Academic CentreAT THE FACULTY OF FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Computer Science:
Python programming language (DatZB084)
Lecturer: Uldis Bojārs
Language of the course: Latvian and English
The goal of this course is to provide students with core knowledge and skills in the Python programming language.
The tasks of this course:
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to acquire core knowledge and programming skills in the Python programming language;
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to improve course participants' programming skills;
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to gain familiarity with Python libraries and their usage;
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to learn the main principles of problem-solving by using programming.
AT THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA
Latvian BSP and English, European languages and business studies BSP study courses
Digital Opportunities for Language Acquisition and Research (Valo3533)
Lecturer: doc. I. Urbanoviča
Course language: Latvian
The aim of the study course is to introduce students with the digital opportunities in linguistics in the digital humanities context. The information on the main fields of digital language technologies is analysed as well as the national language resources (including language corpora) and platforms for their use and analysis are examined, strengthening students’ skills in the use of digital tools and resources for language learning and research.
The objectives of the study course are: - to explain the key terms of the digital humanities, - to introduce the most important fields of the development of digital language technology as well as Latvian institutions which are involved in the design of different digital language tools and resources, - to improve the ability to use national language resources and their analysis platforms as well as language models and tools for automatic text analysis and synthesis, - to strengthen the skills of digital information and content processing and managing for the research in linguistics.
EU Institutional and Project Management Discourse (ValoB064)
Lecturers: assoc. professor J. Kuzmina, lecturer M. Spirida
Course language: English
The course aims at ensuring students' understanding of EU institutional discourse, project management discourse as well as providing knowledge about documentary databases, text organisation and text analysis digital tools.
The course prepares students for the changing realities of the labour market and builds students’ digital competence, helps connect their learning to real-world problems and ultimately take ownership of the learning experience in the context of EU institutional and project management discourse.
The objectives of the course are 1. to develop a critical, interdisciplinary understanding of the EU as a multinational and multilingual union, by providing an insight into the development of the EU and its institutions. 2. to reflect on the dynamic interaction of academic and professional discussions on how academic discussions on language policies and multilingualism coincide with practical terminology issues that arise in the process of information transfer in the EU context 3. to raise students' awareness of discourse and genre theories that underpin the use of digital toolkits for text analysis. 4. to develop students' transversal digital competence: instrumental skill of using digital tools for text selection from databases, data visualisation, text organisation and analysis in institutional and professional context.
The acquired analytical skills will enable them to pursue careers in a variety of sectors (e.g. EU entities, European and international organizations, NGOs, public and private sector) and/or undertake further research in the field of applied linguistics and/or European studies.