Hungarian Language and Literature - Modern Language and Literature

The 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 Japanese as a segment B language. The Japanese Language and Literature section is structured over six semesters and its aim is the study of Japanese language, literature and culture, offering both general knowledge and specialized knowledge. At the end of the three years of study, the students will have acquired the abilities needed for either postgraduate research, or a career in teaching, in the field of interpretation and translation, or in diplomacy.