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This time, I would like to report on the offer of the University of Helsinki in Baltic studies. The University itself was founded in Turku in 1640 and transferred to Helsinki in 1828. It has 11 faculties, where about 35,000 young men and women may study simultaneously and 7,900 people of staff are employed. The courses are disposed in both state languages - Finnish and Swedish, but some of them are also provided in English (look up http://www.helsinki.fi/university for further information).
Baltic Studies is a relatively new subject on the programme, as long as Department of Slavonic Languages was extended by two additional languages in 1995 (see also http://www.slav.helsinki.fi/eng/studies/baltic.htm). The section is presided by Dr. Phil. Laimute Balode, further lecturers come from Lithuania, Finland, and Sweden. Students may choose between Latvian and Lithuanian language, literature, history and culture, but there are some restrictions here, like the permit to take Baltic Studies as a major subject for alumni of the Faculty of Arts only or the prohibition for native-speakers to take language courses in their mother tongues.
So, why not come to Helsinki to learn Baltic languages? The only hurdle may be the weather, that is a little less moderate than in other parts of Europe... Current Mood:  chipper Current Music: Wet Wet Wet. Love Is All Around |
