The job market for professionals in the humanities is mostly connected to the public sector. In the field of higher education and science, Croatian studies, as a field that studies the national language, offers employment opportunities at universities, scientific institutes, as well as at polytechnics, cultural institutions, local government, and so on. Contemporary investigations of identity are closely related to language, especially the history of the national language and fieldwork on dialectal achievements, which opens up new opportunities for employment of doctoral candidates. The profiles of our young experts are sought after in various institutions and interpretative centers that care for the preservation of cultural heritage. Namely, the content and outcomes of this program belong to scientific fields and branches that the National Council for Science has assessed as national priorities and strategically important for the state of Croatia, as well as belonging to the wider program of UNESCO for the protection of small languages. Connection with the local community is achieved through various forms of cooperation in implementing workshops, dialectological field research, professional trips, and other activities that involve the pursuits of local subjects: from associations (Chakavian Assembly departments, various associations dealing with the preservation of local heritage) to interpretative centers where it is possible to realize the practical part of the teaching.
The specificity of this study program is visible in two specialized modules (language history and dialectology), whereby students, in addition to general linguistic education, acquire precisely profiled competencies in the study of diachronic components of the Croatian language and the contemporary image of Croatian organic idioms, and then in their preservation, promotion, and popularization. Therefore, its early focus is an advantage compared to other doctoral programs of philological and cultural character that offer general areas of study, and the definition of the doctoral candidate in a specific area begins to develop only by writing a doctoral dissertation.
Basic information
- name of study program: Doctoral Program in History and Dialectology of the Croatian Language
- program host: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka • program executor: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, in cooperation with: Institute for Croatian language and linguistics Zagreb
- duration / ECTS credits: 6 semesters for full time students, 10 semesters for part time students / 180 ECTS credits
- enrollment quota: 12
Admission requirements
An appropriate university graduate or undergraduate degree or master’s degree in the scientific field of humanities (Croatian studies) and other related philological branches. Admission to the doctoral program in History and Dialectology of the Croatian Language is based on a public application call announced by the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, usually six months before the start of classes. The right to apply is granted to citizens of the Republic of Croatia, as well as foreign citizens under the same conditions. A prerequisite for admission to the doctoral program in History and Dialectology of the Croatian Language is completion of a university graduate program in linguistics with a total of 300 ECTS credits. Graduates of Croatian studies (Masters in Croatian Language and Literature, Masters in Croatian Language and Literature Education, meaning professors of Croatian Language and Literature who completed their studies according to study programs prior to the Bologna Declaration) as well as graduates of general linguistic, classical philological, and neophilological studies may enroll in the doctoral program. The right to enroll is also granted to applicants with a master’s degree in humanities obtained through study programs initiated prior to the 2005 higher education reform. Such a degree allows enrolled applicants to begin their studies with already acquired 40 to 60 ECTS credits, which will be specifically determined for each applicant by the Doctoral Study Commission, taking into account the balance in setting prerequisites and recognizing credits earned in postgraduate Master’s programs. If the Doctoral Study Commission determines the need for individual applicants to acquire additional knowledge in the field of linguistics, a differentiation program will be organized. The costs of the differentiation program are borne by the applicants themselves, as determined by the Doctoral Study Commission for each applicant.
Enrollment dynamics/dates
Every two to three years.
Tuition fee and payment method
4,778 EUR divided into semester installments.
More information
Program coordinator:
academic Silvana Vranić
Student office:
Nara Jurčić
tel: 265 – 882
nara@ffri.uniri.hr
Study website:
https://pdhj.ffri.uniri.hr
Our doctoral students
| Year of obtaining a Ph.D. degree | Name and surname of the student/employer | Ph.D. thesis topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2015. | Mirjana Crnić Novosel | The Štokavian Ikavian speeches of Gorski kotar (phonological and morphological aspect) |
| 2018. | Joža Horvat / Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb | Toponymy of the Ludbreg area of the Drava river basin region |
| 2018. | Jozo Vela / Institute of Old Slavonic in Zagreb | Syntax of the infinitive and the supine in Croatian church Slavonic language |
| 2022. | Pavao Krmpotić / Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb | Historical derivation of the proto-Slavic present stem. The Indo-European heritage and development |
| 2022. | Samanta Milotić Bančić / Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Pula | The Language of Gršković Miscellany |
Research questions/hypotheses addressed in defended doctoral theses
| Research questions/hypotheses | Name and surname of the doctoral student |
|---|---|
| Since Croatian lexicography does not yet have a specialist toponymic dictionary, what are the most important methods in lexicographic processing of toponymic material collected through field research, and how do they relate to the lexicographic processing of general dialect material? | Joža Horvat |
| Groups of syntactic function of Infinitives in Croatian Church Slavonic language | Jozo Vela |
| Historical formation of present tense basis in Proto-Slavic language: Indo-European heritage and development | Pavao Krmpotić |
| Analysis of linguistic interferences in Grškovic’s Zbornik in the context of possible Kajkavian layering in 16th century Glagolitic manuscripts | Samanta Militić Bančić |
| Štokavian Ikavian dialects in Gorski Kotar within the Štokavian Western (Ikavian) dialect | Mirjana Crnić Novosel |