Passed national school-leaving exam and a high-school diploma or an entrance exam for those candidates who did not pass the national school-leaving exam. It is expected that up to 20 candidates are enrolled into the programme on a yearly basis.
3. Employment in a general employment position in the labour market open to graduates with a B.A. in Humanities, with the specific advantage of being able to point to language-related and high analytical skills.
Professional title acquired upon finishing the study program: B.A. in Linguistics.
The programme structure is modular, which means that all courses are offered as part of one of the total of eight modules.
The study programme consists of an introductory module (M0: Introductory module: Understanding language, communication and linguistic diversity), four thematic modules (M1: Multilingualism across time and space; M2: Language learning and teaching; M3: Intercultural communication in the digital age; and M4: Language technologies, tools and resources) covering different fields of linguistics and offered to students from the second through the fifth semester, the final module (MF), which includes B.A. thesis writing or obligatory research / fieldwork and the final exam in addition to taking elective courses at other departments at the University of Zadar. In parallel with modules M0, MF and M1-M4, there is a horizontal modul (MSM: Skills and methods for language studies) offered in the first five semesters aimed at the acquisition of communicative skills (oral and written) in English, written skills in Croatian and the basics of quantitative and qualitative research skills. A foreign language module (MFL) is a semi-elective module which all students have to take, but are free to study (a) language(s) of their choice; they are however obliged to entrol in at least one non-Indo-European language course for a minimum of two semesters.