PETROLEUM – GAS UNIVERSITY OF PLOIEŞTI
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOLOGY
Bucureşti Blv. no. 39, Ploieşti, zip 100680
Phone: 0244-575171/ ext. 293
Fax: 0244-575847
BOARD OF DEPARTMENT
- Professor Gabriela Duda, PhD – Head of department
- Lecturer Cristina Iridon, PhD
- Lecturer Cristina Gafu, PhD
- Lecturer Răzvan Săftoiu, PhD
BA and MA programmes coordinated by the department:
- BA
- Romanian language and literature and English language and literature
- MA
- Romanian cultural studies in the European context
Director: Professor Gabriela Duda, PhD
OBJECTIVES
The updated curricula promoted by the department aim at forming the following compenteces:
- Instrumental:
- Discovery of the regularity system of the languages under scrutiny;
- Use of a variety of instruments to analyse the literary and non-literary texts to achieve a close critical reading;
- Analysis of texts from different points of view to go beyond canons of interpretation and cultural stereotypes;
- Use of multimedia to do research.
- Interpersonal:
- Use of various communication strategies to establish and maintain verbal contact with different interlocutors;
- Evaluation of cultural diversity when analysing literary texts;
- Assuming a variety of roles within a team to solve a task.
- Systemic:
- Use of a variety of communication codes, verbal and non-verbal, appropriate to a diversity of situations;
- Work with basic structures of the studied foreign languages to efficiently communicate in real situations;
- Systematizing readings from a comparative point of view so as to come up to expectations;
- Development of open cultural representations about the evolution and values of the two cultures under scutiny.
The Department forms specialists in the field of Philology who can work as teachers, research assistants, researchers, linguists, translators, interpreters, editors, reviewers, editors.
The Department also offers adequate education in the field of foreign languages to students from other BA programs in the University: engineering, economics, public administration, sciences (Mathematics, Informatics, Physics, Chemistry).
TEACHING STAFF
| Professor Gabriela Duda, PhD |
gduda@mail.upg-ploiesti.ro |
| Professor Domniţa Tomescu, PhD |
domnita_tomescu@yahoo.com |
| Reader Mihaela Cojocaru, PhD |
s_cmihaela@rdslink.ro |
| Lecturer Marilena Aldea, PhD |
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| Lecturer Adelina Farias, PhD |
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| Lecturer Cristina Gafu, PhD |
crina_gafu@yahoo.co.uk |
| Lecturer Loredana Gădălean, PhD |
loredana_upg@yahoo.com |
| Lecturer Cristina Iridon, PhD |
daniel_iridon@yahoo.com |
| Lecturer Marius Nica, PhD |
mariusnica7@yahoo.com |
| Lecturer Diana Presadă, PhD |
dianapresada@yahoo.com |
| Lecturer Răzvan Săftoiu, PhD |
razvansaftoiu@yahoo.com |
| Assistant lect. Loredana Ilie |
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| Assistant lect. Lucia Ispas |
luciaispas@yahoo.com |
| Assistant lect Loredana Netedu |
lorenetedu@yahoo.com |
| Assistant lect. Silvia Stoian |
silviagks@yahoo.com |
| Assistant lect. Victoria Gheorghievici | - |
| Tutor Mihaela Iancu | |
| Tutor Anca Stefan | |
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| Associated teaching staff |
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| Professor Ion Bălu, PhD |
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| Senior researcher I Matei Cerkez, PhD |
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| Senior researcher I Nicoleta Coatu, PhD |
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| Researcher II Maria Dobre |
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| Researcher III Iulia Mărgărit |
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| Researcher III Florentina Zgraon |
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| Technical-administrative staff |
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| Filomela Labiş – secretary |
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| Cornel Bănescu – technician |
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TAUGHT COURSES
- History of Romanian Literature
- Contemporary Romanian Language
- Theory of Literature
- General Linguistics
- Applied Linguistics
- Comparative Literarure
- Romanian Literary Folklore
- Romanian Culture and Civilization
- Correspondence
- Public Relations, Communication, Protocol and Secretarial Studies
- Latin
- English – practical courses
- Foreign language (English)
- Romanian for foreign students
RESEARCH
The main diections of the reserach activity are centered on:
- doctoral studies and Master’s programmes;
- Writing courses and educational documents for students;
- Taking part in scientific conferences and symposia;
- Publishing articles in the Bulletin of Petroleum-Gas University of Ploieşti. Philology Series and in other national and international specialized journals.
Areas of research
- Romanian Literature
- Comparative Literature
- Folklore and Cultural Anthropology
- Contemporary Romanian
- General Linguistics
- Applied Linguistics
- Communication Studies
- Theory of Literature
- Cultural Studies
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