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The
Faculty of Letters and History was founded on 15 September 1956, within
the 5-year Pedagogical Institute, the first shape that our University
took. In 1962 the Pedagogical Institute becomes the University of
Timisoara. With a philological profile only at the beginning, the
Faculty initially called of Philology was the nucleus of the development
of the humanistic academia at Timisoara and in the western part of the
country.
In 1956
the Romanian and the German section were founded, followed by the
Russian section in 1957, English-Romanian in 1964, Romanian-French in
1966 and French-Romanian in 1968. A training course of intensive
Romanian for foreign students exists since 1974. Sections with two major
subjects were also founded: Romanian-a foreign language (a modern
language or Latin), a foreign language (French, English, German,
Russian)- Romanian and two foreign languages, the latter being closed
for a while until 1990. The courses had, at the beginning, a five-year
structure, then a four-year one.
In 1990,
the name of the faculty is the Faculty of Letters, Philosophy and
History. New sections are added: in 1990 – Philosophy, History-a foreign
language (up to 1980 there used to be a History-Geography section within
the 3-year Pedagogical Institute) and Classical Philology. In 1992,
Journalism-English was founded, followed by the enlargement of the minor
subject to other foreign languages such as French, German, Italian,
Spanish. In 1994, the History section was founded.
From an
administrative point of view, two other sections were added – the two
specialties of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology, created in 1993:
Pastoral Theology and Theology-Letters (Romanian or a foreign language).
Starting with 1997, the Faculty of Orthodox Theology also has a
Theology-History section.
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