University-wide Courses

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The goal of university-wide courses is to broaden the scope of education of students by offering lessons that may be outside of their main discipline. These courses may be conducted either in Polish or in a foreign language.




 

Registration

Information regarding registration for the winter semester of the 2026/27 academic year will be announced shortly.

About university-wide courses

As part of university-wide courses, students can take courses in another field of study by selecting courses offered in both Polish and English. Students may enroll in two extra-curricular courses per year at no additional cost (in accordance with Resolution No. 40 of the UMK Senate dated June 22, 2021).

Pursuant to § 29(1) of the NCU Academic Regulations, upon a student’s request submitted within 14 days of the start of the academic year or semester, the dean may grant credit for courses specified in the study plan—including university-wide courses—based on courses the student has completed at UMK or another institution, including a foreign one. A prerequisite for course credit is the determination that the learning outcomes of these courses are equivalent.

Competency Blocks

A new addition to the program is competency blocks—sets of courses consisting of four to six subjects—the successful completion of which demonstrates that students have acquired key interpersonal, social, personal, and digital competencies sought after in the job market. These blocks allow students to develop their individual aptitudes and strengthen the areas that are most useful in the job market. Completion of a competency block will be confirmed by a certificate issued even before graduation. Students may complete more than one competency block and thus earn more than one certificate. The blocks are not strictly tied to specific majors and are open to students from all programs offered at UMK. Courses offered as part of the competency blocks may also be taken as individual university-wide courses; enrolling in some of these courses does not require completion of the entire block.

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Contact

If you have any questions or concerns regarding university-wide courses, please contact the appropriate person at the department.

Faculty Person E-mail, phone number

Chemistry

mgr Joanna Bełkowska jbelkowska@umk.pl,
tel.: +48 56 611-47-26

Pharmacy (CM)

mgr Ewa Paterek-Jaroszewska ewa.paterek@cm.umk.pl,
tel.: +48 52 585-34-00

Humanities

mgr Anna Osielska anna.osielska@umk.pl,
tel.: +48 56 611-35-25

Physics, Astronomy and Informatics

mgr Justyna Filipiak jfilipiak@umk.pl,
tel.: +48 56 611-32-81

Philosophy and Social Sciences

mgr Grażyna Szmigiel

studped@umk.pl,
tel.: +48 56 611-31-26

Medicine (CM)

mgr Katarzyna Pruszkiewicz

mgr Anna Bielińska

k.pruszkiewicz@cm.umk.pl,
tel.: +48 52 585-33-94

abielinska@cm.umk.pl,
tel.: +48 52 585-33-98

Mathematics and Computer Science

mgr Katarzyna Wietrzykowska kwiet@mat.umk.pl,
tel.: +48 56 611-34-31

Biological and Veterinary Sciences

mgr Edyta Rutkowska edyrut@umk.pl,
tel.: +48 56 611-25-83

Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management

mgr Barbara Polaszek barbara.polaszek@umk.pl,
tel.: +48 56 611-46-27

History

mgr Krystian Chyrkowski kch7@umk.pl,
tel.: +48 56 611-37-54
Health Sciences (CM)

mgr Joanna Tyburczy

dziekwnoz@cm.umk.pl,
tel.: +48 52 585-34-37

 Earth Sciences and Spatial Management

mgr Agnieszka Mrozowska amrozowska@umk.pl,
tel.: +48 56 611-44-43
 Political Science and Security Studies

mgr Ewa Tomaszewska

ewtom@umk.pl,
+48 56 611-21-49

Law and Administration

mgr Beata Kwiatkowska,

mgr Anna Polaszewska-Szatkowska

inez@law.umk.pl,
tel.: +48 56 611-40-39

a_posza@umk.pl,
tel.: +48 56 611-40-11

Fine Arts

mgr Maria Bednarek-Kwieciak wsp@umk.pl,
tel.: +48 56 611-38-45

Theology

mgr Ewa Reczkowska ewarecz@umk.pl,
tel.: +48 56 611-49-90

If you encounter any technical issues, please email us at: usos@umk.pl