The Department of Ukrainian Applied Linguistics was established by the decision of the Academic Council of Lviv National University on June 22, 1996. Respected scholars, known both in Ukraine and far beyond its borders, work at the Department. These are the authors of monographs, textbooks, tutorials, dictionaries, which are used not only by university students, but also by Ukrainian scholars and Ukrainian departments located in Europe. The Department maintains close ties with various international scientific institutions and academic communities from the Ukrainian studies centers around the world.

The main spheres of engagement of the Department of Ukrainian Applied Linguistics are the teaching of the Ukrainian language to foreign students and the academic discipline “Ukrainian Language for Professional Purposes” at various faculties of the university. The Department has a PhD program for training qualified scholars in “Ukrainian Language” and “Ukrainian as a Foreign Language”.

Teachers from Ukraine and abroad are trained at the Department in the following areas: “Ukrainian as a Foreign Language” and “Ukrainian Language for Professional Purposes”.

The Department offers specialized programs leading to the degree of “Bachelor of Philology. Specialist in the Ukrainian Language and Literature. Specialist in the Ukrainian Language as a Foreign Language”. Within the educational and professional program “Ukrainian Language and Literature, the Ukrainian Language as a Foreign Language” students of the Department of Ukrainian Philology receive special training in teaching Ukrainian to adults and children as a foreign language (inherited) in mono- and polylingual classrooms, as well as how to conduct comprehensive test control to determine the level of proficiency in Ukrainian as a foreign language.