Filologia română la Universitatea de Stat din Moldova
Romanian Philology at the State University of Moldova

Summary/Abstract: The Philology specialty (within the Faculty of History and Philology) was one of the first within the Chisinau State University, established in 1946. The Department of Moldovan Language and Literature had to respond to the requirements of the Soviet authorities and propagate a new language, distinct from Romanian – the “Moldovan language”. The article presents the policies of the Soviet authorities to promote new lexical and orthographic regulations, to support the cadres enslaved to the policies of denationalization by encouraging the so-called “shantists”, to marginalize philological education and the Romanian/ “Moldovan” language from social communication. Simplistic courses and poorly trained teachers were present until the end of the 60s, when the Faculty of Philology became independent and changes in attitude towards philological education occurred. Over the years, the Faculty of Philology underwent several reorganizations, and in 1995 its name was changed to the Faculty of Letters. In 2006, the Faculty of Letters comprised four specialized departments: the Department of Romanian Language, General and Romance Linguistics; the Department of Romanian Literature and Literary Theory; the Department of Classical Philology; and the Department of Russian Philology. This structure remained in place until 2016, when the Faculty merged with the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, becoming what is today the Faculty of Letters of the State University of Moldova.

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