The Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Sarajevo was founded in 1989. Since its founding, the following instructors and associates have taught at the Department of Psychology: Dr. Ismet Dizdarević, Emeritus; Dr. Nedjeljka Gajanović, Emeritus; Dr. Ejub Ćehić; Dr. Ratko Dunđerović; Dr. Renko Đapić; Dr. Petar Stojaković; Dr. Faruk Dilberović; Dr. Asim Omerović; Dr. Jelena Berberović; Dr. Ugo Vlaisavljević; Dr. Amela Kulenović; Dr. Jasminka Babić-Avdispahić; Dr. Mujo Hasković; Dr. Aida Hašimbegović; Ranka Mavrinac, MA; Dr. Slobodan Marković; Tanja Todorović, TA; Ognjenka Đurđev, TA; Aleksandra Fabrio, TA; Dino Đipa, TA; Dr. Jasna Bajraktarević; Dr. Elvira Duraković-Belko; Dr. Eldan Kapur; Dr. Jadranka Kolenović-Đapo; Dr. Nermin Đapo; Dr. Saša Drače; Dr. Sibela Zvizdić; Dr. Enedina Hasanbegović-Anić; Dr. Dženana Husremović; Dr. Indira Fako; Dr. Maida Koso-Drljević; Dr. Sabina Alispahić; Dr. Amela Dautbegović; Dr. Đenita Tuce; Mirna Marković, MA; Dr. Ratko Đokić; Nina Hadžiahmetović, MA; Aida Muheljić, MA.

In addition to the aforementioned instructors and associates, numerous visiting professors from the Department of Psychology at the University of Zagreb have taught at the Department: Dr. Alija Kulenović; Dr. Branimir Šverko; Dr. Dean Ajduković; Dr. Marina Ajduković; Dr. Dragutin Ivanec; Dr. Damir Ljubotina; Dr. Darja Maslić-Seršić. Dr. Ivanka Živčić-Bećirović and Dr. Vladimir Takšić from the Department of Psychology in Rijeka have taught at the Department, as have Dr. Ilija Manenica from the Department of Psychology in Zadar, Dr. Klas Brenk and Dr. Valentin Bucik from the Department of Psychology in Ljubljana, Dr. Boris Wolf and Dr. Konstantin Momirović from the Department of Psychology in Novi Sad, and Dr. Ivan Šiber from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Zagreb.

Instructors from other departments at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo—Dr. Rudolf Stojak; Dr. Mirjana Mavrak; Azra Jajatović, MA; Dr. Hašim Muminović—have made a significant contribution to teaching at the Department of Psychology (especially in the period from 1992 to 1995), as have Dr. Ismet Cerić, Dr. Amir Pleha and Dr. Muhamed Gavranović from the Faculty of Medicine in Sarajevo.

In the post-war period, the Department of Psychology in Sarajevo has worked together with the Ludwig Maximilians Institute for Clinical Psychology in Munich (Dr. Willi Butollo, Dr. Stephen Powell, Dr. Gisela Rooper and Dr. Maria Gavranidou), the Paris X Nanterre University Institute for Psychology (Dr. Serge Lebovici and Dr. Dominique Cupa), and the Institute for Psychology from Gothenburg in Sweden.

Currently, two full professors, six associate professors, three assistant professors, three teaching associates and one teaching assistant are employed at the Department of Psychology. Faculty members and associates from the Department of Psychology participate actively at academic and scientific conferences at home and abroad. A significant number of research projects in various areas of psychology have been realised at the Department. Members of the Department have translated and adapted a number of texts and scales in psychology. The Department has paid special attention to making available in translation texts that are necessary for teaching. For that purpose, several titles have been translated, and we would like to highlight the translation of the following monographs: Developmental Psychology by Philip Hwang and Björn Nilsson and Life After Trauma by Willi Butollo et. al., published by the Ludwig Maximilians University Institute for Psychology from Munich. In addition to translating the aforementioned books, members of the Department have produced thirteen monographs in the past six years.

In cooperation with the University of Paris X and the Danielle Mitterrand Foundation, the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy organised the first edition of the “Life After Trauma: Trauma in Children and Adolescents” international symposium in 1997.  Another significant conference “Psycho-social Effects of War (Results of Empirical Research in the former Yugoslavia)” was organised by the Department in 2000, in cooperation with UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Institute for Clinical Psychology from Munich. In 2002, in cooperation with the Soros Foundation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a seminar on “Structural Modelling” was held. The “Contribution of Eastern Philosophy to Western Psychology” conference was held in 2003. On 26 February 2008, the Association of Psychologists of the Federation of BiH, in cooperation with the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo organised a round table on “Prevention of Violence Among Children and Adolescents through the Education, Health and Social Welfare Systems.” In 2009, on the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Department, the “First Sarajevo Days of Psychology” were held. This academic conference has become a tradition and in April 2018, the Department organised the “Fifth Sarajevo Days of Psychology”. The Department has also established the Ante Raić Prize that is given out every other academic year for the best bachelor’s thesis. Emir Efendić, Katarina Mišetić, and Selma Korlat have received this award to date.

A significant number of candidates have defended their doctoral dissertations and attained the rank of PhD since the founding of the Department: Svetislav Marjanović, Cvjetin Lukić, Petar Kostić, Miroslav Ahtik, Jovan Savić, Aida Hašimbegović, Vukašin Gutović, Muhamed Šestanović, Mirha Šehović, Jasna Bajraktarević, Osman Ramić, Sibela Zvizdić-Meco, Elvira Duraković-Belko, Slobodan Pavlović, Jadranka-Kolenović Đapo, Nermin Đapo, Indira Fako, Maida Koso-Drljević, Enedina Hasanbegović-Anić, Dženana Husremović, Danijel Maleč, Aid Smajić, Srđan Puhalo, Elvis Vardo, Tamara Efendić, Lejla Silajdžić, Amela Dautbebegović, Đenita Tuce.

In addition to an undergraduate programme, the Department offers a one year specialised programme in trauma psychology with the support of the Ludwig Maximilians Institute for Clinical Psychology from Munich and UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the 2000/2001 academic year, a graduate programme in psychology was established. Also, the Department of Psychology has participated in the education of graduate students for the graduate programme in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology offered by the Umea University from Sweden and the University of Sarajevo. With the Bologna Reforms of higher education, a third study cycle has been established (doctoral studies in psychology).

The Centre for Psychological Research, Education and Counselling (CPEIS) is active within the Department. The Department of Psychology participates in the ERASMUS PLUS project and the International Memory Trauma Trust (MT) with the International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin (IPU). The Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo heads the national “European Feasibility Study” in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Department of Comparative Literature and Library Sciences was established in 1972 as the Department of Literary Studies, Theatre Studies and Library Sciences at the initiative of the Faculty of Philosophy, the Association of Theatres of BiH, the Republic Secretariat for Culture, the Drama Programme, the Society of Librarians of BiH, as well as other interested stakeholders. As such, the Department was established to meet the needs at that time for professionals in the performing arts and librarianship in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The founding of the Department made possible the education of performance artists and directors for the first time in Bosnia and Herzegovina and, as should also be noted, the education of librarians for the first time in the former Yugoslavia.

From its inception, the Department focused on a broad understanding of key aspects of the history of world literature, contemporary advances in library sciences and various fields of theatre studies. The curriculum was organised so that the first two years were dedicated to studying literary and theoretical foundations and literary-historical trends, and the final two years included specialised subject areas. In the Library Sciences track, subject areas such as the history of writing, history of the book and the library, library organisation, cataloguing, classification, bibliography and research methods gradually developed. For Theatre Studies, in addition to European drama and theatre, the curriculum included the history of (at that time Yugoslav) drama and theatre, as well as the theory of acting, the theory of directing, the history and aesthetics of film, the foundations of dramaturgy, etc. In addition to these subjects, the curriculum was gradually enriched with special disciplines from the fields of art history, rhetoric and writing, poetry and literary criticism. This made possible a gradual turn from a general study of literature towards the field of comparative studies. For a select number of students, practical instruction in acting and directing was organised in cooperation with the MESS theatre festival so that this Department graduated a large number of directors and performing artists before the establishment of the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. After the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo was established, the Theatre Studies track in the Department was discontinued, but several faculty members from this Department participated actively in founding the Academy and in its functioning.

During the war and post-war period, the structure of the curriculum at the Department changed significantly and the Department was renamed from the Department of Literary Studies, Theatre Studies and Library Sciences into the Department of Comparative Literature and Library Sciences. The study of comparative literature offers knowledge from the history of world literature, the theory and methodology of literary studies, the study of literature through history and the poetics of literary genres, literary criticism, theatre studies, film studies and a series of subjects in the humanities related to literature. The study of library sciences developed in line with the most current trends within library sciences, such as digital librarianship and IT. In line with this, comparative literature graduates are prepared for a broad range of professional activities so that they can be employed in various jobs in publishing, media, librarianship and culture in the broadest sense.

In both the field of literary studies and the field of library sciences, considerable effort has been expended to follow contemporary trends in these areas and to harmonise the teaching process with the requirements of the Bologna Process.

During its decades of existence, the following individuals have worked at the Department as professors or assistants: Dr. Josip Lešić, Dr. Zdenko Lešić, Dr. Tvrtko Kulenović, Dr. Slavko Leovac, Dr. Nikola Koljević, Dr. Ljubinka Bašović, Dr. Lamija Hadžiosmanović, Dr. Zdravko Kajmaković, Dr. Vojislav Maksimović, Dr. Emir Žuljević, Dr. Đorđe Slavnić, Dubravka Petranović, Zdravka Vučinić MA, Fatima Festić, Dr. Minka Memija, Dr. Nirman Moranjak-Bamburać and Dr. Kemal Bakaršić, Dr. Marko Vešović and Dr. Ivica Pinjuh.

Current members of the Department of Comparative Literature and Library Sciences are: Dr. Dževad Karahasan, Dr. Muhamed Dželilović, Dr. Marina Katnić-Bakaršić, Dr. Senada Dizdar, Dr. Nina Alihodžić, Dr. Andrea Lešić-Thomas, Dr. Edin Pobrić, Dr. Lejla Kodrić-Zaimović, Dr. Almir Bašović, Dr. Mario Hibert, Dr. Lejla Hajdarpašić, Dr. Ajla Demiragić, Adisa Bašić MA, Fahrudin Kujundžić MA, Džejla Khattab MA and Feđa Kulenović.

The Chair of Art History was established in 2002 at the Department of History and it is one of the most recent additions to the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo. The idea of establishing an art history programme came about during the 2000/2001 academic year at the Academy of Fine Arts (Dr. Ibrahim Krzović and Dr. Sadudin Musabegović) and at the Faculty of Philosophy (Dr. Enver Imamović). The need to establish an art history programme already existed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but it became all the more pressing after the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina with the destruction and looting of a large number of art works and artefacts testifying not only to the traditions of Bosnian-Herzegovinian culture and art but also to an authentic meeting of Eastern and Western religions and cultures. The programme was structured so as to familiarise students with traditional art history methodologies (formal and stylistic analysis, conventional iconography, etc.) as well as with changes in the academic discipline that have come about in the past thirty years under the influence of critical theory, social history, cultural studies and gender studies, etc. Therefore, the programme as it was established rests on contemporary methodologies of history and art theory which entails a multidisciplinary approach to the interpretation of an artwork. Historical and theoretical approaches to art are complemented with knowledge from museum studies and other academic disciplines concerned with the protection of cultural and historical heritage.

Dr. Ibrahim Krzović, full professor of art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, who in the period from 2002 to 2007 was the head of the Chair, and Asja Mandić, at that time a teaching associate and coordinator of the newly established Chair, served in the initial organisation of the program. Academic staff from both the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo and from other faculties and universities in the country and abroad—including Dr. Ibrahim Krzović, Dr. Sadudin Musabegović, Dr. Enver Imamović, Dr. Sulejman Bosto, Dr. Fehim Hadžimuhamedović, Dr. Vesna Mušeta Ašćerić, Dr.Vjekoslava Sanković Simčić, Dr. Ćazim Hadžimejlić, Dr. Amir Pašić, Dr. Ljiljana Ševo, Dr. Tomislav Šola, Dr. Sanja Cvetnić, Dr. Ljiljana Kolešnik, Dr. Ivana Prijatelj Pavičić—contributed to the development of teaching and research at the Chair. Also, former Chair members, Dr. Mirza Hasan Ćeman and teaching associate Andrea Baotić-Rustanbegović, MA (who today holds a PhD), contributed to the development of the Chair.

To date, two doctoral dissertations—The Modern and Postmodern in Bosnian-Herzegovinian Graphics in the 1960s and 1970s (Aida Abadžić Hodžić) and The Problem of the Reception of Contemporary Art: The Role and Meaning of the Program for Museums of Contemporary Art (Asja Mandić)—have been defended at the Chair of Art History.

From 2002 to 2010, twenty-five bachelor’s theses and seventeen master’s theses have been defended.

There are currently four faculty members at the Chair of Art History—Dr. Aida Abadžić Hodžić, Dr. Asja Mandić, Dr. Senadin Musabegović, Dr. Haris Dervišević (who also serves as head of the Chair)—and one teaching assistant, Andrea Mekić, MA.

The Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo was established as the Chair of Philosophy in 1956. Initially, the core faculty were Ante Fiamengo, Ivan Focht, Andrija Krešić and Šefkija Žuljević. For a significant period, the Department was known as the Department of Philosophy and Sociology, but in 2011 the Department of Sociology was established as an independent unit.

In terms of its research and teaching agenda, the Department has focused on areas particular to the discipline of philosophy, first and foremost the history of philosophy (ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary), ontology, logic, aesthetics, ethics, and epistemology.

The Department of Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian Language is one of the academic divisions of the Faculty of Philosophy that developed from the Chair of Serbo-Croatian Language and Yugoslav Literature, which was established at the founding of the Faculty of Philosophy in 1950.

From its inception, the Chair offered instruction within two study programmes, where the Serbo-Croatian language was studied in combination with Yugoslav literatures as a first or second major subject. At its founding, the teaching staff comprised Dr. Jovan Vuković and Rihard Kuzmić for core courses, and Salko Nazečić, Meša Selimović and Dr. Boško Novaković for courses in literature. Soon after the founding of the Faculty, Fahra Kolaković, a specialist in the Serbo-Croatian language, and Milica Milidragović, a specialist in Russian, were employed to teach language courses, while Svetozar Marković was appointed as a faculty member. In 1958, Herta Kuna became the first alumna to be appointed as a faculty member; she taught language courses.

The bulk of the responsibility for teaching language courses during that period was shouldered by Prof. Jovan Vuković, who taught all the disciplines related to contemporary Serbo-Croatian language, as well as the history of Serbo-Croatian grammar and dialectology, and Prof. Rihard Kuzmić, who taught Old Slavonic, comparative grammar of Slavic languages and Russian, as well as an introduction to linguistics.

A separate Chair of Serbo-Croatian Language was established in 1950 and it became the basis for the development of Slavic studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo. Already in 1961, the Chair of Russian Language was established as a separate unit with Prof. Rihard Kuzmić and teaching assistant Milica Milidragović as core faculty members.

In 1971, the Chair for Serbo-Croatian Language became the Department of South Slavic Languages and since 1999 the Department has been called the Department of Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian Language. This was the result of an increase in teaching staff at the Chair: Ksenija Milošević (1962), Smail Karačević (1963), Nadžija Taso (1964), Hrvoje Križić (1965), Novica Petković (1969), Miloš Okuka (1969), Darija Gabrić (1971), Jagoda Jurić (1971), Josip Raos (1974), Mirjana Milković (1974), Velika Josifoska (1975), Jasna Honzak (1975), Dževad Jahić (1975), Miloš Kovačević (1976), Remzija Hadžiefendić (1978), Dr Bogdan Dabić (1979).

Teaching at the Department has always been carried out within two study programmes, i.e. with language as the first primary subject and literature as the second primary subject or vice versa. During one period, it was possible to combine the study of Serbo-Croatian language as the first or second primary subject with a foreign language or philosophy, while today it is possible to combine the study of Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian language as the first or second primary subject with a foreign language or another non-philological discipline. Within the framework of the obligatory combination with literature, the structure of the study programme changed over time so that the breadth of the first and second primary subject varied. This made possible the education of professionals for various specialised areas at the Department.

Teaching and research at the Department addressed issues of Serbo-Croatian language and general issues in linguistics. The curriculum also included a basic competency in Macedonian and Slovenian (at the level of a lector). All language levels were represented in the curriculum, in both a synchronic and diachronic sense, and this determined the academic interests and scholarly work of Department members. From this basic structure, new courses emerged over time (The History of Literary Language; Linguistic Stylistics; Norms and Culture of the Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian Language) and gradually the teaching of contemporary Serbo-Croatian language and general linguistics was made current in a theoretical and methodological sense. Today, teaching and research at the Department addresses issues of the Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian language and general topics in linguistics.

The Department has launched the following journals in linguistics: Pitanja savremenog književnog jezika [Issues of Contmporary Literary Language] (1949) and Književni jezik [Literary Language] (1972).

Research and scholarly work at the Department can be traced through the realisation of the Yugoslav Dialects Atlas project, the participation of faculty and lectors, as well as of the administrative staff, at the “Yugoslav Seminar for Foreign Slavists”, participation in the work of the Committee for the Writing of the New Orthography, etc. Faculty members and associates of the Department are participating in creating editions of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Dialects book series.

International cooperation at the Department consisted of writing the section of the Slavic Linguistic Atlas (OLA) related to Bosnia and Herzegovina, invited talks and work as lectors at foreign universities, participation at international scholarly forums and at international academic conferences for linguists. This has continued to be the case and in addition to this, members of the department are participating in the creation of the European Linguistic Atlas and in an international exchange of academic staff as part of the Erasmus+ project.

Since its founding to the present day, the Department has cooperated with various academic institutions, especially with the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Language Institute in Sarajevo. Cooperation with the Academy took place primarily as part of the Committee for Linguistic Issues and cooperation with the Language Institute took place through joint projects.

Since the founding of the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, a large number of students have graduated from the Serbo-Croatian Language programme and the Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian Language program. The majority of these alumni teach native language subjects in primary and secondary schools, but a significant number were and continue to be active in publishing, radio and TV.

In the period from 2012 to 2017, the following members of the Department went into a well-deserved retirement: Dr. Josip Baotić, Dr. Dževad Jahić and Josip Raos, MA.

Current members of the Department of Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian Language are: Dr. Hasnija Muratagić-Tuna, Dr. Senahid Halilović, Dr. Ismail Palić, Dr. Amela Šehović (who is also head of the Faculty Committee of the Department), Dr. Lejla Nakaš, Dr. Bernisa Puriš, Dr. Halid Bulić, Enisa Ivojević MA, Elma Durmišević-Cernica MA, Mehmed Kardaš MA and Azra Hodžić-Čavkić.

The Chair for English Language and Literature—currently the Department of English Language and Literature—was established in 1951 as part of the Chair for German Language and Literature and English Language and Literature. In 1961, separate Chairs for English Language and Literature and for German Language and Literature were established. Obren Vukomanović and Ljubica Vojnović were the first to teach English language courses, while Olga Humo and Ivo Vidan were the first to teach English literature courses. In 1954, Branka Bokonjić joined the teaching staff and Svetozar Koljević joined the following year. In 1957, Damir Kalogjera joined the Department as a teaching assistant. In 1955, the Chair graduated its first students.

The core teaching and research fields at the Department are branches of linguistics (morphology, phonetics, morphosyntax, syntax, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, the history of language, contrastive linguistics and linguistic theory), contemporary English language, English and American literature, including both surveys and the study of individual literary movements and periods (the age of Shakespeare, Renaissance poetry, Romantic poetry, the 18th and 19th century novel, the American Renaissance, American literature of the 1920s, 20th century British literature), the social and cultural history of Great Britain and the United States, the methodology of English language teaching in primary and secondary schools, and translation and interpreting studies. The programme is organised in two cycles (3+2).

The development of the Department of English Language and Literature can be traced through the number of graduates: In 1955 one student graduated; in 1956 two students graduated; in 1966 seventeen students graduated; seventy-two graduated in 1976; forty-three in 2004; while in 2009 there were 41 graduates from the first cycle of the Bologna programme and 43 graduates from the four-year pre-Bologna programme.

The Department and its individual members and associates have taken part in projects at various academic institutions, participated at academic and professional conferences, and published monographs and journal articles in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian, as well as in English, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslavia, and further abroad. Members of the Department have taught at universities in Europe, America and Asia as visiting professors, and have lectured at local and foreign universities and other academic and professional institutions. They have also received various prestigious graduate and postdoctoral research grants.

In terms of its teaching staff, a high point for the Department was in 1990 when there were 24 members of the teaching staff, including 12 PhDs. In the recent past, dozens of instructors, associates and foreign lectors from the former Yugoslavia, as well as from Great Britain, the USA, France and Spain, have worked at the Department for shorter or longer periods.

During the war, only one professor, Dr. Zvonimir Radeljković, remained at the Department. During these very difficult years, Dr. Radeljković served as the dean of the Faculty, ensuring not only its survival but also its dignity.

In the post-war years, the number of faculty members and associates grew relatively quickly. Dr. Zvonimir Radeljković was joined by Dr. Srebren Dizdar, Dr. Midhat Riđanović, Dr. Lada Šestić, Dr. Snežana Bilbija, higher lector Spomenka Beus, teaching assistants Ksenija Kondali, Merima Osmankadić and Amira Sadiković, and later by Dr. Nedžad Leko, Jasminka Mehić and Dževahira Arslanagić. International visiting professors offered a lot of assistance in teaching during the war and the immediate post-war period. This was made possible by donations primarily from the Open Society Foundations (Soros Foundation) and the World University Service—Austrian Committee. Key among them were the American poet Christopher Merrill who taught English literature while the conflict was still ongoing, Dr. Dora Maček from the University of Zagreb, Noreen Skennion and Christopher Biehl from the USA, and Desmond Maurer from Ireland.

Since its establishment, leading critics and writers from Great Britain, the USA and other countries—critics such as David Daiches and Graham Hough, writers such as Chinua Achebe, Mark Strand, William Kennedy and James Hawes—as well as leading world linguists, such as Claire Kramsch, Bas Aarts and Daniel Perrin, have lectured at the Department.

The Bologna reform was an opportunity for the Department to enrich its programme by modernising its curriculum and programmes. Therefore, after the three-year first cycle, students can choose among four programmes: teaching, linguistics, literature and translation. This has shown itself to be the right decision and the Department is successfully educating new generations of teachers, translators and scholars. The Department of English Language and Literature is the only one in Bosnia and Herzegovina to offer students instruction in interpreting.

At this moment, there are two Chairs at the Department of English Language and Literature (the Chair of English Language and the Chair of English and American Literature) with 21 faculty members and associates: two full professors (Dr. Srebren Dizdar, Dr Nedžad Leko), five associate professors (Dr. Sanja Šoštarić, Dr. Shahab Yar Khan, Dr. Merima Osmankadić, Dr. Amira Sadiković, Dr. Ksenija Kondali), eight assistant professors (Dr. Selma Đuliman, Dr. Larisa Kasumagić-Kafedžić, Dr. Ifeta Čirić-Fazlija, Dr. Lejla Mulalić, Dr. Faruk Bajraktarević, Dr. Melisa Okičić, Dr. Nataša Stojaković, Dr. Nejla Kalajdžisalihović), one teaching associate (Davor Njegić, MA), three teaching assistants (Alma Žero, MA, Srebrenka Mačković, MA, Nermina Čordalija, MA), one lector (Vedad Lihovac) and one foreign lector (Stephen Hefford).

During its sixty years of existence, the Department has established special relations with a number of institutions abroad, especially in Great Britain, the USA, Norway, and Japan. Notable among them are the Scottish Universities’ International Summer School from Edinburgh where students from the Sarajevo Department of English Language and Literature have been participating for over a decade; Grand Valley State University from Michigan where faculty and students from the Sarajevo Department have taught and studied; the Department of English Language and Literature in Bergen, Norway where a significant number of faculty and associates from the Department have taught, studied and carried out research for their MA theses; and Smith College from Massachusetts with which the Sarajevo Department of English Language and Literature has been developing a partnership not only for a very active exchange of students and faculty, but also for  developing a programme in American Studies under the patronage of the State Department. Invitations for visiting positions at far-away universities such as Sophia University in Japan and ongoing projects with prestigious partners, such as the European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) and the College of William and Mary (the second oldest higher education institution in the US) and many others, testify to the broad scope of teaching and research activities at the Department.

A contemporary curriculum with a dynamic and comprehensive teaching approach make the Department attractive to many international students and faculty who come to Bosnia and Herzegovina through various exchange programmes. The Department has hosted colleagues from various European countries each year since the introduction of programmes such as Erasmus and Mevlana.

The Department has established a biannual academic conference, “Conference on English Language, Linguistics, Teaching and Translation Studies” (CELLTTS), that brings together scholars and researchers from around the world.