of the double layer structure on kinetics of electrode processes. Theory of electrolytic deposition and electrocrystallisation. Principles of multicomponent deposites electroplating. Experimental methods for electrochemical kinetic (single pulse and multipulse potentiostatic methods, cyclic voltammetry with dc and dp scan, coulometry, chronopotentiometry). Important electrode processes: electroplating and oxidation of metals, corrosion and protection against it, electrometallurgy and electroplating practice, industrial electrolytic processes, electrochemical cells.

Recommended reading

J.O´M. Bockris, A.K.N. Reddy: Modern Electrochemistry, Macdonald, London 2002 A.J. Bard, L.R. Faulkner: Electrochemical Methods. Fundamentals and Applications, J.Wiley and Sons, New York 1980J.Koryta, J.Dvořák, L.Kavan: Principles of Electrochemistry. John Wiley & Sons, New York 1993 E. Scholz (Ed.): Electroanalytical Methods. Guide to Experiments and Applications, Springer Vrlg., Berlin 2002T. Engel, P. Reid: Physical Chemistry, Pearson Educat. Inc., San Francisco 2006

Title Nuclear Chemistry

Code ÚCHV/JCH1/04 Teacher Turoňová Andrea, Markušová Kvetoslava

ECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide basic understanding of radioactivity and nuclear reactions,

including the preparation of the radionuclides and their use in technical practice, and to give students knowledge of the biological effects of nuclear radiation.

Content Fundamentals of nuclear chemistry. Elementary particles. Nuclear core. Nuclides and isotopes. Radioactivity and radioactive disintegration kinetics. Radioactive disintegration. Decay law. Half life period. Units of radioactivity. Nuclear reactions. Sources of nuclear radiation. Detection and registration of radiation. Nuclear chemical technology. Radioactive analytical methods. Isotopic dilution method, activation analysis. Biological effects of the nuclear radiation. Nuclear medicine. Nuclear power station.

Recommended reading

G.R. Choppin, J. Rydberg: Nuclear Chemistry, Theory and ApplicationsPergamon Press,1980G.R. Choppin, J.O. Liljenzin, J. Rydberg: Radiochemistry and nuclear chemistry,3rd edition, Woburn, USA, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002 W.D. Ehmann, D.E. Vance: Radiochemistry and nuclear methods of analysis, Wiley, New York, 1991A. Vértes, I. Kiss: Nuclear chemistry, Elsevier,1987

Title BiotechnologyCode ÚCHV/BTC/03 Teacher Potočňák Ivan, Podhradský Dušan,

Kožurková Mária, Sabolová DanicaECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 3/-Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method LectureContent Significant methods and areas of application of biotechnology. Cultivation;

cultivation equipment. Substrate for biotechnological processes. Wastes and their liquidation. Artificial biodegradable materials. Micro-organisms used to preparation amino acids, their fermentation preparation, isolation and possible uses. Micro-organisms in agriculture. Antibiotics. Vitamins. Alcoholic drinks: production of beer, wine and spirits.

Recommended reading

Introduction to Biotechnology by William J. Thieman, Michael A. Palladino, William Thieman,Aug 8, 2003

Title Molecular Biology IICode ÚCHV/MB1b/03 Teacher Potočňák Ivan, Pristaš Peter,

Javorský PeterECTS credits 10 Hrs/week 3/4Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with more advanced knowledge of DNA and its uses

based on material provided in Molecular Biology I.Content Basic principles of the isolation and purification of nucleic acids and their

characterisation; gene engineering and enzymatic tools. Preparation of recombinant DNA; DNA amplification methods: PCR, RT PCR, SELEX,

etc.Analyses of nucleic acids, DNA sequencing, applying of genetic manipulations.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/MB1a/03Alternate courses ÚCHV/BNK2/00

Title Advanced Biochemistry PracticalCode ÚCHV/PPB/03 Teacher Potočňák IvanECTS credits 7 Hrs/week -/6Assessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method PracticalObjective To allow students the use theoretical knowledge about nucleic acids.Content Advanced practice of biochemistry is closely connected to the practice of

biochemistry. The focus is on modern trends of molecular study of nucleic acids, including various DNA-ligand and DNA-protein interactions.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/BCH1b/03

Title Advanced Practical for Inorganic ChemistryCode ÚCHV/PPA1/03 Teacher Potočňák IvanECTS credits 6 Hrs/week -/6Assessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method PracticalObjective To acquaintant students with advanced techniques and methods used for

synthesis and analysis in inorganic chemistry.Content Advanced syntheses of inorganic and coordination compounds (salen

complexes, ferocene, cobaloximes, inorganic polymers, etc.), their identification and characterisation using spectroscopic methods, methods of thermal analysis and X-ray powder diffraction.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/ACHU/03 orÚCHV/ACH2/03Recommended reading

G. Marr, B.W. Rockett: Practical Inorganic Chemistry, van Nostrand Reinhold Comp., London 1972Inorganic Syntheses, Mc Graw-Hill Book Comp., New York

Title Basis of MineralogyCode ÚCHV/MIN1/00 Teacher Potočňák IvanECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 1/1Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To familiarise students with properties of usual minerals and to enable them

to recognise these minerals. To give students the means to recognise the beauty of nature and to obtain basic knowledge from mineralogy.

Content Basic terms and definitions; origin of minerals in nature. Basis of morphological and structural crystallography: characteristic properties of crystals, crystallographic laws, crystal structure, unit cells and their parameters, crystallographic systems with examples of minerals. Crystallochemistry: types of bonds and structures and their effect on the properties of minerals. Physical properties of minerals and their utilise in minerals classification. Basis of genetic and systematic mineralogy. Structure of silicates.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/VCH1/99 or ÚCHV/ZAC1/00 or ÚCHV/ZCH1/99 or

ÚCHV/VCH/03 or ÚCHV/VCHU/03Exclusive courses ÚCHV/MINU/03Alternate courses ÚCHV/MIN1/99

Title Basis of Chemical ProductionsCode ÚCHV/ZCV1/03 Teacher Potočňák Ivan, Györyová Katarína,

Vargová ZuzanaECTS credits 3 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method PracticalObjective To give students knowledge of the range and methods of chemical

production.Content General and inorganic engineering. Mineral raw materials. Raw materials

processing, transport and holding. Chemical reactors. Chemical metallurgy: Fe, Al, Cu working. Inorganic acids manufacture: H2SO4, HNO3, HCl, HF, H3PO4. Industrial electrochemistry. Industrial fertilisers. Silicate industry: cement manufacture, ceramics. Petrochemistry.

Study programme General Ecology(Full-time bachelor)


Compulsory courses

ÚBEV/CYT1/02 Cytology 7 3/2 Examination 1/1 ÚBEV/PMZ1/03 Comparative Animal

Morphology5 2/1 Examination 1/1

ÚCHV/VCHU/03 General Chemistry 10 4/4 Examination 1/1 ÚCHV/CHV1/99 Chemical Calculations 2 -/2 Assessment 1/1ÚMV/IMAC1/03 Mathematics I 6 2/2 Examination 1/1ÚBEV/HISE1/04 Histology 7 3/2 Examination 1/2 ÚCHV/ACHU/03 Inorganic Chemistry 6 3/1 Examination 1/2 ÚCHV/PACHU/03

Inorganic Chemistry Practical 4 -/4 Assessment 1/2

ÚCHV/OCHU/03 Organic Chemistry 6 3/1 Examination 1/2 ÚBEV/VEK1/03 Introduction to Ecology 3 2/- Examination 2/3ÚBEV/MKB1/03 Microbiology 6 2/2 Examination 2/3 ÚCHV/POCH/03 Organic Chemistry Practical 5 -/4 Assessment 2/3 ÚCHV/ANCH/03 Analytical Chemistry 6 3/1 Examination 2/3 ÚBEV/FR1/03 Plant Physiology 7 2/3 Examination 2/4 ÚCHV/PAEC/03 Analytical Chemistry


ÚFV/FPB/01 Physics for Biologists 4 2/1 Examination 2/4 ÚBEV/IKT1/03 Information and

Communication Technologies2 -/2 Assessment 2/4

ÚBEV/GEE1/03 Genetics 7 3/2 Examination 3/5 ÚCHV/BCHU/03 Biochemistry 5 3/- Examination 3/5 ÚGE/KRE1/03 Landscape Ecology 3 1/1 Examination 3/5 ÚBEV/FZE1/03 Animal Physiology 8 3/3 Examination 3/6ÚCHV/IMACH/03

Instrumental Methods of Analytical Chemistry


ÚCHV/PBCHU/03

Biochemistry Practical 5 -/4 Assessment 3/6

ÚBEV/BPa/04 Bachelor Work 2 -/- Recognition 3/5 ÚGE/BPb/04 Bachelor work 6 -/- Recognition 3/6


ÚBEV/BO1/03 Botany I 5 2/2 Examination 1/1, 2/3ÚBEV/BOT1/03 Botany II 5 2/2 Examination 1/2, 2/4ÚBEV/TCB/03 Botany Fieldwork 2 2/2 AssessmentÚCHV/UECH/03 Introduction to Environmental

Chemistry5 2/1 Examination 2/3, 3/5

ÚBEV/ZO1/03 Zoology I 5 2/2 Examination 2/3, 3/5

ÚBEV/ZOO/03 Zoology II 5 2/2 Examination 2/4, 3/6ÚBEV/TCZ1/03 Zoology Fieldwork 2 -

5dAssessment 2/4, 3/6

ÚMV/IMA1/03 Mathematics II 5 2/2 Examination 2/4 ÚCHV/FCHU/03 Physical Chemistry 6 3/1 Examination 2/4 ÚCHV/PFCU/03 Physical Chemistry Practical 4 -/3 Assessment 3/5 ÚBEV/BS1/03 Biostatistics 6 2/2 Examination 3/5 ÚBEV/FG1/03 Phytogeography 5 2/1 Examination 3/5ÚBEV/HDR1/99 Hydrobiology 3 1/1 Examination 3/5ÚBEV/ETO1/03 Ethology 6 2/2 Examination 3/5 ÚFV/ENVI/03 Environmental Physics 3 2/- Examination 2/4,3 /6 ÚBEV/BFP1/99 Biophysical Principles of

Physiological Processes3 2/- Examination 3/6

ÚCHV/ASM/03 Separation Methods 5 2/1 Examination 3/6 ÚCHV/ASC1/99 Separation Methods Practical 5 -/5 Assessment 3/6 ÚBEV/PG1/03 Population Genetics 5 2/1 Examination 3/6 ÚINF/SVK1/00 Student Scientific Conference 4 -/- Assessment 3/6 ÚCHV/AZP1/04 Environmental Analytical

chemistry6 2/2 Examination 3/5

ÚGE/GEP2/05 Geology and Petrography 6 3/2 Examination 3/5 ÚCHV/MIN1/00 Basis of Mineralogy 3 1/1 Examination 3/6 ÚCHV/BAC1/04 Bioinorganic Chemistry I 5 2/1 Examination 3/5 ÚBEV/SVK1/04 Student Scientific Conference 4 -/- Assessment 2/4, 3/6

Elective courses

ÚBEV/ACL/03 Human Anatomy 5 2/2 Examination 3/3ÚBEV/MB1/01 Molecular Biology 4 3/- Examination 2/4ÚGE/KAT1/05 Cartography and Topography 7 3/2 Examination 3/6

Course units

Compulsory courses

Title CytologyCode ÚBEV/CYT1/02 Teacher Mišúrová EvaECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with knowledge of the basic principles of microscopic

and sub-microscopic cell structure and function.Content Levels of living system organisation. Characteristics and comparison of

prokaryotic and eukaryotic plant and animal cells. Microscopic, sub- microscopic and molecular structure and function of individual cell components. Nucleus and cell division.

Exclusive courses ÚBEV/CYTF/03Alternate courses ÚBEV/CYT1/99 or ÚBEV/CYT1/01

Recommended reading

Alberts, B., Bray, D., Lewis, J. et al.: Molecular Biology of the Cell. Garland Publishing Inc., New York, London, 1994

Title Comparative Animal MorphologyCode ÚBEV/PMZ1/03 Teacher Panigaj ĽubomírECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To give students understanding of the basic principles of animal

morphology, their relationship to animal evolution, and their importance in the creation of zoological taxonomy.

Content Anatomy, morphology and evolution of the tegumentary, motor, vascular, digestive, respiratory, excretory, sexual and sensual systems of animals.

Alternate courses ÚBEV/PMZ1/00 orÚBEV/PMZ1a/99

Title General ChemistryCode ÚCHV/VCHU/03 Teacher Chomič JozefECTS credits 10 Hrs/week 4/4Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with knowledge about atoms, chemical bonds, physical

properties of elements and compounds.Content Main terms used in chemistry. Atoms: models of atoms, electron

configuration, chemical periodicity and its effect on the properties of elements, radioactivity. Chemical bonds and intermolecular interactions. Chemical structure and physical properties of matter. State of matter. Solutions. Chemical equilibrium. Basis of chemical thermodynamics and chemical kinetics. Classification of chemical reactions. Electrochemistry.

Recommended reading

Atkins P., Jones L.: Chemical Principles, 2nd ed., Freeman, New York 2002Russel J.B.: General Chemistry, 2nd ed., McGraw Hill, London 1992


without chemical processes and how to work equations concerning chemical equilibrium


Title Mathematics ICode ÚMV/IMAC1/03 Teacher Studenovská DanicaECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2

Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students basic knowledge of the functions of one variable and





Title HistologyCode ÚBEV/HISE1/04 Teacher Daxnerová ZuzanaECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide the students with knowledge of basic morphology of animal

tissues.Content Epithelium and glands. Connective tissue. Cartilage. Bone. Muscle. Nervous

Tissue. Blood and haemopoesis. Circulatory system. Lymphoid system. Endocrine system. Integument. Respiratory system. Digestive system. Urinary system. Female reproductive system. Male reproductive system. Special senses.

Prerequisite courses ÚBEV/CYT1/02Alternate courses ÚBEV/HIS1/03Recommended reading

Gartner, L.P., Hiatt, J.L.: Color Texbook of Histology. W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, 1997Juanqueira, L.C., Carneiro, J., Kelley, R.O.: Basic Histology. Prentice Hall International Inc., Apleton & Lange, 1992

Title General BotanyCode ÚBEV/VB1/03 Teacher Macková AnnaECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with information concerning the structure and function

of plant cells, tissues and organs.Content Plants cells. Differences between the cells of higher plants and animals.

Tissues (primary and secondary meristems, mechanical tissue, conductive tissue, mesophyll, secretory tissues, parenchyma, epidermis, periderm, intercellular space). Organology: development, function, morphology, arrangement and metamorphosis of single plant organs (stem, root, leaf, flower, fruit and seed). Life cycle of a moss, fern, and seed plant.

Prerequisite courses ÚBEV/CYT1/02Alternate courses ÚBEV/VB1/01 orÚBEV/VB1/02Recommended reading

Fahn,A. (1982) Plant anatomy. 3d ed. Elmsford, NY:Pergamon Press. Cutter, E. G. (1978) Plant anatomy. Part I: Cells and tissues. 2d ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc., Raven, P.H., Evert, R.F. and Eichhorn S.E. (2003) Biology of Plants. W.H.Freeman and Company, New

York

Title Inorganic ChemistryCode ÚCHV/ACHU/03 Teacher Chomič JozefECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 3/1Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with a knowledge of systematic chemistry of non-

metallic elements.Content Electronic configuration, abundance, use, physical and chemical properties,

preparation, reactivity of non-metallic elements hydrogen, halogens, oxygen, sulphur, nitrogen, phosphorus, carbon, silicon, boron and rare gases. Binary and other compounds formed by these elements, their properties and reactivity.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/VCHU/03Recommended reading


Title Organic ChemistryCode ÚCHV/OCHU/03 Teacher Gonda Jozef, Chomič JozefECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 3/1Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students knowledge of the basics of organic chemistry.Content Chemical bonding. Hybridisation and bonding. Covalent bonds. Double

bonds and triple bonds. Structural formulas of organic molecules. Polar covalent bonds and electronegativity. Constitutional isomers. Alkenes. Electrophilic additions. Strong acids; Lewis acids (non-proton electrophiles). Electrophilic halogen reagents. Other electrophilic reagents. Reduction. Oxidation. Radical additions. Allylic substitution. Alkynes. Addition reactions. Hydro-genation. Electrophiles. Hydration and tautomerism. Hydroboration. Nucleophilile addition and reduction. Acidity of terminal alkynes (substitution of H). Alkyl halides. General reactivity. Substitution (of X). SN2 mechanism. SN1 mechanism. Elimination (of HX). Summary of substiution v. elimination. Substitution by metals elimination. Reactions of dihalides. Alcohols. Reactions of alcohols. Substitution of the hydroxyl H. Substitution of the hydroxyl group. Elimination of water. Oxidation of alcohols. Reactions of phenols. Acidity of phenols. Ring substitution of phenols. Oxidation to quinines. Aromatic compounds. Electrophilic substitution. A substitution mechanism. Reactions of substituted benzenes. Reaction characteristics. Reactions of disubstituted rings. Reactions of substituent groups. Nucleo-philic substitution, elimination and addition reactions. Amines. Basicity of nitrogen compounds. Acidity of nitrogen compounds. Important reagent bases. Reactions of amines. Electrophilic substitution at nitrogen. Preparation of 1°-Amines. Preparation of 2°- and 3°-Amines. Reactions with nitrous acid. Reactions of aryl diazonium. Intermediates elimination. Reactions of amines. Oxidation states of nitrogen. Basic information: Aldehydes and ketones; carboxylic acids; carboxylic derivatives; natural products.



Title Introduction to EcologyCode ÚBEV/VEK1/03 Teacher Hudec IgorECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 2/-Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method LectureObjective To introduce students to the fundamental parameters and relations in

ecological science.Content Ecological factors and relations in environment (air, water, soil); influence

of ecological factors on individuals (morphological adaptations, behavioral reactions); populations and communities; ecosystems (impact assessment); conservation and biodiversity.

Alternate courses ÚBEV/VEK1/99Recommended reading

Begon, M., Harper, J. L., Townsend, C. L.: Ecology: individuals, populations, and communities. Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1990

Title MicrobiologyCode ÚBEV/MKB1/03 Teacher Kropáčová KatarínaECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with basic knowledge of micro-organisms.Content Classification and basic characteristics of micro-organisms. Structure and

composition of viruses. Prokaryotic cell structure. Bacterial anatomy. Endospores and sporulation. Nutrition, growth and cultivation of bacteria. Microbial genetics. Gene expression in prokaryotes. Plasmids. Bacteriophages. Bacterial virulence factors. Antimicrobial agents. Survival of micro-organisms in the natural environment. Fungi and yeast.

Prerequisite courses (ÚCHV/ZAC2/03 or ÚCHV/OCHU/03),ÚBEV/CYT1/02Exclusive courses ÚBEV/MKC1/01Alternate courses ÚBEV/MKB1/01

Title Analytical ChemistryCode ÚCHV/ANCHU/03 Teacher Gondová TaťánaECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 3/1Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To introduce students to the basic principles and methods of analytical

chemistry.Content Subject and role of analytical chemistry. General principles and procedures:

sampling, sample pre-treatment. Preparation of solutions. Evaluation of the results. Classification of analytical reactions. Qualitative analysis of cations and anions. Basic principles of organic analysis. Methods of quantitative analysis. General principles of gravimetry. Volumetric analysis. Instrumental

methods of analytical chemistry (basic principles, instrumentation and applications): electro-analytical, optical and separation methods.



Title Plant PhysiologyCode ÚBEV/FR1/03 Teacher Repčák MiroslavECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 2/3Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with the knowledge and methodology of plant

physiology.Content Water balance: water potential; absorption, transportation and transpiration.

Mineral nutrition: essential nutrients, uptake and transport. Photosynthesis: light absorption, electron and proton transport, carbon fixation, photorespiration, ecophysiology. Phloem translocation. Respiration: sugar degradation. Lipid metabolism. Heterotrophy. Secondary metabolism. Growth and development. Hormones. Photoreceptors. Dormancy and germination. Flowering. Rhythms and photoperiodism. Movements. Stress.

Prerequisite courses ÚBEV/VB1/03Alternate courses ÚBEV/FR1/01 or (ÚBEV/FR1a/99,ÚBEV/FR1b/00)Recommended reading

Hopkins W.G. Huner N.P.A. Introduction to plant physiology. 3rd ed., Wiley, New York 2004

Title Analytical Chemistry PracticalCode ÚCHV/PAEC/03 Teacher Andruch VasiľECTS credits 4 Hrs/week -/4Assessment Assessment Semester 4T/L method PracticalObjective To allow students to apply theoretical knowledge to analytical laboratory

practice.Content Practical in qualitative and quantitative analysis. Qualitative analysis,

separation by selective precipitation. Quantitative methods. Gravimetry, general principles of method. Volumetric methods. Preparation of accurate solutions. Indication of equvivalency point. Titration curves, calculations in volumetric analysis. Acidimetry, alkalimetry. Manganometry. Iodometry. Complexometry. Argentometry. Instrumental analytical methods.

Recommended reading

D.Harvey: Modern Analytical Chemistry. McGraw Hill, Boston, 2000D.A. Skoog: Principles of Instrumental Analysis. Saunders Col. Publishing, New York 1985.E.Prichard: Quality in the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, Wiley, 1995

Title Physics for BiologistsCode ÚFV/FPB/01 Teacher Uličný JozefECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 4

T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide an introduction to the application of physical laws to the

explanation of the properties of biological processes. Content Physical basis of biological phenomena. Sound, hearing, echolocation, optics

of vision, absorption and emission of light, radiation biophysics, mechanics of the animal motion, molecular biophysics, heat in biological systems, nerve signals.

Recommended reading

F.R. Hallet, R.H. Stinson, W.G. Graham, P.A. Speight, Physics for the Biological Sciences. Concept Press, Toronto, 2000.R.A. Serway, Physics for Scientists & Engineers with Modern Physics. Saunders Coll. Publishing, Philadelphia e.a., 1992

Title Information and Communication TechnologiesCode ÚCHV/IKT/03 Teacher Potočňák IvanECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 4T/L method PracticalObjective To provide students with necessary skills in the areas of information and

communication technologies to the extent required for a basic ECDL certificate.

Content Text processing. Table calculators. Database systems for storing data. Present-ations. Network services.

Exclusive courses ÚBEV/UIKT/03 orÚCHV/UIKT/03 orÚFV/UIKT/03 orÚGE/UIKT/03 orÚINF/UIKT/03 orÚMV/UIKT/03

Alternate courses ÚBEV/IKT1/03 orÚFV/IKT/03 orÚGE/IKT/03 orÚINF/IKT1/03 orÚMV/IKT/03

Recommended reading

Guides for software packages.Support from faculty MOODLE server.

Title GeneticsCode ÚBEV/GEE1/03 Teacher Čellárová EvaECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with knowledge of the basic genetic principles of

inheritance.Content Mendel´s principles of inheritance. Gene interactions. Sex-linked traits.

Cytogenetics, mutations and mutagenesis. Structure and function of DNA, mRNA, tRNA and rRNA. Genetic code. Mechanism of replication, transcription and translation. Post-transcriptional and post-translational modifications. Regulation of gene expression. Genetic mechanisms at subcellular level. Genetics of bacteria. Cytogenetics and mutations. Basis of human genetics. Population genetics. Quantitative traits. Human genome project.

Recommended reading

Darnell, J., Lodish, H., Baltimore, D.: Molecular Cell Biology. Scientific American, New York, 1992Lewin, B.: Genes IV. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990Loewy, A. G.,, Ciekewitz, P., Menninger, J. R., Gallant, J. A. N.: Cell Structure and Function. Saunders College Publ., Philadelphia, 1991Russell, P. J.: Genetics. Harper Collins Publ., New York, 1992

Van Dam-Mieras, M. C. at al.: Genome Management in Eukaryotes. Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., Oxford, 1993

Title BiochemistryCode ÚCHV/BCHU/03 Teacher Podhradský Dušan, Sedlák Erik,

Tomášková Nataša, Chomič JozefECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 3/-Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method LectureObjective To provide students with knowledge of living organisms on the basis of their

molecular structure and metabolism.Content Protein structure and function; exploring proteins. DNA and RNA and the

flow of genetic information; exploring genes. Enzymes: basic concepts and kinetics; catalytic and regulatory strategies. Functions and properties of carbohydrates (monosaccharides, disaccharides, polysaccharides). Lipids and cells: membranes, membrane channels and pumps. Metabolism: basic concepts and design; signal-transduction pathways. Glycolysis and gluconeogenesis; glycogen metabolism. The citric acid cycle and the glyoxylate cycle. Oxidative phosphorylation; the light reactions of photo-synthesis. The calvine cycle and the pentose phosphate pathway. Fatty acids metabolism; urea cycle. DNA replication and transcription (RNA synthesis). Protein synthesis and degradation; the integration of metabolism.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/VCHU/03 orÚCHV/ZAC2/03

Title Biochemistry PracticalCode ÚCHV/PBCHU/03 Teacher Chomič JozefECTS credits 5 Hrs/week -/4Assessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method PracticalObjective To allow students to learn, through practical experience which complements


Content Important biochemical laboratory methods: quantitative methods assignments of amino acids and proteins; isolation of casein from milk and the assignment of the isoelectric point of casein. Isolation of gluthation from yeast. Assignment of proteins concentration by the Lowry method and the dialysis of proteins. Reactions for identification of sugars. Extraction of fat from anise seeds by use of the Soxlet apparatus. Fats constants: definition of the iod number by using the Yasud method and the assignment of a saponification number. Reactions for demonstration of the presence of cytochrome oxidase, succinate dehydrogenase and xantin dehydrogenase. The substrate specifity for glycosidases: sacharases and alpha-amylases; pH influence on alpha-amylase activity. Influence of the concentration of a substrate on initial rate of a reaction: assignment of Km and Vmax for urease. Isolation of nucleic acids: DNA from spleen and RNA from yeast.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/BCHU/03Recommended reading http://kosice.upjs.sk/~kbch/

Title Landscape Ecology

Code ÚGE/KRE1/03 Teacher Barabas DušanECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 1/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To introduce students to the fundamentals of landscape use and

development.Content Focus will be put on the development of this discipline, different dimensions

of physical–geographic complexes, regularities of space differentiation of physical–geographic complexes, and the evolution and dynamics of physical–geographic complexes.


Title Botany ICode ÚBEV/BO1/03 Teacher Bačkor MartinECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 3, 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To introduce students to the biology of lower plants.Content Morphology, cytology, ecology, evolution and taxonomy of all main groups

of lower plants: Cyanobacteria and algae (cyanophyta, prochlorophyta, glaucophyta, rhodophyta, heterocontophyta, haptophyta, cryptophyta, dinophyta, euglenophyta, chlorarachniophyta, chlorophyta); slime moulds (plasmodiophoromycota, dictyosteliomycota, acrasiomycota, labyrinthulo-mycota); fungi (oomycota, hyphochytriomycota, chytridiomycota, zygomycota, ascomycota, basidiomycota); lichens; bryophytes.

Alternate courses ÚBEV/BO1/01 or (ÚBEV/BO1a/00,ÚBEV/BO1b/00)Recommended reading

Deacon, J.W.: Modern Mycology. Blackwell Science Ltd. 1998Van den Hoek, C. at al.: Algae, an introduction to phycology, 1995

Title Botany IICode ÚBEV/BOT1/03 Teacher Mártonfi PavolECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with knowledge and methodology concerning the study

of tracheophytes.Content Historical and contemporary plant systems. Approaches to plant

classification. Principles of cladistics and of molecular taxonomy. Tracheophytes, clades of lycophytes, ferns and their allies. Seed plants. Gymnosperms and their evolution: cycads, ginkgos, conifers, gnetophytes. Angiosperms. Evolution and general description. Basal clades and magnoliid clade. Monocots. "Basal tricolpates" and caryophyllanae. Rosid and asterid clades of tricolpates.

Practicals are devoted to study of the most important families of tracheophytes. Fossil evidence of ferns and allies from the Palaeozoic age. Tropical and subtropical flora. Ferns. Practical study of conifers. Selected families of angiosperms (magnoliaceae, araceae, liliaceae, amaryllidaceae, cyperaceae, poaceae, ranunculaceae, papaveraceae, caryophyllaceae, euphorbiaceae, violaceae, fabaceae, rosaceae, betulaceae, brassicaceae, boraginaceae, plantaginaceae, lamiaceae, apiaceae, asteraceae). Study of other seed plants; plant identification according to key.

Prerequisite courses ÚBEV/TCB1/03Alternate courses ÚBEV/BOT1/01 or (ÚBEV/BOT1a/00,ÚBEV/BOT1b/00)Recommended reading

Judd W. S., Campbell Ch. S., Kellogg E. A. & Stevens P. F., Donoghue M. J.: Plant Systematics. A phylogenetic Approach, 2nd ed. - Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, 2002.

Title Botany FieldworkCode ÚBEV/TCB1/03 Teacher Mártonfi PavolECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/5dAssessment Recognition Semester 4T/L method PracticalObjective To provide students the means to determine and identify common central

European plants. Content Plant identification in different habitats. Plant determination. Floristic

records.Alternate courses ÚBEV/TCB1/99Recommended reading

Krejča J. (ilustr.): Veľká kniha rastlín. - Bratislava (various editions).

Title Zoology ICode ÚBEV/ZO1/03 Teacher Panigaj ĽubomírECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students basic knowledge of invertebrate taxonomy, including

monocytozoa, the develop their understanding of the importance and function of chosen individual taxons and of phylogenetic relations.

Content Anatomy, morphology and development of separate groups of invertebrates, e.g., Porifera, Cnidaria, Plathelminthes, Nemathelminthes, Mollusca, Anelida, Arthropoda, Echinodermata. Characteristic species.

Prerequisite courses ÚBEV/PMZ1/03Alternate courses ÚBEV/ZO1/01

Title Zoology IICode ÚBEV/ZOO1/03 Teacher Stanko MichalECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide fundamental knowledge of the taxonomy and morphology of

vertebrates.Content Systematic and phylogenetic relationships of vertebrates. Review of

important groups of fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.Prerequisite courses ÚBEV/ZO1/03Alternate courses ÚBEV/ZOO1/01

Title Fieldwork In Zoology

Code ÚBEV/TCZ/03 Teacher Panigaj ĽubomírECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/5dAssessment Recognition Semester 6T/L method PracticalObjective To give students field experience in the observation of of vertebrate

morphology.Content Systematic and phylogenetic relationships of vertebrates. Review of

important groups of fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals using direct observation in the field.

Alternate courses ÚBEV/TCZ1/99

Title Introduction to Environmental ChemistryCode ÚCHV/UECH/03 Teacher Markušová Kvetoslava, Oriňák

AndrejECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 3, 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To introduce students to topics in environmental chemistry and to the basic

procedures for achieving environmental protection.Content Introduction to Environmental Chemistry. Chemical aspects of pollution and

environmental problems. Composition and behaviour of the atmosphere. Energy balance of the Earth and climate changes. Principles of photochemistry, photo processes in the atmosphere. Petroleum, hydrocarbons and coal (characteristics, sources and environmental pollution). Soaps, polymers and synthetic surfactants. Halo-organics and pesticides. Environmental chemistry of some important elements (C, N, S, P, halogens, biologically important metals, etc.). Environmental chemistry in aqueous media. Aqueous systems, parameters, cycles and their protection. The Earth´s crust (rocks, minerals, soils). Natural and artificial radioactivity, utilisation. Energy and energy sources (fossil fuels, nuclear, geothermal, solar energy, wind and water energy). Solid waste disposal and recycling.

Recommended reading

Gary W. van Loon, Stephen J. Duffy : Environmental Chemistry - A Global Perspective, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003R.A. Bailey, H.M. Clark, J.P. Ferris, S. Krause, R.L. Strong : Chemistry of the Environment, Academic Press, San Diego 2002 G. Schwedt: The Essential Guide to Environmental Chemistry, Wiley and Sons, London 2001 R.N. Reeve, J.D. Barnes: General Environmental Chemistry, Wiley, London 1994 G. Burton, J. Holman, G. Pilling, D. Waddington: Chemical Storylines, Heinemann, Oxford, London 1994

Title Mathematics IICode ÚMV/IMA1/03 Teacher Studenovská DanicaECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide basic knowledge of linear algebra and geometry and of functions

of more variables and of series; to allow students to apply the theories in concrete exercises.

Content System of linear algebraic equations; determinants. Vector space. Analytic

geometry of a plane and in a 3-dimensional space. Functions of more variables, continuity and limits, partial derivations. Some types of differential equations. Series, functional series, Taylor and MacLaurin series.

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/IMAC1/03Exclusive courses ÚMV/MAR1b/03Recommended reading

S.Lang: A first course in calculus, Springer Verlag, 1998W. Rudin: Real and Complex Analysis, McGraw-Hill International Editions: Mathematics Series, New York, 3rd edition, 1986

Title Physical ChemistryCode ÚCHV/FCHU/03 Teacher Markušová KvetoslavaECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 3/1Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with basic knowledge of physical chemistry. Content State of aggregation; laws for ideal and real gases; liquids and solids:

characteristics and properties. Principles of thermodynamics, thermodynamic equilibrium, characteristic thermodynamic changes, heat, work, internal energy, enthalpy, entropy, 1st, 2nd and 3rd law of thermodynamics, Gibbs energy. Thermochemistry, heat of reaction, 1st and 2nd thermometric laws, enthalpy of formation, enthalpy of combustion, calorimetry. Phase equilibria, Gibbs´ phase rule, phase diagrams for 1-, 2- and 3-componental systems, colligative properties, activity. Adsorption, adsorption isotherms. Diffusion. Chemical equilibrium, van´t Hoff´s reaction isotherm, isobar and isochore, influence of temperature and pressure on chemical equilibrium. Electrochemistry. Conductivity of electrolytes, utilisation, Faraday´s law, strong electrolytes - theory, activity coefficients, ionic strength. Weak electrolytes, theories of acids and bases, buffer solutions, hydrolysis of salts. Galvanic cells, electromotive force of cells, Nernst equation, electrodes of 1st and 2nd kind, redox electrodes, Peters´ equation, standard electrode potentials, potentiometric measurments, ion selective electrodes. Electrode processes, polarisation of electrodes, concentration cells, corrosion of metals and passivity. Principles of polarography and voltammetric methods. Chemical kinetics - reaction types and mechanism, reaction rate, molecularity and order of reaction, rate laws for 1st and 2nd order reactions, reaction mechanisms, reaction rate theories, temperature dependence of rate constants. Catalysis: homogeneous and heterogeneous, acidobasic catalysis, enzyme catalysis. Colloids: classification, preparation, stability, optical properties, dialysis.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/VCHU/03ÚMV/IMAC1/03Alternate courses ÚCHV/FCP2/99Recommended reading

T. Engel, P. Reid: Physical Chemistry, Pearson Educat. Inc., San Francisco 2006 P.W. Atkins : Physical Chemistry, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998, 1994, 1990W.J. Moore : Physical Chemistry, Longman, London 1972

Title Physical Chemistry PracticalCode ÚCHV/PFCU/03 Teacher Markušová KvetoslavaECTS credits 4 Hrs/week -/3

Assessment Assessment Semester 5T/L method PracticalObjective To familiarise students through appropriate experiments with the application

of theoretical principles of physical chemistry and to provide practice describing description of each technique.

Content Experimental verification of theoretical knowledge of thermodynamics, thermochemistry, chemical equilibria (determination of enthalpy, phase diagrams), colligative properties (cryoscopy, ebulioscopy), adsorption. Experimental verification of theoretical knowledge on electrochemistry (conductivity, dissociation constants, potentials, electromotoric potentials of cells, activity coefficients, polarography) and chemical kinetics (determination of rate constants).

Recommended reading

B.P. Levitt: Findlay´s practical physical chemistry. Longman, London, 1973W.J. Moore: Physical Chemistry. Longman, London, 1972P.W. Atkins: Physical Chemistry. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 2002

Title BiostatisticsCode ÚBEV/BS1/03 Teacher Šmajda BeňadikECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with knowledge of the basic principles of statistical

methods used in biology and their scope of applicationContent Sources and theoretical background of biostatistics. Basic principles of the

probability theory. Descriptive statistics: variables, measures of mean value and variability of data. Theoretical and empirical distributions. Experimental sampling from normal distributions. Testing of hypotheses. One-way and multiple analysis of variance. Tests for multiple comparisons. Regression analysis. Correlations. Non-parametric methods.

Alternate courses ÚBEV/BST1a/01,ÚBEV/BS1b/99Recommended reading

Hassard, T. H.: Understanding biostatistics. Mosby Year Book, 1991Snedecor,G.W., Cochran,W.G.: Statistical methods. The Iowa state university, Ames, 1972.

Title PhytogeographyCode ÚBEV/FG1/03 Teacher Mártonfi PavolECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students theoretical and practical knowledge of phytogeography.Content History of phytogeography. Plants and environment. Chorology, area, area

disjunctions, relics, endemites, vicariancy, floral elements. Main course of florogenesis from paleozoic to quaternary ages. Postglacial evolution of Slovak vegetation. Regional phytogeography of Earth. Vegetation geography: from tropical rainforests to tundra. Changes of earth vegetation and their study. Geographical origin of cultivated plants. Practices: Fieldwork. Preparing maps. Phytogeographical division of Slovakia. Student seminar works on phytogeography.

Alternate courses ÚBEV/FG1/00 orÚBEV/FG1/99Recommended Brown J. H., Lomolino M. V.: Biogeography. - Sinauer Associates,

reading Sunderland, 1998.

Title EthologyCode ÚBEV/ETO1/03 Teacher Majláth IgorECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To teach the students to know and to be aware of the importance of the

behavioural aspect in biological sciences.Content History and development of ethology. Ethological methods. The innate

forms of behaviour. The simplest forms of learning: conditioning and instrumental learning. Higher form of learning. Social behaviour. Sexual behaviour. Play behaviour. Biological rhythms. Orientation in space and animal migrations. Communication systems of animals. Emotions. Aggression in animal and human behaviour. Abnormal forms of behaviour

Alternate courses ÚBEV/ETO1/99Recommended reading

Franck, D.: Verhaltensbiologie. Einfuhrung in die Ethologie. Georg Thieme-Verlag, 1993Manning, A., Dawkins, M. S.: An introduction to animal behaviour. Cambridge University Press, 1992

Title HydrobiologyCode ÚBEV/HDR1/99 Teacher Hudec IgorECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 1/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Abiotic and biotic factors of water environment; typology and characteristics

of freshwater habitats; eutrophycation, pollution saprobity and evaluation of habitats with relation to abiotic factors.

Recommended reading

Horn, A., Goldman, C.: Limnology. Mc Graw Hill. 2nd Edition, 1994Wetzel, R.G.: Limnological analyses. Springer Verl., 3rd Edition, 2000

Title Environmental PhysicsCode ÚFV/ENVI/03 Teacher Degro JánECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 2/-Assessment Examination Semester 4, 6T/L method LectureObjective To provide students with the information needed to form environmental

attitudes.Content Local and global environmental problems. Environmental access in physics

education. Physical factors in the environment (e.g. high and low pressure, sound and noise, oscillation, light and lighting, electromagnetic fields, electric fields, magnetic field, thermal energy, renewable and un-renewable sources of energy). Green house effect. Ozone hole. Demonstration of environmental experiments.

Recommended reading

Daniel D. Chiras: Environmental Science. 3rd.ed., New York, The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing, 1991.

Title Biophysical Principles of Physiological ProcessesCode ÚBEV/BFP1/99 Teacher Šmajda BeňadikECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 2/-Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method LectureObjective To provide the students with knowledge of basic biophysical principles in

the physiological processes in animalsContent Fundamentals of information theory and theory of regulation. Energetics and

kinetics of muscle contraction. Properties of biological membranes. Biophysical mechanisms of cell excitability. Biomechanics of bones and joints. Physiological acoustics. Physical principles of light perception. Biophysics of blood circulation and respiration.

Recommended reading

Berne, L.: Principles of physiology. Mosby, 1990

Title Separation MethodsCode ÚCHV/ASM/03 Teacher Gondová TaťánaECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with working knowledge of separation methods and

theory.Content Basic principles, classification, theory and applications of separation

methods. Extraction: SPE, SPME. Chromatographic methods: theory, classification. Optimisation of chromatographic separation. Data evaluation: qualitative and quantitative analysis. GC: principles, retention mechanisms, stationary phases (selection), instrumentation, applications. HPLC: principles, stationary phases, instrumentation, applications. Planar chromatographic methods: TLC, HPTLC. Electrophoretic methods: CZE, MEKC.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/ANCHU/03 orÚCHV/ANCH1a/03,ÚCHV/ANCH1b/03Alternate courses ÚCHV/ASM1/99 orÚCHV/ASM1/00Recommended reading


Title Separation Methods PracticalCode ÚCHV/ASC1/99 Teacher Gondová TaťánaECTS credits 5 Hrs/week -/5Assessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method PracticalObjective To allow students to apply theoretical knowledge gained in Separation

Methods.Content Application of separation methods in laboratory exercises: GC, HPLC, TLC,

HPTLC, IEC and ZE.Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/ASM/03Recommended reading

Skoog D.A.: Principles of Instrumental Analysis. Saunders Col. Publishing, New York 1985.D.Harvey: Modern Analytical Chemistry. McGraw Hill, Boston, 2000.

Title Population GeneticsCode ÚBEV/PG1/03 Teacher Čellárová Eva, Brezáni PeterECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To give students the basis to understand genetic relations at the population

level, the importance of population equilibrium and the consequences of its changes.

Content Genofond and genotype composition of a population. Genetic equilibrium of the population: Hardy-Weinberg law, linkage disequilibrium. Random mating and inbreeding; consequences of inbreeding in population: Bernstein-Wright law, consanguinity, homogamy, Wahlund effect. Mutations and mutation pressure, selection and selection pressure, fitness. Random effects: genetic drift, migration. Genetic isolates and their consequences, genetic polymorphism. Evolutionary significance of genofond changes.

Recommended reading

Griffiths, A.J.F. et al.: Modern Genetic Analysis, W.H.Freeman and Co., New York, 1999

Title Environmental Analytical ChemistryCode ÚCHV/AZP1/04 Teacher Andruch VasiľECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To develop and improve student knowledge of the methods of environmental

analysis.Content Introduction. Sampling techniques and sample preparation in environmental

analysis. Quality assurance for environmental analysis. Good laboratory practice. Chemometrics in environmental analysis. Analysis of water, sediments, air, etc. Analysis of environmental samples by spectroscopic methods. Separation techniques in environmental analysis. Application of electrochemical methods to environmental samples.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/ANCHU/03 or ÚCHV/ANCH1b/03 or ÚCHV/ANCH3/03Recommended reading

Ure A.M., Davidson C.M. Chemical Speciation in the Environment. Blackie, London 1995John R. Dean. Extraction Methods for Environmental Analysis. Wiley, 1988. Environmental analysis. Elsevier, 1993

Title Geology and PetrographyCode ÚGE/GEP2/05 Teacher Bónová Katarína, Hochmuth ZdenkoECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To introduce students to current theories about processes occurring in the

Earth and to familiarise them with rock formation and the geology of Slovakia.

Content Current theories about processes which occur in the Earth (global tectonics, species of magmatism). Rock-forming minerals, taxology of intrusive rocks, taxology of sedimentary rocks and rocks which overcame metamorphosis. Basics of the regional geology of Slovakia; basics of historical geology and

paleontology. Alternate courses ÚGE/GEP1/99 orÚGE/GEP2/01

Title Basis of MineralogyCode ÚCHV/MIN1/00 Teacher Potočňák IvanECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 1/1Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To familiarise students with properties of usual minerals and to enable them

to recognise these minerals. To give students the means to recognise the beauty of nature and to obtain basic knowledge from mineralogy.

Content Basic terms and definitions; origin of minerals in nature. Basis of morphological and structural crystallography: characteristic properties of crystals, crystallographic laws, crystal structure, unit cells and their parameters, crystallographic systems with examples of minerals. Crystallochemistry: types of bonds and structures and their effect on the properties of minerals. Physical properties of minerals and their utilise in minerals classification. Basis of genetic and systematic mineralogy. Structure of silicates.

Prerequisite courses ÚCHV/VCH1/99 or ÚCHV/ZAC1/00 or ÚCHV/ZCH1/99 or ÚCHV/VCH/03 or ÚCHV/VCHU/03

Exclusive courses ÚCHV/MINU/03Alternate courses ÚCHV/MIN1/99

Title Bioinorganic Chemistry ICode ÚCHV/BAC1/04 Teacher Reháková MáriaECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To introduce students to the important roles of metallic and non-metallic

elements in biological systems, in pharmacology and chemotherapy, and related areas.

Content Metallic and non-metallic elements and their roles in biological systems (biometals, bulk biological elements, essential trace elements). Biocoordination compounds, bioligands. Biocatalyzers. Oxygen carriers and oxygen transport proteins. Photochemical process. Catalysis and regulation of bioenergetic processes involving alkaline earth metal ions. Calcium biominerals and biomineralisation. Toxic metals. Application of knowledge of bioinorganic chemistry in pharmacy, chemotherapy (e.g. platinum complexes in cancer therapy), radiodiagnostics, mineral biotechnology and in other branches of life.

Recommended reading

Kaim W., Schwederski B.: Bioinorganic Chemistry: Inorganic Elements in the Chemisry of Life. Wiley, Chichester 1998Wilkins P. C., Wilkins R. G.: Inorganic Chemistry in Biology. OCP, Oxford 1997Hay R. W.: Bio-inorganic Chemistry. John Wiley and Sons, New York 1989

Elective courses

Title Human Anatomy

Code ÚBEV/ACL/03 Teacher Miklošová MáriaECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination SemesterT/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with knowledge of the anatomic systems of man.Content Anatomic terminology, skeleton and muscles, gastrointestinal system,

respiratory system, circulatory and lymphatic system, urogenital system, sensory organs, nervous system, ontogenesis of man.

Alternate courses ÚBEV/ACL1/00Recommended reading

Kahle, W., Leonhardt, H., Platzer, W. : Color Atlas and Textbook of HumanAnatomy in 3 Volumes : Volume 1 : Locomotor System, Volume 2: Internal Organsand Volume 3: Nervous System and Sensory OrgansThieme Medical Publishers, Inc. New York, 1993Anne M. R. Agur: Grant’s atlas of anatomy. Williams et Wilkins, USA, 1991

Title Molecular BiologyCode ÚBEV/MB1/01 Teacher Solár PeterECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 3/-Assessment Examination SemesterT/L method LectureObjective To provide students with knowledge of the molecular basis of inheritance

and control of gene expression and development.Content Structure and properties of information macromolecules. Molecular

mechanisms of DNA replication and repair, transcription and translation. Prokaryotic and eukaryotic genome. Control of gene expression in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Control of cell cycle.

Recommended reading

Lodish, H., Baltimore, D., Berk, A. et al.: Molecular Cell Biology. Sci. Amer. Books Inc., W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, 1995Myers, R.A.: Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. VCH Publishers Inc., New York, 1995

Title Cartography and topographyCode ÚGE/KAT1/05 Teacher Barabas DušanECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent The basics of cartography and topography. Different types of surface

mapping and their application in different disciplines related to geography. Practical map making assignments and measuring on maps which will be part of seminars. Use of selected cartography software.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/UGE1/07Alternate courses ÚGE/KAT1/99 orÚGE/KAT1/01 orÚGE/KAT1/03

Study programme Informatics(Full-time bachelor)


Compulsory courses

ÚINF/PAZ1a/03

Programming, Algorithms and Complexity

9 3/4 Examination

1/1

ÚMV/ALG1a/03

Algebra 7 3/2 Examination

1/1

ÚFV/IFY1a/01 Physics for Informaticists I 2 2/- Assessment 1/1 ÚMV/MAI1a/07

Calculus for Informatics 9 1/3 Assessment 1/1

ÚINF/PAZ1b/03


7 2/4 Examination

1/2

ÚMV/ILAG/06Linear Algebra and Geometry for Informaticists

7 4/2 Examination

1/2

ÚMV/KOI/03 Combinatorics for Informaticists

4 2/1 Examination

1/2

ÚFV/IFY1b/07 Physics for Informaticists II

3 2/- Examination

1/2

ÚINF/PRP2/07 Principles of Computers 2 -/2 Assessment 1/2 ÚINF/PAZ1c/03



ÚINF/OSY1/03 Operational Systems 5 2/2 Examination

2/3

ÚINF/DBS1a/03

Database Systems 5 2/2 Examination

2/3

ÚMV/TVY1/03 Theory of Computability 4 2/1 Examination

2/3

ÚINF/PSE1/03 Computer Networks 5 3/1 Examination

2/4

ÚINF/AFJ1a/03 Automata and Formal Languages

4 2/1 Examination

2/4

ÚINF/SLO1a/06

Symbolic Logic 5 2/1 Examination

2/4

ÚINF/DBS1b/03

Database Systems 6 2/2 Examination

2/4

ÚINF/SWI1a/04 Software Engineering 2 -/2 Assessment 2/4

ÚINF/PBS/04 Bachelor Thesis Pro-seminar


ÚINF/SPR1a/03 System Programming 3 1/2 Assessment 3/5

ÚINF/AFJ1b/00 Automata and Formal Languages

5 2/1 Examination

3/5

ÚINF/SWI1b/04

Software Engineering 2 -/2 Assessment 3/5

ÚINF/BSI1a/04 Informatics Seminar 2 -/2 Assessment 3/5

ÚINF/FUN1/04 Functional Programming 6 2/2 Examination

3/5

ÚINF/ZPIRa/04 Bachelor Thesis 2 -/2 Recognition 3/5ÚINF/TYS1/06 Typographical Systems 2 -/2 Assessment 3/5 ÚINF/BZP1a/06 Bachelor Thesis Seminar 2 -/2 Assessment 3/5

ÚINF/ASU1/06 Algorithms and Data Structures


ÚINF/BSI1b/04 Informatics Seminar 2 -/2 Assessment 3/6 ÚINF/ZPIRb/04 Bachelor Thesis 6 -/4 Recognition 3/6 ÚINF/BZP1b/06

Bachelor Thesis Seminar 2 -/2 Assessment 3/6


ÚINF/UKR1/04 Introduction to Cryptology 5 2/1 Examination 2/3, 3/5 ÚINF/UNS1/04 Introduction to Neural

Networks5 2/1 Examination 2/3, 3/5

ÚINF/UGR1/04 Introduction to Computer Graphics

5 2/1 Examination 2/3, 3/5

ÚINF/SLO1b/06 Symbolic Logic 5 2/1 Examination 3/5 ÚMV/LCO1/03 Linear and Integer

Programming5 3/1 Examination 2/3, 3/5

ÚINF/PRJ1a/06 Software Project 4 -/4 Assessment 3/5 ÚINF/JAV1a/07 Advanced Programming in

Java3 1/2 Assessment 3/5

ÚINF/AOS1/07 Administration of OS 2 -/2 Assessment 3/5 ÚINF/TDB1/06 Development of Web-

oriented Database Applications


ÚINF/PRJ1b/06 Sofware Project 4 -/4 Assessment 3/6 ÚINF/LOP1/04 Logical Programming 5 2/2 Examination 3/6 ÚINF/SPR1b/03 System Programming 6 2/2 Examination 3/6 ÚINF/JAV1b/07 Advanced Progamming in

Java3 1/2 Assessment 3/6

Elective courses

ÚINF/PRR1a/02 Advanced Programming 2 -/2 Assessment 2/3, 3/5 ÚINF/PSO1/06 Presentation Software 2 -/- Assessment 2/3, 3/5ÚINF/PRR1b/02 Advanced Programming 2 -/2 Assessment 2/3, 4/6 ÚINF/KAL1/00 Spreadsheet Calculators 4 1/2 Examination 2/3, 4/6 ÚFV/UPF1/03 Introduction to Computer

Physics4 2/1 Examination 3/6

ÚINF/SVK1/00 Student Scientific Conference

4 -/- Assessment 2/4, 3/6

Course units

Compulsory courses

Title Programming, Algorithms and ComplexityCode ÚINF/PAZ1a/03 Teacher Andrejková GabrielaECTS credits 9 Hrs/week 3/4Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with basic knowledge about the principles of

programming and to teach them skills involved in program testing. Content Algorithmic problems and their solutions. Examples of concrete algorithms;

formal languages for writing of algorithms. Correctness and testing of algorithms. Properties of programming languages of a higher category. Basic data and statement structure of the programming language PASCAL. Procedures, functions, units of functions and procedures. Dynamic data structures, pointers. Complexity of algorithms. Data structures: stack, queue, table.

Exclusive courses ÚINF/PRG1a/03Alternate courses ÚINF/PRA1a/02 or ÚINF/PAZU/04Recommended reading

J. Jinoch et al: Programming language PASCAL, SNTL, Praha, 1985N. Wirth: Algorithms+Data Structures=Programs, Prentice-Hall, 1976P. Toepfer: Algorithms and programming technologies, Prometheus, Praha, 1995

Title AlgebraCode ÚMV/ALG1a/03 Teacher Harminc Matúš, Ploščica Miroslav,

Soták RomanECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Divisibility of integers, congruences, congruence classes of integers. Fields;

systems of linear equations. The method of successive eliminations of unknowns. Determinants, Cramer´s rule.

Recommended reading

A. Kurosh: Higher Algebra, Mir Publishers, 1975

Title Calculus for informaticsCode ÚMV/MAI1a/07 Teacher Mihalíková BoženaECTS credits 9 Hrs/week 4/3Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To obtain basic knowledge on linear algebra; to be able to apply the

theory to solving problems. Content Real numbers - axioms and properties. Infinite sequences. Real

functions and their limits. Continuous functions and their properties. Elementary functions. Differential calculus - derivatives of the first and of higher orders, the basic theorems of differential calculus and their use to study functions.

Recommended reading

R. S. Strichartz, The way of analysis, J&B Publisher, Canada, 2000

Title Physics for Informaticists ICode ÚFV/IFY1a/01 Teacher Petrovič PavolECTS credits 2 Hrs/week 2/-Assessment Assessment Semester 1T/L method LectureObjective To provide students with knowledge of the physical aspects of information

storage and processing.Content Analysis of functions and properties of basic analogue and digital electronic

elements, circuits, and systems for transmission and processing of informations: transistors, operating amplifiers, combinational and sequence logic circuits, analogue to digital and digital to analogue converters.

Exclusive courses ÚFV/ELE1/03Alternate courses ÚFV/IFY1a/99Recommended reading

Delaney C.F.G.: Electronics for the Physicist with Aplications. John Willey & Sons, New York, 1980Garcia N., Damask A., Schwarz S.: Physics for Computer Science Students – with Emphasis on Atomic and Semiconductor Physics. Second Edition. Springer-Verlag, New-York, Berlin, 1998Howatson A. M.: Electrical Circuits and Systems. An Introduction for Engineers and Physical Scientists. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996

Title Programming, Algorithms and ComplexityCode ÚINF/PAZ1b/03 Teacher Andrejková GabrielaECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 2/4Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To familiarise students with the growth in complexity and use of

programming languages and interfaces.Content Historical evolution of programming culminating in object-oriented

principles. The object-oriented programming paradigm. Classes, objects, inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation. Programming Language Object Pascal. Basic classes in Delphi: TForm, TScreen, TApplication and their use in applications. Multiple document interface; graphic device interface.

Prerequisite courses ÚINF/PAZ1a/03Recommended reading

T. Bisinger: Learn programming in Delphi, Grada , Praha, 1998 (in Czech)R. Pecinovský, M. Virius: Object-oriented programming. I. and II., Grada, Praha, 1997T. Holan: Delphi in examples, Matfyzpress, Praha, 1999

Title Linear Algebra and Geometry for InformaticistsCode ÚMV/ILAG/06 TeacherECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 4/2Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To give students a deeper knowledge of vector spaces, systems of linear

equations and affine spaces.

Content Vector spaces, subspaces. A basis, a dimension and a characterization of n-dimensional vector spaces. The rank of a matrix; the Frobenius theorem. Homogeneous systems of linear equations: a fundamental solution set. Linear mappings and their matrices. Operations with linear mappings, matrices of sums and compositions of linear mappings. Regular linear transformations; regular matrices. Similar matrices. Characteristic vectors and characteristic values of linear transformations. Affine spaces, subspaces and their positions. Euclidean spaces; the distance of subspaces.

Recommended reading

A. F. Beardon: Algebra and geometry, Cambridge University Press, 2005 G. Birkhoff, S. Mac Lane: A survey of Modern Algebra, New York 1965

Title Physics for Informaticists IICode ÚFV/IFY1b/07 Teacher Petrovič PavolECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 2/-Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method LectureObjective To build in the basic information provided in Physics for Informaticists I that

gives students in-depth knowledge of the physics of communications and of processors.

Content Methods of computational physics: Monte-Carlo simulation of physical processes, applications to nuclear physics and physics of advanced technology, examples of algorithm. Electromagnetism: a basic interaction, Maxwell's equations of electromagnetics field. Relativistic physics of inertial systems: Einstein's postulates. Gravitation: a fundamental force. Basic quantum physics.Classes: thematic tasks that have the character of constructive tasks enabling one to verify the theory describing properties of a certain electronic circuit analysed in part I of the course. Amplifying and rectifying phenomena on semiconductors. Analysis of functions and properties of basic analogue and digital electronic elements, circuits, and systems for transmission and processing of information: transistors, operating amplifiers, combinational and sequence logic circuits, analogue to digital and digital to analogue converters.

Exclusive courses ÚFV/IFY1b/99Alternate courses ÚFV/IFY1a/01,ÚFV/IFY1b/99Recommended reading

Garcia N., Damask A., Schwarz S.: Physics for Computer Science Students – with Emphasis on Atomic and Semiconductor Physics. Second Edition. Springer-Verlag, New-York, Berlin, 1998Gershenfeld N.: The Physics of Information Technology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000Howatson A. M.: Electrical Circuits and Systems. An Introduction for Engineers and Physical Scientists. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996Zbar P.B., Malvino A.P., Miller M.A.: Basic Electronics: a Text-Lab Manual. Macmillan/McGraw – Hill, New York, 1994

Title Programming, Algorithms and ComplexityCode ÚINF/PAZ1c/03 Teacher Andrejková Gabriela, Horváth

TomášECTS credits 5 Hrs/week -/4Assessment Assessment Semester 3T/L method Practical

Objective To provide students with a working knowledge of Java.Content Object oriented programming in Java. Methodology of a project creation:

analysis, design, discussion, implementation. Design of patterns. Prerequisite courses ÚINF/PAZ1a/03,ÚINF/PAZ1b/03Recommended reading

Eckel, B. - Thinking in Java, 3rd Edition. Online. http://mindview.net/Books/DownloadSites

Title Operational SystemsCode ÚINF/OSY1/03 Teacher Geffert Viliam, Studenovský JozefECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with knowledge of basic principles of operating system

architecture.Content Operating system structure. Linking, loading and executing. History of

operating systems, OS concepts. The process model, implementation, communication, classical problems, process scheduling. Memory management, segmentation, swapping, paging, virtual memory. File systems, directories, security and protection mechanisms. Principles of I/O software, interrupt handlers, device drivers, resources, deadlocks. MS-DOS, UNIX, Windows NT, graphical user interfaces. Terminal networks, file server, host server, mapping, redirection. Network operating systems, reliability, access rights, authentication. Microsoft Windows NT system, Novell NetWare, NFS.


A. Silberschatz, P. Galvin: Operating System Concepts, 5.ed., Addison-Wesley, 1997A. S. Tanenbaum: Modern Operating Systems, Prentice-Hall, 1992F. Plášil, J. Staudek: Operační systémy, SNTL Praha, 1992

Title Database SystemsCode ÚINF/DBS1a/03 Teacher Krajči Stanislav, Lacko VladimírECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To allow students to work with a specified concrete database system to

understand principles of database modelling and the theory of databases. To learn to use them.

Content Introduction: history, basic principles. Foundations of SQL: work with one table, aggregate functions, nested queries, modification of data, integrity constraints, modification of the table structure.

Title Automata and Formal LanguagesCode ÚINF/AFJ1a/03 Teacher Geffert ViliamECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, Practical

Objective To provide theoretical background for studying computer science in general, by familiarising students with necessary knowledge of the theory of automata.

Content Chomsky hierarchy of grammars and languages. Finite-state transducers and mapping, construction of a reduced automaton. Finite-state acceptors, nondeterministic acceptors, regular expressions. Closure properties of regular languages. Context-free grammars, Chomsky and Greibach normal forms. Pushdown automata; pumping lemma. Closure properties of context-free languages.

Recommended reading

J.E.Hopcroft and J.D.Ullman. Formal languages and their relation to automata. Addison-Wesley. (Slovak translation published by ALFA, Bratislava, 1978)M.Chytil. Automata and grammars. SNTL, 1984. (In Czech).J.van Leeuwen (ed.): Handbook of theoretical computer science. North-Holland, 1990

Title Symbolic LogicCode ÚINF/SLO1a/06 Teacher Krajči StanislavECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with an understanding of the basic notions of sentence

and predicate logic: sentence, sentence scheme, provability, satisfiability, term, formula.

Content Basic notions of sentence and predicate logic: sentence, sentence scheme, provability, satisfiability, term, formula. Soundness and completeness of sentence calculus.

Alternate courses ÚINF/VYL1/03Recommended reading

Goldstern, M., Judah, H.: The Incompleteness Phenomenon, A New Course in Mathematical Logic,Peters, A. K., Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1995

Title Database SystemsCode ÚINF/DBS1b/03 Teacher Krajči Stanislav, Lacko VladimírECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To make students familiar with database systems.Content SQL: database modelling, transitive closure, next aspects of SQL. Formal

foundations of database systems: logic of database systems, relation algebra.Automatic rerequisite courses

ÚINF/DBS1a/03

Title Theory of ComputabilityCode ÚMV/TVY1/03 Teacher Bukovský LevECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 3

T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Turing machine as a formalisation of the notion of an algorithm. Partial

recursive functions. Kleene’s normal form theorem. The equivalences of the notion of a function calculable by a Turing machine, partial recursive and calculable by a Pascal program. Algorithmical undecidability of the halting problem of a Turing machine and Pascal program. Elementary properties of recursively enumerable sets. Basic invariant theory of computability: universal system of programs, Rice’s theorem, Roger's isomorphism theorem. Dynamic measure of complexity, examples and elementary properties.

Recommended reading

M. Machtey and P. Young, An Introduction to the General Theory of Algorithms, North--Holland, Amsterdam 1978.D. S. Bridges, Computability, A Mathematical Sketch book, Springer--Verlag 1994

Title Software EngineeringCode ÚINF/SWI1a/04 Teacher Semanišin GabrielECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 4T/L method PracticalObjective To allow students toobtain information about modelling of software and to

apply it in their own projects.Content Project modelling, UML, methodologies (RUP), project management,

change management, requirements engineering, metrics.Prerequisite courses ÚINF/PAZ1b/03 orÚINF/RPR1c/05

Title Bachelor Thesis Pro-SeminarCode ÚINF/PBS/04 Teacher Andrejková GabrielaECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 4T/L method PracticalObjective To prepare students for their Bachelor theses.Content The seminar is oriented to problems related to preparations of Bachelor

theses.Prerequisite courses ÚINF/OSY1/03 or ÚINF/ROS1/00

Title System ProgrammingCode ÚINF/SPR1a/03 Teacher Geffert Viliam, Schmotzer MilanECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 1/2Assessment Assessment Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To give students knowledge of and experience with the fundamentals of

system programming.Content Processes, synchronisation, classical synchronisation problems and their

presentation using Petri nets, basic tools of synchronisation, semaphores, message sending, deadlock, dynamic data types, the JAVA programming language.

Prerequisite courses ÚINF/PSE1/03 or ÚINF/RPS1/00

Title Automata and Formal LanguagesCode ÚINF/AFJ1b/00 Teacher Geffert ViliamECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide theoretical background for studying computer science in general,

by giving students the necessary knowledge in the theory of automata.Content Greibach normal structure of contextfree gramars.Deterministic pushdown

automata. Context-sensitive grammars and linearly-bounded Turing machines. Deterministic linearly-bounded Turing machines. Space bounded machines. Phrase-structure grammars and Turing machines. Post correspondence problem. Undecidable problems in the theory of formal languages.

Alternate courses ÚINF/FO1/04Automatic rerequisite courses

ÚINF/AFJ1a/03

Recommended reading

J.E.Hopcroft and J.D.Ullman. Formal languages and their relation to automata. Addison-Wesley. (Slovak translation published by ALFA, Bratislava, 1978)J.van Leeuwen (ed.): Handbook of theoretical computer science. North-Holland, 1990

Title Software EngineeringCode ÚINF/SWI1b/04 Teacher Semanišin GabrielECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 5T/L method PracticalObjective To allow students to obtain information about modelling of software and to

apply it in their own projects.Content Data patterns, UML metamodel , design patterns, dátové sklady a data data

mining, information retrieval, XML.Automatic rerequisite courses

ÚINF/SWI1a/04

Title Informatics SeminarCode ÚINF/BSI1a/04 Teacher Andrejková GabrielaECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 5T/L method PracticalObjective To inform students about new results and trends in informatics with the goal

using them in bachelor theses. Content The seminar has a connection to the bachelor theses and to the repetitorium

in informatics. Students present results of their work at least once in the semester.

Recommended reading

Sources of problems: www.ksp.skwww.ksp.sk/MOP/Special research literature according to bachelor theses.

Title Functional ProgrammingCode ÚINF/FUN1/04 Teacher Repický MiroslavECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To familiarise students with functional programming methods and language.Content Principles of functional programming. Lambda calculus from the functional

programming languages point of view. Properties of functional programming languages. Programming language SCHEME: the structure of the language and basic computational rule, a work with symbolic expressions, block structure and static embedding, functional objects and macros. Comparison of symbolic structures and unification. Rule system, logic system, frame system (comparison, indexing).

Prerequisite courses ÚINF/PAZ1c/03 or ÚINF/RPR1c/05 or ÚFV/SDF1/99

Title Bachelor Thesis SeminarCode ÚINF/BZP1a/06 Teacher Krajči StanislavECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 5T/L method PracticalObjective To learn methods and procedures for solving bigger problems. To show a

creative and independent capability to solve complex problems. To learn to write a solution: starting points, reasons for chosing methods and documentation of a solution.

Content Seminar is connected to subjects Bachelor thesis in informatics L.Recommended reading

Special and research literature connected to Bachelor theses according to recommendations of supervisor.ISO 690: 1987 Documentation - Bibliographic references. Content, form and structure.ISO 2145: 1978 Documentation - Numbering of divisions and subdivisions in written documents.

Title Informatics SeminarCode ÚINF/BSI1b/04 Teacher Andrejková GabrielaECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method PracticalObjective To inform students about new results in informatics with the goal having

them use them in bachelor theses. To repeat important knowledge in informatics.

Content The seminar has a connection to the bachelor theses and to the repetitorium in informatics. Students present results of their work at least once in the semester. To get credits, it is necessary to get the developed number of points from the repetitorium.

Automatic prerequisite courses

ÚINF/BSI1a/04

Title Bachelor Thesis Seminar

Code ÚINF/BZP1b/06 Teacher Krajči StanislavECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method PracticalObjective To learn methods and procedures of solving bigger problems. To show a

capability to independently and creatively tsolve complex problems. To learn to write a solution: starting points, reasons for chosing methods and documentation of a solution.

Content Seminar is connected to subjects Bachelor thesis in informatics L.Automatic rerequisite courses

ÚINF/BZP1a/06

Recommended reading

Special and research literature connected to Bachelor theses according to recommendations of supervisor.ISO 690: 1987 Documentation - Bibliographic references. Content, form and structure.ISO 2145: 1978 Documentation - Numbering of divisions and subdivisions in written documents.


Title Introduction to Neural NetworksCode ÚINF/UNS1/04 Teacher Andrejková GabrielaECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 3, 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To have students learn and understand applications of basic paradigms of

neural networks. To learn how to work with software for neural network models.

Content Basic models of computational units: neurons (linear threshold gates, polynomial threshold gates, perceptrons), their computational capability, algorithms of adaptations. Feed-forward neural networks, back propagation algorithm. Full recurrent neural networks, Hopfield neural networks. ART neural networks. Using neural networks to solve problems.

Prerequisite courses ÚINF/PAZ1b/03Recommended reading

J. Hertz, A.Krogh, R.G. Palmer: Introduction to the theory of neural computation, Addison Wesley, 1991

Title Introduction to Computer GraphicsCode ÚINF/UGR1/04 Teacher Andrejková Gabriela, Jirásek JozefECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 3, 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with knowledge of graphics algorithms and basic

principles of computer graphics.Content Graphics hardware, input and output devices. Colour models, palettes. Raster

graphics algorithms for drawing 2D primitives. Filling and clipping. Curve modelling, interpolations and approximations, spline forms, Bézier curves, B-splines, surfaces. Homogenous coordinates, affine transformations, perspective and parallel projections. Visible-surface determination, illumination and shading. Rendering techniques, photorealism, textures, ray tracing, radiosity. Object representations, computer animation, virtual

reality.Prerequisite courses ÚMV/IMAC1/03 orÚMV/MAR1b/03 or(ÚMV/MAI1b/07

orÚMV/JMA1b/03)Recommended reading

J. D. Foley, A.van Dam, S. Feiner, J. Hughes: Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Addison-Wesley, 1991M.E. Mortenson: Geometric modeling, 2.ed., Wiley, 1997

Title Symbolic LogicCode ÚINF/SLO1b/06 Teacher Krajči StanislavECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To give students an understanding of notions of the semantics of predicate

calculus, substitution, formal system of predicate calculus, soundness and completeness of predicate calculus.

Content Semantics of predicate calculus, substitution, formal system of predicate calculus, soundness and completeness of predicate calculus.

Alternate courses ÚINF/ZNA1/04Automatic prerequisite courses

ÚINF/SLO1a/06

Recommended reading

- Goldstern M., Judah H.: The Incompleteness Phenomenon, A New Course in Mathematical LogicA K Peters, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1995- http://cs.ics.upjs.sk/~krajci/skola/vyucba/ucebneTexty/logika/logika.pdf

Title Linear and Integer ProgrammingCode ÚMV/LCO1/03 Teacher Cechlárová Katarína, Semanišin

GabrielECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 3/1Assessment Examination Semester 3, 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To give students knowledge and experience with linear and integer

programming.Content Formulation of linear and integer programs. Graphic solution. Simplex

method, its variants and finiteness. Duality and its economic interpretation. Sensitivity analysis and parametric programming. Algorithms for integer programming.

Prerequisite courses (ÚMV/LAGb/03 or ÚMV/ALG1b/03 or ÚMV/ILAG/06), (ÚMV/MA1b/03 or ÚMV/JMA1b/03 or MV/MAI1b/07)

Exclusive courses ÚMV/LOP1/99 or ÚMV/LO/99 or ÚMV/LO1/99 or ÚMV/CPR1/99 or ÚMV/CPR/99

Alternate courses ÚMV/LOP1/99,ÚMV/CPR1/99Recommended reading

Ch. Papadimitriou – K. Steiglitz: Combinatorial Optimisation: Algorithms and Complexity, 1984R.J. Vanderbei, Linear Programming:Foundations and Extentions (Kluwer 2001), el. verzia: http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/LPbook/ _

Title Development of Web-oriented Database ApplicationsCode ÚINF/TDB1/06 Teacher Semanišin GabrielECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2

Assessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method PracticalObjective To provide students knowledge of modern methods for development of web-

oriented applications with emphasis on database server ORACLE and programming techniques in JAVA.

Content Oracle SQL Data Manipulation Language. Oracle SQL Data Definition Language. Oracle PL/SQL. Java JDBC API Java Database Connectivity. Java JDBC API. Java JSP. JSTL.

Recommended reading

http://www.oracle.com

Title Logical ProgrammingCode ÚINF/LOP1/04 Teacher Repický MiroslavECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To familiarise students with the bases of declarative programming (as

complementary method to procedural programming) and the basic methods of implementation of logic programming languages.

Content Facts and rules in Prolog. Unification of terms (Robinson's unification algorithm). Recursion and backtrack in Prolog. Computational step and computational tree. Classification of terms. Lists. Functors and operators in composed terms. Predicates for input and output. Dynamic database. Cycles (repeat-fail, for). Predicates related to backtrack. Cut. Predicates evaluating of arithmetic expressions.

Title System ProgrammingCode ÚINF/SPR1b/03 Teacher Geffert Viliam, Schmotzer MilanECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To give students experience with Unix type system programming.Content Programming in operation systems of the Unix type in the programming

language C.Automatic rerequisite courses

ÚINF/SPR1a/03

Elective courses

Title Spreadsheet CalculatorsCode ÚINF/KAL1/00 Teacher Studenovský Jozef, Repický

MiroslavECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 1/2Assessment Examination Semester 4, 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide the students with basic MS PowerPoint skills as well as the

basics of presentation construction.Content MS Excel is used as the model but the content is largely implementation

independent. Workbook structure: sheets, cells, constants and formulas. Formatting basics. Using formulas, database operations, principal classes of functions, graphing. Data analysis. Simple macros used for work automation.

Alternate courses ÚINF/KAL1/99Recommended reading

Excel 97 documentationJ. A. Holt: Cases and Applications in Lotus 1-2-3, IRWIN, Illinois 1990 (copies of selected parts will be available in the library)

Title Introduction to Computer PhysicsCode ÚFV/UPF1/03 Teacher Uličný JozefECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To widen the horizons of students by presenting a more general view of

computers and computational processes based on physics. To show less-traditional ways how to implement computations on the basis of deeper knowledge of physical processes.

Content Physical processes utilised in actual computers. Thermodynamics of computation. Physical limits of actual computer technologies (Moore’s law and Amdahl's law). Relation between computer modelling and physical reality. Computational complexity and parallelism. Distributed computing. Alternative methods (Analogue computing, optical processors, DNA processors, quantum computing).

Study programme Landscape Structure and its Transformation(Full-time bachelor)


Compulsory courses

ÚGE/GEP2/07 Geology and Petrography 7 3/2 Examination 1/1 ÚGE/MEK/07 Meteorology and Climatology 7 2/2 Examination 1/1 ÚCHV/ZAC2/03

Basic Chemistry 6 2/2 Examination 1/1

ÚGE/PLG/07 Planetary Geography 3 -/2 Assessment 1/1 ÚGE/UGE1/07 Introduction to Geography 3 -/2 Assessment 1/1 ÚGE/IKT/07 Information and Communication

Technologies2 -/2 Assessment 1/1

ÚGE/GEX1/07 Geological Excursion 2 -/3 days

Assessment 1/1

ÚGE/GEM2/05 Geomorphology 7 3/2 Examination 1/2 ÚGE/KAT1/05 Cartography and Topography 7 3/2 Examination 1/2 ÚGE/HYD/07 Hydrology and Hydrogeography 6 2/2 Examination 1/2 ÚGE/TEK2/07 Thematic Cartography 5 -/3 Assessment 1/2 ÚGE/SMG1/07 Statistical Methods in Geography 3 -/2 Assessment 1/2 ÚGE/TPR1/07 Topographic Practicum 2 -/3 Assessment 1/2

daysÚGE/PED/07 Soil Science and Soil Geography 5 2/1 Examination 2/3 ÚGE/GOB1/07 Demogeography and

Demography4 2/1 Examination 2/3

ÚGE/GPD/07 Geography of Industry and Transport


ÚGE/GSI1/07 Geography of Settlements 4 2/1 Examination 2/3 ÚGE/UPR/07 Regional Planning and

Development4 -/3 Assessment 2/3

ÚGE/MFG/07 Mapping Course for Physical Geography

3 -/3 days

Assessment 2/3

ÚGE/BIG/07 Biogeography 5 2/1 Examination 2/4 ÚGE/GCZ/07 Geography of Tourist and Foreign

Trade5 2/1 Examination 2/4

ÚGE/GPL/04 Geography of Agriculture 5 2/1 Examination 2/4 ÚGE/GIS/07 Geographic Information Systems 4 1/2 Examination 2/4 ÚGE/MET/05 Methods of Geographical

Research3 -/2 Assessment 2/4

ÚGE/EXFG1/07 Excursion of Physical Geography 2 -/6 days

Assessment 2/4

ÚGE/EUG/05 Regional Geography of Europe (physical geography)


ÚGE/ZBOa/04 Bachelor Work 2 -/- Recognition 3/5 ÚGE/FGS/07 Physical Geography of the Slovak

Republic6 2/1 Examination 3/5

ÚGE/ZVS/06 Basis of Public Administration 2 -/2 Assessment 3/5 ÚGE/MHG1/07 Mapping Course for Human

Geography3 -/4

daysAssessment 3/5

ÚGE/GEE2/04 Geoecology 5 2/1 Examination 3/6 ÚGE/DPZ/07 Remote sensing 4 -/3 Assessment 3/6 ÚGE/ZBOb/04 Bachelor work 6 -/- Recognition 3/6 ÚGE/HGS/07 Human Geography of the Slovak

Republic5 2/1 Examination 3/6

ÚGE/EUG2/07 Regional Geography of Europe (Human Geography)


ÚGE/SBP2/07 Bachelor Work Seminar 2 -/2 Assessment 3/6 ÚGE/EXHG1/07

Human Geography Excursion 2 -/6 days

Assessment 3/6


ÚGE/HIG/06 Historical Geography 2 -/2 Assessment 2/3

ÚGE/PTM1/07 Computer Cartography using Corel


ÚGE/GMR/07 Geography of Microregion 4 2/1 Examination 3/5

ÚGE/POL/07 Political Geography and Geopolitics


ÚGE/GCR/07 Geography of the Czech Republic 4 2/1 Examination 3/6 ÚGE/ZRGS/07 Basis of Regional Geography of 4 2/1 Examination 3/6

the World

ÚGE/SVK/04 Student Scientific Conference 4 -/- Assessment 2/4, 3/6

Recommended elective courses

ÚGE/KAR/05 Basis of Karstology and Speleology


ÚGE/NGS/06 German Geographical Seminar 2 -/2 Assessment 2/3 ÚGE/KVA/05 Landscape of the Quarternary 2 -/2 Assessment 2/3 ÚGE/MGS/06 Hungarian Geographical Seminar 2 -/2 Assessment 2/4 ÚGE/EGP/06 Endogenic Geological Processes 2 -/2 Assessment 2/4 ÚGE/VYM2/03 Selected Chapters on

Meteorology and Climatology2 -/2 Assessment 2/4

ÚGE/SVG/04 Student Scientific Conference in Geography

4 -/- Assessment 2/4

ÚGE/DGMR/07 Digital Terrain Model 2 -/2 Assessment 3/5 ÚGE/KUG/06 Cultural Geography 2 -/2 Assessment 3/5ÚGE/RUR/05 Rural Geography 2 -/2 Assessment 3/5ÚGE/SBP1/07 Bachelor Work Seminar 2 -/2 Assessment 3/5 ÚGE/GKC/06 Geography of Cultures and

Civilisation2 -/2 Assessment 3/6

ÚGE/GME/05 Geography of the City 2 -/2 Assessment 3/6 ÚGE/MEG/06 Medical Geography 2 -/2 Assessment 3/6

Course units

Compulsory courses

Title Geology and PetrographyCode ÚGE/GEP2/07 Teacher Bónová Katarína, Hochmuth ZdenkoECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To introduce students to current theories about geoprocesses and to the

means of describing geological formations.Content Introduction of current theories about processes which occur in the Earth

(global tectonics, species of magmatism). Description of rock-forming minerals, taxology of intrusive rocks, taxology of sedimentary rocks and rocks which overcame metamorphosis. Basics of the regional geology of Slovakia; basics of the historical geology and paleontology.

Alternate courses ÚGE/GEP1/99 or ÚGE/GEP2/01 or ÚGE/GEP2/05Recommended reading

Title Meteorology and ClimatologyCode ÚGE/MEK/07 Teacher Hochmuth Zdenko

ECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To introduce students to climate and the gathering of climate data.Content Atmospheric conditions and their physical origins, general planetary air

circulation, most important climatic types and the climate of Slovakia. Measuring of basic meteorological events will be done by students in the practical part of this course.

Exclusive courses ÚGE/FYG2/05Alternate courses ÚGE/MEK/04 or ÚGE/MEK/05

Title Basic ChemistryCode ÚCHV/ZAC2/03 Teacher Martinková Miroslava, Reháková

MáriaECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with basic knowledge of inorganic and organic

chemistry.Content General and inorganic chemistry, focusing on the periodic table of elements,

electronic structure of atoms, chemical bonding, chemical reactions; the relation between the structure and properties of gases, liquids, solids; the properties and concentrations of solutions; pH; non-metallic elements and their compounds; transition metal chemistry; coordination compounds; elements important for biological systems.Introduction to organic chemistry, focusing on alkanes, alkenes, alkynes; aromatic compounds; haloalkanes; alcohols and phenols; aldehydes; ketones; carboxylic acids and their derivatives; heterocyclic compounds; carbo-hydrates; lipids; nucleotides; peptides.

Exclusive courses ÚCHV/VCH/03 orÚCHV/VCHU/03Recommended reading

K. C. Timberlake : Organic and Biological Chemistry, Benjamin Cummings Publishing Company, Inc., San Francisco 2002

Title Planetary GeographyCode ÚGE/PLG/07 Teacher Vargová EvaECTS credits 3 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 1T/L method PracticalObjective To provide students with knowledge of astronomy and the solar system.Content Historical introduction to astronomy. Coordination systems in astronomy.

Time measuring and time zones. Keplerian rules. Origin and composition of the sun and the solar system. Titius Bode rule. Discovery of Neptune and Uranus. Seismology (near earthquake and intrusive seismic probe). Composition of Earth and the planets. Magnetic field of Earth and magnetosphere. Magnetic field of the planets.

Alternate courses ÚGE/PLG/04 orÚGE/PLG/05

Title Introduction to GeographyCode ÚGE/UGE1/07 Teacher Košťálik Ján

ECTS credits 3 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 1T/L method PracticalObjective To give students knowledge of the origin and growth of geography as a

science and of its relationship to other disciplines.Content The position of geography in the system of sciences, its detailed structure

and the characteristics of related disciplines. The history of geographical observations in different parts of the world with the focus on the most important scientists and time periods. The most important geographical institutions and institutions of related disciplines both in Slovakia and in other countries. Examination of literature, most importantly in domestic and foreign periodicals, is required.

Alternate courses ÚGE/UGE/03 or ÚGE/UGE/05 or ÚGE/UGE1/99 or ÚGE/UGE1/05 orÚGE/UGE2/01 or ÚGE/PRG1/99 or ÚGE/PRG1/02

Title Information and Communication TechnologiesCode ÚGE/IKT/07 Teacher Šveda DušanECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 1T/L method PracticalObjective To give students experience with pertinent information technology.Content Students should acquire skills with word, spreadsheet and database editor,

internet and presentation editor. Students will use these abilities and skills for activities in other courses. Content of the lectures comes from ECDL standard.

Alternate courses ÚBEV/IKT1/03 or ÚFV/IKT/03 or ÚCHV/IKT/03 or ÚINF/IKT1/03 orÚMV/IKT/03

Title Geological ExcursionCode ÚGE/GEX1/07 Teacher Bónová KatarínaECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/3dAssessment Assessment Semester 1T/L method PracticalObjective To give students practical, first hand knowledge of Slovakian geology.Content Visits to different geological formations and structures in the Carpathian

Mountains: flysh, thrust-outlier belt, and the central part of the Western Carpathian Mountains. Visiting of several mining localities in Slovakia to learn the processes involved.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/GEP2/07Alternate courses ÚGE/GEX1/99 or ÚGE/GEX1/01 or ÚGE/GEX1/05

Title GeomorphologyCode ÚGE/GEM2/05 Teacher Hochmuth ZdenkoECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Basic principles of structural, climatic and applied geomorphology. Close

examination of surface forms conditioned by internal and external forces.

Classification of surface forms; environmental use of the knowledge from geomorphology. Students will become acquainted, in the practical part of this course, with a construction of longitudinal and lateral profiles, block diagrams, description and characteristics of profiles in the field and the legend on a map.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/GEP2/07 or ÚGE/GEP2/05Alternate courses ÚGE/GEM1/99 or ÚGE/GEM2/01 or ÚGE/GEM2/02 or ÚGE/GEM2/03

Title Cartography and TopographyCode ÚGE/KAT1/05 Teacher Barabas DušanECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent The basics of cartography and topography. Different types of surface

mapping and their application in different disciplines related to geography. Practical map making assignments and measuring on maps which will be part of seminars. Use of selected cartography software.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/UGE1/07Alternate courses ÚGE/KAT1/99 or ÚGE/KAT1/01 or ÚGE/KAT1/03

Title Hydrology and HydrogeographyCode ÚGE/HYD/07 Teacher Barabas DušanECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Hydrology of running water, genesis and development of river basins,

measuring of water and its flow. Genesis and the main types of lakes, temperatures, water movements. Movements of sea and ocean waters, their chemical make-up, relief of the sea-floor. Underground waters, glaciers.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/MEK/07Exclusive courses ÚGE/FYG1/03Alternate courses ÚGE/HYD/04 or ÚGE/HYD/05

Title Thematic CartographyCode ÚGE/TEK2/07 Teacher Barabas DušanECTS credits 5 Hrs/week -/3Assessment Assessment Semester 2T/L method PracticalContent Students acquire principals of composition of thematic maps, graphic

methods for the visual representation of qualitative and quantitative data on maps, using colour in thematic maps for quality and quantity feature adjustment.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/UGE1/07

Title Statistical Methods in GeographyCode ÚGE/SMG1/07 Teacher Spišiak PeterECTS credits 3 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 2

T/L method PracticalContent Introduction to statistical methods in geography, mediums in statistics (table,

graph), expected values (mean, quantile, mode, median), measures of variability, measures of obliqueness, raggedness and concentration, dependence, regression, correlation analysis, theories of distribution, superior exploration. Practical use of statistical methods.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/UGE1/07Alternate courses ÚGE/SMG/04 or ÚGE/SMG1/05

Title Topographic PracticumCode ÚGE/TPR1/07 Teacher Barabas DušanECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/3dAssessment Assessment Semester 2T/L method PracticalContent Working with maps in the field. Comparison of landscape shapes and man-

made shapes with images on a map and identifying their location by measuring. Practical acquaintance with the use of the basic land survey apparatuses. Acquaintance with samples of basic measurement and cartographic works.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/KAT1/05Alternate courses ÚGE/TPR1/99 or ÚGE/TPR1/01

Title Soil Science and Soil GeographyCode ÚGE/PED/07 Teacher Barabas DušanECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent The phyiscal and chemical nature of soils. Systems of soil classification.

Distribution of different soil types in the world and in Slovakia; principles of the soil zonality.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/MEK/07, ÚGE/HYD/07Exclusive courses ÚGE/FYG1/03Alternate courses ÚGE/PED/04 or ÚGE/PED/05

Title Demogeography and DemographyCode ÚGE/GOB1/07 Teacher Spišiak Peter, Tomášiková

VladimíraECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent The development and distribution of population, natural changes of

population (natality, fertility, mortality, nuptiality, divorce, abortion) and spatial mobility. Use of basic group signs to characterise population structure.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/SMG1/07Exclusive courses ÚGE/OBY2/03Alternate courses ÚGE/GOB1/05

Title Geography of Industry and TransportCode ÚGE/GPD/07 Teacher Kulla Marián, Spišiak PeterECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Location theories, factors and methods of industry evaluation, territorial

industrial units, industrial parks and regionalisation of the industry in Slovakia. Geographic review of selected types of industry. Relationship between industry and environment. Trends in and problems of the development of the world and Slovak economy. Transformation processes of industry in the Slovak Republic.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/SMG1/07Exclusive courses ÚGE/HUG2a/05Alternate courses ÚGE/GPD/04

Title Geography of SettlementsCode ÚGE/GSI1/07 Teacher Spišiak Peter, Dická JanettaECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent The geographical and topographical location of settlements, their space

distribution and shape. Geography of towns (urban geography): criteria of town determination, their space structure and functional classification of town; geography of rural settlements.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/SMG1/07,ÚGE/GOB1/07Exclusive courses ÚGE/OBY2/03Alternate courses ÚGE/GSI1/05

Title Mapping Course for Physical GeographyCode ÚGE/MFG/07 Teacher Hochmuth ZdenkoECTS credits 3 Hrs/week -/3dAssessment Assessment Semester 3T/L method PracticalContent Basics of field work in physical geography.Prerequisite courses ÚGE/PED/07

Title BiogeographyCode ÚGE/BIG/07 Teacher Barabas DušanECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent The biosphere as a part of the physical-geographic sphere. The function and

position of organisms on the surface, as well as the main regularities of their distribution throughout the world. Phytogeographical and zoogeographical regions of the world and Slovakia. The practical part will acquaint students with the soil profiles and important kinds of plants in Slovakia.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/PED/07

Exclusive courses ÚGE/FYG2/05Alternate courses ÚGE/BIG/04 or ÚGE/BIG/05

Title Geography of Tourist and Foreign TradeCode ÚGE/GCZ/07 Teacher Kulla Marián, Spišiak PeterECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Geography of tourism, its theoretical and methodological background.

Potential of Slovakia for the development of tourism and its location conditions. Settlement types and regionalisation in Slovakia from the point of development of tourism. Relationship of the tourist regions in Slovakia. Foreign tourism. Domestic and foreign commerce and its significance. Regularities of the commodity movement. Basic methods of transportation studies. Use of geographic methods in the geography of transportation. Other services in Slovakia.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/GSI1/07Exclusive courses ÚGE/HUG/07

Title Geography of AgricultureCode ÚGE/GPL/04 Teacher Spišiak PeterECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Location theories, factors and methods of agriculture evaluation.

Development of agriculture and regularities of distribution of agricultural lands. Basic sector structure of agriculture. The agricultural countries and their typology. Agriculture in urban and rural country. Map of Earth’s exploitation. Price of land. Geography of forests and its typology. Relationship of agriculture and environment.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/PED/07 or ÚGE/SMG1/07Exclusive courses ÚGE/HUG2a/05

Title Geographic Information SystemsCode ÚGE/GIS/07 Teacher Tomášiková Vladimíra, Barabas

DušanECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 1/2Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Introduction to GIS and geoinformation problems, basics of geoinformatics,

principals of vector and raster representation, surfaces: digital terrain models, organisation of work in projects, system implementation, data sources and data input, data structuring, data analysing, digital image processing, process of layout creation, data quality and metadata, standardising digital data and legislation, GIS software products (ArcGIS and relevant ESRI products, Geomedia and Intergraph products, MapInfo, Topol), applications to the geography field in Slovakia, development trends in GIS and geoinformation field.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/KAT1/05Alternate courses ÚGE/GIS/05 or ÚGE/GIS/04

Recommended reading

Maguire, D. J., Goodchild, M.F. Geographical Information Systems, Longman scientific & technical, USA 1991

Title Methods of Geographical ResearchCode ÚGE/MET/05 Teacher Košťálik JánECTS credits 3 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 4T/L method PracticalContent Use of the principles of geomorphology, hydrology, pedology to examine a

variety of samples of rocks, soils and sediments. Micromorphological, mechanical, chemical (pH, terramare, CaCO3) and graphic evaluations of results and their use in separate disciplines.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/GEM2/05

Title Physical Geography ExcursionCode ÚGE/EXFG1/07 Teacher Hochmuth ZdenkoECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/6dAssessment Assessment Semester 4T/L method PracticalContent Basic types of relief: structural relief on flysh, sedimentary rocks and

intrusive rocks, karst relief, eolian relief, glacial relief, anthropogenic relief, and planation surface.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/MFG/07,ÚGE/BIG/07Alternate courses ÚGE/TER1/99 orÚGE/TER1/03 orÚGE/TFG/98

Title Human Geography II (nonproductive sphere)Code ÚGE/HUG/03 Teacher Kulla Marián, Spišiak PeterECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 3/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Geography of tourism, its theoretical and methodological background.

Potential of Slovakia for the development of tourism and its location conditions. Settlement types and regionalisation in Slovakia from the point of development of tourism. Relationship of the tourist regions in Slovakia. Foreign tourism. Domestic and foreign commerce and its significance. Regularities of the commodity movement. Basic methods of transportation studies. Use of geographic methods in the geography of transportation. Other services in Slovakia.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/GPL/04Exclusive courses ÚGE/HUG/07Alternate courses ÚGE/HUG2b/01 or ÚGE/HUG1b/99

Title Regional Geography of Europe (physical geography)Code ÚGE/EUG/05 Teacher Hochmuth Zdenko, Fogaš AntonECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, Practical

Content Geological structure of Europe: Paleoeurope, Mezoeurope, Neoeurope. Basic classification of European surfaces: flats, mountains. Climatic regions in Europe. Sea coast, hydrology of running water and lakes, map of soils in Europe. Biogeography of Europe: development of vegetation and fauna, present vegetation and zoogeographic conditions. Types present in Slovakia.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/BIG/07Exclusive courses ÚGE/EUS1/07

Title Bachelor WorkCode ÚGE/ZBOa/04 Teacher Hochmuth Zdenko, Košťálik Ján,

Spišiak Peter, Barabas DušanECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/-Assessment Recognition Semester 5T/L methodContent The aim of the thesis; problems of thesis writing; already achieved results in

the relevant area. Study of cartographic and statistical papers, consulting institutions which own archive documents and papers, basic reconnaissance of terrain (terrain work), building the conception of the thesis, search for and study of relevant literature.

Title Mapping Course for Human GeographyCode ÚGE/MHG1/07 Teacher Spišiak PeterECTS credits 3 Hrs/week -/4dAssessment Assessment Semester 5T/L method PracticalContent Obtaining data concerning the material and technical base of settlements,

examiningstatistical materials about population composition, making an evaluation of settlement patterns, making a statistical evaluation of the basic material equipment of chosen households and flats, and creating a cartographic representation of the data.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/GCZ/07Alternate courses ÚGE/MHG1/99 or ÚGE/MHG1/03

Title GeoecologyCode ÚGE/GEE2/04 Teacher Barabas DušanECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Development of the discipline. Different dimensions of the physical:

geographic complexes, regularities of space differentiation of the physical– geographic sphere, evolution, and dynamics of physical–geographic complexes.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/BIG/07Exclusive courses ÚGE/GEOK/05,ÚGE/GEOP/05Alternate courses ÚGE/GEE1/03 or ÚGE/KRE/99 or ÚGE/GEE1/99 or ÚGE/KRE1/00 or

ÚGE/KRE1/03

Title Remote Sensing

Code ÚGE/DPZ/07 Teacher Barabas DušanECTS credits 4 Hrs/week -/3Assessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method PracticalContent Electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic spectrum, radiometric quantities.

Radiation sources; interaction with the surroundings; reflection; impact of the atmosphere: diffusion and absorption;Landscape objects and their identification and appreciation; Data acquisition: basic division, cameras, film material, types of aerial images, radiometer, mechanical scanner, electronic scanner, carriers, satellites and their instrumentation; principals of remote sensing; data post-processing; interpretation of satellite and aerial images; remote sensing applications.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/KAT1/05,ÚGE/GIS/07Alternate courses ÚGE/DPZ1/99Recommended reading

Lillesand, T. M., Kiefer, R. W., 2002: Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation., New York, John Wiley&Sons, x, 724 s.

Title Bachelor WorkCode ÚGE/ZBOb/04 Teacher Hochmuth Zdenko, Košťálik Ján,

Spišiak Peter, Barabas DušanECTS credits 6 Hrs/week -/-Assessment Recognition Semester 6T/L methodContent Terrain research, collecting, sorting, and basic processing of the papers, the

first cartographic (graphic and statistical) layouts, summarisation of the results from terrain work, processing the statistical papers to final form, processing the writing part of the thesis, concluding the literature list, printing the graphic layouts and conclusion of the thesis.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/ZBOa/04

Title Human Geography of the Slovak RepublicCode ÚGE/HGS/07 Teacher Kandráčová Viktória, Spišiak PeterECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Conditions of settlements in Slovakia from the historical perspective.

National, linguistic and religious structure. Types of urban and rural settlements. Administrative division of Slovakia and its historical development. Economic structure: mining and manufacturing, agriculture, industry, transportation, education and tourism of Slovakia.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/FGS/07Exclusive courses ÚGE/GSR2/05Alternate courses ÚGE/HGS/04

Title Regional Geography of Europe (human geography)Code ÚGE/EUG2/07 Teacher Hochmuth Zdenko, Fogaš AntonECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1

Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Development of European population: paleolithic, neolithic, creation of the

first state organisations. National and linguistic development of European population and its present distribution. Development of the state organisations in the Middle Ages and their present conditions. Characteristics of economy of different parts of Europe: Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Western Europe, post-communist countries of Central Europe, Russia.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/EUG/05Exclusive courses ÚGE/EUG1/05

Title Bachelor Work SeminarCode ÚGE/SBP2/07 Teacher Hochmuth Zdenko, Spišiak PeterECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method PracticalContent Examining basic literature for the bachelor thesis. Student review of

structure, product, and methods of elaborating the diploma thesis.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/SBP1/07

Title Human Geography ExcursionCode ÚGE/EXHG1/07 Teacher Spišiak PeterECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/6dAssessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method PracticalContent Excursion to learn about human-geography features and their spatial

distribution in Slovakia through field examination of typical settlement formations, territories with atypical national structure, factories and farms.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/MHG1/07, ÚGE/HGS/07Alternate courses ÚGE/EGS1/99


Title Computer Cartography Using CorelCode ÚGE/PTM1/07 Teacher Hochmuth ZdenkoECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 3T/L method PracticalContent Tools for thematic map creation, vectorisation, and transformation: Corel

Draw v.11 and Corel Photo Paint v.11.Prerequisite courses ÚGE/KAT1/05Recommended reading

Corel manual

Title Geography of MicroregionCode ÚGE/GMR/07 Teacher Hochmuth Zdenko, Kandráčová

Viktória, Spišiak PeterECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Analytical and synthetic methods of the geographical study of small regions

(settlement, country, native place, locality, community), involving physical geography (geology, geomorphology, geography of climate, hydrogeography, geography of soil, biogeography) and human geography (population geography, geography of settlements, rural geography, geography of industry, transport geography, geography of services and tourism, etc.). The elaboration of a complex geographical study of an arbitrary small region.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/GSI1/07Exclusive courses ÚGE/RPR/05

Title Political Geography and GeopoliticsCode ÚGE/POL/07 Teacher Fogaš AntonECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Political geography, geopolitics, principal schools in geopolitics and in

political geographies, political structures, states, political maps of the world, problems of the peoples in the world, international organisations, conflicts in the regions of the world.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/EUG1/05 orÚGE/EUG/05Alternate courses ÚGE/POG/01 or ÚGE/POL/03 or ÚGE/POL1/99

Title Geography of the Czech RepublicCode ÚGE/GCR/07 Teacher Košťálik JánECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Geological structure of the Czech republic: main geological entities

according to the newest classifications. Geomorphological structure and relief evolution; geomorphological entities and units. Climate; hydrography: underground waters and mineral waters. Soils, phytogeography and zoogeography, present countryside types. Conditions of settlement from an historical perspective. National, linguistic and religious structure. Types of urban and rural settlements. Administrative divisions and their historical development. Economic structure: mining and manufacturing, agriculture, industry, transportation, education and tourism.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/EUG1/05 or ÚGE/EUG/05

Title Basis of Regional Geography of the WorldCode ÚGE/ZRGS/07 Teacher Hochmuth Zdenko, Fogaš AntonECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 6

T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Continents: coasts, location, area. Geological evolution and structure;

geomorphological units; climatic, hydrogeographical, soil and biogeographical conditions in single continents. Population, settlements and their development. Industry, agriculture, transport, tourism and foreign trade in single world regions. Present characteristics of world economic regions.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/EUG/05Exclusive courses ÚGE/AFAU/05 or ÚGE/AZG1/05 or ÚGE/AMG/05

Elective courses

Title Basis of Karstology and SpeleologyCode ÚGE/KAR/05 Teacher Hochmuth ZdenkoECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 3T/L method PracticalContent Examination of karst as a distinctive landform arising from rock solubility

and porosity. Hydrological and chemical process of karst formation. Karst rocks and minerals, karst landforms, paleokarst, relic karst, pseudokarst, thermokarst. Introduction to speleology, classifying cave systems, cave interior deposits, karst exploitation and management.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/GEM2/05Alternate courses ÚGE/KAR1/99 orÚGE/KAR2/01 orÚGE/KAR/03Recommended reading

Ford D., Wiliams P.: Karst geomorphology and hydrology, Chapman & Hall, 1989Jakál, J., 1994: Karst geomorfology of Slovakia. Geographica Slovaca, 4/1993 SAV Bratislava.

Title Landscape of the QuarternaryCode ÚGE/KVA/05 Teacher Košťálik JánECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 3T/L method PracticalContent Creation of main land types through climatic changes leading to

morphogenic processes. The alternation of cold periods (glacial) and hot periods (interglacial) leading to the changing of climatic zones, botanical and zoological forms. The appearance of paleolithic man, including evolution of the social forms as shown by archaeological artefacts.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/VGS/04 orÚGE/GEP2/07

Title Selected Chapters on Meteorology and ClimatologyCode ÚGE/VYM2/03 Teacher Hochmuth ZdenkoECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 4T/L method PracticalContent The condition of the atmosphere at a given time. Individual layers and zones

and their characteristics. Weather elements: temperature, atmospheric heating, measurement of temperature, moisture, clouds, precipitation. Climatic influences, controls and classifications.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/FYG2/05 or ÚGE/MEK/07Alternate courses ÚGE/VYM2/01 or ÚGE/VYM1/99

Title Students Scientific Conference in GeographyCode ÚGE/SVG/04 Teacher Hochmuth Zdenko, Košťálik Ján,

Spišiak PeterECTS credits 4 Hrs/week -/-Assessment Assessment Semester 4T/L methodObjective Gaining experience with working with a scientific problem and its

interpretation and with preparing a presentation for a scientific meeting. Teaching students to use experimentation and field mapping and how to obtain and process information.

Content Examination of a simple scientific problem in one of the geographic disciplines from a list of suggested topics or developed by the student consultation with his supervisor.

Title Digital Terrain ModelCode ÚGE/DGMR/07 Teacher Barabas DušanECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 5T/L method PracticalContent Basic theory and purpose of digital terrain modelling and the process of

generation of digital terrain models (DTM). The principles of the methods for acquiring and processing digital elevation. Practical sessions involving approaches of DTM generation and morphometric analysis of terrain derived from various data types. Some applications of DTMs: viewshed analysis, multi-criteria analysis, cost-surface analysis, 3D visualisation.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/GIS/07 or ÚGE/GEM2/05Recommended reading

Li, Z., Zhu, Q., Gold, C. (2005). Digital terrain modeling: Principles and Methodology. London: CRC Press. 350 s.Cebecauer, T., Hofierka, J., Šúri, M. (2002): Processing digital terrain models by regularised spline with tension: tuning interpolation parameters for different input rasters. In: Proceedings of the Open Source GIS – GRASS users conference 2002 – Trento, Italy, 11-12 September 2002. Burrough, P. A. and McDonnell, R. A. (1998). Principles of Geographical InformationSystems. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Title Rural GeographyCode ÚGE/RUR/05 Teacher Spišiak PeterECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 5T/L method PracticalContent Theory, methodology, development, present state of the discipline. Rural

geography within the overall frame of geography: relative science disciplines; rural themes in geography: regional, settlement, economic; rural as an object of research: rural settlement, rural vis-a-vis urban (suburban), second housing, etc.; quality of life in the country; rural communities; margins of rural regions; rural structures in Slovakia to 1989 and after 1989;

transition of rural space in a selected country of central Europe; rural areas of the world.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/VGS/04 or ÚGE/HUG2a/05 or ÚGE/GPL/04

Title Bachelor Work SeminarCode ÚGE/SBP1/07 Teacher Hochmuth Zdenko, Spišiak PeterECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 5T/L method PracticalContent Forcus on a problem related to the subject of bachelor thesis. Acquaintance

with the basic literature of the problem. Student’s review of structure, result and stage of elaborating of diploma thesis.

Title Geography of the CityCode ÚGE/GME/05 Teacher Spišiak PeterECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method PracticalContent Introduction to geography of the city; object, content, definition of the city;

evolution, growth, territorial classification of the city; spatial intra-urban structure; practical use of geography of the city in exploration.

Prerequisite courses ÚGE/OBY2/03 or ÚGE/GSI1/07

Study programme Mathematics(Full-time bachelor)


Compulsory courses ÚMV/JMA1a/03 Mathematical Analysis 9 4/3 Examination 1/1 ÚMV/LAGa/03 Linear Algebra and Geometry 10 4/3 Examination 1/1 ÚINF/PAZ1a/03 Programming, Algorithms and

Complexity9 3/4 Examination 1/1

ÚMV/RSM/03 Repetition of Secondary Mathematics


ÚINF/PAZ1b/03 Programming, Algorithms and Complexity


ÚMV/JMA1b/03 Mathematical Analysis 8 4/2 Examination 1/2 ÚMV/LAGb/03 Linear Algebra and Geometry 7 3/2 Examination 1/2 ÚMV/IKT/03 Information and

Communication Technologies2 -/2 Assessment 1/2

ÚMV/DMM1a/04 Discrete Mathematics 6 2/2 Examination 1/2 ÚMV/MMA1a/01 Mathematical Analysis 8 4/2 Examination 2/3 ÚMV/JALa/03 Algebra 4 2/1 Examination 2/3 ÚMV/JGEOa/03 Geometry 8 4/2 Examination 2/3 ÚMV/DMM1b/03 Discrete Mathematics 6 3/1 Examination 2/3 ÚMV/TVY1/03 Theory of Computability 4 2/1 Examination 2/3 ÚMV/MMA1b/01 Mathematical Analysis 8 4/2 Examination 2/4 ÚMV/JALb/03 Algebra 8 4/2 Examination 2/4 ÚINF/AFJ1a/03 Automata and Formal

Languages4 2/1 Examination 2/4

ÚMV/DFR1/99 Differential Equations 5 3/1 Examination 3/5 ÚMV/LTM/03 Logics and Set Theory 8 4/2 Examination 3/5 ÚMV/LCO1/03 Linear and Integer

programming5 3/1 Examination 3/5

ÚINF/AFJ1b/00 Automata and Formal Languages


ÚMV/PST1a/04 Probability and Statistics 5 3/1 Examination 3/6 ÚMV/SZP1a/03 Bachelor Thesis Seminar 2 -/2 Recognition 3/5 ÚMV/ZPa/03 Bachelor Thesis 2 -/- Recognition 3/5 ÚMV/SZP1b/03 Bachelor Thesis Seminar 4 -/3 Recognition 3/6 ÚMV/ZPb/03 Bachelor Thesis 6 -/- Recognition 3/6


ÚMV/KPR1/06 Complex Analysis 5 3/1 Examination 2/4 ÚMV/JGEOb/06 Geometry 5 3/1 Examination 2/4 ÚINF/PSO1/01 Presentation Software 3 1/2 Examination 3/5 ÚMV/KPO1/00 Convex Programming 5 3/1 Examination 3/6

ÚMV/NM1/04 Numerical Mathematics 9 4/3 Examination 3/6 ÚMV/ZUC1/99 Principles of Bookkeeping 4 2/2 Assessment 3/6 ÚINF/TYS1/06 Typographical Systems 2 -/2 Assessment 3/6 ÚINF/LOP1/04 Logical Programming 5 2/2 Examination 3/6 ÚMV/MIE1/05 Microeconomics 3 2/1 Assessment 3/6ÚMV/SVK/04 Student Scientific Conference 4 -/- Assessment 2/4, 3/6

Course units

Compulsory courses

Title Mathematical AnalysisCode ÚMV/JMA1a/03 Teacher Kulcsár ŠtefanECTS credits 9 Hrs/week 4/3Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Real numbers, infinite sequences, real functions and their limits, continuous

functions, differential calculus.

Title Linear Algebra and GeometryCode ÚMV/LAGa/03 Teacher Studenovská DanicaECTS credits 10 Hrs/week 4/3Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To give students basic knowledge from number theory concerning

divisibility and from linear algebra concerning systems of linear equations. To be able to apply it in concrete exercises.

Content Divisibility in Z fields. Systems of linear equations. Gauss elimination. Maps; permutations. Computing with matrices. Determinants; Cramer rule.

Recommended reading

T.S Blyth, E.F. Robertson: Basic linear algebra, Springer Verlag, 2001K. Jänich: Linear algebra, Springer Verlag, 1991

Title Programming, Algorithms and ComplexityCode ÚINF/PAZ1a/03 Teacher Andrejková GabrielaECTS credits 9 Hrs/week 3/4Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students basic knowledge about the principles of programming

and to teach them skills involved in program testing. Content Algorithmic problem and its solution. Examples of concrete algorithms,

formal languages for writing of algorithms. Correctness and testing of algorithms. Properties of programming languages of a higher category. Basic data and statement structure of programming language PASCAL. Procedures, functions, units of functions and procedures. Dynamic data structures, pointers. Complexity of algorithms. Data structures: stack, queue, table.

Exclusive courses ÚINF/PRG1a/03Alternate courses ÚINF/PRA1a/02 or ÚINF/PAZU/04

Recommended reading

J. Jinoch et al: Programming language PASCAL, SNTL, Praha, 1985N. Wirth: Algorithms+Data Structures=Programs, Prentice-Hall, 1976P. Toepfer: Algorithms and programming technologies, Prometheus, Praha, 1995

Title Repetition of Secondary MathematicsCode ÚMV/RSM/03 TeacherECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 1T/L method PracticalObjective To clarify problematic sections of secondary mathematics using interesting

tasks.Content Simplification of algebraic expressions. Real numbers; absolute value of real

numbers; equations and inequalities. Irrational equations and inequalities. Concept of function. Linear and quadratic function; equations and inequalities. Exponential and logarithmic function; equations and inequalities. Goniometric functions; equations and inequalities. Complex numbers.

Title Programming, Algorithms and ComplexityCode ÚINF/PAZ1b/03 Teacher Andrejková GabrielaECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 2/4Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Historical evolution of programming culminating in object-oriented

principles. The object-oriented programming paradigm. Classes, objects, inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation. Programming Language Object Pascal. Basic classes in Delphi: TForm, TScreen, TApplication and their use in applications. Multiple document interface. Graphic device interface.


T. Bisinger: Learn programming in Delphi, Grada , Praha, 1998 (in Czech).R. Pecinovský, M. Virius: Object-oriented programming. I. and II., Grada, Praha, 1997T. Holan: Delphi in examples, Matfyzpress, Praha, 1999

Title Mathematical AnalysisCode ÚMV/JMA1b/03 Teacher Kulcsár ŠtefanECTS credits 8 Hrs/week 4/2Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Indefinite integrals, definite integrals, improper integrals.Prerequisite courses ÚMV/JMA1a/03

Title Linear Algebra and GeometryCode ÚMV/LAGb/03 Teacher Ivančo JaroslavECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, Practical

Objective To obtain a deeper knowledge of vector spaces, systems of linear equations and affine spaces.

Content Vector spaces; subspaces. A basis, a dimension and a characterisation of n-dimensional vector spaces. The rank of a matrix; the Frobenius theorem. Homogeneous systems of linear equations, a fundamental solution set. Affine spaces, subspaces and their positions. Convex sets; convex polyhedrons.

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/LAGa/03Recommended reading

A. F. Beardon: Algebra and geometry, Cambridge University Press, 2005 G. Birkhoff, S. Mac Lane: A survey of Modern Algebra, New York 1965

Title Information and Communication TechnologiesCode ÚMV/IKT/03 Teacher Engel Radovan, Lukáč Stanislav,

Horňák MirkoECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 2T/L method PracticalObjective Standardise the informatics literacy of the student and raise the student’s

level of knowledge to that of ECDL standards.Content Word processors, spreadsheets, database system used for data storage,

presentations, services of information networks, presentation of own combined project.

Exclusive courses ÚBEV/UIKT/03 orÚCHV/UIKT/03 orÚFV/UIKT/03 orÚGE/UIKT/03 orÚINF/AFJ1a/00 orÚMV/UIKT/03

Alternate courses ÚBEV/IKT1/03 orÚCHV/IKT/03 orÚFV/IKT/03 orÚGE/IKT/03 orÚINF/IKT1/03

Title Discrete MathematicsCode ÚMV/DMM1a/04 Teacher Horňák MirkoECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To acquaint students with the basic ideas of combinatorics and graph theory.

To help students with attaining the ability to solve typical problems of the above mathematical disciplines.

Content Basic combinatorial methods. Bounds on binomial coefficients and factorials. Inclusion and Exclusion Principle. Basic notions of graph theory. Graphical sequences. Eulerian graphs. Hamiltonian graphs.

Recommended reading

J. Matoušek and J. Nešetřil, Invitation to Discrete Mathematics, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998

Title Mathematical AnalysisCode ÚMV/MMA1a/01 Teacher Doboš JozefECTS credits 8 Hrs/week 4/2Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Infinite series, sequences and series of functions, power series, Taylor series,

metric spaces, real functions of several variables (limits, continuity, differentiation, extremes).

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/JMA1b/03 orÚMV/MA1b/03

Title AlgebraCode ÚMV/JALa/03 Teacher Lihová JuditaECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Ring, integral domain. Integral domain of polynomials over a field.

Decomposition into irreducible factors. Roots of polynomials. Linear mappings and their matrices. Operations with linear mappings, matrices of sums and compositions of linear mappings. Regular linear transformations, regular matrices.

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/LAGb/03Alternate courses ÚMV/ALM1c/01Recommended reading

S.Mac Lane, G.Birkhoff: Algebra, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1964N.Jacobson: Lectures in Abstract Algebra I,II, Princeton, 1964

Title GeometryCode ÚMV/JGEOa/03 Teacher Ivančo JaroslavECTS credits 8 Hrs/week 4/2Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To give students deeper knowledge of Euclidean spaces and basic geometric

transformations. Content Euclidean spaces; the distance and angle of subspaces. The measure of angle

and the volume of a convex polyhedron. Geometry of the triangle. Curves and surfaces of second order. Affine transformations. Isometric transformations and similitudes.

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/LAGb/03Recommended reading

A. F. Beardon: Algebra and geometry, Cambridge University Press, 2005

Title Discrete MathematicsCode ÚMV/DMM1b/03 Teacher Jendroľ StanislavECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 3/1Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To allows students to master the fundamental methods of graph theory and

to be able to show possible applications of graph theoryContent Motivations. Trees. Connectivity. Independence and covering. Colourings.

Introduction to topological graph theory. Introduction to extremal graph theory. Introduction to Ramsey theory. Directed graphs. Applications of graphs. Graphs algorithms.

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/DM1a/03 orÚMV/KOI/03ÚMV/DMM1a/04Recommended reading

A. Bondy and U.S.R. Murty: Graph theory with applications, MacMillan, London, 1976

M.N.S. Swamy and K. Thulasiraman: Graphs, Networks and Algorithms. Willey Interscience Publ., New York 1981R. Diestel: Graph Theory, Springer-Verlag, New York, Inc. 1997

Title Theory of ComputabilityCode ÚMV/TVY1/03 Teacher Bukovský LevECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Turing machine as a formalisation of the notion of an algorithm. Partial

recursive functions. Kleene’s normal form theorem. The equivalences of the notion of a function calculable by a Turing machine, partial recursive and calculable by a Pascal program. Algorithmical undecidability of the halting problem of a Turing machine and Pascal program. Elementary properties of recursively enumerable sets. Basic invariant theory of computability: universal system of programs, Rice’s theorem, Roger's isomorphism theorem. Dynamic measure of complexity, examples and elementary properties.

Recommended reading

M. Machtey and P. Young, An Introduction to the General Theory of Algorithms, North--Holland, Amsterdam 1978.D. S. Bridges, Computability, A Mathematical Sketch book, Springer--Verlag 1994

Title Mathematical AnalysisCode ÚMV/MMA1b/01 Teacher Ploščica MiroslavECTS credits 8 Hrs/week 4/2Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Rings of sets, sigma-algebras, measure, Lebesgue measure, measurable sets,

measurable functions, the Lebesgue integral and its relation to the Riemann integral, calculations of the Lebesgue integral, applications in geometry and physics.

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/MMA1a/01Automatic prerequisite courses

ÚMV/MMA1a/01

Title AlgebraCode ÚMV/JALb/03 Teacher Lihová JuditaECTS credits 8 Hrs/week 4/2Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Similar matrices. Invariant subspaces, characteristic vectors and

characteristic values of linear transformations. Cubic equations. Polynomials in n-indeterminates; symmetric polynomials. Field extensions; algebraic elements. Finite and algebraic extensions. Constructions with straightedge and compass. Algebraic numbers. Groups; subgroups. Cyclic groups. Quotient groups; isomorphism theorems.

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/JALa/03Recommended S.Mac Lane, G.Birkhoff: Algebra, The Macmillan Company, New York,

reading 1964N.Jacobson: Lectures in Abstract Algebra II,III, Princeton, 1964J.-P.Escofier: Galois Theory, Springer-Verlag, New York, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2001 M.Hall: The Theory of Groups, New York, 1959L.Fuchs: Abelian groups, Akadémiai Kiadó,Budapest, 1966

Title Automata and Formal LanguagesCode ÚINF/AFJ1a/03 Teacher Geffert ViliamECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students a theoretical background for studying computer science

in general by giving them the necessary knowledge in theory of automata.Content Chomsky hierarchy of grammars and languages. Finite-state transducers and

mapping; construction of a reduced automaton. Finite-state acceptors, nondeterministic acceptors, regular expressions. Closure properties of regular languages. Context-free grammars, Chomsky and Greibach normal forms. Pushdown automata pumping lemma. Closure properties of context-free languages.

Recommended reading

J.E.Hopcroft and J.D.Ullman. Formal languages and their relation to automata. Addison-Wesley. (Slovak translation published by ALFA, Bratislava, 1978)M.Chytil. Automata and grammars. SNTL, 1984. (In Czech).J.van Leeuwen (ed.): Handbook of theoretical computer science. North-Holland, 1990

Title Differential EquationsCode ÚMV/DFR1/99 Teacher Ohriska JánECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 3/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Introduction to the theory of ordinary differential equations: existence and

uniqueness of solutions, properties of solutions of linear differential equations of n-th order and of linear differential systems, linear differential equations and systems of linear differential equations with constant coefficients.

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/MMA1a/01Exclusive courses ÚMV/DFR2/05

Title Logics and Set TheoryCode ÚMV/LTM/03 Teacher Bukovský LevECTS credits 8 Hrs/week 4/2Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Set as a mathematical formulisation of an infinity. Properties of the set of

reals. Mathematical induction. Relations and mappings. Finite and countable sets. Cardinality of continuum. Elementary cardinal arithmetics. Sentential calculus, an axiomatisation. Completeness theorem. Methods of proofs.

Language of predicate calculus and examples. Axiomatisations of predicate calculus and the notion of a proof. Methods of proofs in predicate calculus. Analysis of proofs.

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/MMA1a/01 orÚMV/MMA2a/01Recommended reading

E. Mendelson, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, van Nostrand 1964

Title Linear and Integer ProgrammingCode ÚMV/LCO1/03 Teacher Cechlárová Katarína, Semanišin

GabrielECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 3/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Formulation of linear and integer programs. Graphic solution. Simplex

method, its variants and finiteness. Duality and its economic interpretation. Sensitivity analysis and parametric programming. Algorithms for integer programming.

Prerequisite courses (ÚMV/LAGb/03 orÚMV/ALG1b/03 orÚMV/ILAG/06),(ÚMV/MA1b/03 orÚMV/JMA1b/03 orÚMV/MAI1b/07)

Exclusive courses ÚMV/LOP1/99 orÚMV/LO/99 orÚMV/LO1/99 orÚMV/CPR1/99 orÚMV/CPR/99

Alternate courses ÚMV/LOP1/99,ÚMV/CPR1/99Recommended reading Ch. Papadimitriou – K. Steiglitz: Combinatorial Optimisation: Algorithms

and Complexity, 1984R.J. Vanderbei, Linear Programming:Foundations and Extentions (Kluwer 2001), electronic version: http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/LPbook/

Title Automata and Formal LanguagesCode ÚINF/AFJ1b/00 Teacher Geffert ViliamECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students the theoretical background for studying computer

science in general by giving them the necessary knowledge in theory of automata.

Content Greibach normal structure of contextfree grammars. Deterministic pushdown automata. Context-sensitive grammars and linearly-bounded Turing machines. Deterministic linearly-bounded Turing machines. Space bounded machines. Phrase-structure grammars and Turing machines. Post correspondence problem. Undecidable problems in the theory of formal languages.

Alternate courses ÚINF/FO1/04Automatic rerequisite courses

ÚINF/AFJ1a/03

Recommended reading

J.E.Hopcroft and J.D.Ullman. Formal languages and their relation to automata. Addison-Wesley. (Slovak translation published by ALFA, Bratislava, 1978)M.Chytil. Automata and grammars. SNTL, 1984. (In Czech).J.van Leeuwen (ed.): Handbook of theoretical computer science. North-

Holland, 1990

Title Probability and StatisticsCode ÚMV/PST1a/04 Teacher Skřivánková ValériaECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 3/1Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Probability space, properties of probability. Conditional probability and

independence. Random variables, their distributions and characteristics. Distribution, quantile and characteristic functions, their properties. Special types of distributions. Central limit theorem. Descriptive statistics.

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/MMA1b/01Recommended reading

Pfeiffer P.E.:Probability for applications, Springer,New York,1990.Viniotis Y.: Probability and random processes, McGraw-Hill, Singapure, 1998.


Title Complex AnalysisCode ÚMV/KPR1/06 Teacher Mihalíková BoženaECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 3/1Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To communicate basic knowledge of the theory of complex-valued function.Content Sequences and series of complex numbers. Complex-valued functions,

limits, continuity, derivative. Integral of complex-valued functions; Cauchy’s integral theorem. Sequences and series of complex-valued functions, power series, Taylor's series, Laurent's series. Residue of complex-valued function; residue theorem. Application of theory of complex-valued functions for integration of real functions.

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/MMA1a/01 or ÚMV/MMA2a/01Alternate courses ÚMV/KPR1/03

Title GeometryCode ÚMV/JGEOb/06 Teacher Ivančo JaroslavECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 3/1Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To give students deeper knowledge of curves and surfaces in Euclidean

spaces. Content Plane curves and space curves. The tangent line; the osculating plane. The

curvature and torsion of a curve; the Frenet formulas. The theory of surfaces; fundamental forms.

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/JGEOa/03,ÚMV/JMA1b/03Alternate courses ÚMV/GEO1b/03 or ÚMV/JGEOb/03Recommended reading

Ch. Hsiung: A first course in differential geometry, Cambridge 1997 W. Kuhnel: Differential Geometry curves-surfaces-manifolds, AMS 2002

Title Convex Programming

Code ÚMV/KPO1/00 Teacher Cechlárová KatarínaECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 3/1Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To familiarise students with the theoretical basis and the most important

methods of nonlinear programmingContent Practical problems leading to a nonlinear program. Convex sets and their

properties. Convex functions: properties and criteria of convexity. Necessary and sufficient conditions of optimality. Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions. Quadratic programming.

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/ALG1d/00,ÚMV/MA1c/99 or ÚMV/MA1b/01Alternate courses ÚMV/KPO1/99Recommended reading

Bazaraa, Sherali, Shetty: Nonlinear programming, Wiley, New York 1993

Title Numerical MathematicsCode ÚMV/NM1/04 Teacher Horňák MirkoECTS credits 9 Hrs/week 4/3Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To acquaint students with basic numerical methods, with conditions of their

use and with errors accompanying approximations by numerical methods. To lead the students to test their own computer programs corresponding to some numerical methods.

Content Interpolation (ordinary, generalised). Numerical differentiation. Numerical integration (rules, errors). Gaussian quadrature. Interval-halving method. Regula falsi method. Newton's method. Method of successive iterations. Sturm's theorem. Bernoulli's method. Matrix inversion. LU-decomposition. Iterative methods for solving systems of linear equations. Least squares method. Approximating eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix via Jacobi's method.

Exclusive courses ÚMV/NM1/03Alternate courses ÚMV/NM1/03Recommended reading

A. Ralston, A First Course in Numerical Analysis, McGraw-Hill, New York 1965A. Björck and G. Dahlquist, Numerical Methods, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs 1974; reprint Dover Publications, Mineola 2003

Title Presentation SoftwareCode ÚINF/PSO1/01 Teacher Studenovský Jozef, Repický

MiroslavECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 1/2Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide the students with basic MS PowerPoint skills as well as the

basics of presentation construction.Content Principles of presentation construction. MS PowerPoint and its uses.

Wizards and templates: using them judiciously. Graphics, animation, sound, etc. Using data from other applications (Word outlines, Excel worksheets, etc.). Control elements and their use. Dissemination of presentations.

Exclusive courses ÚINF/PSV1/01Alternate courses ÚINF/PSO1/00Recommended reading

MS PowerPoint documentationSample presentations to be provided

Title Logical ProgrammingCode ÚINF/LOP1/04 Teacher Repický MiroslavECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To teach students the bases of declarative programming (as a complementary

method to procedural programming) and the basic methods of implementation of logic programming languages.

Content Facts and rules in Prolog. Unification of terms (Robinson's unification algorithm). Recursion and backtrack in Prolog. Computational step and computational tree. Classification of terms. Lists. Functors and operators in composed terms. Predicates for input and output. Dynamic database. Cycles (repeat-fail, for). Predicates related to backtrack. Cut. Predicates evaluating of arithmetic expressions.

Title MicroeconomicsCode ÚMV/MIE1/05 Teacher Cechlárová KatarínaECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To teach students the basic principles of microeconomics to the degree that

they are able to apply them in practical situations, newspapers articles, etc.Content Economics and economy. Supply and demand. Consumer Theory. Theory

of firm. Perfect competition. Monopoly. Labour market. Market failure. Externalities and Public goods.

Recommended reading

M. Parkin, D. King, Economics, Adison Wesley, 1997Nordhaus, Samuelson, Microeconomics, MacGrawHillPindyck, Rubinfeld, Microeconomics, Prentice Hall 2004 http://www.prenhall.com/pindyck/

Study programme Physics(Full-time bachelor)


Compulsory courses

ÚMV/MA1a/02 Mathematical Analysis 11 5/3 Examination

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ÚMV/ALG1a/03


1/1

ÚFV/VF1a/07 General Physics I 8 4/2 Examination

1/1

ÚFV/IKTF/03 Information and Communication Technologies


ÚMV/MA1b/03 Mathematical Analysis 8 4/2 Examination

1/2

ÚMV/ALG1b/03


1/2

ÚINF/PRG1/03 Programming 5 1/2 Examination

1/2

ÚFV/VF1b/03 General Physics II 7 4/2 Examination

1/2

ÚFV/ZFP1a/03 Physics Practical I 3 -/3 Assessment 1/2 ÚMV/FMA1a/03

Mathematics for Physicists I 7 4/2 Examination

2/3

ÚFV/VF1c/03 General Physics III 4 2/1 Examination

2/3

ÚFV/TME1/03 Theoretical Mechanics 6 3/2 Examination

2/3

ÚFV/ZFP1b/03 Physics Practical II 3 -/3 Assessment 2/3 ÚFV/MTF/07 Modern Trends in Physics 4 3/- Examinatio

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ÚMV/FMA1b/03

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Title Mathematical AnalysisCode ÚMV/MA1a/02 Teacher Ohriska JánECTS credits 11 Hrs/week 5/3Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with basic knowledge about the functions of one real

variable and to develop calculation skills in the field.Content Real numbers: axioms and properties. Infinite sequences. Real functions and

their limits. Continuous functions and their properties. Elementary functions.Alternate courses ÚMV/MA1a/99 orÚMV/MA1a/01Recommended reading

1. Vladimir A. Zorich: Mathematical analysis I, Springer-Verlag

Title AlgebraCode ÚMV/ALG1a/03 Teacher Harminc Matúš, Ploščica Miroslav,

Soták RomanECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Divisibility of integers, congruences, congruence classes of integers. Fields;

systems of linear equations. The method of successive eliminations of unknowns. Determinants, Cramer´s rule.

Recommended reading

A. Kurosh: Higher Algebra, Mir Publishers, 1975.

Title General Physics ICode ÚFV/VF1a/07 Teacher Hanč Jozef, Sovák PavolECTS credits 8 Hrs/week 4/2Assessment Examination Semester 1T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students basic knowledge about mechanics, molecular physics

and thermodynamics.Content Basic knowledge of calculus, vector algebra. Standards and units.

Kinematics. Dynamics. The principle of relativity in classical mechanics. Gravitation. The mechanics of many-particle systems. The motion of rigid bodies. Deformation; elasticity. Mechanics of fluids and gases. Laws of ideal gases. Kinetic theory. The thermodynamic laws. The statistical character of the second law. Entropy. Molecular phenomena in liquids and solids. Phase transitions.

Alternate courses ÚFV/VF1a/03Recommended reading

Title Information and Communication TechnologiesCode ÚFV/IKTF/03 TeacherECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 1T/L method PracticalObjective To allow students to develop proper computer skills important for their

successful study at university. The content corresponds to ECDL standards. Content Work with texts, tables, graphs, pictures, presentations, and the Internet. Exclusive courses ÚBEV/UIKT/03 or CHV/UIKT/03 or FV/UIKT/03 or GE/UIKT/03 or

INF/UIKT/03 or MV/UIKT/03Recommended reading

Standards ECDL: http://www.ecdl.com, http://www.ecdl.cz Instruction manuals, Help of MS Word, MS Excel, MS Explorer, Power point, MS Windows.

Title Mathematical AnalysisCode ÚMV/MA1b/03 Teacher Ohriska JánECTS credits 8 Hrs/week 4/2Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with basic knowledge of the functions of one real

variable in differential and integral calculus. Content Differential calculus: derivatives of the first and of higher orders, the basic

theorems of differential calculus and their use to study functions. Indefinite integral: the basic methods of finding primitive functions. Definite integral: its properties and applications. Improper integral.

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/MA1a/02Recommended reading

V.A. Zorin: Mathematical Analysis I, Springer, 2002

Title AlgebraCode ÚMV/ALG1b/03 Teacher Harminc Matúš, Ploščica Miroslav,

Soták RomanECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 4/2Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Linear spaces, bases. Rank of a matrix. Systems of homogeneous linear

equations. Linear transformations. Ring; fields. Polynomials over a field. Irreducible factors; roots. Roots of complex numbers. Cubic equations. Polynomials with several unknowns; symmetric polynomials.

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/ALG1a/03Recommended reading

A. Kurosh: Higher Algebra, Mir Publishers, 1975.

Title ProgrammingCode ÚINF/PRG1/03 Teacher Geffert Viliam, Trenklerová EvaECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 1/2Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Algorithmic problem and its solution. Examples of concrete algorithms;

formal languages for writing of algorithms. Correctness and testing of algorithms. Properties of programming languages of a higher category. Procedures, functions, units of functions and procedures. Dynamic data structures, pointers. Complexity of algorithms. Data structures: stack, queue, table.

Exclusive courses ÚINF/PAZ1a/03

Title General Physics IICode ÚFV/VF1b/03 Teacher Kollár PeterECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 4/2Assessment Examination Semester 2T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To give students a general view of basic electromagnetic phenomena and

make them able to solve basic problems of this subject.Content Electric field in free space. Work of the forces in the electrostatic field.

Electrostatic field and steady current. Current in electrolytes, semiconductors, gases and vacuums. Thermoelectric effects. Magnetic field in free space. The interaction of moving charges with the electric current. Quasi-steady electric field. Electromagnetic induction. Energy of magnetic field. AC current and circuits with ac current. Multiphase AC current. Rotating magnetic field. Electric effects in substances. Magnetic properties of substances. Magnetic polarisation. Diamagnetism and paramagnetism, Magnetic ordering. Ferromagnetism.

Prerequisite courses ÚFV/VF1a/03 or ÚFV/VF1a/07Alternate courses ÚFV/VF1b/02Recommended reading

I. S. Grant, W.R. Phillips, Electromagnetism, John Wiley&Sons, Ltd, England, 1990

Title Physics Practical ICode ÚFV/ZFP1a/03 Teacher Degro JánECTS credits 3 Hrs/week -/3

Assessment Assessment Semester 2T/L method PracticalObjective To have students develop proper laboratory habits and skills and learn to

verify their theoretical knowledge. To familiarise students with measurement methods, with the kinds and calculus of mistakes, with measured results processing, and with presentation of results.

Content Laboratory assignment:Density measurements of liquids and solids.Radius measurements of spherical cap. Measurements of a surface using planimeter.Gravitational acceleration measurements using mathematical and physical pendulum.Moment of inertia measurement using physical and torsion pendulum.Measurements of Young's modulus.Measurement of coefficient of viscosity.Measurement of the speed of sound.Measurements of general gas constant and Boltzmann constant.Measurements of thermal expansivity of air. Measurements of thermal capacity of matter.Measurement of the surface tension.

Recommended reading

Degro, J., Ješková, Z., Onderová, Ľ., Kireš, M.: Základné fyzikálne praktikum I. (Basic physical measurements I), Ed. PF UPJŠ Košice 2007 Standards STN ISO 31. Slovenský inštitút normalizácie v Bratislave (Slovak institute of technical standards in Bratislava),1997Ješková, Z.: Computer based experiments in thermodynamics using IP COACH,ed. PF UPJŠ in Košice, 2004

Title Mathematics for physicists ICode ÚMV/FMA1a/03 Teacher Kulcsárová OľgaECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 4/2Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Series of real numbers. Sequences and series of funktions. Uniform

konvergence. Functions of several variables. Differential calculus in several variables. Ordinary differential equations. Fourier series.

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/MA1b/03

Title General Physics IIICode ÚFV/VF1c/03 Teacher Miškovský, SavkoECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students basic knowledge about physics of light.Content Wave character of particles. Principles of optics. Non-linear optics.

Optoelectronics. Microscopy.Prerequisite courses ÚFV/VF1b/03Alternate courses ÚFV/VF1c/99Recommended reading

Born, M.;Wolf, E.:Principles of Optics, Pergamon Press, G.m.b.H., Oxford 1965

Title Theoretical MechanicsCode ÚFV/TME1/03 Teacher Bobák AndrejECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Mechanics of systems with constraints. Principle of virtual work and

d'Alembert's principle. Lagrange's equations of motion. Hamilton's principle. Hamilton's equations. Kinematics and dynamics of rigid bodies. Euler's equations. Continuum mechanics. Deformation and stress tensors. General form of Hooke's law. Equilibrium of fluids. Motion of ideal and viscous fluids.

Recommended reading

Meirovitch L.: Methods of Analytical dynamics, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1970Taylor T.T.: Mechanics: Classical and Quantum, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1976Strelkov S.P.: Mechanics, Mir Publishers, Moscow, 1985

Title Physics Practical IICode ÚFV/ZFP1b/03 TeacherECTS credits 3 Hrs/week -/3Assessment Assessment Semester 3T/L method PracticalObjective To give students practical insight into some of the concepts presented in the

lectures; to give students practice in data collection, analysis and interpretation of results; to give students experience in report writing and in presenting results.

Content Electrical Resistance, Self- and Mutual Inductance and Capacity. Serial and Parallel Resonance. Thermal Dependence of Selected Electrical Phenomena in Solids. The Characteristics of Semiconductor Diode. The Characteristics of Semiconductor Bipolar Transistor.Measurement of the Ratio of Charge to Mass for Electron Using a Magnetron.Magnetic Hysteresis. Hall Constant Measurements. Measurements of Horizontal Component of Earth Magnetic Field. Measurements of the Focal Lenght of the Converging and Diverging Lens. The Rotation of Polarisation Plane of Light Beam. The Refractive Index in Liquids. The Phenomenon of Interference of Light.

Prerequisite courses ÚFV/ZFP1a/03

Title Modern Trends in PhysicsCode ÚFV/MTF/07 Teacher Feher AlexanderECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 3/-Assessment Examination Semester 3T/L method LectureObjective Presentation of scientific goals and experimental facilities of the Institute of

Physics. Discussion of new trends in physics of micro-world, astrophysics, biophysics and physics of condensed matter.

Content The present state of the micro-world physics: fundamental particles and the interaction forces. Theoretical description of the micro-world: the Standard Model. Experimental tests of the Standard Model: the discovery of neutral currents and intermediate W+-, Z0 bosons. Heavy ion collisions on the most

powerful accelerators [RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider), Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA and LHC (Large Hadron Collider), CERN, Geneva] and the search for new state of matter: quark gluon plasma. Big Bang and quark gluon plasma. An open question: search for Higgs boson, responsible for the mass of fundamental particles and quark gluon plasma in laboratory conditions. Practical activities: demonstration of the knowledge from lectures at identification of real Z0 decay events in experimental data from the LEP accelerator, CERN, Switzerland.New trends in astrophysical investigation: Solar system planets and exoplanets; cataclysmic variables, blazers and polars; black holes; quasars and active galactic nuclei, clusters of galaxies and web structure of the universe; gravitational lensing, dark matter and dark energy; gamma ray bursts. Topical problems in biophysics. Low temperatures as a tool for the study of physical properties of matter. Non-Fermi liquid materials. Geometrically frustrated systems. Quantum tunnelling in molecular magnets. Application of quantum magnets. Excursion to the Centre of Excellence of Low Temperature Physics.Soft magnetic nanostructure materials prepared by milling and alloying: magnetic properties of small particles, magnetisation processes, domain structure, milling and alloying.

Recommended reading

S. Chikazumi: Physics of Magnetism, J. Willey and Sons, Inc. New York, London, Sydney, 1997 C. Suryanarayana, Progress in Materials Science 46 (2001), 1-184F. Close : The Cosmic Onion, 1990Cindy Schwarz :A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo, 1997Frank Close, Michael Marten, Christine Sutton : The Particle Odyssey-A Journey to the Heart of Matter, 2002http://vk.upjs.sk/~epog/2006/Scientific journals

Title Mathematics for physicists IICode ÚMV/FMA1b/03 Teacher Kulcsárová OľgaECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Measure and Lebesque integral. Integrals deppending on a parameter.

Fubini-s Theorem. Surfaces in Euklidean space. Integrals 1. and 2. types. Theorems of Gauss-Ostrogradskij, Green and Stokes. System of ordinary differential equations. Stability of solution.

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/FMA1a/03

Title Mathematical physics ICode ÚFV/MFY1/03 Teacher Vargová EvaECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Theory of komplex variable: Complex algebra, analytical functions of

complex variable, Cauchy integral statements, analytical continuation, conform mapping, Taylor and Laurent series, residuals.

Evaluation of integrals by tools of complex analysis. Sturm - Liouville problem, eigenfunctions. Fourier series. Fourier and Laplace transform

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/FMA1b/03Recommended reading

Bicadze A. V.: Osnovy teorii analitičeskich funkcij kompleksnovo peremennovo.Nauka Moskva,1984Weinberger H.F.: A First Course in Partial Differential Equations. Willey&Sons N.Y.,1965Arsenin V.J.: Matematická fyzika. Nauka Moskva,1966

Title Theory of the Electromagnetic FieldCode ÚFV/TEP1/03 Teacher Bobák AndrejECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 3/1Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Maxwell equations in vacuum. Scalar and vector potentials. Conservation

laws. Electrostatic field. Static magnetic field. Maxwell equations in macroscopic media. Quasistatic electromagnetic field. Electromagnetic waves. Radiation of electromagnetic waves.

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/MA1a/02 or ÚMV/IMA1/03Alternate courses ÚFV/TEP1/01 or ÚFV/TF1c/99Recommended reading

1. Jackson J.D.: Classical Electrodynamics, John Wiley, New York, 19752. Rao N.N.: Basic Electromagnetics with Applications, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1972

Title General Physics IVCode ÚFV/VF1d/03 Teacher Martinská Gabriela, Jancura DanielECTS credits 8 Hrs/week 5/1Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students basic knowledge about atomic structure, spectra and

nuclei, and elementary particles and to teach them basic experimental methods in nuclear physics and the passage of nuclear radiation through media. To provide information about the object, significance and role of biophysics in science and to introduce the areas of molecular, cell and medicinal biophysics.

Content Wave character of particles. De Broglie waves. Experimental evidence for de Broglie waves. Structure and models of atoms. Atomic spectra. Magnetic properties of atoms. X-ray spectra. Basic characteristics of the atomic nuclei. Nuclear forces and models. Radioactivity. Applications of radioactivity. Nuclear reactions. Elementary particles, basic properties and classification. Types of interactions. Resonances. Cosmic rays. Passage of particles through matter. Detectors. Accelerators.The scope and object of biophysics and its relevance and role in science. Molecular biophysics. Molecular structure of biological systems. Conformations of the important biological molecules (nucleic acids, proteins, biomembranes). The basics of bioenergetics, dynamics and kinetics in the biological systems. Cell biophysics. Membrane transport. Control and regulation mechanisms in cells. Ecological biophysics. Biophysical principles of selected diagnostic and therapeutic techniques.

Prerequisite courses ÚFV/VF1c/03

Alternate courses ÚFV/VF1d/99Recommended reading

Glasser R., Biophysics, Springer-Verlach Berlin Heidelberg, 2001Daune M., Molecular biophysics, Oxford University Press, 2004Jackson M.B., Molecular and cellular biophysics, CambridgeUniversity Press, 2006

Title ElectronicsCode ÚFV/ELE1/07 Teacher Petrovič PavolECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 3/-Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method LectureContent Basic mathematical theory of electronic circuits (solution of electrical two-

and four-terminal networks). Structure, properties and physical substance of the activity of selected electronic elements (semiconductor resistors, diodes, transistors, integrated circuits, and their technologies). Analysis of functions and properties of basic analogue and digital electronic circuits (amplifiers and signal generators, rectifiers and power supplies, applications of operating amplifiers, logic and digital circuits, analogue to digital and digital to analogue converters). Analysis of the activity of selected electronic information systems (means of radio and television transmission and processing of sound and video information).

Prerequisite courses ÚFV/VF1b/02 or ÚFV/VF1b/03Exclusive courses ÚFV/IFY1a/01Alternate courses ÚFV/ELE1/03Recommended reading

Brown P.B., Frantz G.N., Moraff H.: Electronics for the Modern Scientist. Elsevier, New York, 1982Delaney C.F.G.: Electronics for the Physicist with Aplications. John Willey & Sons, New York, 1980Fishbane P.M., Gasiorowitz S., Thornton S.T.: Physics for Scientists and Engineers. Extended Version. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1993Howatson A. M.: Electrical Circuits and Systems. An Introduction for Engineers and Physical Scientists. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996Zbar P.B., Malvino A.P., Miller M.A.: Basic Electronics: a Text-Lab Manual. Macmillan/McGraw – Hill, New York, 1994

Title Practical Course IIICode ÚFV/ZPJF/03 TeacherECTS credits 3 Hrs/week -/3Assessment Assessment Semester 5T/L method PracticalObjective To give students practice in the methods of nuclear physics.Content Geiger-Müller counter. Analysing power of coincidence circuit by random

coincidences. Statistic distribution of measured quantities. Measurement time scale selection. Absorption of beta rays. Backward scattering of beta rays. Gamma ray absorption. Scintillation gamma spectrometer. Determination of 60Co preparation activity using beta-gamma coincidences. Emulsion detector. Dosimetry measurements. Semiconductor detector.

Alternate courses ÚFV/ZP1d/99

Title Quantum Theory I

Code ÚFV/KVT1a/03 Teacher Chalupka SlavkoECTS credits 8 Hrs/week 4/2Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Origins of quantum mechanics. Mathematical tools of quantum mechanics.

Superposition principle. Heinsenberg uncertainty principle. One-dimensional problems. Angular momentum. Three-dimensional problems. Identical particles. Fundamentals of relativistic quantum mechanics.

Recommendedreading

A.S. Davydov, Quantum mechanics,2nd ed.,Pergamon press, Oxford,1965 S.Gasiorovicz, Quantum physics,2nd ed., Addison- Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1980L.D.Landau, and E.M. Lifshitz, Quantum mechanics, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1977Alastair I.M. Rae, Quantum mechanics, four ed., Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol, 2002

Title Quantum Theory IICode ÚFV/KVT1b/03 Teacher Jaščur MichalECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Approximation methods. Time-independent perturbation theory.

Nondegenerate perturbation theory. Charged oscillator in an electric field. The Stark effect. Degenerate perturbation theory. The anomalous Zeeman effect. The variation method. The Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin method. Time-dependent perturbation theory. Transition probability. Transition probability for a constant perturbation. Transition probability for a harmonic perturbation. Adiabatic and sudden approximation. Identical particles. Exchange degeneracy. Symmetrization postulate. Constructing symmetric and antisymmetric functions.The Pauli exclusion principle. Harmonic oscillator within creation and annihilation operators. Scattering theory. Scattering amplitude and differential cross section.The Born approximation. Partial wave analysis for elastic and inelastic scattering. Scattering of identical particles.

Alternate courses ÚFV/KVT1b/99Recommended reading

A.S. Davydov, Quantum Mechanics, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1965L.D. Landau, and E.M. Lifshotz, Quantum Mechanics: Non-relativistic Theory, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1977 E. Merzbacher, Quantum Mechanics, John Wiley, New York, 1998N.Zettili, Quantum Mechanics, John Wiley, New York, 2001

Title Thermodynamics and Statistical PhysicsCode ÚFV/TDF1/99 Teacher Chalupka SlavkoECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 4/2Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent State parameters. Empirical temperature. The principles of thermodynamics.

Absolute temperature and entropy. Phase space. Liouville theorem. Density matrix. Statistical ensembles. Bose and Fermi gases.

Prerequisite courses ÚMV/FMA1b/03 or ÚMV/IMA1/03

Recommended reading

P.T Landsberg, Thermodynamics,Interscience,1961.L.D. Landau, and E.M Lifshitz, Statistical physics, Pergamon Press, Oxford,1977


Title Physics in demonstration experimentsCode ÚFV/FDE/07 TeacherECTS credits 3 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 3T/L method PracticalObjective The goal of the course is to get better the understanding of basic physical

concepts and phenomena through demonstrational physical experiments.Content The course is aimed at the conceptual understanding of basic physical

concepts and phenomena with the help of selected demonstrational experiments. The experiments concern the content of the subject Introductory physics and their realization is based on students´ active participation.

Recommended reading

D.Halliday, R.Resnick, J.Walker: Fyzika, VUTIUM, Brno, 2000 K.Cummings, P.W.Law, E.F.Redish, P.J.Cooney: Understanding Physics,John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004P.G.Hewitt: Conceptual Physics, tenth edition, Pearson, Addison Wesley, 2006

Title Statistical Methods of Data AnalysisCode ÚFV/MSU/07 Teacher Vokál Stanislav, Fedorišin JánECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To introduce students to probability theory and mathematical statistics taking

into account the needs of nuclear and high-energy physics. To introduce students to C++ (Fortran) programming language.

Content Definitions of probability. Random phenomena, random quantities and variables. Distribution function and probability density. Distribution of discrete and continuous random variables. Moments, mean values and the measures of variability of distributions. Graphical presentation of random variables. Covariance and correlation. Theoretical distributions: binomial, Poisson, normal, hypergeometric, multinomial, uniform, exponential, multivariate Gaussian, Cauchy (Breit-Wigner) distributions. Central limit theorem. Basic distribution of mathematical statistics: chi-squared distribution, Student and Fisher-Snedecor distributions. Mean values, variances and normalisation of these distributions. Statistical data processing. Sampling moments. The estimates of parameters of theoretical distributions from measured data. The maximum likelihood method. The weighted mean. Statistical and systematic measurement errors. Estimation of errors. Propagation of errors. Statistical hypotheses testing. Null and alternative hypotheses. The least squares method. Linear and non-linear regression. Evaluation of the quality of regression, significance level. Verification of the agreement of two distributions, quantiles. Monte-Carlo method. Random number generators. Generation of arbitrary distributions: the acceptance-rejection method. Examples of applications. General rules for rounding-off numbers for final presentation.

Recommended reading

W. R. Leo, Techniques for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments (cap. 4 - Statistics and the Treatment of Experimental Data), Springer-Verlag, 1992 G. Cowan, Statistical Data Analysis, Clarendon, Oxford, 1998R. J. Barlow, Statistics, A Guide to the Use of Statistical in the Physical Sciences, Wiley, 1989L. Lyons, Statistics for Nuclear and Particle Physics, CUP, 1986W. Eadie et al., Statistical and Computational Methods in Experimental Physics, North-Holland, 1971S. Brandt, Statistical and Computational Methods in Data Analysis, Springer, New York, 1998W. M. Yao et al. (Particle Data Group), Review of Particle Physics, Journal of Physics G 33 (2006) B. R. Martin, Statistics for Physicists, Academic Press, London and New York, 1971Moskovskovo universiteta, Moskva, 1992

Title Special Theory of RelativityCode ÚFV/TRS/03 Teacher Tóth ĽubomírECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 2/-Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method LectureContent Galilean transformations and Galilean principle of relativity. Ether's

hypothesis. Einstein's relativity principle and Einstein's postulates of special relativity. Lorentz transformations and physical consequences. Interval and light cone. Proper time. Minkowski's space-time. Mathematical apparatus of special relativity. Relativistic electrodynamics. Relativistic mechanics.

Alternate courses ÚFV/TRS1/99

Title Elements of AstrophysicsCode ÚFV/ZAAF1/03 Teacher Gális RudolfECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Elemental astrophysical parameters and their determination; magnitudes;

Pogson's law; spectral types and luminosity classes; temperatures, masses and radii of stars; rotation and magnetic field of stars; specific intensity, flux; black body radiation; synchrotron radiation; interstellar extinction.

Title Mathematical Physics IICode ÚFV/MAFY2/03 Teacher Vargová EvaECTS credits 6 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Eigenfunctions: Legendre, Laguerre, Hermite, Bessel and Tshebishev series.

Solution of Laplace's equation in spherical coordinates - system of orthogonal spherical functions. Dirichlet's and Neumann's problem. Differential equations of mathematical physics. Green's function for Poisson's equation. Variations.

Recommended Bicadze A. V.: Osnovy teorii analitičeskich funkcij kompleksnovo

reading peremennovo.Nauka Moskva,1984Weinberger H.F.: A First Course in Partial Differential Equations. Willey&Sons N.Y.,1965Arsenin V.J.: Matematická fyzika. Nauka Moskva,1966

Title Essentials of UNIX ProgrammingCode ÚFV/ZPU1/03 Teacher Uličný Jozef, Brutovský BranislavECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 1/2Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Essentials of work with Unix type OS. Basic characteristics, filesystems,

command line interpreters, command lines and formats of commands. Terminal, process management. Programming in C/C++. Communications between users: e-mail, file transfers, remote access (telnet, ssh, X windows). WWW. XHTML as an implementation of XML. Preparation of web documents and presentations. Deep web, information databases, newsgroups, aggregators, blogosphere. Programming in Python. Data types and data structures in Python. Lists and vocabularies, n-tuples. Operators and flow control constructs. Exceptions and asynchronous events. Tools for programming large projects. Standard library and extensions. NumPython-extension for numerical computations. Programming environment in UNIXe. Command line interpreters, scripting languages and compilers. stdin, stdout , stderr. Component programming philosophy. Programs as filters. Make, RCS, profilers, debuggers. Utilisation and creation of libraries. Numerical libraries and algorithm archives (netlib, LINPACK, BLAS, LAPACK, MPI, etd.).

Recommended reading

Documentation on www.ldp.org, http://www.python.org further literature according to actual recommendation of lecturer

Title Structure and Properties of SolidsCode ÚFV/SVL1/03 Teacher Sovák PavolECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 3/-Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method LectureObjective To familiarize students with basic concepts and problems of solid state

physics, e.g., fundamental types of lattices, symmetry and crystal structure, X-ray diffractometry, The thermal properties, mechanical properties and conductivity of solids.

Content Periodic array of atoms. Fundamental type of lattices. Index systems for crystal planes. Simple crystal structure. Symmetry and crystal structure. Point and space groups. Crystal binding and elastic constants. Wave diffraction and the reciprocal lattice. X-ray diffractometry. Brag´s law; Laue conditions; scattering of x-rays. Neutrons and neutron scattering. CW-diffractometer; Ewald´s sphere. Diffraction on powder samples: structure factor; occupation factor; atomic displacement factor. Thermal properties. Phonon heat capacity; thermal conductivity. Free electron Fermi gas. Energy bands. Semiconductor crystals. Superconductivity.

Recommended reading

1. Ch. Kittel, Solid State Physics, Springer,1985.3.Fundamentals of Powder Diffraction and Structural Characterization of Materials, Vitalij K. Pecharsky & Peter Y. Zavalij , Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

4.Structure Determination from Powder Diffraction Data, Edited by W.I.F. David, K. Shankland, L.B. McCusker, C. Bärlocher, Oxford University Press, 2006

Title Biophysical SeminarCode ÚFV/SBF1a/03 TeacherECTS credits 1 Hrs/week -/1Assessment Assessment Semester 5T/L method PracticalObjective To allow students to present their individual scientific work within the frame

of the year's diploma theses and lead them to the intelligible presentation of their scientific results.

Content Seminar of the biophysics department oriented to the topics of the yearly diploma thesis work by students in the department.

Recommended reading

The literature will be recommended by supervisors of individual works.

Title Nontraditional Optimisation Techniques ICode ÚFV/NOT1a/03 Teacher Horváth Denis, Uličný Jozef,

Brutovský BranislavECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To allow students to learn major optimisation methods.Content The classification of optimisation methods. Optimisation function.

Multifunction-optimisation. The penalty function. The Barier function. The stochastic and deterministic methods. Gradient methods. The physical picture of gradient optimisation. Blind search and hill climbing methods. Multi-agent evolutionary strategy and meta-optimisation. Genetic algorithms. Quantum mechanical applications of genetic algorithms. Genetic algorithms in variable environments. The training of neural nets as optimisation. Principal component analysis. The prediction of time series. Monte Carlo techniques and simulated annealing. Optimisation and self-organisation attractor. The self-organised Kohonen nets; neural gas model. Cellular automata models. Agent-based systems. Strategies and demographic games on the lattice. Swarm optimisation.

Recommended reading

J.C.Principe, N.R.Euliano, Neural and Adaptive Systems, John Wiley & Sons. INC., New York, 2000K.Binder, D.W.Heermann, Monte Carlo Simulation in Statistical Physics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002

Title Astronomical InstrumentsCode ÚFV/APR1/01 Teacher Rybák JánECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/-Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method LectureObjective The aim of the subject is tu introduce elementary appliences used in

observatories and the basic knowledge about the methods used in observation.

Content ABC of binoculars and spectral instruments (optical prism, difractional grid,Fabry- Perot's interferometer, Michelson's interferometer), use of polarized light in astrophysics.

Recommended reading

Abetti,G.: The history of Astronomy, Schuman N.Y. 1952King,H.C.: The history of Telescope. Griffin London, 1955Strba, A.: Všeobecná optika 3. Alfa-SNTL Bratislava, 1979Born, M., Wolf,E.: Principles of Optics. Pergamon Oxford, 1980Martynov, D.J.A.: Kurs praktičeskoj astrfiziki. Nauka Moskva, 1977

Title Group TheoryCode ÚFV/TGR1/99 Teacher Mockovčiak SamuelECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 2/-Assessment Examination Semester 5T/L method LectureContent Application of group representation theory in quantum mechanics and solid

state physics. Definitions of group, subgroup and the group representation. Groups in physics: rotation group, point groups, space groups. Application of the group theory in solving next problems: splitting of atomic levels, rules of selection, use of point groups in crystals, symetry of individual points of Brillouin zone, symetry group and systems of identical particles.

Recommended reading

Landau L.D., Liffšic E.M.: Kvantovaja mechanika, nereljativistskaja teorija. Nauka Moskva,1974Litzman O.,Sekanina M.: Užití grup ve fyzice. Academia Praha, 1982Teorie pevných látek - Zborník prednášok z letnej školy 1963 (red. Antončík E.) NČSAV Praha 1, 1965

Title Practice in AstronomyCode ÚFV/PAA1/00 TeacherECTS credits 4 Hrs/week -/4Assessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method PracticalObjective The aim of the subject is to introduce to the students of astronomy

elementary appliences used in observation of interstellar matter.

Content Practical observations of meteors, asteroids and comets and data reduction.Prerequisite courses ÚFV/ZAA1/00 orÚFV/ZAA1/03,ÚFV/ZAF1/00 orÚFV/ZAAF1/03Alternate courses ÚFV/PAA1/99Recommended reading

Publications connected with the recent topic.

Title Biophysical SeminarCode ÚFV/SBFb/03 TeacherECTS credits 1 Hrs/week -/1Assessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method PracticalObjective To allow students to present their individual scientific work within the frame

of the year's diploma theses and lead them to the intelligible presentation of their scientific results.

Content Seminar of the biophysics department oriented to the topics of the yearly

diploma thesis work by students in the department.Recommended reading

The literature will be recommended by supervisors of individual works.

Title Celestial Mechanics ICode ÚFV/NME1a/05 Teacher Gális RudolfECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Problem of two bodies; Kepler's laws; shape of orbit; position of body in

orbit; Kepler's equation; elements of orbit; transformation of coordinates; determination of ephemeris; description of orbits of solar system bodies; determination of initial orbit.

Title Theoretical Astrophysics ICode ÚFV/TAF1a/05 Teacher Gális RudolfECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent State equation of stellar matter; polytropic relations; hydrostatic and

radiation equilibrium; transport of energy by radiation and convection; Emden's equation; sources of energy in stars; the beginning and evolution of stars; compact objects: final stages of stellar evolution.

Title Nuclear Radiation in the EnvironmentCode ÚFV/JZP1/03 Teacher Vokál Stanislav, Vrláková JankaECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 2/-Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method LectureObjective To provide students basic knowledge of nuclear radiation in the environment

and its effect on health.Content Sources of radiation. Interaction of radiation with matter. Dosimetry units.

Biological effects of ionizing radiation and radiological protection. Natural sources of radiation. Man-made sources of radionuclides. Application of radionuclides. Nuclear weapons. Nuclear plants. The risk of accidents. Nuclear waste. Reprocessing. Radiation and health.

Title Nuclear Physics SeminarCode ÚFV/SEA1/04 TeacherECTS credits 1 Hrs/week -/1Assessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method PracticalObjective To bring the topical problems, methods and tools of high energy physics to

the students.Content Department seminar: selected topical problems of nuclear and subnuclear

physics.

Title Computational Physics ICode ÚFV/POF1a/99 Teacher Bobák Andrej, Horváth DenisECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Numerical computing in higher dimension. Solving of systems

of non-linear differential equations. Attractor, basin ofattraction. Identification of dimensionality of attractor. Ljapunov coefficient. Strange attractor - deterministic chaos. Discrete Fourier transform. Discretizing schemes for partial differential equations. Applications: nonlinear diffusion, quantum mechanical problems. Solving of systems of transcendental equations. Linear algebra. Iteration schemes.

Title Methods of Structural AnalysisCode ÚFV/MSA1/03 Teacher Sovák PavolECTS credits 7 Hrs/week 3/2Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalContent Optic microscopy. Electron microscopy: electron beam instruments, electron

optics, electron lenses and deflection systems. Transmission electron microscopy: principle and construction. Electron–specimen interactions. Electron diffraction. Kikuchy lines. Scanning electron microscopy: principle and construction. Scanning transmission electron microscopy. High voltage electron microscopy. Electron microprobe analysis: WDX spectrometer, EDX spectrometer, Auger electron spectrometer. Self-emission microscopy. Convergent beam diffraction.X-ray diffractometry: scattering of x-rays, neutrons and neutron scattering, CW—diffractometer, Ewald´s sphere, diffraction on powder samples, the main characteristics of powder diffraction patterning, structure factor, occupation factor, atomic displacement factor, peak intensity, shape and symmetry. Sherrer equation. Peak profile; Rietweld method.

Alternate courses ÚFV/SAK1/99, ÚFV/SAK1/00, ÚFV/RTG1/01Recommended reading

S. Amelincks, D.van Dyck, J. van Landyut, Electron Microscopy – Principles and Fundamentals, VCH, 1997M.H. Loretto, Electrom beam analysis of materials. Springer, 2002.Fundamentals of Powder Diffraction and Structural Characterisation of Materials, Vitalij K. Pecharsky & Peter Y. Zavalij , Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003 Structure Determination from Powder Diffraction Data, Edited by W.I.F. David, K. Shankland, L.B. McCusker, C. Bärlocher, Oxford University Press, 2006

Title Nontraditional Optimisation Techniques IICode ÚFV/NOT1b/03 Teacher Horváth Denis, Uličný Jozef,

Brutovský BranislavECTS credits 5 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To teach students applications of optimisation techniques on thestudy and

interpretation of complex systems using examples from biology. To introduce students to new paradigms in the area of systems biology.

Content Complex systems; emergent behavior. Evolutionary theory and memetics. Application of optimisation techniques on complex systems. Application of methods (genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, taboo search) on selected problems of biomolecular simulations. Molecular dynamics; protein folding. Population dynamics, metabolic networks and complexity in bioinformatics.

Recommended reading

The actual scientific papers.

Title Practice in Astrophysics ICode ÚFV/PAF1a/99 Teacher Rybák JánECTS credits 4 Hrs/week -/4Assessment Assessment Semester 5T/L method PracticalObjective The aim of the subject is tu introduce elementary appliences used in

observatories and to give basic knowledge how to observe the photosphere of the Sun.

Content Practical observation of the photosphere and the chromosphere of the Sun.Prerequisite courses ÚFV/APR1/01Recommended reading

User's manual of observation appliances.

Title Electonics PracticalCode ÚFV/ELP1/01 TeacherECTS credits 3 Hrs/week -/3Assessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method PracticalContent Thematic, constructive tasks enabling students to verify the theory

describing properties of electronic circuits analysed in lectures. 1. Combinational logic circuits2. Digital memory circuits3. Sequence logic circuits4. Rectifiers, filters, stabilisers5. Amplifier with the bipolar p-n junction transistor6. Electronic regulation of direct-current power supplies7. Low-frequency harmonic oscillator8. Operational amplifiers and operational networks9. Interface between digital and analogue subsystem10. Analogue to digital converters11. Digital to analogue converters

Prerequisite courses ÚFV/ELE1/07 or ÚFV/ELE1/03Exclusive courses ÚFV/IFY1a/99 or ÚFV/IFY1a/01Alternate courses ÚFV/EL1b/99Recommended reading

Delaney C.F.G.: Electronics for the Physicist with Aplications. John Willey & Sons, New York, 1980Zbar P.B., Malvino A.P., Miller M.A.: Basic Electronics: a Text-Lab Manual. Macmillan/McGraw – Hill, New York, 1994

Title Introduction to Microworld PhysicsCode ÚFV/UFMI/07 Teacher Martinská Gabriela, Jaščur Michal

ECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with a qualitative survey of particle physics from the

beginning to the present.Content Introduction to topics (atom, nucleus). The four types of interactions in

nature. Contemporary notions about the structure of matter and forces of interactions (nuclear particles, quarks and the eightfold way, quantum chromodynamics—quarks theory, model of electroweak interaction, charm and new discoveries, the grand unification). Cosmology, particle physics and the Big Bang. Experimental methods in particle physics.

Recommended reading

Frank Close: The cosmic onion, Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, 1990Ashok Das, Thomas Ferbel: Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, John Wiley Sons, inc. 1994

Elective courses

Title Introductory Course in AstronomyCode ÚFV/ZAA1/03 Teacher Vargová EvaECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective The aim of the course is to give introductory knowledge to the further study

in astronomy.Content Spherical trigonometry. Coordinate systems in astronomy: horizontal,

equatorial, ecliptical and galactical coordinates. Nautical triangle. Transformation of coordinates. Time measuring in astronomy , development of the callendar. Birth and the development of stars. Relation mass - luminosity, HRD diagram. Refraction, aberation, Doppler's principle. Tidal waves, global tectonics, continental drift. Shape and motions of the Earth, precession and nutation. Seismology. Magnetic field, elements and sources of the magnetic field, magnetic maps.

Recommended reading

Zeilik M.: Astronomy. Von Hoffmann PressBaker R.: Astronomy. D. Van Nostrand Company. Princeton 1956

Title Introduction to Computer PhysicsCode ÚFV/UPF1/03 Teacher Uličný JozefECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/1Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To widen the horizons of students by presenting a more general view of

computers and computational processes based on physics. To show less-traditional ways how to implement computations on the basis of deeper knowledge of physical processes.

Content Physical processes utilised in actual computers. Thermodynamics of computation. Physical limits of actual computer technologies (Moore’s law and Amdahl's law). Relation between computer modelling and physical reality. Computational complexity and parallelism. Distributed computing. Alternative methods (Analogue computing, optical processors, DNA processors, quantum computing).

Title Programming PracticeCode ÚFV/PPR1/03 TeacherECTS credits 2 Hrs/week -/2Assessment Assessment Semester 4T/L method PracticalObjective To provide the students with working knowledge in OS UNIX and the

Internet.Content The basis of OS UNIX and Internet: electronic mail, file transfer, SSH,

mailing list –LISTServer, electronic news, WWW, HTTP, CSS.

Title Data Analysis ToolsCode ÚFV/PPA/07 Teacher Dirner AlexanderECTS credits 4 Hrs/week 2/2Assessment Examination Semester 6T/L method Lecture, PracticalObjective To provide students with knoxledge and use of OS UNIX and the

programming languages C and C++.Content Operating system UNIX. Programming language C and the bases of C++ for

physicists. Advanced methods of programming in C++. ROOT: an object data analysis framework. Programming in ROOT environment.

Recommended reading

Title MetheorologyCode ÚFV/MET/05 Teacher Pribullová AnnaECTS credits 3 Hrs/week 2/-Assessment Examination Semester 4T/L method LectureContent Evolution of the Earth's atmosphere. Structure of the Earth atmosphere.

Radiation of the Sun in the atmosphere. Basic quantities in metheorology and measuring of them. Water in the atmosphere. Stability of the atmosphere. Motion of the air particles in the atmosphere. Air masses. Aerological diagram and its use in metheorology. Weather prediction. Climate of the Earth.

Recommended reading

AHRENS, D.,C., METEOROLOGY TODAY, West Publishing comp., NEW YORK 1988.

Title Summer Practice in Astrophysics IICode ÚFV/PAF2/05 TeacherECTS credits 4 Hrs/week -/7dAssessment Assessment Semester 6T/L method PracticalContent Practical observation by photometer an CCD camera, data reduction,basic

work with reduction packages MIDAS and IRAFRecommended reading

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