Teaching geotechnics at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, VSB-Technical University Ostrava after Destructuralisation of University Study in the Czech Republic

This paper gives the information about the teaching geotechnics and geotechnical disciplines at the Faculty of Civil Engineering VSB-Technical University Ostrava (Czech Republic). The authors present the historical development of this study from the mining orientation towards the field of underground and geotechnical engineering. In this paper there is presented structural modification of the study program resulted from the necessity to adopt both the study structure and the study program to the requirements of the European Union (Bologna Declaration). There are stated three educational stages (bachelor, master, postgradual), duration of these stages, their basic subjects, profile of the graduates and the basic directions of future development of geotechnical program.