The success in Humanities and Social Sciences: the perspective of students of University of Zadar

Cilj provedenoga istraživanja u prikazanome radu bio je opisati kako studenti/ice Sveučilišta u Zadru gledaju na studiranje, vlastitu struku i mogućnosti te na budućnost. Posljednjih godina, napretkom znanosti i tehnologije prioritet se stavlja na prirodne i tehničke znanosti kojima se može ostvariti dobar ekonomski profit. Time studenti/ice društveno-humanističkih znanosti i općenito spomenuto područje znanosti ostaju po strani i ne pridaje im se značaj. Upravo iz ovoga razloga važna je percepcija studenata/ica kako bi se obratila pažnja na to i spomenuti problemi uzeli u obzir u nekoj budućoj reformi obrazovanja što je i svrha provedenoga istraživanja. Provedeno je kvalitativno istraživanje i to kroz četiri fokus-grupe sa studentima/icama odjela za germanistiku, talijanistiku (smjer prevoditeljski), odjela za klasičnu filologiju te odjela za izobrazbu učitelja i odgojitelja Sveučilišta u Zadru. Ove struke su odabrane za uzorak jer su se pokazale deficitarnim ili suficitarnim na tržištu rada. Iz provedenoga istraživanja proizlazi zaključak da studenti/ice društveno-humanističkih znanosti smatraju vlastitu struku važnom, ali su svjesni njezinoga nepovoljnoga položaja na tržištu rada. Upravo su zbog toga otvoreni odlasku u inozemstvo i pokušaju uspjeha u stranoj zemlji radom u vlastitoj struci, ali i povratku u Hrvatsku.The goal of the conducted research was to present how students, at the University of Zadar, perceivce their college study programs, their own profession and possibilities college education provides for their future plans. As science and technology develop at a fast pace, the focus is put on scientific areas of college programs which can greatly contribute to the economical growth of the country. That way students taking courses on social and humanic scientific branches are neglected since their areas of education are perceived as unimportant. That is why the foucs is on the problem where the opinions of students are most important so the following would be adressed in some future educational reform, which is the aim of the conducted research. Qualitative research method was used in the form of four interviews (focus-groups) with students from various departments being department of German language, department of Italian language (program for translators), department of classical filology and finally the department of teacher and preschool teacher education. The focus is put on the above mentioned professions as they are proven to be deficit and unneccessary on our employment market. The result of the conducted research follows statements and claims of students (of social areas of science) who consider their professions important but are aware of the unimportance of the earlier mentioned on the employment market of Croatia. Because of this problem they are determined to leave the country and try to succeed abroad