Hungarian Language and Literature - Modern Language and Literature

About this programme

Hungarian Language and Literature - Modern Language and Literature Bachelor programme (BA/ BSc) Faculty of Letters CLUJ-NAPOCA Program description Hungarian Language and Literature - English Language and LiteratureThe Department of Hungarian Literary Studies and Department of Hungarian and General Linguistics offers multidisciplinary approaches, perspectives and interpretive angles that offer solid foundation for the research and teaching activities of its students. Our goal is to train open-minded and dialogue-centred teachers, learned and well-prepared professionals in media and cultural studies, respectively cultural managers and researchers with a wide intellectual horizon. The Department of Hungarian Literary Studies and the Department of Hungarian and General Linguistics participate in several educational programs, such as the Hungarian Language and Literature Bachelor and Master degree, World and Comparative Literature, Bachelor Degree in Finnish Language and Literature and Hungarian Language and Literary Studies and the Doctoral School of Hungarology. Our institutes offer courses in common disciplines such as history of Hungarian literature, literary theory, comparative literature, aesthetics, literary sociology, general linguistics, normative linguistics, phonetics, morphology, lexicology, syntax, text linguistics, semantics, semiotics or dialectology.The specialization can be combined with English as a segment B language. The mandatory courses follow the historical evolution of English and American literature (the Medieval and Renaissance English literature, the literature of the Enlightenment, the poetry of the 18th century and Romanticism, the literature of the Victorian Era, the English literature of the 20th century, contemporary English literature, American literature) and developing students’ knowledge of traditional linguistics (phonetics, lexicology, morphology, syntax, language history) and theoretical linguistics (formal semantics, generative grammar).