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Faculty of Modern LanguagesFrench/Romance Studies – bachelor vocational teaching profession

Degree programmes in Romance studies consider Romance languages, literature and cultures. The study of French focusses more particularly, on languages, literature and cultures in the French-speaking world. 

Facts & Formalities

DegreeBachelor of Arts
Type of programmeUndergraduate
Start of programmeWinter and summer semester
Standard period of study6 semesters
Language(s) of instructionGerman and French
Fees and contributions151.05 € / Semester
Application procedureSubjects with no admission restrictions
Application deadlinesInformation about deadlines can be obtained after you have put together a degree program.
Language certificatesFrench B2 by the end of the second semester and basic Latin by the end of the fourth semester.

Course Content

The Bachelor’s programme vocational teaching profession in French encompasses the following areas: 

Literary studies

French literary studies considers French and francophone literature, theatre and film. Texts of all genres, and from various periods; from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first  century, along with theatre productions and film adaptations of literary works, are considered. There is a particular focus on the following areas: 

  • literature and cultural history 
  • literary theory and poetry 
  • literary genres (i.e. the three major genres; the epic, drama and poetry) 

Linguistics

  • the transition from Latin to a Romance language and the development of French 
  • the history and spread of the French language 
  • French language contact and French in francophone countries 
  • analysis of the French language system (morphology, lexic, grammar, phonetics/phonology) 
  • language and society, language variation and varieties of French 
  • contemporary French 
  • media and discourse analysis 
  • language standardisation, language policy and language criticism 
  • linguistic theories and methods 

Cultural studies

  • analysis of cultural phenomena in the French-speaking world; from artistic expression (e.g. film) to popular culture (e.g. fashion), both in the past and in the present day 
  • analysis of public discourses and their presentation in the media 
  • analysis of the relationships between culture and power (e.g cultural inheritance, mass media) 
  • theories and methods of cultural analysis (e.g. performance, construction of space) and comparative cultural analysis (e.g. intercultural and transcultural approaches) 
  • interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches 
  • postcolonial theories 

Language practice

French language courses are designed to enable students to: 

  • speak and write correctly and fluently 
  • understand complex contemporary texts (novels, newspapers, academic texts etc.), films, radio and television programmes, song lyrics etc. 
  • reflect on and discuss, both orally and in written form, aspects of French society, literary works and linguistic phenomena 
  • master and make accurate and differentiated use of grammatical structures, in particular in the area of French syntax 
  • recognise and distinguish between different registers (formal, informal, official French) 
  • translate texts of all types into French (i.e. literary, academic, journalistic texts) 

Course Structure

A description of the period of study can be found in the module handbook for the programme.