The Institute of Slavic Studies is divided into the core areas of linguistics and literature. Both areas concentrate on the northern area of Slavia and mainly represent Russian, Polish, Belarusian and Ukrainian in teaching.

In linguistics, the focus of research and teaching is on systematic linguistics and on the field of language contact research with a sociolinguistic character. The latter is integrated into the linguistic focus of the philologies of School III - School of Linguistics and Cultural Studies and establishes the possibilities of intra- and inter-university integration.

Literary Studies focuses its research and teaching on modern literature (1890-1940), with an increasing concentration on the comparative inclusion of 'smaller' literatures. This means that the literary profile of Slavic Studies is in line with that of School III.

Research focus of the Institute:

• Linguistics
• literary studies