About department | Department of Foreign Languages

The Department of Foreign Languages today …

At present, the department offers foreign language courses to students in all forms of study at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, the Faculty of Information Technology and the Faculty of Business and Management. The most important courses include English for Bachelors, English for Electrical Engineering, English for IT, English for Life and others.

In addition to English, we also teach German, Spanish, French and Italian. These courses are offered to all students of the university.

All our staff have specialist philological training and many years of experience in professional language teaching. The department has a long-standing research interest in the field of linguistic disciplines. Young assistants are gradually joining this expert team, bringing with them fresh ideas and an innovative approach.

The department engages in research in linguistics (with a focus on English as a professional language, especially in the areas of pragmatics, translation, lexicology and sociolinguistics) and the methodology of teaching professional English. With over thirty years of tradition and experience, we are proud to be able to provide quality education across faculties.

Did you know...

six-time winner in student’s best ‘teacher competition’, Ms. Agata Walek, calls us her home department?

we are a top 3 department at FEEC in number of students we teach?

our educators regularly visit language departments at top European universities?

we have the highest female/male employment ratio among the Faculty’s departments?

a Canadian native speaker – Ken A. Froehling, M.A. – is among our teachers.

... and the days gone by.

The Department of Foreign Languages was established as an independent unit at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics in 1990, following the splitting of the Rectorate's Department of Languages. Since the establishment of the independent Faculty of Information Technology (2001), the Department of Languages has been responsible for teaching English in the FIT undergraduate and doctoral programmes. Since 2004, we have been offering general education courses in the social sciences, including pedagogy, psychology and economics. In 2012, our own study programme English in Electrical Engineering and Informatics was successfully accredited and became the first philological programme at a technical university in the Czech Republic. This was followed in 2023 by the updated programme English for Practice in Electrical Engineering and Communication Technologies.