IN ENGLISH
Useful info in English
Mentors (contact persons) for:
1. undergraduate studies (BA)
- year 1, s1 – dr Agnieszka Sowińska
- year 2, S1 – dr Nelly Strehlau
- year 3, S1 – dr Ewa Kościałkowska-Okońska
2. graduate studies (MA)
- year 1, s2 – dr Dorota Guttfeld
- year 2, S2 – dr Grzegorz Koneczniak
See a full list of teaching staff, with e-mails and USOS profiles.
A Health and Safety course in English for our foreign students: https://moodle.umk.pl/BHP/course/view.php?id=726
Start-of-the-year info (2024/2025)
Orientation meetings for first-year students:
- first year, BA program (to be announced)
- first year, MA program: October 1, 2024, 9.30, room AB 3.18 (Collegium Humanisticum, ul. Bojarskiego 1)
Registration for courses on USOS opens on September 26, at 9.30 Polish time, and ends at 23.59 on October 22. Go to Student’s Section -> Registration.
When registering for courses, check the timetable and the curriculum (see links below) to make sure you’ve got everything. Please be advised that translation and teaching specilizations require fluency in Polish. If you cannot register for a course because it’s full, check if other groups are available; if not, you can apply to the English program coordinator to be added to a group if the teacher agrees.
Registration for university-wide courses (zajęcia ogólnouniwersyteckie) opens on September 23 at 12.00 and closes at 23.59 on October 13. Registration for language courses and work placements opens on September 25 at 11.30 and closes on October 22 at 23.59.
Non-Polish speakers in the first year of their MA program should apply to take a course in Polish for foreigners instead of their Translation course, at Skjpo, our Faculty’s Polish-langauge teaching unit (Studium Języka Polskiego dla Obcokrajowców).
Please learn about the Moodle platform, where you will be assigned tasks and reading materials. and set up your o365 account to be able to use MS Teams and Office 365: https://www.uci.umk.pl/index.php/E-learning_for_students
On October 1 or soon after, please accept university rules and regulations (ślubowanie, or your student oath) through USOS. This will enable you to apply for a student ID, provided you’ve uploaded your photo though the IRK system and paid a fee. Go to the Dean’s office in Collegium Maius (ul. Fosa Staromiejska 3) to get your ID.
On Moodle, you will have to take a health and safety course. You will be notified when it opens by e-mail. Please check your university e-mail account regularly!
Important links
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- Timetable (look for “filologia angielska”)
- Current curriculum (BA program, MA program), all curricula and study plans (BA program, MA program)
- Language and teaching courses
- University-wide lectures
- Staff (click to see office hours)
- Announcements
- Teaching staff (with e-mails)
- Thesis writing stylesheet (BA)
- Thesis writing stylesheet (MA)
- Thesis writing template
- Dean’s office application templates
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2024/2025 academic year calendar
WINTER SEMESTER October 1, 2023 – February 23, 2024 Academic year inauguration October 1, 2024 Classes October 2, 2023 – December 22, 2024 Holiday break December 23, 2024 – January 6, 2025 Classes January 7, 2025 – February 3, 2025 Winter exams February 4, 2025 – February 16, 2025 University Day February 19, 2025 SUMMER SEMESTER February 24, 2025 – September 30, 2025 Classes February 24, 2025 – April 17, 20245 Winter re-take exams February 20, 2025 – March 4, 2025* Spring break April 18, 2025 – April 22, 2025 Classes April 23, 2025 – June 16, 2025 Summer exams June 17, 2025 – July 29, 2025 Summer holidays June 30, 2025 – September 30, 2025 Summer re-take exams September 8, 2025- September 20, 2025*
*Final deadline for passing classes and exams included in the study programme for the winter semester is March 4, 2025 and for the summer semester – September 20, 2025.
Please keep in mind that due to holidays and breaks:
- on November 13, 2024 r. (Wednesday), the classes follow Monday schedule;
- on April 30, 2025 (Wednesday), the classes follow Friday schedule;
- on June 16, 2025 (Monday), the classes follow Friday schedule.
Bank holidays:
- November 1, 2025 (All Saints’ Day);
- November 11, 2025 (Independence Day);
- January 6, 2025 (Epiphany);
- May 1, 2025 (Labour Day);
- May 3, 2025 (Constitution Day);
- June 8, 2025 (Pentecost);
- June 19, 2025 (Corpus Christi).
Other days off:
- October 1, 2025 (opening ceremony);
- October 31, 2025 (before All Saints’ Day);
- May 2, 2025 (between Labour Day and Constitution Day);
- May 16, 2025 (Juwenalia student festival).
Course descriptions
B.A. programme (s1)
M.A. programme (s2)
All the study programmes follow the Polish Qualification Framework and learning outcomes.