The BA English Language program is designed to prepare students for professional careers in today’s information-driven society, where English proficiency and a deep understanding of the language are essential. As communication expands across different socio-cultural landscapes, the role of linguists has evolved beyond traditional boundaries to encompass global and digital contexts. Technological advances have expanded the scope of language specialists, enabling them to operate internationally with increased mobility, visibility, and influence.
In response to these changes, the program integrates practical language skills with theoretical knowledge, equipping students for current and emerging career opportunities. The program’s orientation towards skills and competencies matches the demands of the modern labor market, offering modules that develop expertise in linguistics, translation, language services, and literature while also providing transferable skills applicable to a wide range of professional sectors.
The program is ideal for students who aspire to have careers in language consultancy, education, translation, communication, language assessment, editorial work, content creation, public relations, and language, literature, or media research.
The mission of the BA English Language program is as follows:
To equip students with advanced knowledge and transferable skills in English language studies and research through the use of student-centered, innovative teaching methods and practical experiences so that they prepare for diverse career paths in language and communication services as well as further education.
The objectives that guide the current BA English Language program and ensure students are well-equipped and prepared for academic and professional success and further study, are the following:
Upon successful completion of the BA English Language program, students are expected to demonstrate the following knowledge, skills and competencies:
Knowledge:
Skills:
Competences:
Admission procedures
Bachelor studies have the right to enrol all those candidates who have completed secondary education, possess the necessary documentation, and fulfil the minimum admission criteria determined by the Senate. According to Article 5 of the Regulations for Bachelor Studies, the conditions for admission to Bachelor studies are:
ENROLLMENT QUOTAS
According to the accreditation decision issued by KAA, the number of study places is 120 students per academic year.
ASSESSMENT FORMS
Key summative and formative assessment methods include:
Upon successful completion of the study program, the student receives the academic title: Bachelors of Arts (BA) in English Language.
The study program in English Language (BA) consists of three years of study, respectively six semesters.
The credit value of one semester is 30 ECTS, respectively 180 ECTS at the end of studies.
Upon completing the bachelors’ level, the student is entitled to continue further Master studies in the MA programs, typically consisting of two years of studies with total 120 ECTS.
Recognizing parts of speech is important and helps students understand what kind of functions words play in a sentence and how they are connected to each other. Therefore, the aims of this course are:
– To familiarize students with the various parts of speech in the English language.
– To inform students regarding subject-verb agreement, the correct usage of punctuation marks, and even capitalization.
To establish a strong foundation for other courses in future semesters. For example, when dealing with phrases or sentence structure in the course of syntax, students will find it easier to identify different types of phrases and sentences because they have already learned how to identify parts of speech, as well as dependent and independent clauses (which ultimately require a subject and a verb).
This course introduces Linguistics. Students will learn the basic concepts and methods that linguists use to approach language from a scientific perspective. We will study a number of topics in phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and language acquisition. No prior training in linguistics is assumed. Students will study parts of the book and solve a number of problems sets for each of the major topics indicated in the syllabus. Specifically, the course will target the following objectives:
– Find patterns in a set of data; draw generalizations from a set of data; make a hypothesis to explain a linguistic pattern and revise it in light of further data.
– Formalize linguistic facts into concise rules and diagrams;
– Argue for or against a view using objective and empirical evidence
The subject “Albanian culture” aims to acquire theoretical knowledge and practical skills of students, which will enable the achievement of competencies in mastering the standard spelling of Albanian, in identifying and classifying parts of the lecture according to grammatical features and functions, thus making them capable of leading the teaching process.
The phonetic alphabet establishes a strong foundation for mastering the pronunciation of words in the English language, therefore, the topics of this course include articulatory phonetic descriptions of consonants and vowels, prosody, classical phonemic theory, the nature of phonological processes, and linguistic change. These topics are discussed because the course aims:
– To introduce students to the sound system of English, including phonetics and elementary phonology.
– To provide students with the practical skills and the conceptual framework to do further work in phonetics and phonology, especially as this involves the description and scientific explanation of the English sound system.
– To offer students an opportunity to improve their pronunciation of words in English.
– To encourage students to modify and adapt the usage of their speech organs in order to produce different phonetic sounds.
The “German Language I” course aims to equip students with skills that will facilitate their communication – be that oral or written – in the German language. Specifically, this course aims:
– To improve students’ reading and comprehension skills
– To develop students’ writing skills in the German language
– To help students develop knowledge regarding the German language and culture.
These objectives will be achieved using topics from the book “Schritte International 1” lectures 1-4. The topics in the book all tackle different grammatical issues in the German language. These issues or aspects of grammar are important because they will not only facilitate the students’ communication skills in German, but will also show them how to use the language appropriately, and without mistakes.
Exercises will focus on the systematic and parallel improvement of the four main language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Consequently, students will have a chance to develop an understanding of the grammar of the German language, as well as expand their vocabulary.
In this course, students will be taken systematically through the key stages of giving presentations, from planning and introducing to concluding and handling questions. Hence, this course aims:
– To develop students’ communication and language skills in order to plan and deliver an effective presentation.
– To provide students with the tools, experience, and ultimately the confidence they need to present their own ideas clearly and effectively in real-life contexts for various authentic purposes.
– To inform students regarding the strategies for persuading the audience, beating public-speaking anxiety, and handling questions.
– To encourage students to use their critical thinking while delivering presentations.
The emphasis of this course is on an in-depth analysis of sentence structure and verbs. This is a course designed to provide students with a sound, comprehensive knowledge of the verb tenses and conventions of traditional English grammar, voice, moods, reported speech, and sentence structure.
More specifically this course aims:
– To acquaint students with different verb tenses in English and their proper usage in communication.
– To inform students regarding the differences between direct and reported speech.
– To offer students knowledge concerning the application of passive and active voice in communication.
– To encourage students to use these grammatical elements of the English language in practice.
The course “Academic Writing and Research Skills” focuses on the basic elements of academic writing and research. Hence, this course aims:
– To introduce students to a variety of academic and non-academic writing styles
– To provide students with the best methods of paraphrasing and summarizing
– To raise awareness regarding plagiarism and its repercussions
– To prepare students for their future academic careers.
This course makes a distinction between and at the same time deals with language acquisition and learning. To elaborate further, that is, the course has two functions: (i) cognitive – students learn about language acquisition processes and (ii) metacognitive – to help students become aware of their language acquisition processes in order to make learning of English language (and languages in general) easier.
More specifically, this course aims:
– To facilitate students’ intellectual, professional, and scientific development.
– To offer students an insight into the natural order of picking up languages
– To inform students regarding various theories and strategies of language acquisition. More specifically, this course aims:
– To encourage to advise other people regarding strategies and the best ways to learn languages.
This course aims to provide students with theoretical knowledge and enhance their practical skills of students which will enable them to identify and argue regarding different syntactic functions.
More specifically, the course aims:
– To provide students with information regarding the syntax of Albanian language
– To encourage students to apply the acquired theoretical knowledge in practice through different exercises
– To offer students insight regarding the proper use of language
– To enable students to join words properly in related discourse and explain the syntactic units that were obtained during the process
– Explain the main components and the second components of the sentence;
– Explain the classification of compound and complex sentences in the Albanian language.
The “German Language II” course is a continuation of the “German Language I”. A course which aims to expand students’ knowledge regarding the German language by providing them with further learning opportunities for practicing their language skills. These acquired skills will help students to:
– Understand simple conversations and pieces of text in the German language
– Improve their communication skills in German Language.
– Display a mastery of the usage of German vocabulary words
– Write simple sentences according to sentence structure and spelling rules of the German language.
This course offers a comprehensive introduction to English composition, focusing on critical thinking, academic writing, and research skills. Students will learn to craft clear, coherent, and well-structured essays while exploring various writing styles, including descriptive, narrative, expository, and argumentative. The course is designed to develop skills in thesis development, textual analysis, organization, grammar, and citation practices. By the end of the course, students will have enhanced their ability to communicate ideas effectively in both academic and professional contexts.
The course specifically aims to:
– Implement a multi-step, recursive writing process that includes prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading.
– Apply appropriate language and tone for various audiences and rhetorical situations.
– Write academic essays with logically sequenced paragraphs, including an introduction, supportive body, and conclusion.
– Employ persuasive strategies and rhetorical patterns in original arguments.
– Demonstrate effective support for assertions using appropriate rhetorical strategies to evaluate, represent, and respond to the ideas and research of others.
– Adhere to rules and conventions of grammar, word choice, punctuation, and spelling across a range of sentence structures.
The course aims to strengthen students’ intercultural communication skills with a focus on their use in intercultural environments. To achieve this, the course will build upon students’ English language competencies (with an emphasis on writing and speaking skills) to:
– Enhance students’ soft skills, including effective communication, persuasion, negotiation, problem-solving, critical thinking, interpersonal relationship skills, conflict resolution, empathy, active listening, and time management within an intercultural context,
– Develop their intercultural competencies, such as foreign language skills, knowledge of foreign cultures, cross-cultural nonverbal communication, and the ability to recognize and respond to different cultural communication models. This also includes recognizing and avoiding stereotyping, fostering openness to differences, curiosity, tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty, flexibility, open-mindedness, and cognitive adaptability.
By achieving these goals, the course will accomplish the following objectives:
– Enhance students’ soft skills, making them sensitive to intercultural differences and challenges.
– Develop students’ intercultural competencies (knowledge, skills, and attitudes) required to function, behave, and collaborate effectively in multicultural environments.
The course of Morphology is designed to support the language elements (vocabulary and grammar) as well as language skills (reading, speaking, and writing). Students are exposed to the processes, concepts, and techniques involved in analyzing the structure of words (morphemes), grammatical categories (word classes), and morphological analysis of words, as well as drawing morphological trees. This class combines reading, practical exercises, discussion, analysis, and criticism while reviewing historical and contemporary forms, models, approaches, and techniques in morphological analysis.
The course “Integrated Skills” refers to the four essential skills in a language: writing, speaking, reading, and listening. These skills are important because they help others communicate clearly and avoid any possible misunderstandings regardless of the setting (verbal or non-verbal). Therefore, this course aims to:
– Provide students with opportunities to develop the four language skills in B1; reading, writing, listening, and speaking through different tasks in class.
– Improve students’ vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation
– Encourage students to express their thoughts, beliefs, and opinions in written and oral communication.
– Train students to become better listeners, inform them regarding the best ways of communicating their message and purpose.
The overall aim of the Methodologies and Techniques of Translation Course is to train professional translators, which is achieved through the acquisition, command and mastery by the students of theoretical knowledge and practical skills, that will enable them to build instrumental, interpersonal, and systemic competences, in order for them to become able to translate in full awareness and independently for public and private organizations, agencies and companies, in Kosovo and abroad, that may need translation services.
This course provides new Business Skills lessons that offer the learner a task-based, integrated skills approach to the development of core business skills such as Presentations, Negotiations, Meetings, and Small Talk.
The English that students learn is practical for both working in business and further study at the university level. Interviews, case studies, and Financial Times content bring the real world of business into the classroom and motivate students.
Thus, the course aims:
– To offer students articles and practice exercises to help them develop English for business,
– To expose students to the practicalities of business by providing lessons with topics such as buying and selling, mergers and acquisitions, people skills, marketing, and human resources,
– To provide consultant case studies to help students learn general business practices while improving their English.
The “German Language III” course is an advanced-level course, that aims to further improve students’ skills in German such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In order to achieve proper communication, the lectures in this course will focus on specific, important elements of grammar that are linked to the topics that will be treated in class and enable students to communicate better. But also, it helps students to:
-Understand conversations and pieces of texts in the German language at an advanced level.
-Employ German vocabulary confidently and properly during communication and writing.
-Articulate their thoughts, opinions, and beliefs regarding different daily life situations in the German language.
-Write simple and complex sentences according to sentence structure and spelling rules of the German language.
-Advance their knowledge regarding the German language and culture.
Exercises will focus on the systematic improvement of the four main language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Consequently, students will have a chance to develop an understanding of the grammar of the German language, as well as expand their vocabulary.
English is an international language; hence, this course is organized in a manner that enables students to improve their basic language skills which are listening, speaking, reading, and writing in the respective domain. To elaborate further, speaking activities will provide students with the opportunity to put the vocabulary they’ve learned into practice. Likewise, listening activities are beneficial because the CD recordings which will be played during class feature speakers of various nationalities. In other words, this course aims:
– To familiarize students with words and expressions used in the industry of tourism,
– To offer students an insight regarding tourism-related jargon and provide them with an idea of how tourism-related publications are written,
– To acquaint students with different accents of English that will enable them to understand how English is spoken in different parts of the world,
– To encourage students to practice writing different text types, such as writing letters, press releases, tourism brochures, and reports.
The course will introduce Literary Theory, dwelling on characteristic features of the literary writing, major literary genres and sub-genres. Particular emphasis is placed on branches of literary scholarship, their evolution through time, literature’s specificities, and its relations with other fields of human activity.
More specifically, this course aims:
– To familiarize students with the idea of literature; its specificities, and its major genres and subgenres;
– To enable students to understand, appreciate and interpret literary works;
– To equip students with tools and methods for close analysis of literary works of all kinds.
– To offer an insight on how society impacts literature and acquaint students with different literary devices.
The course offers an integrated approach to the theoretical, descriptive, and practical study of the Syntax of the English language. Its general goal is to raise the awareness of students about the nature and importance of English Syntax for language understanding and use. More particularly, the course intends to introduce students to the basics of English Syntax by focusing on the phrase level of language constituency, to build upon and extend students’ knowledge of morphology and semantics, and to offer them guided practice in the analysis of basic syntactic structures and thus contribute to the development of basic skills in syntactic analysis and argumentation.
The course “Integrated Language Skills II” is designed to further enhance students’ language skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Such a course is important because all forms of communication involve more than one skill. E.g when one is engaging in oral communication, one is not merely speaking, but is also listening. Hence, this course aims:
– To provide students with ample opportunities to read, speak, write, and listen in B2,
– To offer students an insight on how to deal with the most likely situations to arise in their daily life,
– To encourage students to produce simple connected text on topics that are familiar or of personal interest,
– To help students describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes & and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
Much like any other literature, British Literature also reflects the society and culture that helped produce it throughout time. It mirrors society’s attitude towards life, love, human nature and their internal worlds, respectively, emotions. Having that in mind, this course aims to:
– Familiarise students with canonical literature, but also enhance their understanding of the history and the society that produced it;
– Cultivate their tastes in and appreciation of literature, and enable them to engage in close reading of simple and more complex texts;
– Provide students with a bigger picture of how authors’ works were greatly influenced by their life experiences
– Encourage students to reflect on the manners in which literature depicts society and the ways it can influence it
This course covers the key concepts regarding the usage of ICT in different fields. It aims to raise the students’ awareness regarding the role and impact of the Internet as a learning resource in education. More specifically, this course aims:
– To inform students how to make use of the internet as a tool for learning purposes, as well as how to find online learning resources and which online learning resources are currently available for them to use as students.
– To facilitate the process of job-hunting for students in the future as it provides them with key information on how to search for a job in the twenty-first century, and advises them regarding online job-hunting methods and strategies.
– To offer students an insight into important technological aspects that will be beneficial to them in the field of employment. For example, it informs them how to gather, manage, and select data, as well as how to handle security and privacy issues on the Internet.
– To increase students’ awareness of the social, ethical, and legal aspects of ICT.
The course aims to provide students with advanced linguistic knowledge, with a special emphasis on the use of the German language and grammar in both spoken and written forms. The course focuses on developing the communicative and linguistic skills necessary for effective communication. Various reading and listening strategies will be practiced, including global, selective, and detailed approaches. Additionally, productive skills (features of different text types, speaking) and receptive skills will be exercised. All four language skills will be practiced through a variety of topics, such as weekends, travel, food, sports, and activities.
Throughout the semester, vocabulary will be enriched with new words appropriate to the language level. Level A2.1 consists of approximately 1200-1500 active words. During lessons, materials will include texts from the main textbook and authentic texts on everyday topics, German grammar for non-native speakers, listening practice CDs, and digital resources provided by the publisher, such as an online platform for exercises and mobile applications.
Course Objectives:
– Enable students to combine language with real-life skills.
– Boost students’ confidence and ability to communicate in German.
– Enable students to become efficient and flexible users of the German language.
– Encourage independent learning.
This course provides an overview of Public Relations (PR) and Communication. Key topics in PR and communication will be discussed, including the history of PR, the role of values in PR, and communication skills relevant to the field. The course assumes no prior knowledge.
Course objectives include:
– Introducing students to the field of PR and communication.
– Teaching the importance of values in PR.
– Providing an overview of job roles, competencies, and salaries.
– Encouraging intercultural communication in PR.
– Analyzing case studies in PR step-by-step.
The overall aim of the Course “Translation Practice” is to train students to become professional translators by developing students’ communication and transfer competence in both languages, English and Albanian/. This goal is achieved through the acquisition, command, and mastery of the student’s theoretical knowledge and practical skills, which will enable them to build instrumental, interpersonal, and systemic competencies, in order for them to become able to translate in full awareness and independently for public and private organizations, agencies and companies that may need translation services.
This course is an introduction to Public Relations and Communication. It discusses central topics in public relations and communication including the history of public relations, the role of values in public relations, the publics of public relations, communication skills in public relations, etc. The course assumes no prior knowledge of public relations and communication.
The aims of this course are the following:
– To introduce students to the field of public relations and communication;
– To teach about the importance of values in public relations;
– To provide an overview of job duties, competencies, salaries, and satisfaction;
– To foster cross-cultural communication in public relations;
– To analyze step by step a set of case studies in public relations.
The aim of the Course Introduction to Legal Translation is to provide a general overview of translation practices, techniques, and specialized terminology in the discipline of legal translation, and teach students how to switch safely and accurately between the source and the target language (English/Albanian), as professional translators do, which is achieved through the acquisition, command and mastery by the students of theoretical knowledge and practical skills, that will enable them to build instrumental, interpersonal, and systemic competences, in order for them to become able to translate in full awareness and independently for public and private organizations, agencies and companies, in Kosovo and abroad, that may need translation services.
The “Syntax of the Sentence” course is designed to explore how sentences are structured and the rules governing sentence construction. Students will gain a deep understanding of types of clauses in compound and complex sentences. Students will study sentence constituents, dependencies, and how coordination and subordination create compound and complex sentence structures. The subordinate clauses will be further analyzed from their morphological (nominal, adjective and adverbial CL) and syntactic viewpoint such as subjects, objects, complements and how they are organized within different sentence types. The course focuses on analyzing syntactic categories (e.g., noun phrases, verb phrases) and their functions, helping students break down complex sentences and understand constituent relationships. Another objective is to familiarize students with syntactic analyses (as well as use of clause structures (finite and non-finite). The course also introduces various syntactic theories, including generative grammar and dependency grammar, offering different perspectives on how sentence structure is organized.
The course is designed to help undergraduate students produce a research paper. This includes the following stages: anticipating the audience, choosing a topic, finding resources, drawing the outline, drafting, editing and presenting. Students will learn how to organize their ideas, data and resources clearly. The course will focus on writing vital parts of any research work, such as: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments, Abstract, References, Title, etc. The practical part of the course will focus on language use and address issues such as: easily confused words, wordy words and phrases, words that can cause vagueness, Latin words and abbreviations, and what they mean, and many other activities familiarizing the students with the scientific writing style.
American Literature refers to the literary works which were written in the English language and produced in the United States of America. The aims of this course are:
– To help students master independent reading, comprehension, and analysis of literary works by means of literary theory and by examining the American literature of the twentieth century.
– To provide students with a toolbox on how to read poems, short stories, plays, and novels.
– To encourage students to explore the work of the major exponents of Romanticism and Modernism, to think about their explorations of life, gender, and sexuality, and to explore writers who combine thematic and formal innovation.
Morphology is a field of study that concerns words, their formation processes, and the established connection between them in a language. Hence, this course aims:
– To familiarize students with morphology as an important branch of linguistics
– To provide students with knowledge regarding word formation processes
– To offer students the opportunity to expand their vocabulary and decode unknown words by taking into consideration the stem, affixes, prefixes, suffixes, etc.
– To improve the students’ overall linguistic competence
“Literary Translation” refers to the translation of literary texts such as poems, novels, short stories, prose, etc. Hence, the aims of this course are:
– To advance students’ translation skills and increase their understanding by focusing more on exemplary cases of translations in the Albanian-English relationship and vice versa.
– To offer students an insight into Noli’s translations of various works (including Shakespeare) will be discussed here, followed by Luaras’s translations, as well as recent translations by “younger” translators such as Schwarz and Elsie.
– To provide students with insight regarding the translations of Albanian literary and non-literary works into English, either as first translations (direct translations into English) or second translations (for example, some of Kadar’s works translated into English). English from French.
Both of these aspects will necessarily be elaborated with a research and comparative approach in order to stimulate analytical thinking about the activity of literary translation and the development of student’s skills and self-confidence to engage in quality literary translations.
The course Text Analysis intends to expand students’ knowledge of language structure and use acquired from courses in the grammar of English language and Linguistics. Introducing the students to several linguistic transdisciplinary concepts will help them develop the basic knowledge and skills necessary to understand, analyze, and discuss meaning-making processes created through and by language. This, in turn, will raise their awareness of the complexity of language use and its intricate relationships with different sociolinguistic structures and social factors that underpin, determine, and limit language production.
This course will focus on creative principles in writing. Several writing styles will be studied and utilized along with reading principles using short stories, opinion writing, summaries, poetic responses and creations. Students will gain an appreciation of creative thought and discussion as a means of building writing ideas.
More specifically, this course aims:
– To familiarize students with different genres in literature, their definitions, and characteristics
– To encourage students to use figurative language in different pieces of writing,
– To offer students the opportunity to examine how characters, plot, and settings differ through different genres,
– To provide students with an opportunity to discover their own writing abilities and gather feedback in the process.
The course develops knowledge, practical skills, and understanding through lectures and practical classes. This course deals with the customs, institutions, and values of the UK and the USA. Knowledge, skills, and competencies gained in this course will support the language elements (vocabulary and context) as well as language skills (reading, speaking, and writing). Students are exposed to all the central dimensions of British and American society from geography and the environment, government and politics, to religion, education, legal system, media, and the arts. This class combines reading, practical exercises, discussion, analysis, and criticism while reviewing historical and contemporary forms, models, approaches and techniques exploring civilizations.
Advanced Courses of English Language is focused on developing students’ fluency in order to help them reach a more complex level of interaction. More specifically, this course aims:
– To enhance further students’ vocabulary in the English language that qualifies them for, C1
– To help students communicate their thoughts, beliefs, and opinions in an advanced level of English
– To equip students with information regarding the importance of tone, formality, and word choice in communication.
To provide students with an opportunity to engage in discussions regarding various topics they may encounter in their daily lives.
Sociolinguistics is a field of linguistics that studies the link between language and society. Since language is embedded in a social and historical context, a full understanding of language can only be achieved if the social context is taken into account. Therefore, the course will focus on diversity in language in relation to gender, geography, social class, and ethnicity. This course is designed to help students to:
– Define and give examples of sociolinguistic terms and concepts,
– Develop a greater awareness of the relationships between language and social context,
– Synthesize and critique the literature in a research project/paper.
Individual research work.
