Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana
Faculty of Social Sciences (Slovene: Fakulteta za družbene vede; FDV) is one of the faculties, comprising the University of Ljubljana. It is located at Kardeljeva ploščad (Bežigrad District, Ljubljana). The faculty is "the central Slovenian interdisciplinary, educational, scientific and research institution in the area of social sciences, and ranks among the biggest institutions of its kind in Europe." At the same time, is "one of the largest academic units of the University of Ljubljana with 27 graduate and postgraduate programmes in political science, communication, journalism, and cultural studies. Currently, it is also the largest public  teaching and research institution in Slovenia, devoted to interdisciplinary studies. Faculty was established in 1961 as the "College of Political Sciences" ("Visoka šola za politične vede", VŠPV), which was in 1968 renamed into the "College of Sociology, Political Sciences and Journalism" ("Visoka šola za sociologijo, politične vede in novinarstvo"; VŠSPN). Two years later (in 1970), the college became part of the University of Ljubljana and was reorganized into the "Faculty of Sociology, Political Sciences and Journalism" ("Fakulteta za sociologijo, politične vede in novinarstvo"; FSPN). In 1991, the faculty was once more renamed as "Faculty of Social Sciences" ("Fakulteta za družbene  vede"; FDV). History. College of Political Sciences ("Visoka šola za politične vede", VŠPV) was established on 31 January 1961 and on 2 October of the same year it officially opened. The primary mission of the newly-formed college was to provide educated cadre for the League of Communists of Slovenia, and thus "to help control the society and state". At that time, the teaching staff were organized in four chairs: of philosophy and sociology, of economics, of social-political system and of international relations. In the first study year (1961/62), there were 31 regular and 48 extraordinary studenty at the  2nd level. In 1963, the first chair of Journalism, headed by France Vreg, was formed, which was at that time also the first such study program in whole Yugoslavia. In the same year, the college started to offer also postgraduate program (master's degree in political science). The official start of journalism study is in the study year of 1964/65. In 1963, a student dorm was built above the building of VŠPV with around 280 beds for students. Due to the fact, that this was only the second co-ed student dorm in Ljubljana and that was located by the  VŠPV, it was nicknamed "Marx's Brothel" (Marxov bordel). In 2001, the dorm was evicted, demolished in 2003-04 and then in 2006, the new dorm was built. Three years later, in 1966, first research centers were formed in the college. Next year (1967), a new master's degree was offered - in sociology. In 1968, the college was renamed into the College of Sociology, Political Science and Journalism ("Visoka šola za sociologijo, politične vede in novinarstvo"; VŠSPVN). In 1968, the Public Opinion Center (current name: "Public Opinion and Mass Communication Research Centre") was formed as part of the college. Already  in 1970, the college became a member of the University of Ljubljana (the 10th member of the University), and was at the same time reorganized into the Faculty of Sociology, Political Science and Journalism ("Fakulteta za sociologijo, politične vede in novinarstvo"; FSPVN). In 1974, a new study program was introduced - "General People's Defence and Societal selfprotection" ("splošna ljudska obramba in družbena samozaščita"), which was later developed into defence studies. In 1975, four FSPN professors (Vladimir Arzenšek, Tine Hribar, Janez Jerovšek and Veljko Rus) were removed from their teaching positions, because of their liberal views and for not including in  their works more emphesis on Marxism, wrongly defined self-management and neglected the revolucionary role of the working class. By 1986, the faculty had five study programs: sociology (with three disciplines), political science (with two disciplines), journalism, self-management with foundations of Marxism and defence studies. In 1991, the Institute of Sociology (until then independent organization) merged with the Research Institute FSPN into the Social Sciences Research Institute. In the same year, the faculty is renamed into the Faculty of Social Sciences ("Fakulteta za družbene vede"; FDV). In 1995, the FDV Publishing House was formed and in 1997 also the  Social Science Data Archive (Arhiv družboslovnih podatkov; ADP). In 2005, the faculty started to offer first Bologna Process study programs. Study. Currently, faculty is offering these study programs: Organization. Currently, the Faculty has the following departments and chairs: People. Teaching staff. In the school year of 2020/21, 115 university teachers were employed at the faculty. Among the most prominent teachers in the history of the faculty are: Graduates. By the study year 2020/21, 13,909 people completed bachelor programs, 50 completed specialized programs, 3,073 completed master study programs (of those 1,534 completed pre-Bologna scientific master programs) and 490 people completed  doctoral programs. Among the most prominent graduates of the faculty are: