Dean's Office:
Křížkovského 10
771 80 Olomouc
phone: +420-58 563 3011
fax: +420-58 522 9162
e-mail: dekan.ff@upol.cz
Department to Foreign Affairs at the Phil. Fac. of PU
tel.: +420 585 633 014
fax: +420 585 633 012
j.horakova(at)upol.cz
The Philosophical Faculty offers single-subject full-time Magister’s degree studies in the fields of: Czech Philology, Spanish Philology, History, Musicology, Psychology, the Theory and History of the Dramatic Arts, the Theory and History of the Visual Arts, Political Science and European Studies.Within full-time Magister studies students can choose any two of the following fields:
Adult Education, the Theory of the Dramatic Arts, Philology (English, Czech, Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Latin, German, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish); Philosophy, History, Political Science (European Studies), and Sociology.
Students of these subjects who plan to teach at secondary schools can obtain the required qualifications by passing courses in pedagogy and psychology in the third part of their study.
The Faculty also prepares specialists in the following fields (bachelor's degree, full-time study): Archives Keeping, English with Applied Economics, French with Applied Economics, Musicology, Dutch, Russian with a Special Focus on Economics, Law and Tourism, and Journalism.
The Philosophical Faculty also provides bachelor's degree studies in the social sciences, in the field of human resources management and personnel management, which are offered at the Department of Sociology and Adult Education and the Department of Psychology. The Centre for Distance Learning, together with other departments, offers a wide range of activities for the general public (e.g. courses of graphology, courses for social workers, etc.).
Graduates of magister’s degree studies with a good capacity for research work can be admitted for post-graduate doctoral studies in one of the following fields:
Czech Language, Czech Literature, French Literature, Romance Languages, German Language, German Literature, English and American Literature, English Language, Russian Language, Polish Language, History - Czech and Slovak History, General History, Auxiliary Historical Sciences, Political Science, Sociology, Clinical Psychology, Pedagogical Psychology, Andragogics, Theory of Literature, Theory and History of Literature, Theatre and Film, Theory and History of Fine Arts, Theory and History of Music.
The Faculty also provides courses for international students. The Summer School of Slavic Languages has a long tradition and a very good reputation.
History
In 1946, the Philosophical Faculty considered itself to be a successor to the Philosophical Faculty of the old university. Many departments and subjects of study have developed at the faculty over the last sixty years. In the years that followed the two milestones of 1968 and 1989 were crucial. The early years were the time of founding and creating of individual departments: philosophy, sociology, psychology, art, art history and aesthetics, history, and philological departments such as the Czech department, Western languages and Slavonic studies. The 1960s brought a period of liberalisation of the Communist regime, which also meant a certain positive developments at the university. These, however, ended after 1968. Many professors were expelled from the faculty, they were forbidden to publish, or had to stop teaching. Thus, the period of the 1970s and 1980s was one of the worst in the history of the faculty.
The biggest change was brought only by November 1989, when many of the professors came back to the faculty. Also new departments were founded after 1990: Politics and European Studies, Journalism, Classical Philology, Asian Studies, Netherlandistics, and several others. This resulted in a wide range of fields that can be studied at the Bachelor, Master, or Ph.D. level.
The faculty is self-governing. Every third year, the academic body of professors and students elects the academic senate, which in turn elects the dean of the faculty for a four year term.
The Philosophical Faculty, with its twenty departments, more than 4,800 students and 260 teachers is the biggest of the seven faculties of Palacký University.
