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Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky

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Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky

The history of the Department of British and American Studies´ forerunner, the Department of Languages UPJS in Kosice, dates back to 1952, when a Cabinet of Russian Language was established within the Faculty of Medicine and was supervised by the Department of Russian Language operating under the Rector´s Office of the Comenius University in Bratislava. The first Head of the Cabinet was Doc. Dr. Stefan Dobos who was succeeded by JUDr. Jaroslav Savulak in 1953. In 1959 the Cabinet was incorporated into the Department of Foreign Languages operating within the former Faculty of Arts UPJS. From then on, basically after the establishment of the UPJS, the Department of Languages began to develop.

In 1963, after the establishment of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, a separate Department of Languages came into existence offering its courses to the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Natural Sciences, and a decade later, in 1973, also to the Faculty of Law. In that period the Department was headed by JUDr. Jaroslav Savulak (till 1970) and PhDr. Ivan Kimak, CSc. (till r. 1982). After 1982 the Department was chaired by doc. PhDr. Vasil Jabur, CSc. (1982–1986), prof. PhDr. Julius Rybak, CSc. (1986–1994), in 1991–1992 vice-chaired by doc. PhDr. Frantisek Simon, CSc., and PhDr. Olga Farkasova, CSc. (1994–1998). From 1998 it was again chaired by doc. PhDr. Frantisek Simon, CSc.

The Department of Languages UPJS was ranked high among the scientific-educational workplaces conducting language courses in English, German, French, Latin, Russian and Slovak at all four of the UPJS faculties within the general humanities framework. Foreign language courses were provided as either mandatory or elective/optional studies on all three levels of academic education, Bachelor´s, Master´s and Doctoral (PhD).

The Department of Languages UPJS became the basis of the Institute of Philologies and Social Sciences UPJS, the establishment of which was approved by the Academic Senate UPJS on 19th May 2005. This Institute incorporates also the Department of British and American Studies first chaired by prof. PhDr. Pavol Stekauer, CSc in 2005.

The Department´s current staff marks it as being among the top linguistic workplaces by combining experienced domestic and international educational-research linguists and by balancing the dynamic expertise of established mid-career scholars with the international zeal and energy of younger staff members. The Department seeks primarily to blend the high professional erudition of its members, grounded in intensive scholarly research performed within the framework of international and national projects, with quality teaching of new scholars and researchers capable of asserting themselves in the labour market and of addressing the growing demands not only in Slovakia, but also in other EU Member States.

Tematická mapa, FF UPJŠ v Košiciach, Platón

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