The postgraduate courses offered in Chodkowska University in Warsaw is directed at people who want to raise their qualifications and those who want to enter a new attractive profession. Our University ensures that apart from theory the curricula include several practical assignments, workshops, and classes. This allows students to acquire concrete skills which they can use in their daily work in the future. Lecturers are both academic teachers and practitioners who deal daily with issues related to these studies. Such staff guarantees offering professional postgraduate studies based on the latest knowledge, which are constantly adjusted to the needs of the labour market. A diploma is given on successful completion of particular subjects as well as writing and defending a diploma thesis. Not only are the students evaluated but they themselves evaluate their lecturers, filling in evaluation questionnaires. This system guarantees maintaining high standards and motivates the lecturers to excel. Recruitment is carried out twice a year(winter and summer semesters).

MANAGERIAL ECOLOGICAL STUDIES FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

Course objectives: raising the competitiveness of Polish regions in regards to sustained growth (eco-growth) through imparting current knowledge. Both the theory and practice of modern management confirm that ecological management at the local government level is a chance of building a competitive edge, creating a regional identity that is friendly to the environment and man and improving the quality of life for regional communities.

CONSTRUCTION INVESTMENT PROCESS

Course objectives: preparing graduates to acquire current knowledge in the field of the duties and licensing of construction process participants, preparation and realization of investments, procedures and regulations of procurement, insuring, financing and co-financing of investments. The course program helps in the necessary preparation for an exam for construction licenses.

ECONOMIC INSURANCE IN POLAND AND THE EU – DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES IN THE 21^ST CENTURY

Course objectives: to teach students the construction and mechanisms of the functioning of insurance companies in Poland and the EU. Graduates will acquire and systemize the knowledge allowing for an understanding of the economic and standard mechanisms of the functioning of insurance companies, their offered products and services, their usefulness and the possibility of applying them to economic activity of entrepreneurs operating on domestic markets and international trade.

PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN UKRAINE

Course objectives: preparing students to work and to carry out economic activity on the Ukrainian market. The course curriculum covers the basic issues concerning the legal system of Ukraine, the procedures and rules of starting economic activity. Course students will also learn foreign trade issues in the context of Polish-Ukrainian trade.

REAL ESTATE BROKER

Course objectives: acquiring knowledge in the field of law, economics and finance necessary to qualify as a real estate broker. Successful completion of the course is one of the requirements of a real estate license. Our University ensures course graduates the possibility of receiving six month professional training with licensed brokers who are members of the Warsaw Association of Real Estate Brokers which is another requirement for the license.

MEDIA AND POLITICAL MARKETING

Course objectives: the course prepares students to work in politics, business and media. It gives knowledge and skills useful for candidates for political office and for work in local government structures, social and trade union organizations, and also in political parties.

QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN THE FOOD SECTOR

Course objectives: to teach students about the comprehensive problems of management regarding the quality and safety of food, the functioning of the system of accreditation of research laboratories operating in the food sector. The course student can obtain a certificate of internal auditor of integrated management systems: ISO 9001:2000, HACCP(ISO 22000) issued by TUV Akademia Polska Ltd.

• Karolina Zwierzynska, Employed by a Warsaw PR agency

Two years ago I decided to raise my qualifications and started the postgraduate course, Media and Political Marketing. It helped me to enlarge my theoretical knowledge but more importantly gave me significant practical knowledge, especially in the field of political marketing – planning and conducting political marketing campaigns, creating the image of people, political parties, non-profit and business organizations; and also those concerning social marketing. After less than a year from completing the course I managed to change my job. Currently I am a PR specialist.

• Krystyna Jedral

I was sent by my company, where I have been working for seven years, for a postgraduate course, Control and Internal Audit. The course prepared me to perform new duties connected to my promotion. During the course I acquired the practical skills necessary for creating procedures for internal audit, learned to identify risk areas, to carry out risk analysis, to prepare an assessment of the annual plan. Some lectures focused on internal audit regarding the realization of investments financed from EU resources. The acquired knowledge and the practical training we had in this area is the best example of adjusting the course curriculum to market needs. The course created excellent professional prospects for me.