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Comenius University, Faculty of Arts is a research and educational institution training experts in different areas of humanities, thus contributing to developing the common cultural heritage of the European area and the entire mankind. The faculty of Arts was established in 1919 as one of the five founding faculties of Comenius University. Its primary mission then was to prepare Slovak intelligentsia, namely secondary school teachers and other experts in humanities.

The scientific and educational activities of the Faculty of Arts are held in the following basic disciplines: philosophical sciences, philological studies, pedagogical and psychological sciences, political sciences, history and archaeology, religious studies, librarianship and information science, art and cultural studies, and journalism. The faculty also takes on foreign students who may choose to undertake complete study or just part of it within the programmes of studies at universities abroad. Following special agreements, some departments also provide courses in foreign languages.