School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies

The School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies comprises a range of academic disciplines including Finnish, Swedish, foreign languages, translation and interpreting, and literary studies. Research is pursued in all of these fields, each of which also offers a range of doctoral-level specializations.

The School grants degrees in the Humanities. The basic degrees in this School are the Bachelor of Arts degree, which is a lower university degree, and the Master of Arts degree, which is a higher university degree. The postgraduate degrees are the Licentiate of Philosophy degree (filosofian lisensiaatti in Finnish) and the Doctor of Philosophy degree.  

All of the foreign language studies are intended for students whose language proficiency level is B2–C1 (on the CEFR scale). Beginner-level courses are offered only in Czech and Estonian.

Degree programmes offered are:

• Degree Programme in English Language, Literature and Translation
• Degree Programme in Literary Studies
• Degree Programme in Scandinavian Languages
• Degree Programme in French Language
• Degree Programme in German Language, Culture and Translation
• Degree Programme in Finnish Language
• Degree Programme in Russian Language, Culture and Translation.

The respective languages of instruction in the degree programmes (DP) are

1) Finnish (DP in Literary Studies, DP in Finnish Language) or

2) Finnish and the language of the major subject (DP in English Language, Literature and Translation, DP in Scandinavian Languages, DP in French Language, DP in German Language, Culture and Translation, DP in Russian Language, Culture and Translation).

Additional study modules are offered in e.g. Czech Language, Estonian Language and Culture*, Finnish Language and Culture* (Suomen kieli ja kulttuuri), General Linguistics*, Phonetics*, Spanish Language, Russian Studies.

The language of instruction in the study modules marked with an asterisk* is Finnish. Information on studies available for exchange students is available here.