Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Mostar ( hr, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Mostaru) is a public institution belonging to the

University of Mostar The University of Mostar ( hr, Sveučilište u Mostaru; la, Universitas Studiorum Mostariensis) is the largest public university located in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Previously it was called the University Džemal Bijedić of Mostar, n ...

, located in

Mostar Mostar (, ; sr-Cyrl, Мостар, ) is a city and the administrative center of Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the historical capital of Herzegovina. Mostar is sit ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and H ...

History

The Faculty of Humanities derived from the Faculty of Pedagogy during the 2005/06 academic year. At first, it was named Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, but later changed it to the current name. The activity of the Faculty is determinate in the Faculty's Statute. Since its foundation, the Faculty of Humanities adopet programme of the

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3 + 2 + 3.

Organisation

Faculty of Humanities, University of Mostar (5)

The undergraduate studies of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences cover nine single

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and twelve double majors that can be combined in various ways, so they made 69 different majors. The graduate studies have eight single majors and as many double majors, which together combine 38 different majors. The Faculty of Humanities also provides additional training in

public relations Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing and disseminating information from an individual or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization) to the public in order to influence their perception. P ...

social work Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession concerned with meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, groups, communities, and society as a whole to enhance their individual and collective well-being. Social work ...

and

librarianship Library science (often termed library studies, bibliothecography, and library economy) is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and ...

. Those trainings can be taken by students with college education with during 3rd and 4th academic year of a study. Also, the Faculty of Humanities performs graduate doctoral studies in Languages and Cultures in Contact that covers humanities and social sciences, and is divided in seven fields of study: Croatian,

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and

German studies German studies is the field of humanities that researches, documents and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present forms. Academic departments of German studies often include classes on German culture, German hi ...

Latin language Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through ...

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

information Science Information science (also known as information studies) is an academic field which is primarily concerned with analysis, collection, Categorization, classification, manipulation, storage, information retrieval, retrieval, movement, dissemin ...

and

communication Science Communication studies or communication science is an academic discipline that deals with processes of human communication and behavior, patterns of communication in interpersonal relationships, social interactions and communication in different ...

. In the academic year 2013/14, the Faculty of Humanities had more than 3,000 students, which makes it the largest faculty within the

. It has 219 lecturers, out of which 140 have PhDs. The Faculty of Humanities has its dislocated departments in

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and

Orašje Orašje ( sr-cyrl, Орашје) is a city and the capital of Posavina Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in the northern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the banks of river S ...

. Since 2014, the Faculty's department in Kiseljak also teaches

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for undergraduate students, while in Orašje the department has undergraduate and graduate studies of the Croatian language and literature, the

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and the social work, as well as 1st academic year in the English language and literature and additional training in social work. The professional staff that works at the Faculty, except those from the University of Mostar, also comes from the universities in

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, as well as respective institutes from

and

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Activity

Every year, the Faculty of Humanities organises scientific conferences that are of great importance. With its teachings and scientific-research activity the Faculty of Humanities makes great cooperation with the Institute for Croatian Language, Literature and History, the Institute for Latinity and other members of the University of Mostar. The Faculty of Humanities also works on establishing and maintaining good cooperation with other related studies in

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and other European countries. The Faculty of Humanities publishes a magazine, the ''Hum'', a scientific publication. The first issue of the ''Hum'' was printed in December 2006. Cathedra of History publishes journal ''

Hercegovina Herzegovina ( or ; sh-Latn-Cyrl, Hercegovina, separator=" / ", Херцеговина, ) is the southern and smaller of two main geographical region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being Bosnia. It has never had strictly defined geograp ...

''. The building of the Faculty of Humanities has an adequate space for performing lecturing, modern equipped amphitheaters and classrooms.

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