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Illyés Gyula Faculty
DEAN:
DR. BÉLA HORVÁTH, UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
TEL.: + 36/74/528-300
FAX: + 36/74/528-301
E-MAIL: TITKAR@IGYK.PTE.HU
ERASMUS COORDINATOR:
DR. KITTI MAROS
TEL: +36/74/ 528-300/1226
E-MAIL: ERASMUS@IGYK.PTE.HU
POSTAL ADDRESS:
H-7100 SZEKSZÁRD, RÁKÓCZI STR.1.
HUNGARY
GENERAL INFORMATION AT:
WWW.IGYK.PTE.HU
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Szekszárd lies 60 km northeast of Pécs, just off main road (Nr. 6) connecting Pécs and
Budapest. The town has 40,000 inhabitants and is the seat of Tolna County. The town was
built at a point where the Great Hungarian Plains meet the hills of Transdanubia, so it is partly
flat and partly hilly. Szekszárd is one of the most dynamically developing towns in South
Transdanubia both economically and culturally. Its museums (Wosinsky Mór Museum etc.),
the County Archives, its libraries, the Babits Mihály Cultural Centre and the Arts Centre
enjoy an excellent reputation, and the town is also home to the country’s only German
Theatre. Several works of Ferenc Liszt were composed here when he visited the town. The
poet Mihály Babits is one of the great natives of Szekszárd; the house where he was born is
now a museum. Szekszárd offers a wide range of opportunities for entertainment, ranging
from more serious to quite informal options. Visitors may wish to attend the local German
Theatre, the birthplace of Mihály Babits, take part in various festivals (e.g.: Grape Harvest
Festival, Saint Ladislas’s Days) as well as take a hike in the beautiful surroundings of
Szekszárd (including Gemenc, the Lake Szálka, Dark Valley) and taste the local wine in one
of the numerous cellars and pubs. The first vines were planted in Roman times on the hills of
Szekszárd, and the wines made in the region are well-known all over the world. The history of
Szekszárd dates back to ancient times. Archaeologists discovered significant relics of Celtic,
Roman, and later Avar settlements around the city. King Béla I founded a monastery here and
granted the settlement the rank of a town. Szekszárd has dynamically developing international
relations: its twin cities include Bezons (France), Bietigheim-Bissingen (Germany), Tornio
(Finland), Becse (Yugoslavia). Szekszárd is home to the Illyés Gyula Faculty of Education of
the University of Pécs. With over 2,000 students, the Illyés Gyula Faculty of Education is the
largest educational centre of Tolna County and plays a significant role in higher education in
the region as well as in its academic and cultural life.
The legal predecessor of Illyés Gyula Faculty was established in 1970 as a result of emerging
demand in the labour market to help overcome the shortage of primary school teachers in the
country. In 2000, in the course of a national process of integration, it became the Faculty of
Education of the University of Pécs and assumed the name of the famous Hungarian writer
Gyula Illyés. Since 2011, the Faculty has become a university faculty named University of
Pécs Illyés Gyula Faculty. Beside offering training programmes for teachers in the lower
grades of primary education and in kindergartens (including programmes for German
minority teachers and German minority kindergarten teachers), today the Faculty trains
experts in four fields (humanities and social sciences; business and tourism studies; teacher
training; art teaching) and provides its students with up-to-date knowledge in six basic majors
and seven post-secondary special training programs. Today the Faculty is also a significant
further training centre in the region, offering special exams to educators and social workers,
special further training programmes and higher-level vocational training. In 2007 the Faculty
celebrated its 30th anniversary by organising a wide range of national and international
scholarly and cultural events as well as by the publication of many books Institutes of the
Faculty: Institute of Pedagogy, Institute of Social Work and Social Policy, Institute of
Business and Tourism Studies, Institute of Literature and Linguistics.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Our research interests include the following fields: psychology, pedagogy, methodology, child
development, teaching languages, literature, linguistics, media and communication,
anthropology, folklore, social policy, social science, natural science, music and visual
education, teacher development, language acquisition, cross-curricular teaching, business and
tourism and several other fields.
INFRASTRUCTURE
The Faculty’s four institutes, seven departments and educational teams make sure that our
students are provided with updated knowledge and useful practical skills in their chosen
academic field of study. The many-coloured and multitier range of training programmes is the
result of a dynamic development strategy that involves, besides expanding the scope of
training, the continuous development of the Faculty’s infrastructure. In addition to the
recently refurbished and modernised main building, E-building, an integrated practice school,
a student hostel, a bookshop, a library, a swimming pool, indoor and outdoor sporting
facilities, refreshment rooms, a cafeteria, a conference hall, a student’s club, free Internet
access and several multimedia lecture and seminar rooms serve our students.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
The Faculty has extensive international relations with numerous academic institutions in the
European Union and in Central European countries, mainly in Belgium, Germany, Poland,
Austria, Slovakia and Romania. The Illyés Gyula Faculty of Education has been actively
involved in the Socrates/Erasmus programmes since 1998. Students and teachers have
exchange programmes with: Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra – Slovakia „1
Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia – Romania Panstwowa Wyzsza Szkola Zawodowa
in Krosno – Poland State Higher Vocational School in Nowy Sacz – Poland Uniwersytet
Wroclawski – Poland Pädagogische Akademie des Bundes in Vorarlberg in Feldkirch –
Austria Pädagogische Hochschule Schwabisch Gmünd – Germany Universität Leipzig,
Institut für Grundschulpädagogik – Germany KATHO Katholieke Hogeschool Zuid-WestVlaanderen in Kortrjk – Belgium Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen (HOWEST) in Kortrijk –
Belgium Hogeschool Antwerpen – Belgium Universidad de Granada, Facultad de
Traducción-Interpretación – Spain Technological Educational Institution (T.E.I.) of Athens –
Greece Hacettepe University School of Social Work in Ankara – Turkey, University of
Applied Sciences – Kemi-Tornio –Finnland.
COURSES OFFERED IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Course title: Regional Development and Tourism - Regional and Settlement Marketing
Language of instruction: English
Form of teaching: lecture/consultation
Form of assessment: assessment is based on participation, presentations
Course description: The course will cover among others the following fields : Theories,
methods and tools of development of settlement/city competitiveness – based on European
and Hungarian experiences. Realization of the planning and application competences of
regional and settlement marketing. Analysis of the relationship between tourism product
development and settlement development
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: lecture/consultation
Credits (ECTS): 7
Semester: both
Lecturer: Dr. Zoltán Raffay, College Associate Professor, raffay.zoltan@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: Operational Techniques of Tourism
Language of instruction: English
Form of teaching: lecture/consultation
Form of assessment: assessment is based on participation, presentations
Course description: The course will cover the following fields: Content of tourism policy,
national tourism policy. Tourism policy on regional level. Strategic relationship between
tourism and regional development. Theoretical basis of regional and tourism planning, the
integration of the aspects of complex tourism planning into the planning process of regional
and rural development. Overview of the international and national tourism planning process.
The National Tourism Development Strategy (2005-2013), regional tourism development
strategies.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: lecture/consultation
Credits (ECTS): 5
Semester: both
Lecturer: Dr. Zoltán Raffay, College Associate Professor, raffay.zoltan@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: Regional and Settlement Development in Hungary
Language of instruction: English
Form of teaching: lecture/consultation
Form of assessment: assessment is based on participation, presentations
Course description: The course will cover among others the following fields: The
development of regional policy in the European Union and Hungary. Regional disparities
within Hungary. The NUTS system in Hungary. An introduction of the Hungarian units of
territorial statistics (regions, counties, micro-regions). Rural development in Hungary.
National regional development documents. Regional development documents of the planning
and statistical regions of Hungary. The organisational system of spatial development in
Hungary. Development tasks and responsibilities of municipalities in Hungary.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: 2
Credits (ECTS): 7
Semester: both
Lecturer: Dr. Zoltán Raffay PhD, College Associate Professor, raffay.zoltan@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: Sustainable tourism forms in Hungary
Language of instruction: English
Form of teaching: lecture/consultation
Form of assessment: assessment is based on participation, presentations
Course description: The course will cover among others the following fields: the concept
and practice of sustainable development. Sustainable tourism, ecotourism. Hunting and
angling tourism. Enological tourism. Equestrian tourism. Cycling tourism. Pilgrimages. Water
tourism. Protected areas and national parks in Hungary and their role in tourism. Rural and
agrotourism.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: 2
Credits (ECTS): 5
Semester: both
Lecturer: Dr. Zoltán Raffay PhD, College Associate Professor, raffay.zoltan@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: Business Calculations
Language of instruction: English
Form of teaching: seminar/consultation
Form of assessment: assessment is based on participation, presentations
Course description: The students will be able to understand the widely used terminology of
common business calculations, like profit rate, debt ratio, labour productivity etc. They also
learn about price and cost calculations and the main principles of tax calculations.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: lecture/consultation
Credits (ECTS): 7
Semester: both
Lecturer: Dr. Katalin Fülöp Braun PhD, College Senior Lecturer, fkati@igyfk.pte.hu
Course title: Introduction to Accounting
Language of instruction: English
Form of teaching: seminar/consultation
Form of assessment: assessment is based on participation, presentations
Course description: This module is aimed to provide some fundamental knowledge in the
area of accounting. We primarily focus on interpreting and analyzing financial information,
which students will definitely need in their future business activities or in their further studies.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: lecture/consultation
Credits (ECTS): 7
Semester: both
Lecturer: Dr. Katalin Fülöp Braun PhD, College Senior Lecturer, fkati@igyfk.pte.hu
Course title: Fund management and tendering operations
Language of instruction: English
Credits (ECTS): 5
Form of teaching: personal consultation
Form of assessment: completion of an exercise-book
Course description: The course investigates the elements and main issues of the basics of
regional development planning: tendering. The programme is based on PCM (project cycle
management) planning method.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: lecture/consultation
Semester: both
Lecturer: Dr. Zsolt Huszti PhD, College Associate Professor, husztizs@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: ESP – English for Tourism and Catering
Language of instruction: English
Form of teaching: seminar
Form of assessment: assessment is based on participation, home assignments, tests and
presentation
Course description: In the framework of the course students will have the opportunity to
prepare for working in the field of tourism and catering. Apart from acquiring the necessary
vocabulary, they will reinforce their existing language skills, both orally and in writing.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: 4
Credits (ECTS): 4
Semester: both
Lecturer: Dr. Zoltán Raffay PhD, College Associate Professor, raffay.zoltan@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: German for Tourism and Catering
Language of instruction: German
Form of teaching: seminar
Form of assessment: assessment is based on participation, home assignments, tests and
presentation
Course description: In the framework of the course students will have the opportunity to
prepare for working in the field of tourism and catering. Apart from acquiring the necessary
vocabulary, they will reinforce their existing language skills, both orally and in writing.
Class hours per week: 4
Credits (ECTS): 4
Semester: winter
Lecturer: Ágnes Szabóné Kedves, kedvesa@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: Tourism geography
Language of instruction: English
Form of teaching: Seminar/Consultation
Form of assessment: assessment is based on participation, presentations and essay
Course description: The students study about the most important natural, economical and
cultural conditions of Hungary and the most significant places of interests of the Hungarian
Tourismus and other resort areas. The students referate about one of the most important
touristic region/attraction of their country.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: 2
Credits (ECTS): 5
Semester: Spring
Lecturer: Dr. Viktor Oroszi PhD, assistant lecturer, oroszi.viktor@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: Touristische Regionen Ungarns
Language of instruction: Deutsch
Form of teaching: seminar/consultation
Form of assessment: KBLK
Course description: Attraktionen der touristischen Regionen von Ungarn, Analyse und
Bewertung der einzelnen Regionen auf Grund der touristischen Trends.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: 2
Credits (ECTS): 5
Semester: Spring
Lecturer: Ágnes Szabóné Kedves, kedvesa@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: Hungarian folk law and legal anthropology
Language of instruction: English
Credits (ECTS): 4
Form of teaching: seminar/consultation
Form of assessment: active participation in the seminars/consultation, essay or presentation
Course description: The course will familiarize students with Hungarian folk law (old
Hungarian society, Hungarian folklore, traditional law, legal customs, legal traditions in the
family, criminal law and customs) and legal anthropology (research and results).
Class hours per week: 2
Semester:
Lecturer: Dr. Janka Teodóra Nagy, college professor, janka@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: Social Law in Hungary
Language of instruction: English
Form of teaching: seminar/consultation
Form of assessment: participation in seminars, presentation, course mark
Course description: The seminar introduces key concepts of Hungary’s social and
employment policy and social law. Besides, it sets out the historical background of the
development of the European Union’s social and employment law.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: 1
Credits (ECTS): 5
Semester: both
Lecturer: Dr. Janka Teodóra Nagy; College Professor; janka@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: Psychology in Social Work
Language of instruction: English
Form of teaching: seminar/consultation
Form of assessment: participation in seminars, presentation, course mark
Course description: This seminar introduces students to special knowledge and skills of a
practitioner. Topics to be covered include e.g.: development of competency, outer boundaries
of family systems, internal boundaries and family subsystems, verbal following and exploring
skills.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: 1
Credits (ECTS): 5
Semester: both
Lecturer: Dr. Zsuzsanna Lovász, College Associate Professor; lovasz@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: Poverty and Social Exclusion in the European Union and in Hungary
Language of instruction: English
Form of teaching: seminar
Form of assessment: Assessment based on participation and home assignments
Course description: The course focuses on the issues of inequality, social exclusion and
poverty reduction. The course will provide an insight into the complexity of poverty and
social exclusion by highlighting their territorial and ethnic dimensions.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: 2
Credits (ECTS): 5
Semester: spring
Lecturer: Dr. Krisztina Jász Ph.D, College Associate Professor; jaszkrisztina@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: Evolutionary Psychology
Language of instruction: English
Form of teaching: seminar/consultation
Form of assessment: participation, test
Course description: Evolutionary psychology is the new, integrated approach of human
nature, based on understanding domain-specific adaptations that our ancestors evolved in
prehistory to cope with the challenges of survival and reproduction. Evolutionary
psychologists can develop testable explanations that focus on aspects and mechanisms of
behavior that cannot readily be explained with current psychological theories on human
sexuality, aggression, status, parenting, family life, group cooperation, emotions, etc. The
adaptationist approach tries to offer a coherent framework for unifying the diverse areas of
contemporary psychology research.
Prerequisite for the course: no prerequisites
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: 2
Credits (ECTS): 3
Lecturer: Dr. habil Norbert Meskó PhD, College Associate Professor, meskon@igyfk.pte.hu
Course title: Science of Beauty
Language of instruction: English
Form of teaching: seminar/consultation
Form of assessment: participation, test
Course description: What is the meaning of human physical attractiveness? This course
studies the basic concept of beauty, examining the views of influential evolutionary, social
and cognitive psychologists. Participants look at how beauty has been defined historically, as
well as in modern times, and emphasize how sex differences influence the judgements of
attractiveness. The course discusses sexuality as it relates to beauty, concluding that, at least
today, beauty and sex are intertwined.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: 2
Credits (ECTS): 5
Semester: both
Lecturer: Dr. habil Norbert Meskó PhD, College Associate Professor, meskon@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: Methodik des Fremdsprachenunterrichts
Language of instruction: Deutsch
Form of teaching: Seminar
Form of assessment: Aktive Teilnahme am Seminar
Course description: Die Studierenden sollten in die Lage gesetzt werden das fach Deutsch
als Fremdsprache in den Klassen 1-6 unterrichten zu können
Die Geschichte des Fremdsprachenunterrichts, Charakteristika des frühen
Fremdsprachenunterrichts, Fertigkeiten und sparchlicher Inhalt in den Unterrichtsstunden,
spielerische Sprachaneignung, Lehrplanentwicklung, Medien und Sozialformen,
Leistungsmessung.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: 3 Stunden /Woche
Credits (ECTS): 5
Semester: Winter
Lecturer: Dr. habil Ágnes Klein PhD, College Associate Professor, klein@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: Frühe Zweisprachigkeit
Language of instruction: Deutsch
Form of teaching: Seminar
Form of assessment: Aktive Teilnahme am Seminar
Course description: Einführung in die Theorie und Praxis der Zweisprachigkeit.
Forschungsgeschichte, Zweitspracherwerb als interdisziplinarer Forschungsbereich,
frühkindliche Zweisparchigkeit, Untersuchung Aneignungsprozesse in den Familien und in
Institutionen.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: 2 Stunden /Woche
Credits (ECTS): 5
Semester: Frühling
Lecturer: Dr. habil Ágnes Klein PhD, College Associate Professor, klein@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: Literatur der Ungarndeutschen Minderheit
Language of instruction: Deutsch
Form of teaching: Seminar
Form of assessment: Aktive Teilnahme am Seminar
Course description: Einführung in die Literatur der Ungarndeutschen
Die Literatur des Karpatenbeckens, Literatur und Identitaet, Minderheitenschicksal im Spiegel
der Literatur.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: 2 Stunden /Woche
Credits (ECTS): 5
Semester: Frühling
Lecturer: Dr. habil Ágnes Klein PhD, College Associate Professor, klein@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: Chamber Music
Language of instruction: German
Form of teaching: consultation
Form of assessment: assessment is based on participation, home assignments and
presentation.
Course description: The purpose of the course is to introduce the requirements necessary for
this type of classical music. Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small
group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most
broadly, it includes any ‘art music’ that is performed by a small number of performers with
one performer to a part. The material of the course consists of obligatory and optional pieces
of music, thus comprising all the major eras of music history and national choral music. A
historical survey of instrumental chamber music from the Renaissance to the present.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: 2
Credits (ECTS): 3
Semester: both
Lecturer: János Müller, College Assistant Professor; mullerj@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: Literature of Music
Language of instruction: German
Form of teaching: Consultation
Form of assessment: assessment is based on participation, home assignments and
presentation
Course description: The course will centre on a selection of musical works that students will
learn through listening and score study. The course mainly focuses on a survey of music from
the early Christian era to the present, focusing on origins and evolution of musical styles,
forms, and genres, transformations of traditional musical idioms as well as newly developed
styles. Social and cultural contexts are examined in relation to musical materials and their
application within specific repertoire. Music literature and listening materials illustrate these
changes.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: 2
Credits (ECTS): 5
Semester: both
Lecturer: János Müller, College Assistant Professor; mullerj@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: Sociolinguistics
Language of instruction: English
Form of teaching: consultation/seminar
Form of assessment: assessment is based on participation, presentation and home
assignments
Course description: This seminar is offered to students who are interested in applied
linguistics, who are interested in explaining why we speak differently in different social
contexts. The aim of the course is to introduce students to the relationship between language
and society. The main topics of the course: applications of sociolinguistics; the
sociolinguistics interview; language variation and change; speech community; style, context,
register; gender and age; social language codes (restricted and elaborated code); language,
cognition and culture.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: 1
Credits (ECTS): 5
Semester: both
Lecturer: Dr. Dóra Boronkai Ph.D, College Assistant Professor; boronkaid@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: Discourse Analysis
Language of instruction: English
Form of teaching: consultation/seminar
Form of assessment: assessment is based on participation, presentation and home
assignments
Course description: Discourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written,
enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities. Discourse analysis has been taken up in
a variety of social science disciplines, including linguistics, sociology, anthropology,
cognitive psychology, social psychology, communication studies, each of which is subject to
its own assumptions, dimensions of analysis, and methodologies. Topics of discourse analysis
include the various levels or dimensions of discourse, such as sounds (intonation, etc.),
gestures, syntax, the lexicon, style, rhetoric, meanings, speech acts, moves, strategies, turns
and other aspects of interaction.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: 2
Credits (ECTS): 5
Semester: both
Lecturer: Dr. Dóra Boronkai Ph.D, College Assistant Professor; boronkaid@igyk.pte.hu
Course title: Literature
Language of instruction: English
Form of teaching: seminar/consultation
Form of assessment: assessment is based on participation, home assignments, essays and
presentation
Course description: The course is designed to study a variety of expressive forms through
representative literary texts as applied to the process of learning and teaching English. The
activities offer opportunities for genuine communication while relating the text to the
students’ own lives and experiences. This class is centred almost entirely around discussion.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: 2
Credits (ECTS): 5
Semester: both
Lecturer: Dr. Mária Bajner Ph.D, College Professor; bajner@igyfk.pte.hu
Course title: Language Development: Changing Roles for Women
Language of instruction: English
Class hours per week: 2
Form of teaching: consultation
Form of assessment: assessment is based on participation, home assignments, tests and
presentation
Course description: The aim of the course is to introduce students to some less-known
theoretical issues in socio-historical context, such as the European feminist movements,
history of feminism and the changing roles of men and women. The course is not only
concerned with the political, intellectual and personal development of men and women, but it
also attempts to form a positive social attitude to women’s issues
Minimum number of students: Credits (ECTS): 5
Semester: both
Lecturer: Dr. Mária Bajner Ph.D, College Professor; bajner@igyfk.pte.hu
During their studies at the Faculty, students are offered consultancy and guidance for writing
any types of academic assignments (e.g. essay, thesis etc.).
Course title: From Learning to Teaching
Language of instruction: English
Form of teaching: consultation
Form of assessment: completion of assignments, end of term essay
Course description: The subtitle of the course is to learn online to teach online. Its aim is to
put education i. e. the teaching/learning experience into a different, global perspective, where
tailored information is forwarded to students with the help of the Internet based technology
(e.g.mobile computing, cloud computing, networking technologies, business-intelligence
applications, web applications, video technologies, virtual desktop technologies, LMS, eBooks). Online teaching/learning strategies will be discussed together with the exploration of
the most debated issues of the 21st century cost/benefit education highlighting the advantages
and pitfalls of both the traditional and the digital classroom.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: 2/week
Semester: spring
Credits (ECTS):
Lecturer: Dr. Maria Bajner PhD, College Professor, bajner@igyfk.pte.hu
Course title: Developing Listening and Speaking Skills in English
Language of instruction: English
Form of teaching: consultation
Form of assessment: essay
Course description: The aim of the course is to foster and support students' confidence in
using English to discuss different cultural issues and topics, to express opinions, to understand
a wide variety of spoken and written texts, to develop both oral and written skills. The course
focuses on key performance areas such as sharing ideas, exchanging information, and solving
problems. The material is tailored to students’ practical needs: i.e. to communicate more
effectively. The tasks are related to education so that they can draw on their own professional
knowledge and experience obtained in that field.
Minimum number of students: Class hours per week: 2/week
Semester: spring
Credits (ECTS):
Lecturer: Dr. Maria Bajner PhD, College Professor, bajner@igyfk.pte.hu
Course title: Field work
Language of instruction: English
Form of teaching: practical course
Form of assessment: term mark
Course description: The students observe classes, take notes, then write their experiences in
their portfolio. They will go round the kindergarden, and the primary school visiting all the
rooms and classrooms. They will get to know the main characteristics of the school and the
Hungarian educational system. They will have to write their experiences in their portfolio.
Minimum number of students: 2
Class hours per week: 1
Semester:
Credits (ECTS):
Lecturer: Ulrik Dóra ; dora.ulrik@gmail.com