Indo - European comparative linguistics

Graduates of the bachelor programme Comparative Linguistics acquire the general competences of a humanistically educated intellectual and the specific competences that are considered to be fundamental in (historical) comparative linguistics, whose main object of interest and scientific study are the principles and dynamics of the development of language over time.
They acquire the specific methodological apparatus that enables them to describe the whole range of linguistic phenomena at the synchronic and typological levels and to understand those phenomena in a diachronic perspective, as well as to interpret and critically evaluate scholarly linguistic literature, not only in the field of historical linguistics, but also general linguistics and the specific linguistic studies of the individual languages or whole language families.
They acquire an in-depth philological knowledge of several languages of the Indo-European language family from different time periods, combining it with the understanding of the historical grammar of these languages, as well as the characteristics and subsequent developmental trends of their common ancestor – Proto-Indo-European. They are qualified for further, scientifically oriented studies in comparative linguistics and for any specific tasks in all fields that require linguistic knowledge, as well as the specific linguistic competences and acumen in all kinds of linguistic research, especially philological work with texts.