The Department of English (formerly the Department of English) was established in September 1960 at the initiative of Professor Skender Luarasi, its first head until 1965. Initially the curriculum aimed primarily at preparing future English language teachers and language of Albanian literature for high schools and eighth grade.
In 1972, work began on drafting new curricula, as well as basic textbooks for many new subjects, enabling the formation not only as a consolidated administrative unit, but also an independent teaching and scientific unit. The pedagogues focused not only on the field of teaching and qualification of English teachers, but also on the field of their further qualification, especially in the field of defending dissertations, compiling various dictionaries, translations, etc.
In order to better meet the demands of the time, as well as those of the labor market for profiled specialists, during the period 1997-1998, following previous efforts, the English Department carried out for the first time the development of plans and new curricula, which provided, in addition to the preparation of English language teachers, the introduction of two new profiles, namely Translation and Interpretation and British and American Studies. As a result, since 1998, the English Department offers three different profiles: the teaching, translation and interpretation profile, as well as that of British and American studies.
Currently the Department has 7 Professors, 3 Associate Professors, 35 Doctors of Science, 4 Doctoral students, 1 Master of Science (Postmaster Studies) who, thanks to the formation and qualification of the highest level, in addition to teaching in the Department, are involved in various activities of an implementing nature in areas such as translation and interpretation, publications, preparation of monographs and textbooks, dictionaries, consulting of various linguistic, didactic and pedagogical natures, management of national and international projects, etc.
From the English department are graduated students, who are distinguished by their contribution in various and diverse fields of professional and social activity, such as in the public sector, mainly in policy making, translation and interpretation, journalism, diplomacy, teaching at the level of various, etc., as well as the non-public one, through their successful businesses.