International Economic Relations
This study programme enables further professional education of university-graduated professionals by acquiring of scientific qualification in the sphere of international business. Study extends the knowledge of this broad and dynamically developing field and develops skills in applying scientific methods in research in this sphere. It educates experts for independent creative work and conceptual approach to solving problems of international business and to applying newly gained knowledge in practice.
Applicants for this study programme can be graduates from economic universities or other social science or technical fields. The choice of studied subjects enables to adjust the structure of completed courses to the preceding education of the applicant, to the field of interest and to the particular focus of his/her doctoral thesis.
Graduates from doctoral study of International Economic Relations apply their skills mainly in entrepreneurial sphere at home and abroad, at scientific and research work places, at universities and vocational schools, in public administration bodies and diplomatic corps abroad, in public-service institutions and international organizations.
Compulsory courses:
- 3CV901 Methodology of Scientific Research
- SE_963 International Economics III
- STP915 Statistical Methods for Scientific Research
Elective courses:
The PhD candidate selects one of the following two courses on the recommendation of their supervisor:
- SE_910 Modern Methods for Economic Policy Analysis
- SE_908 International Economics – Selected Issues
- 3CV903 Qualitative Research
The PhD candidate selects one of the following courses on the recommendation of their supervisor:
- MO_912 New Challenges in the International Logistics
- OP_904 International Management
- PRA913 Economic and Business European Law
- SE_904 European Monetary Integration
- SE_905 The Single Market of the EU – Project and Realisation
- SE_907 Economic Analysis and International Comparisons: Data, concepts, methods and challenges
- SE_908 International Economics – Selected Issues
- SE_910 Modern Methods for Economic Policy Analysis
- MIE911 Economics (Microeconomics – Macroeconomics)
Optional and supplementary courses:
Upon agreement with their supervisor, the PhD candidate may select other one or two courses relevant to their doctoral thesis.
Foreign language courses for the doctoral study programme are offered by the language departments.
The PhD candidate is also required to fulfil other responsibilities in accordance with the Study and Examination Rules and their Individual Study Plan.
In line with the Study and Examination Rules, the PhD candidate must record in their Individual Study Plan a doctoral state examination (referred to as the subject 2SDZ – Doctoral State Examination in the electronic information system) and the theis defence (referred to as the subject 2ODIS – Defence of Thesis in the electronic information system).