Passing the study plan

Students must fulfil all requirements from the study plan and registered by templates in the Information System of Masaryk University. Then they are allowed to take the final state exam. The final state exam consists of two parts.
The final state exam, consisting of parts relating to language and to literature, has an oral form. It contains questions asked on the basis of topics available from websites of the Department of Czech Language and Department of Czech Literature. Topics of the oral part of the final state exam follow basic and profile courses of the study programme.
The purpose of the exam is to prove students’ ability to deal with the assigned professional topics, to react in discussion and to present their arguments in a way focused on facts. Besides the knowledge of facts, knowledge of elementary and advanced methodology relating to the discipline, including the sources. Within the part focused on language, the versatile survey of knowledge of present-day Czech is checked, from the viewpoints of its origin, developmental tendencies and structural qualities (from the typological viewpoint). Advanced knowledge of linguistic terminology and orientation in linguistic methodology are expected. The part of the final state exam focused on literature checks the knowledge of Czech and world scholarly approaches to literature, of substantial features of developmental stages of Czech literature in comparative and international perspectives, from methodological and interdisciplinary viewpoints. Advanced knowledge of historical and theoretical issues relating to literature is expected, as well as the ability to analyze texts from the sphere of fiction and the knowledge of relevant sources relating to the particular discipline.