This department provides courses in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Persian, Romany and Turkish. These various languages are gathered in one department because they are approached through a common research method which can, by way of a non-discriminatory intellectual consensus, bring closer very diverse languages and cultures.
The department is unique in the country, and represents the Romanian school of Oriental studies, the result of considerable efforts over the years. Romanian contributions to Arabian, Chinese, Turkish, Indian and Japanese studies have already entered the international circuit and are recognised and appreciated by the international academic community. The department's staff have a complex teaching load, as a small number of teachers have to be responsible for the teaching of a wide variety of disciplines in each degree programme: for example, practical courses in contemporary language, alongside courses in old language (classical language), linguistics (typology, functional grammar, dialectology), civilisation (history of ideas, mentalities, ethnology) and literature (history of genres, literary stylistics, poetics).
Together with their teaching activities, every sub-group of the department has a common project of translating and presenting in Romanian the fundamental representative works for its respective culture.
