About us

The Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German conducts research and teaching in the following languages and geographic regions: Czech, Dutch, Finnish, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian and Ukranian.

We offer undergraduate studies in all of the department's languages, and graduate and PhD-level studies in many of these languages. The department's research and teaching focuses on language, literature, and culture in the nine languages and language areas offered by the department.

The department's daily activities are characterized by multilingualism, national and international cooperation, and the extensive pedagogical engagement of its teachers. An important assignment is to integrate the latest in research into teaching and to strengthen the position of the humanitarian sciences in society. The department also has a high degree of cooperation with the surrounding community. Our teachers and researchers hold public lectures and seminars, write and publish popular scientific articles, provide information and otherwise cooperate with state agencies, and are often seen and heard in the media.

Exciting areas of research at our department are dialectology, modern literature, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, third language learning, language policy, and translation studies.

Education at our department

Research at our department