About the study at the department

The Department of Czech Language at Masaryk University currently has approximately 500 students enrolled in the study programs it provides or significantly contributes to. The department offers around 130 mandatory and elective courses.

In mandatory courses, students have the opportunity to acquire detailed knowledge of the language from the perspective of basic Bohemistic disciplines oriented synchronously (phonetics and phonology, morphology, word formation, syntax, lexicology, stylistics) as well as diachronically (Old Church Slavonic, historical grammar of Czech, development of written Czech). Additionally, the Computational Linguistics program offers a range of specialized courses in an area whose inclusion in the humanities faculty is more or less unique in the Czech Republic.

The broad range of theoretically and practically focused elective courses taught at the department covers both traditional and newly emerging linguistic fields, methods, and approaches (lectures and seminars are dedicated, for example, to dialectology, etymology, onomastics, pragmalinguistics, codification and language culture, editorial and proofreading practice, language acquisition, Czech for foreigners, translation practice, machine translation, computer and corpus linguistics, basics of statistics, generative approaches to language, etc.). The teacher training follow-up study also provides basic orientation in subject didactics, pedagogy, and psychology and ensures teaching practice.

The teaching predominantly has a traditional direct character, but is richly supplemented by e-learning materials; some courses are purely e-learning. More and more subjects are taught in English, many courses have interdisciplinary character and are offered to students of other philologies and programs as well. The teaching includes excursions (e.g., to domestic and foreign university departments, to Czech Television, Czech Radio, publishing houses, editorial offices, translation and computer companies in the region, to Czech language minorities abroad, etc.), a regular cycle of lectures by external experts from academic circles and from practice, and student workshops. From their bachelor's studies onwards, students are encouraged to participate in research activities of the department, to attend conferences, and engage in publishing activities.

Study programs