Faculty of Slavic Studies offers 14 master programs, giving additional professional qualification for students with bachelor's degree in professional dimension "Pholology" after two-semester taught-course program:
Linguistics - Language System and Speech Practices
The program deepens and improves the knowledge and skills of students in the sphere of Linguistics. The lectures are oriented to contemporary linguistic theories, as well as to theoretically rationalized generalizations of development trends in Bulgarian language. A practical course on editing and rectification of different types of texts is also included in the program.
The program answers the growing social and academy necessity of creating specialists, capable to think the literature in a broad cultural context. The lectures are focused on connections between literature and ideology, literature and identity, literature and other arts, literature and media. Students will attend courses on contemporary Western-European and world literature.
Interdisciplinary program, intended for additional practical and theoretical qualification of foreign language specialists, who will be able to participate actively in contemporary inter linguistic and intercultural communication. Students graduate the program with a diploma for different languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Russian) interpreters-editors. The program actively interacts with European teams of interpreters.
Literature, Cinema and Visual Culture
The program is oriented to students with interests in literary studies, film critical studies, theatre critical studies, visual arts and media. It introduces students to the pressing for contemporary culture questions of interaction between words and images. The transformation of the literary text into visual art and movies is scrutinized in theoretical and historical aspect. The programs offers courses which examine the theory of film art and the language of films, as well as courses, dedicated to some film genres and other visual arts. The specific character of literary adaptation and film translation is also considered.
The program offer synthesis of sciences for man. It focuses on the process of creating and interpreting texts as main elements in constructing symbol worlds. The connections between man and nature, man and social environment, man and literature are examined. The courses consider also the relationships center - periphery, local-global, the problems of the Other and identification.
The program is oriented to students with interests in creative writing and literary critics. Notorious Bulgarian writers participate in it, introduce the students into the "workshop" of the creative work and direct them in acquiring the secrets of author's "craft". The program broadens their literary culture and prepares cultural journalists, specialists in the field of publishing industry and the art of writing.
The program is aimed at students with interests in the field of Old Bulgarian literature and culture, medieval cultural heritage, the Old Bulgarian language, working with manuscripts and archival collections. The training has an interdisciplinary character, with the Old Bulgarian literary heritage being used as an approach to understanding the cultural and social processes during the Middle Ages in the Balkans and in the Slavic world as a whole. The program examines major and current problems of Slavic and Balkan Middle Ages, of Old Bulgarian literature and culture, of Old Slavic literary language constructing and functioning. The students are made familiar with the technique of scientific research, a practicum of academic writing and computer processing of Middle Age texts is also included. Graduated students from this program will be able to work as scientists, journalists, editors, lecturers, librarians, administrators, etc.
Preservation of the Bulgarian cultural heritage
The program has a complex nature, including, on the one hand, deepening of knowledge on the history of the literary Bulgarian language, history of art, ethnology and ethnography, and on the other - on the European and Bulgarian legislation related to the preservation of cultural artifacts, literary monuments and other portable cultural objects. The program has a markedly practical character and aims to create in students the skills to work with the samples of our cultural heritage - literary monuments, old printed books and in a broader aspect - icons, works of art and ethnographic samples.
Computational Linguistics. Internet Technologies in the Humanities
The program is specialized both in the field of Computational Linguistics and in the sphere of electronic processing, analysis and publication of the texts. It examines the issues of language structure from the standpoint of contemporary computer technologies. Students acquire professional qualification in the main directions of computer appliances in Humanitarian Studies - processing of the natural language, electronic publications, problems related to cyberculture and net literature.
Cross-border Bulgarian Studies
Аfter the opening of the borders of our country and its acceptance as an equal member of the EU, the Bulgarian language, literature and culture acquired a new status in Bulgaria and beyond its borders - both for foreign citizens and for persons from the Bulgarian diaspora; both for the new Bulgarian migrant communities and for citizens of the Republic of Bulgaria with a different than Bulgarian ethnic origin. The Master's program prepares highly qualified Bulgarian philologists with an interest in teaching Bulgarian disciplines in a foreign-language environment and in the scientific study of the Bulgarian language as a foreign or second language. The program aims at extending the knowledge of history of Bulgarian literary language, history of art, ethnology and ethnography. It also makes students familiar with European and Bulgarian legislation related to preservation of literary and culture heritage.
Language and cultural space (applied linguistics - Bulgarian as a foreign language)
The master's program "Language and cultural space (applied linguistics - Bulgarian as a foreign language)" offers specialized training in the Bulgarian language through linguistic, social and cultural disciplines. The program is interdisciplinary and aims to provide theoretical and practical competences in language and culture, intercultural differences and communication. The structure and organization of the program complies with the standards of applied linguistics programs from European countries.
Language and cultural space (applied linguistics - Bulgarian as a foreign language)
The master's program "Language and cultural space (applied linguistics - Bulgarian as a foreign language)" offers specialized training in the Bulgarian language through linguistic, social and cultural disciplines. The program is interdisciplinary and aims to provide theoretical and practical competences in language and culture, intercultural differences and communication. The structure and organization of the program complies with the standards of applied linguistics programs from European countries.
Bulgarian Language and Literature Education in Secondary School
The program is directed to consolidation of professional philological and methodical competence of bachelors of Bulgarian Philology and of teachers in Bulgarian language and literature in secondary school. Students acquire knowledge and skills that allow improving of the educational process by contemporary educational technologies.
Language, Culture and Translation
The program prepares qualified specialists in the field of Russian language. New trends in Linguistics and the Theory of Translation, as well as some applied aspects in studying of Russian language are presented. Graduated students from this program could work as translators of fiction, specialized and business texts and also as interpreters from and to Russian language.
Literature and Culture of Russia
The program offers extensive research in the field of Russian anthropology and folklore and of Russian literature from 18th - 20th century. The dialogue between Russian literature and European literature, the Russian literature and other arts: theatre, cinema, music are examined.
The faculty offers 13 from these master programs for students with bachelor's or master's degree of non-philological subjects. Students will have one additional semester with basic philological courses. After that they can continue their education with other students from programs for specialists.
- Lingustics - Language System and Speech Practices
- Literary Studies
- Interpreters and Editors
- Literature, Cinema and Visual Arts
- Interpretative Anthropology
- Literature - Creative Writing
- Old Bulgarian Studies
- Preservation of Bulgarian Cultural Heritage
- Bulgarian Language and Literature Education in Secondary School
- Language, Culture and Translation
- Literature and Culture of Russia
- Cross-Border Bulgarian Studies
- Language and cultural space (applied linguistics - Bulgarian as a foreign language)
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