Universitatea Lucian Blaga - Facultatea de Litere Si Arte, Sibiu

Higher education in the Humanities was established in Sibiu in 1969 under the stimulating patronage of ?Babes-Bolyai? University of Cluj-Napoca. In the period before 1990 it produced 15 generations of alumni and, after a 3-year discontinuity between 1987-1990, it re-emerged under the aegis of the newly founded University of Sibiu, named after the distinguished national philosopher and scholar Lucian Blaga in 1995.

The study of Modern Languages at LBUS has constantly grown and diversified since its re-launching in the 1990s, first along the lines of traditional undergraduate degree programmes in German, English and Romanian, that were soon to be complemented by new programmes in French, Modern Applied Languages (English, German and French), all accredited by the Ministry of Education and Research. Beginning with 2006 and accredited in 2007, the undergraduate programme Librarianship and the Science of Information has carried on the studies in the field of librarianship. In addition to the existing humanistic subject areas, new degree programmes in Dramatic Art and Theatre Management have been designed, both subjects being successfully accredited by the Ministry.

Postgraduate degree programmes have also known a significant development, LBUS offering 2-year MA degrees in different study areas. The Faculty of Letters and Arts runs a number of fifteen accredited MA programmes focusing on professionalization, research and complementariness.

Worth mentioning, too, are the five doctoral programmes, which the Faculty of Letters and Arts runs in the field of British and American Literature, Romanian Language, Romanian Literature and German Literature.
Beginning with the academic year 2005-2006, the curricular profile of humanistic education at LBUS underwent restructuring along the following three study-cycles: three-year BA studies, 2-year MA studies and 3-year Ph.D. studies .