Department of Hungarian Studies

Programs of Study – Undergraduate Studies

History

The Department of Hungarian Studies at the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Philology was founded in 1994. The establishment of the Hungarian Department in Belgrade is the result of international agreements between Serbia and Hungary. Its founder was Prof. Sava Babić – a writer, literary translator, and author of numerous works in the field of Hungarian Studies, literary translation and literary theory. A Department of Hungarian Studies already existed in Serbia, at the University of Novi Sad’s Faculty of Philosophy, where Hungarian is taught and studied as a mother tongue. Students who enroll at the Department in Novi Sad attended Hungarian-medium primary and secondary schools and mostly come from Vojvodina, whilst in Belgrade, Hungarian is taught as a foreign language with the language being taught from scratch, starting with the alphabet itself. Students are almost exclusively those who previously attended Serbian-medium schools and they come from all parts of Serbia, Republika Srpska, and Montenegro. All this means that the approach to learning is also different at the two universities: in Novi Sad, Hungarian Studies are first tackled from within the framework of Hungarian being the native language, culture, and tradition, and only later in terms of contact with other cultures, while the approach in Belgrade is that of studying a foreign language, culture, and traditions.

In addition to teaching activities, students and teaching staff participate jointly in numerous extracurricular activities, organized both at the Faculty of Philology and various cultural institutions.

Students’ acquisition of Hungarian is greatly assisted by numerous opportunities for fully-funded stays abroad, primarily in Hungary, but also in other countries where Hungarian is spoken or studied. The Department of Hungarian Studies cooperates with numerous universities and institutes in Budapest, Pécs, Szeged, Veszprem, Debrecen, Balatonfüred, Bratislava, Zagreb, Maribor, and Florence. Scholarships are available to students within the international mobility programs Erasmus+ and CEEPUS, as well as via inter-university and inter-institutional cooperation agreements.

Contact details

• Head of the Department
• Monika Bala, PhD
• moniballa@gmail.com

• Vice-Head of the Department
• Marko Čudić, PhD
• marko.cudic@gmail.com

• Secretary of the Department
• Dina Tomić Anić
• dina.fakultet@gmail.com<