About us

The Faculty of Languages features the widest array of educational track, and the largest number of staff and students at the University of Gdańsk. Our motto is: Language in culture, culture in language.

The Faculty provides 26 fields of study relating to the 20 languages and culture of the world, the Baltic countries, Poland and the Pomerania region. The foregoing form part of the following scientific areas: philology and neophilology, literature and linguistic, creative writing and cultural studies (in collaboration with eg. famous all over the world The Musical Theatre in Gdynia and The Gdynia Film School).

Faculty of Languages offers 26 fields of study: philology degree courses, 10 cultural and artistic studies, and one, unique on a national scale, intercollegiate philological and medical course – logopaedics (in collaboration with the Medical University of Gdańsk). We offer nearly 100 areas of specialization in the framework of 20 first- and second-cycle, full time and part time degree courses.

Academic Staff:

• 300 academic staff
• 100 renowned professors, literary scholars, linguists and culture experts, whose scientific achievements have gained recognition in Poland and abroad
• 150 young academics with PhD in humanities, full of passion for science and teaching, demonstrating a wide spectrum of interests and highly-qualified.

Research/international cooperation

International exchange and collaboration with foreign institutions from all over the world renders it possible for students to gain hands-on experience as regards the language and culture of their language areas of interest. The University of Gdansk is the largest educational institution in the Pomerania region. We have eleven faculties with almost thirty-three thousand students, doctoral students and post-graduates, who are taught by one thousand seven hundred academic staff.

The University of Gdansk has actively participated in Erasmus programme since 1998. In the current academic year more than 200 students from the University of Gdansk are taking advantage of the possibility to study abroad, while around 150 students from all over Europe are coming to the University. The number of students and scientific staff coming and going is constantly increasing. Incoming student’s offer

Achievements

Over the last few years, launching of new philology and artistic degree courses popular with the candidates applying for enrolment at the University of Gdańsk (from 6 to 10 candidates per place) is a truly great success.

6 fields of studies run at the Faculty of Languages are among the top 12 most popular among the candidates for studies at UG. These are:

• Japanese Studies
• Audio-Visual Form Production
• English Philology
• Scandinavian Studies
• Film and Audio-Visual Culture Studies
• Iberian Studies
• Creative writing
• Chinese Studies.

In response to the increased interest in Asian languages, we launched Eastern Studies, Chinese Studies and Japanese Studies. The Faculty of Languages, as the only one in northern Poland, offers the possibility of studying Chinese and Japanese language and culture.

In response to the big interest in Culture Studies eg. film, theatre and visual art, students can choose the Film and Audiovisual Culture or Film and Audio-Visual Film Production courses. We also educate musical theatre actors and cultural institutions managers at the Arts Management course or Theatre Studies.

Cultural Communication BA is a field of studies provided on the Faculty of Languages. The students of BA programme of Cultural Communication Studies develop language skills in English and learn Polish at the basic level. They attend courses in the field of linguistics, literary studies and cultural studies, classes fostering students' competences in analysing complex phenomena of various cultures and societies, as well as developing project management skills and acquiring knowledge of managing cultural institutions. For this purpose, they learn modern information technologies and acquire the ability to create projects and organise artistic activities in socially and politically diverse cultures.

The Faculty of Languages is the most dynamically developing faculty at the university in terms of the academic staff, research and also has the widest educational offer at the University of Gdańsk and in northen region of Poland.