The Department of Slavonic Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University is currently the only university department in the Czech Republic where all Slavonic areas (Eastern, Western, and Southern) and most Slavonic languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian; optional courses in Macedonian) are studied simultaneously.

Studies are carried out in four bachelor’s, three master’s, and four doctoral degree programmes, in which students choose from several study plans (a single subject, a single subject with a specialization or in combination with another programme as a major or minor) according to their preferences. Depending on the specific programme, the focus may be philological, historical-cultural, professional-business, translatological, or pedagogical.

Bachelor’s degree programmes:

• South Slavonic and Balkan Studies (including specializations in Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian)
• Polish Studies (including specializations in Polish Cultural Studies, Professional and Business Polish)
• Russian Studies (including specialization Russian for Social Practice)
• Ukrainian Studies

Master’s degree programmes:

• Slavonic Studies (including specializations in South Slavonic and Balkan Studies, Polish Studies, Ukrainian Studies)
• Russian Studies (including specializations in Russian Philological and Cultural Studies, Russian with a Focus on Translation)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Russian Language and Literature

Doctoral programmes:

• Slavonic Languages
• Slavonic Literatures
• Philological Area Studies
• Comparative Literature

We provide a comprehensive Slavistic education in which students acquire knowledge of Slavonic languages, literatures, cultures, and history in a comparative and area perspective. This is reflected in the varied subject structure of our programmes, in which the teaching of Slavonic languages and traditional philological disciplines (linguistics and literary studies) is complemented by courses with a historical and cultural focus (history of Slavonic countries and areas; cultural, film, and comics studies; musicology; ethnology) and practical subjects in the fields of teaching, translation and interpreting, professional and business practice, and tourism. Instruction is provided not only by the department’s core staff, but also by external teachers from other academic departments and institutes, experts from the practical sphere, and visiting foreign professors. Students are offered a wide range of opportunities to study abroad (Erasmus+, CEEPUS, summer schools of Slavonic languages, etc.), which form an important and additionally enriching part of their studies.

The distinctly multidisciplinary nature of Slavistics at the Department of Slavonic Studies at the MU Faculty of Arts is also reflected in the research profile of the department, which focuses on five research areas:

• Slavonic interlingual equivalence and multilingual lexicography
• Linguodidactics of the Slavonic languages
• Pragmalinguistics and the social functions of language
• Comparative research of Slavonic literatures and cultures in the European context
• Relations between the nations and countries of Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe

An integral part of the department’s academic activities is the regular organization of conferences, symposia, and colloquia, as well as the publication of the broadly Slavistic journal Opera Slavica.