Rīgas pedagoģijas un izglīTĪbas vadības augstskola

Appendix No. 2

Descriptions of study courses
General education study courses
RĪGAS PEDAGOĢIJAS UN IZGLĪTĪBAS VADĪBAS AUGSTSKOLA

Imantas 7. līnijā - 1, Rīga, LV – 1083, tālrunis 7808010, fakss7808034

Description of the Study course

Study course title: Business communication
Study programme title: PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
Amount: 2 CP, 16 contact-lessons, 64 h of autonomous work, Block A - ECTS
Author and lecturer of the course: Mg. oec. lecturer Rasma Urtāne
Aim of the course:

To help understand the business communication significance for the work of the organisation and to introduce with the demands for information processing and correct documentation for the information flow, ensuring the use of the regulations in legislation and resolutions for information maintenance,recording and storing in archives.

Envisaged results:

Understand the significance of communication for the work of the organisation. Acquire verbal and written communication, to implement the principal requirements of legislation and resolutions of the Republic of Latvia.

Contents of the course:
Thematic plan of the course

No	Theme	Contact-lessons		Student autonomous work hours
		Full-time studies	Part-time studies	Full-time studies	Part-time studies
	Essence, significance, aims, and functions of communication.		1		4
	Information problems. Information flow, exchange.		1		4
	Formal, informal information in the organisation. Argumentation, its methods.		1		4
	Verbal and written communication, its significance. Organisation of written communication – business correspondence.		1		4
	Normative basis of business correspondence regulations		1		4
	Requirements of document processing and document execution.		3		12
	Organisational system of documentation. Specific and complaint correspondence.		3		12
	Information (documentation) circulation in the organisation.		1		4
	Document registration, controlling.		2		8
	Document maintenance,recording and storing in archives.		2		8
	Total		16		64

Plan of the autonomous work:

No	Theme	Type of work	Assessment type
1.		Example. Report, Project, etc.	Example. Test, defence of the work, etc.
1.	Document sample processing, in accordance with the five groups of the management system	Homework: to process 5 document samples: order, reference, warrant, letter, application	Review
2.	Development of information journals (registration journal). Document registration.	Homework: to process a registration journal for incoming documents and register 3 letters.	Review
3.	Model of communication process, information circulation flow in the organisation chosen by the student.	Report	Presentation
4.	Written communication		Test
5.	Information circulation flow in the organisation.		Test

Study course acquisition assessment form: Examination (written or verbal).
Study course is read in the Latvian language. It is also possible to study it in the Russian language.
Literature:

1. 
   Praude V., BeļčikovsV. Menedžments, Vaidelote, 2001.
   
2. 
   Bahanovskis V. “Praktiskā lietvedība”.- Kamene,- R.-2002.- 255 lpp.
   
3. 
   Kalējs J, Ābele M. ”Lietvedības pamati”.- KIF Biznesa komplekss,- R., 2002.-190 lpp.
   
4. 
   Kalve I. “Jaunās paaudzes lietvedība”.- Biznesa augstskola Turība,- R.-2002.- 231 lpp.
   
5. 
   Urtāne R. „Lietvedība un arhīvs”.- SIA LUMA,-R.-2003.-350 lpp.
   
6. 
   LR likums “Par arhīviem”, 26.03.1991. (Grozījumi likumā 21.10.1993. un 2001.)
   
7. 
   Latvijas Valsts arhīvu ģenerāldirekcijas instrukcija “Instrukcija par juridisko personu arhīvu dokumentu uzkrāšanu, uzskaiti, saglabāšanu un izmantošanu”, 10.10.2004.
   
8. 
   Latvijas Valsts arhīvu ģenerāldirekcijas apstiprinātais “Valsts institūciju tipveida dokumentu glabāšanas termiņu saraksts”, 27.12.1996.
   
9. 
   “Valsts institūciju tipveida dokumentu glabāšanas termiņu saraksts pašvaldībās”, 2002.
   
10. 
    Latvijas Valsts arhīvu ģenerāldirekcijas “Rekomendācijas dokumentu noformēšanai – papīra un informācijas pierakstīšanas līdzekļu izvēlei”.
    
11. 
    LVS ISO 9706:1994 “Informācija un dokumentācija. Dokumentu papīrs. Ilgizturības prasības.”Valsts arhīvu ģenerāldirekcijas dienesta informācija Nr. 10-6.4/220 “Pamattermini arhīvu terminoloģijā”, 07.05.2003.
    
12. 
    LR MK noteikumi Nr. 154 “Dokumentu izstrādāšanas un noformēšanas noteikumi”, 23.04.1996.
    
13. 
    LR likums “Elektronisko dokumentu likums”, 31.10.2002.
    
14. 
    LR likums “Iesniegumu, sūdzību un priekšlikumu izskatīšanas kārtība valsts un pašvaldību institūcijās”, 27.10.1994.
    
15. 
    LR MK noteikumi Nr. 99 “Par iesniegumu, sūdzību un priekšlikumu lietvedību valsts un pašvaldību iestādēs”, 18.04.1995.
    
16. 
    LR likums “Valsts valodas likums”, 09.12.1999.
    
17. 
    MK noteikumi Nr. 286 “Noteikumi par svešvārdu lietošanu zīmogu, spiedogu un veidlapu tekstā.” 22.08.2000.
    
18. 
    MK noteikumi Nr. 288 “Noteikumi par tulkojumu nodrošināšanu pasākumos”. 22.08.2000.
    
19. 
    MK noteikumi Nr. 291 “Kārtība, kādā apliecināmi dokumentu tulkojumi valsts valodā”, 22.08.2000.
    
20. 
    MK noteikumi Nr. 292 “Noteikumi par valodu lietošanu informācijā”, 22.08.2000.
    
21. 
    MK noteikumi Nr. 295 “Noteikumi par vārdu un uzvārdu rakstību un identifikāciju”. 22.08.2000.
    
22. 
    LR likums “Pasta likums”, 12.05.1994.
    
23. 
    LR MK noteikumi Nr. 265 “Pasta noteikumi”, 29.08.1995.
    
24. 
    Ньюстром Д.В.,Девис К. „Организационное поведение”. СП,:Питер,2000
    

Specific notes:

The necessary pre-knowledge for the acquisition of the study course:

Maybe previous knowledge of business correspondence and management course, yet it is without a decisive significance.

Specific requirements during the study course acquisition:

OHP or multimedia

Warrant after the study course acquisition:

After the course acquisition the acquired knowledge will be ready to use for the office work organisation, for management of an enterprise or its structural unit, as well as the skill to self-dependent work on document execution (business correspondence, accounting, personnel management) in accordance with the legislation will be obtained.

Rules for successful accomplishing of the study course:

Attendance of, at least, 50% lectures, submitted all autonomous works and successfully written both the tests, passed verbal or written (as agreed) examination.

Self-examination questions:

1. 
   Significance of communication in the work of the organisation
   
2. 
   Information exchange
   
3. 
   Communication process
   
4. 
   Communication correlation.
   
5. 
   Communication problems and errors.
   
6. 
   Inter-personal communication.
   
7. 
   Communication types in organisations.
   
8. 
   Argumentation.
   
9. 
   What is office work?
   
10. 
    What are the principal tasks of the office work?
    
11. 
    What are the basic modules of the office work?
    
12. 
    What is the document?
    
13. 
    What are the principal functions of the document?
    
14. 
    When the document is officially authorized?
    
15. 
    How to organise the office work in the organisation?
    
16. 
    According to what features and what groups are documents classified into?
    
17. 
    How are documents classified according to their validity terms?
    
18. 
    What is the specific book-keeping?
    
19. 
    Can you assess a document by the statement – a “correct” or “incorrect” document?
    
20. 
    How to process a reputable document?
    
21. 
    What is the principal part of each document?
    
22. 
    What defines the document type and title?
    
23. 
    How many and what are the parts of the document body?
    
24. 
    What are the document requisites?
    
25. 
    What defines the use of the state coat of arms on the juridical person’s form or stamp?
    
26. 
    What is the service mark of the document?
    
27. 
    What requisites are displayed on the requisite field of the form?
    
28. 
    What requisites and service marks are displayed on the pre-text field of the form?
    
29. 
    What requisites are displayed at the end of the document body?
    
30. 
    What requisites and service marks are displayed on the document signature field?
    
31. 
    What is established by organisational documents?
    
32. 
    When organisational documents obtain legal authority?
    
33. 
    What types of organisational documents do you know?
    
34. 
    What are order documents, and what types of documents do you know?
    
35. 
    How can order documents be classified, according to their aim of issuing?
    
36. 
    What order documents must be marked by a service mark: that the document is read?
    
37. 
    Is the order of hiring, a decisive legal modus operandi?
    
38. 
    What are the documents of references and transaction reports, what types of these documents do you know?
    
39. 
    Do you have to authorize references and transaction reports to make them officially authorized?
    
40. 
    What is the protocol?
    
41. 
    What are the business correspondence documents and what types of business correspondence do you know?
    
42. 
    Are telephonograms or telegrams officially authorized documents? What does it mean: faxogram?
    
43. 
    What is the letter and what types of letters do you know?
    
44. 
    How the warrant letter is different from other types of letters?
    
45. 
    What is an application? What other types of documents processed by physical persons do you know?
    
46. 
    How many and what groups of personnel documents do you know?
    
47. 
    What legislation and resolutions documents regulate post dispatch services, their official registering and postal tariffs?
    
48. 
    What legislation and resolutions documents regulate the official procedure of considering applications, complaints and suggestions in the organisations?
    
49. 
    Must you control the considering of applications, complaints and suggestions in the organisations?
    
50. 
    What documents are submitted to specific business correspondence?
    
51. 
    What is document circulation?
    
52. 
    How are documents classified according to their flow circulation in the organisation?
    
53. 
    What is the aim of the document registration?
    
54. 
    What document registration systems are used in business correspondence?
    
55. 
    What does it mean to control the document execution? What document execution terms do you know?
    
56. 
    What is the description of the file, and why are they completed?
    
57. 
    What types of descriptions do you know?
    
58. 
    What is the historic reference, and how is it completed?
    
59. 
    Where and how long are the personnel lists archived?
    
60. 
    How the personnel document grouping in files differ from the other categories of documents in grouping?
    
61. 
    What documents are archived by the state?
    
62. 
    What documents are destroyed?
    
63. 
    What is the juridical person’s archive foundation?
    
64. 
    How are files delivered and admitted, in cases of the change of the juridical personnel archive manager?
    

Confirmed by

the sitting of the department of Economics and entrepreneurship

17 November 2005

Head of the department: Jānis Viržbickis

RIGA TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT ACADEMY

Imantas 7. līnija 1, Riga LV – 1083, phone:[phone], fax: [phone]
Description of the study course
Title of the study course: Logic
Title of the study program: Personnel management
Amount: 2 CP, 3 ECTS
Author and lecturers of the course: Mag. phil., lecturer V. Turins
Aim of the course:

To promote students’ comprehension of thinking as a purposeful and sequential activity, the means and result of the personality development..

Expected result:

Cultivated thinking skills, the ability to use rules of logic, the skills to observe, analyze, evaluate and reason, to promote the autonomy of students’ personality..

Contents of the course:
Thematic planning contents

No.	Topic	Contact lessons		Hours of student autonomous study
		Full-time studies	Part-time studies	Full-time studies	Part-time studies
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.	Introduction. Concept. Defining concepts. Solution of problems (Euler’s circles; restriction and generalization of concepts; analyses of different concrete definitions. The logic of judgments. The basic laws of logic. Logic square and its rules. Problem solving. Logic of conclusions. Simple categorical syllogism. Argumentation. Problem solving.		2 2 2 3 2 3 2		64

Planning of independent work:

No.	Topic	Type of work	Form of assessment
1. 1.1 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. 1.5. 1.6.	List of topics to be acquired independently: The history of the ideas of logic. Aristotle. Ethics of stoicism. Ethic ideas in Middle Ages. G.Leibnitz’s logic. E .Kant’s logic. Logic ideas in the 19^th and 20^th centuries.	Analyses of literature	Self-analyses
1. 2.	List of independent assignments Problem solving with Euler’s circles. (“Teddy bear”).	Conclusions	Public presentation of conclusions and discussion.

Form of assessment of the acquisition of the course: Written examination
The course is delivered in Latvian (German, Russian).
Literature:

Compulsory literature:

1.Vedins I. Loģika, R., 1998.

2. Filozofija tekstu fragmentos. Sast. Turins V. RPIVA, 2000.
Recommended literature:

1. TulvisteP. Par domāšanas izmaiņām vēsturē.-R., 1990.

2. VedinsI., GoldeJ. Uzdevumi loģikā.-R., 1992.

3. Vedins J. Formālā loģika, R., 1979.

4. Veits D.P. Loģika R., 2000

5. Zieh O., Kolman A. Unterhaltsame Logik.-Leipzig, 1975.

Specific remarks:

Preliminary knowledge of philosophy is desirable.

REVIEWED

In the meeting of the Department___________

_____________, 2005

Head of the Dept._______________

RIGA TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT ACADEMY

Imantas 7. līnija 1, Riga LV – 1083, phone:[phone], fax: [phone]
Description of the study course
Title of the study course: Fundamentals of philosophy.
Title of the study programme: Personnel management
Amount: 2 CP, 3 ECTS
Author and lecturers of the course: Mg.phil. V.Turins
Aim of the course:

To promote students’ acknowledgement of their presence in the world in the context of the existential and social processes of their lives.

Expected result:

The acquisition of the general regulations of the genesis of man’s intellectual and value spheres, the abilities to use the consequences of philosophical heritage and reasoning in improvement and communication.

Contents of the course:

Thematic planning of the contents

No.	Topic	Contact lessons		Hours of student autonomous study
		Full-time studies	Part-time studies	Full-time studies	Part-time studies
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.	General description of philosophy: On the following issues: What is philosophy? What is man? What is mind? Metaphysics, rationalism, dialectics: Aristotle’s teaching on existence; Heraclites and dialectics; concepts and teachings on existence and dialectics in the history of philosophy. The modern methods of philosophy nowadays: irrationalism; dialectics and phenomenology; existentialism, hermeneutics, postmodernism. Insight into the history of philosophy. The advent of Western philosophy in Ancient Greece; philosophy and Christianity, philosophy of Modern Age, modern philosophy. Philosophical thought in Latvia. Eastern philosophy.		4 2 2 6 1 1		64

Planning of independent work

No.	Topic	Type of work	Form of assessment
1. 2.	List of topics to be acquired independently: Religion and philosophy of Ancient China. Religion and philosophy of Ancient India.	Theoretical reception. Theoretical reception.	Theoretical part in the examination. Theoretical part in the examination
3. 4.	List of assignments to be done independently: To find an appropriate fragment of a text from the classics of philosophy. To get acquainted with the biography of the correspondent author and the description of the historical period.	To read the texts in the book Philosophy in t Fragments of Texts (see the list of literature) To read the corresponding chapter in the book : M.Kūle, R.Kūlis Philosophy (see the list of literature)	To prepare an in-depth comment on the chosen fragment of the text, to hand in written theses and defend them at an oral examination.