After the completion of the program, the graduate:

Knows:

• The essence of the mutual determination of language, culture, mental representations, and social behavior;
• Scientific characteristics of paradigms, trends and concepts of modern linguistics, principles of construction of the objects of the study of modern linguistics, explanatory potential and practical significance of modern linguistic theories and research approaches;
• The principles of constructing the texts (competent use of language – C1) with various communicative intentions, the strategies and ethical norms of effective intercultural and professional (business communication) communication;
• The principles of the analysis of fiction works considering linguistic and sociocultural contexts, as well as philosophical, aesthetic, political and social perspectives;
• The methods and tools of project management and the specifics of the project life cycle.

Describes:

• The history of the English language and the dynamics of the English language development applying an in-depth knowledge of historical linguistics;
• The specifics of the relation between lingual, cultural and social perception by realizing in depth intersectionality of different thinking spaces;
• The characteristics of “genealogical” relations between the branches of linguistics, the dynamics of the linguistic thought and paradigmatic situation in modern linguistics by realizing in depth the essence of hereditariness, poliparadigmaticity and integrativeness;
• The specifics of the literary text processing procedure based on the theoretical and methodological approaches (rules, principles and methods) of structuralist and cognitive semantics as well as on the systemic and in-depth comprehension of the phenomena of poliparadigmaticity and inteparadigmaticity.

The graduate:

• Critically analyses the causes of the changes occurred in the English language;
• Critically analyses scientific characterizations of methodological approaches, paradigms, trends, explanatory potential and practical implications of modern theories relevant to the philological research;
• Interprets fiction works considering linguistic and sociocultural contexts, as well as philosophical, aesthetic, political and social perspectives;
• While conducting linguistic research and interpreting a literary text, synthesizes the theoretical and methodological approaches;
• Produces effectively structured written and oral texts with various communicative intentions spontaneously, smoothly using adequate strategies, style, organizational models and cohesive means;
• Conducts effective communication by adhering to the ethical norms and by synthesizing linguistic and extralinguistic competencies relevant to the fields of intercultural and professional (business) communication;
• Prepares and manages the project taking into account the determinants of efficiency, effectiveness and success;
• Seeks information from various sources to form a reasoned conclusion on the on issues relevant to the field of philology, formulates and presents issues consistently, clearly with specialists (philologists, language teachers) as well as with non-specialists (general public) applying modern information and communication technologies.

The graduate: 

• Operating with the systemic and in-depth knowledge, realizing the complexity, polyparadigmaticity, interparadigmaticity and interdisciplinarity of the thinking space of philology and adhering to the standards of academic honesty, takes responsibility for professional development by comparing, contrasting, synthesizing and representing the data in the papers prepared by him/her (term paper, small-scale research, and master thesis).