- Department of Aesthetics
- Department of Andragogy/Adult Education
- Department of Archaeology
- Department of Archiving and Auxiliary Sciences in History
- Department of Classical and Semitic Philology
- Department of Comparative Religious Studies
- Department of Cultural Studies
- Department of East Asian Studies
- Department of English and American Studies
- Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
- Department of General History
- Department of German, Dutch and Scandinavian Studies
- Department of History of Visual Arts
- Department of Hungarian Language and Literature
- Department of Journalism
- Department of Languages
- Department of Library and Information Science
- Department of Logic and Methodology of Science
- Department of Marketing Communication
- Department of Musicology
- Department of Pedagogic Science
- Department of Philosophy and of History of Philosophy
- Department of Political Science
- Department of Psychology
- Department of Romance Studies
- Department of Russian Language and Literature
- Department of Slavic Studies
- Department of Slovak History
- Department of Slovak Language
- Department of Slovak Literature and Literary Science
- Department of Sociology
Department of History of Visual Arts
History of visual arts represents a branch of science dealing with the study of art work from the sphere of painting, sculpture, architecture and art trades. It studies and describes the development of these types of art from the ancient times until today, both from the point of general rules of the development of art and from the point of specific conditions of the origin and functioning of art work as far as their type, technology, geography, social history or psychology are concerned. Research concentrates on the issues of methodology of art history and on the problems of individual epochs of historical development of visual art, sculpture, architecture and art trades in Slovakia (from early Medieval times to the 20th century), studied within the context of the development in central Europe. At present the department provides courses that are divided into the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree. The Bachelor’s degree program includes the overall survey of the European development in visual arts, stressing the specific features of the development in Slovakia or in central Europe, as well as the basic methods of the analysis of work of art and the principles of art and historical documentation. Courses in Master’s degree include deepening the knowledge in methodology of history of art, theory of art and history of visual arts in Slovakia. It concentrates on acquiring the methods of interpreting of art work and the methods of individual art and historical research with the possibility of specialization..
