[4] This training was conducted by reserve and active military personnel under the auspices of the Yugoslav Federal Secretariat for National Defense (SSNO).

The faculty only provided the use of its amphitheater, and most teaching was performed in cinemas, cultural centers or when other classrooms were free.

[6] This caused lectures to be broken into morning and evening sessions, and the department lacked adequate theoretical and professional literature and teaching staff.

Furthermore, all natural and mathematical subjects that the students were obliged to study were not harmonized with the rest of the department's curriculum.

[7] During this period, the Department's students had to undergo adequate military training, in accordance with the concept of total people's defense and social self-protection.

Students had military-technical education for the first three years of studies, including basic infantry training at the Military Academy in Belgrade.

[6] There was great interest in this faculty, as graduates were guaranteed jobs as professors in secondary schools in Yugoslavia,[8] with prospects of employment in other institutions which sought preparation for civil defense and wartime conditions.

In the absence of this legal basis, grade school defense and protection studies were abolished during the 1993–94 academic year.

In April 1993, the Government of the Republic of Serbia prohibited the enrolment of the 18th generation of undergraduate students in the Faculty.