Prikaz djelovanja Katedre za kroatistiku u Pečuhu (Republika Mađarska)
Activities of the Department of Croatian Studies in Pecs

Summary/Abstract: In Hungary the opportunity to study Croatian language is provided in three universities and one school of higher education (Budapest, Szombathely, Pécs and Baja). Pécs is a kind of cultural and educational centre of the Croatian minority in Hungary - whose number reaches up to 80,000 - so in Pecs one can find Croatian kindergarten, elementary school, high school and boarding school as well as the Department of Croatian Language and Literature, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year. The department is continuously operating since 1948 when a South Slavic Department was founded. The most significant changes started in 1992 when the department was renamed into the Department of Croatian Language and Literature. In the academic year 2005/2006 the study expands the college program after which students become philologists and teachers. The Bologna Process (2007) with its negative and positive impact significantly affected the entire university education in the Republic of Hungary, and thus the structure of the Croatian studies. The previous five or four-year study is replaced by a three-year undergraduate studies (BA) and additional two-year diploma, so-called master (MA) studies. The paper presents a historical overview of the Department of Croatian language with its success and difficulties, then the mode of composition students, the status and position of Croatian as a minority language - which regulates with the language policy of the Republic of Hungary as a member of the European Union - as well as future plans section, which seeks to meet the current students’ expectations and demands of the labour market.

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