The Department of Foreign Languages is responsible for the foreign language training of the students of the University of Ruse. The languages taught are English, German, French and Russian. The minimum horary is ninety study hours, and in some specialties it is many times greater and in them the classes are distributed over more than two semesters. Teachers from the department hold classes with students from all three qualififcation levels – Bachelor, Master and Doctor. They are also actively involved in conducting foreign language exams for candidates for participation in the Erasmus program, for student candidates and doctoral candidates. The department prepares all the necessary documentation - syllabi, information pages, synopses and weekly schedule for conducting the compulsory, compulsory optional and optional foreign language training and assists in the translation of the training documentation at the institutional level.
The department has professors with a strong interest in theoretical and applied linguistics, participating with reports in national and international scientific forums. Two of them are working on their doctoral theses. Representatives of the department have participated as partners or project coordinators in a number of European academic programs - Tempus, Leonardo da Vinci, Socrates and Erasmus. As a result of this activity, over the years, the department has enriched its material resources and, more importantly, in co-authorship with foreign colleagues, a considerable number of teaching aids have been created for the needs of various specialties and faculties. Over the past few years, teams led by faculty from the department have won two first prizes for series of teaching aids developed within the framework of the projects they coordinated.
It is expected that the functions of the department will grow in the future with the opening of more majors taught in English. Its activities will include conducting intensive preparatory courses in English for Bulgarian and foreign students, as well as increasing the foreign language competence of lecturers teaching special subjects.
