The Department of Philology was established in 2018 by merging the Departments of Baltic Philology and European Languages. The Department offers three levels of study.
The Department trains a wide range of philological and linguistic specialists needed for Lithuania, especially for the Western region of Lithuania, who are able to navigate in a changing society, and who are able to effectively apply their scientific knowledge and acquired skills in various areas of Lithuanian and international cooperation, and compete on the market for high-level technologies, products and services.
The Department offers the following study programmes:
- English Philology (first cycle)
- Lithuanian Philology (first cycle)
- Baltic Languages and Cultures (second cycle)
- English and another foreign language (German/French) and Business Communication (second cycle).
The Department also runs doctoral studies in Ethnology and Philology (Ethnology and Philology research fields).
The study programmes English Philology (BA) and English and another foreign language (French/German) and Business Communication (MA) are taught in English.
The faculty and researchers of the Department synchronously and diachronously investigate linguistic and cultural phenomena in the Baltic region, their interrelationships and interactions, and seek to uncover the general and local factors shaping the development of linguistic and symbolic systems.