Department of Slovenian Studies, University of Ljubljana

Contact

This logo is missing!

If you have it, please email it to us.

Oddelek za slovenistiko, Univerza v Ljubljani

Aškerčeva 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.ff.uni-lj.si/oddelki/slovenistika/

Phone386 (0) 1 241 1270

Managed byFaculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana

Boža Krakar Vogel, Head of Department

boza.krakar@guest.arnes.si

The Department of Slovene Languages and Literature offers undergraduate, taught postgraduate and guided research programmes in Slovene Languages and Literature. In the framework of interdisciplinary doctoral study programme Humanities and Social Science at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana and Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. The Department shares a library with the Department of Slavonic Languages and Literature.

History

History of the Department is long as the history of University of Ljubljana. It was functioning under the common Seminar for Slavic studies since the year 1919 when the University was established. Slovene linguistics professor, Fran Ramovš, was one of the first among the professor's assembly of Slovene language at the newly established university. These were the first steps towards institutionalisation of the Slovene language at the university level.

Soon after, in 1939 when the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU) was established, the position of the language in building a nation's identity was considered as one of the most defining elements of Slovene nationality. One of the strengthening factors of the Slovene language when it comes to institutionalisation was made possible by establishing the research institute, the Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovene Language in 1945.

According to the scientific trends in linguistics, the focus after the first decades of the Slavistic Seminar, in 1960s, shifted from historiographic and comparative approach to more of a structuralist approach. Along with new generation of young linguists and philologists, the chair for Slovene language and stylistics was established in the academic year 1970/71.

In the middle of the 1960s, the Department started to put effort in learning Slovenian abroad and at the international institutions. The Department established Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language. Until today, the learning of Slovenian in different forms, lectureships, chairs, departments, or less formalised ways, is possible at more than 50 foreign universities all over the world.

Today

The Slovene language studies gained a full formal independence quite recently, in the year 2002/03"/03" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 2002.. The Department of Slovene language was disunited with Department of Slavonic and therefore gained a special department. The common Library of the both departments still functions under the same unit and common title. In the recent years, the Department was very active in international cooperation with students of Slovenian language from abroad and with the individuals that were learning the language for themselves or for professional purposes. In this respect Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language regularly organises lectures, summer schools, meetings and encourages the interest for study of Slovene language.

The Department is active in international cooperation and programmes like SOCRATES/ERASMUS, Basileus and CEEPUS programme. There are several possibilities of student exchange with the Erasmus programme at different European universities in: Austria (Karl Franz University in Graz, University of Vienna), Belgium (University of Gent), Bulgaria (Sofia University ‘Saint Kliement Ohridski’, St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo), Czech Republic (Masaryk University, University of Paradubice), Finland (University of Helsinki), Italy (University of Padova), Lithuania (University of Vilniaus), Hungary (Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem), Germany (Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen, University of Würzburg), Poland (University of Bielsko-Biala, University of Łodz, University of Warsaw), Portugal (University of Lisbon), Romania (University of Bucharest), Slovakia (Comenius University in Bratislava, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Matej Bel University), and Great Britain (University of Nottingham).

The Department publishes several publications and journals. Slavistična revija (Journal For Linguistics and Literary Studies) is publishing articles in Slovenian and English and its articles with summaries are available online in pdf format.

See also

• University of Ljubljana
• Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
• Departments of Slovene and Slavonic Languages and Literature Library
• Department of Slavonic Languages and Literature, University of Ljubljana
• Institute of Slovene Literature and Literary Sciences
• Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language
• Slovene Linguistic Studies
• Slovene Literary Language Dictionary
• Slavonic Languages Society of Slovenia

External links

• Department of Slovene Languages and Literature, University of Ljubljana website (in Slovenian and English)
• Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language (in Slovenian and English)
• For Linguistics and Literary Studies (in Slovenian and English)