This department educates students in the fields of Serbian philology and English philology and literature, as well as their schooling for scholalrly research and further studies. The students acquire scholarly and professional knowledge and skills in keeping with the the needs of society and projected social development.

The study programs of this department have conceived in such a way that they qualify students for a broad and deep engagement in education, for work in scientific institutions, as well as institutions of culture and the media. The students are offered broad knowledge and skills in the fields of philology. They also qualify them for solving specific problems in the field of philology. Bearing in mind the importance of philology and its incorporation in all the spheres of life and work, experts with this education profile have competences that are socially justified and useful.

The department unifies the activities of higher education with scholarly research, as components of a unified process of higher education which trains students for recognizable, socially justified and useful profiles and occupations which are of general and fundamental importance for social development.

At the Department of Philological Sciences teaching is offered at the level of Bachelor Studies (BS) and Master Academic Studies (MAS).