The Faculty of Literature and Foreign Languages officially began its teaching and research activities in October 2012 and prior to that it was part of the Faculty of Literature and Humanities. It is worth mentioning that the disbanded Faculty of Literature and Humanities was established in 1991 as the second faculty of the University of Kurdistan, but began its teaching activities much earlier in 1976 by accepting students majoring in English language teacher training and later establishing 14 departments. The Faculty of Literature and Foreign Languages currently has 4 departments offering 5 undergraduate programmes, 5 Master’s programmes and 1 PhD programme to over 760 students:
At present, this faculty has 30 full-time academic members of staff and many part-time teaching staff.
| Faculty of Literature and Foreign Languages List of Degree Programmes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Department | Degree Programme | BA/BSc | MA/MSc | PhD |
| Arabic Language & Literature | Arabic Language & Literature | |||
| English Literature & Linguistics | English Language & Literature | |||
| English Language Teaching | ||||
| Linguistics | ||||
| Persian Language & Literature | Persian Language & Literature | |||
| Kurdish Language and Literature | Kurdish Language and Literature | |||