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Useful info in English

Mentors (contact persons) for:

1. undergraduate studies (BA)

• year 1, s1 – dr Agnieszka Sowińska
• year 2, S1 – dr Nelly Strehlau
• year 3, S1 – dr Ewa Kościałkowska-Okońska

2. graduate studies (MA)

• year 1, s2 – dr Marek Placiński
• year 2, S2 – dr Grzegorz Koneczniak

See a full list of teaching staff, with e-mails and USOS profiles.

Important links

• • • Timetable (look for “filologia angielska”)
    • Current curriculum (BA program, MA program), all curricula and study plans (BA program, MA program)
    • Language and teaching courses
    • University-wide lectures
    • Staff (click to see office hours)
    • Announcements
    • Teaching staff (with e-mails)
    • Thesis writing stylesheet (BA)
    • Thesis writing stylesheet (MA)
    • Thesis writing template
    • Dean’s office application templates

2025/2026 academic year calendar

Please keep in mind that due to holidays and breaks:

• on January 7, 2026 (Wednesday), the classes follow Monday schedule;
• on January 8, 2026 (Thursday), the classes follow Tuesday schedule;
• on April 28, 2026 (Tuesday), the classes follow Friday schedule;
• on May 13, 2026 (Wednesday), the classes follow Friday schedule;
• on June 15, 2025 (Monday), the classes follow Friday schedule.

Bank holidays:

• November 1, 2026 (All Saints’ Day);
• November 11, 2026 (Independence Day);
• January 6, 2026 (Epiphany);
• May 1, 2026 (Labour Day);
• May 3, 2026 (Constitution Day);
• May 24, 2026 (Pentecost);
• June 4, 2026 (Corpus Christi).

Other days off:

• October 1, 2026 (opening ceremony);
• October 31, 2026 (before All Saints’ Day);
• November 10, 2026 (before Independence Day);
• April 7, 2026 (after Easter Monday)
• May 15, 2026 (Juwenalia student festival);
• June 5, 2026 (after Corpus Christi).

Course descriptions

B.A. programme (s1)

• • • 1st year, winter semester
    • 1st year, summer semester
    • 2nd year, winter semester
    • 2nd year, summer semester
    • 3rd year, winter semester
    • 3rd year, summer semester

M.A. programme (s2)

• • • 1st year, winter semester
    • 1st year, summer semester
    • 2nd year, winter semester
    • 2nd year, summer semester

All the study programmes follow the Polish Qualification Framework and learning outcomes.

A Health and Safety course in English for our foreign students: https://moodle.umk.pl/BHP/course/view.php?id=726

Start-of-the-year info (2024/2025)

Orientation meetings for first-year students:

• first year, BA program (to be announced)
• first year, MA program: October 1, 2024, 9.30, room AB 3.18 (Collegium Humanisticum, ul. Bojarskiego 1)

Registration for courses on USOS opens on September 26, at 9.30 Polish time, and ends at 23.59 on October 22. Go to Student’s Section -> Registration.

When registering for courses, check the timetable  and the curriculum (see links below) to make sure you’ve got everything. Please be advised that translation and teaching specilizations require fluency in Polish. If you cannot register for a course because it’s full, check if other groups are available; if not, you can apply to the English program coordinator to be added to a group if the teacher agrees.

Registration for university-wide courses (zajęcia ogólnouniwersyteckie) opens on September 23 at 12.00 and closes at 23.59 on October 13. Registration for language courses and work placements opens on September 25 at 11.30 and closes on October 22 at 23.59.

Non-Polish speakers in the first year of their MA program should apply to take a course in Polish for foreigners instead of their Translation course, at Skjpo, our Faculty’s Polish-langauge teaching unit (Studium Języka Polskiego dla Obcokrajowców).

Please learn about the Moodle platform, where you will be assigned tasks and reading materials. and set up your o365 account to be able to use MS Teams and Office 365: https://www.uci.umk.pl/index.php/E-learning_for_students

On October 1 or soon after, please accept university rules and regulations (ślubowanie, or your student oath) through USOS. This will enable you to apply for a student ID, provided you’ve uploaded your photo though the IRK system and paid a fee. Go to the Dean’s office in Collegium Maius (ul. Fosa Staromiejska 3) to get your ID.

On Moodle, you will have to take a health and safety course. You will be notified when it opens by e-mail. Please check your university e-mail account regularly!