Czech Language and Literature

Learning Potential Test (TSP)

This test is only in Czech. For up-to-date information, click here

Field of Study Examination

For admission for studies of this degree programme, you do not need to take the Field of Study Examination.

Admission without the entrance examination

1. successful participation in the regional round of Students’ Professional Activities (SOČ) in the field of study 15 - Teorie kultury, umění a umělecké tvorby. Successful applicants are considered to be those who have been ranked 1st to 3rd. In justified cases, and on the basis of an assessment of the content of the work, the above-mentioned ranking in another SIC subject may be taken into account at the applicant's request. The application must include the work in question, accompanied by a certificate from the secondary school;
2. secondary school results in the profile subjects Czech language (not Slovak), English language and a choice of two other subjects from the following options: history, French, Italian, computer science, Latin, mathematics, German, Russian, Spanish, basic social sciences / civics.

Secondary school results may be applied for an exemption from the entrance examination by those applicants whose average grade was 1.0 in each of the four profile subjects. The total average result in all subjects is not taken into consideration. Secondary school seminars are also disregarded. The average grade of each profile subject is calculated based on the results of the last four years of study in the following way: the mid-year grade is calculated from the final year, whereas the final grades are calculated from the previous three years. It is also necessary that applicants have studied each of the profile subjects for at least three years during the last four years.
Enter your grades in your e-application. Then print the grades out and let your secondary school certify them with a stamp and a signature. Upload the scan of the certified grades into your e-application. You can also upload officially certified school reports or any other documents certifying your school results.
Please upload the officially certified documents directly to your e-application in the section Application for the Exemption from the Entrance Examination no later than 28 February.

The programme Czech Language and Literature offers several study plans. Students of single-subject and double-subject programmes may specialize by choosing suitable selective courses, focusing on some aspects of Czech studies from literary or linguistic points of view (the development of language, present-day codification, theories of grammar, corpus linguistics, the development of Czech literature, interpretations of fiction from viewpoints of history, theoretical approaches and criticism). The programme Czech Language and Literature includes a specialized study plan Czech for foreigners aimed at non-native speakers of Czech at high level of communication skills (B2), who strive at the complex study of Czech language and literature. Graduates with this specialization will increase their language competences to the level C2 and will also gain training providing a firm basis for further qualification in the sphere of teaching Czech as a foreign language or in the sphere of translation. This kind of B.A. study programme is not available in the Czech Republic, there is only a similar M.A. programme at the University of Ostrava.

After successfully completing his/her studies the graduate is able to:

• to have a good command of written and spoken form of Standard Czech;
• to have a good command of general linguistic terminology and to apply it when analysing specific language phenomena of language;
• to use relevant sources of information relating to the subject of study (corpuses, databases, dictionaries and works of compendial character);
• to prove elementary knowledge of the historical development of Czech (including its projection into the territorial stratification of Czech), to know its historical and comparative Slavonic basis;
• to prove complex knowledge of the development of Czech literature from its beginnings to the early 21st ct.;
• to get orientated in contemporary theoretical approaches to literature;
• to acquire the terminology of theoretical approaches to literature and to interpret literary texts using methods presented in classes;
• to write scholarly texts in accordance with academic standards.
• Graduates with the specialization Czech for Foreigners will be able to communicate in oral and written forms of Czech in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, C2 level.
• Graduates with the specialization Czech for Foreigners will be able to think about Czech language and Czech literature in an intercultural perspective.
• Graduates with the specialization Czech for Foreigners will be able to apply elementary techniques of translation in an intercultural communication.