Department of Russian Language and Literature

Russian studies include a complex of scientific disciplines dealing with research into the language of the Russian nation, its literature, culture and history. The research at the department comprises paleo-Slavic studies, different aspects of history of literature, cultural-historical, theoretical and practical aspects of translating and interpreting, history of the Russian culture and of Slovak-Russian relations, contrastive syntax, lexicology and phraseology. Research projects in the sphere of Paleo-Slavic studies (study of hymns, manuscripts dating from the  Slavic medieval age) and in the sphere of literary history (Russian literature of the 19th and the 20th centuries and its reception in Slovakia) are being run as part of international collaboration.

At present the department offers courses specializing in Russian language and literature, or Russian language and culture, on both Bachelor’ and Master’s levels in specializations Teaching of Academic Subjects and Translating and Interpreting (combined with another language). A course Russian and East European Studies has been prepared (Bc., Mgr.). The department also participates in the doctoral study in Slavic Studies. The methodology of individual courses is based on comparative approach within the Slovak-Russian or broader Slavic context.

 

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