Profile

The Faculty of Languages is one of the most prominent faculties of the Somali National University. The faculty offers a range of modern languages by training the students with scientific competencies and special skills necessary in the fields of languages which help increase students’ careers in today’s globalizing world. The faculty plays a leading role as an educational center that connects all faculties through preparing students for language proficiency to join in their scientific specializations and through training university staff in professional language skills. Historically, the faculty of languages was established in 1981 with three departments, namely, the Department of Middle East Languages, the Department of European Languages, and the Department of African Languages. Two strategies were put in place for the operation of these departments; (a) a short-term strategy based on selecting and starting a group of living languages whose need is present and urgent, (b) and a long term one that was supposed to add to the faculty later, in accordance with its societal needs and strategic importance.

Departments of the faculty

1 Somali language

2 English language

3 Arabic language

Vision

• Pioneering in the field of living languages and building bridges between the local culture and the cultures and civilizations of the global world.

Mission

• Providing a distinguished education and training in the field of languages by developing academic skills, research, and intellectual competencies, as well as creative, and producing specialists and researchers who contribute to and serve the needs of society in this field of languages.

Aims

• To prepare graduates with specialized knowledge and skill in the field of languages.
• To empower students with high language skills that qualify them to accurately understand texts and analyze their contents. So that it is easy for them to communicate with the cultures and civilizations of the studied languages.
• To enhance scientific research, publications, and study in the field of languages provided by the faculty.
• To meet the needs of the labor market and the requirements of development with qualified, professionally, and ethically.
• To create a rich educational environment that welcomes the different levels of creativity and knowledge, which contribute to refining the minds of students academically and cognitively, while preserving their social and cultural values.
• Providing technical and scientific consultations in the field of languages to the local community.