About us
The Faculty runs programmes of studies which are unique at both national and European level. We offer full-time and part-time – first and second cycle programmes, doctoral and postgraduate programmes. Our students can choose from a wide variety of specialisations which allow them to broaden the scientific horizons and acquire extensive professional competencies. We also teach foreign languages: Norwegian, English, German, French, Russian and other. Students can develop their passions and interests in many research groups.
The Faculty of History guarantees and ensures high level of internationalization of didactic offer and research. Along with the study visits of foreign professors, we offer mobility grants within ERASMUS program and other forms of international cooperation. Apart from that, we facilitate studies in other educational centres in Poland by participating in MOST student mobility program.
The Faculty is located in the Collegium Humanisticum, one of the most state-of-the-art scientific and didactic buildings in Poland. Its construction resulted in significant social benefits and enabled the improvement of the standard of education. At present, The Faculty of History boasts a modern infrastructure, which enables broadening and enhancing the educational offer, as well as align the structure of studies with European standards. As a result, the humanities graduates will be better than previously equipped to satisfy the needs and requirements of the labour market. Exceptionally high standard building facilities make it possible to increase the amount and quality of scientific research and to host big symposiums and conferences, including international ones.
Faculty Structure:
- Institute of Archeology
- Institute of History and Archival Sciences
- Polish Historical Mission at the University of Julius Maximilian in Würzburg
- Medieval Studies Centre
- Culinary Heritage Centre
- Copernicus Research Centre
Faculty History:
- 01.09.1993 – the Faculty of History was founded on the foundation of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnology and the Institute of History and Archives, which were previously the units within the structure of the Faculty of Humanities.
- 01.01.1994 – the establishment of the Department of Information Science and Book Studies, which was subsequently transformed into the Institute of Information and Library Sciences on January 1, 2004.
- 01.10.1997 – the establishment of the Section of History of Art and Culture, which in the following year, after the didactic staff reinforcement, was transformed into an independent research and didactic department, of the same name.
- 01.04.2000 – the establishment of the Department of International Relations which was transformed into the Institute of International Relations on 01.03.2005. In 2009, the Institute of International Relations was incorporated into the structure of the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations.
- 01.01.2003 – the establishment of the department of Ethnology subsequently transformed into the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology on 01.04.2007.
- 01.01.2003 – After the separation of the Department of Ethnology, the Institute of Archeology and Ethnology changed its name to the Institute of Archeology
Deans:
- 1993-1999 – prof. dr hab. Janusz Małłek
- 1999-2002 – prof. dr hab. Andrzej Radzimiński
- 2002-2008 – prof. dr hab. Waldemar Rezmer
- 2008-2016 – prof. dr hab. Jacek Gzella
- 2016 – prof. dr hab. Stanislaw Roszak