About us
THE UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW was founded in 1816. Today it is the largest and one of the best universities in Poland. Its main strength is the high expertise of its teaching staff and its students, who are successful both at home and abroad. Teaching at the University is closely linked to research practice, and, in many fields of science, the University has excellent research capabilities.
The University is constantly developing its cooperation with international scientific institutions, focusing on innovation and technology exchange. Graduates of the University are very popular with Polish and foreign companies. Our University implements the Bologna Process standards and cooperates with renowned educational institutions around the world. Foreign languages, which are taught at a high level here, play a key role.
The University of Warsaw employs more than 7,000 staff, including more than 3,500 academic teachers, and educates more than 50,000 students. The educational offer the University includes 39 faculties and over 100 fields of study and specializations in humanities, natural and exact sciences.
The Faculty of Modern Philology
The Faculty of Humanities of the University of Warsaw was founded in 1946 and also included foreign philologies. In 1951, the Faculty of Philology was established, which included both Polish and foreign philologies. In 1968, the Faculty of Foreign Philology was established, which has been called the Faculty of Modern Philology since 1976.
The faculty’s lecturers carry out research projects and teach in seven departments – the Institute of English Studies, the Institute of German Studies, the Institute of Roman Studies, the Institute of Iberian and Ibero-American Studies, the Department of Italian Studies, the Department of Hungarian Studies and the Department of Formal Linguistics.
The didactics of foreign languages, linguistics, literature and culture is an important area of activity for the faculty, which strives to constantly update its didactic offer and adapt it to the needs and professional plans of students.
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The Faculty of Applied Linguistics
The history of the Faculty of Applied Linguistics dates back to the 1950s. The following fields of study were then introduced at the University of Warsaw: Russian philology (1950), Ukrainian philology (1953) and Belarusian philology (1956).
In 1972, the Institute of Applied Linguistics was established to undertake research work in applied linguistics in the broadest sense, primarily in glottodidactics and translation studies. It was the first university unit of this type not only in Poland, but also in Europe.
In 2000, the Department of Specialised Languages was established within the Faculty of Applied Linguistics. As the first academic unit of this kind in the country, the Department undertook the extremely complex and highly topical tasks of training specialists in the theory and practice of interlingual and intercultural professional communication.
A year later, within the Faculty, the Department of Intercultural Studies of Central and Eastern Europe was established. It was created out of the need to embrace, in research and university teaching, a region whose poles are Germany/Austria on one side and Russia on the other.
In 2002, the Department of Language Theory and Language Acquisition was established. First of all, it aimed at the generation of the anthropocentric theory of human languages and cultures, but it also focused on theory of knowledge as well as language acquisition and glottodidactics.
In 2010, on the initiative of the Professors of the Department of Specialised Languages and of the Department of Language Theory and Language Acquisition, a new entity was established on the foundations of these two units, which is now called the Institute of Specialised and Intercultural Communication. The task of the Institute is to further develop scientific research in the fields of language theory, specialised communication, terminology, lexicography, glottodidactics, translation studies, and to expand the current research area to include intercultural and applied cultural studies.