The department of English Language and Literature offers a four-year study syllabus, with a final graduating examination, and advanced postgraduate studies in several domains, leading to a Master's degree.
During the last decade, the English department has rapidly developed owing to a spectacular growth in the number of students; there are almost 50 teaching staff in the department, aged between twenty-five and seventy.
From the very beginning, the study of the two major literatures-British and American- has been complemented by the study of British and American culture and civilisation, along with studies that respond to the students' interest in other English-speaking cultures and literatures (Australian, Canadian, African etc.). A particularity of the department is the emphasis on the theoretical and applied study of the contemporary critical approaches to cultural phenomena, through courses that ensure the penetration into the Romanian cultural space of the most recent critical cultural developments from the English-speaking space.
The courses of general linguistics have a distinct profile compared to other similar departments through their theoretical and explicative elements.
The department gives maximum attention to the functional teaching of English and to the assimilation of specialised languages. In this context, we can mention the creation and development of the Translation, interpreting and terminology and Applied modern languages degrees.
The programmes of postgraduate studies are closely related to the research activity of the department's members: British cultural studies, American cultural studies, contemporary approaches to the analysis of English-speaking literatures, applied linguistics.
