Teaching strategies
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures offers courses for the study of the following languages: Chinese, French, English, Russian, Spanish, German, Brazilian-Portuguese and Catalan. The language courses are matched with and enriched by the study of their respective literatures and cultures.
Special prominence is given to the study of the linguistic changes, of the cultural disseminations and of the literary production that these languages have produced and are still producing, in and outside Europe.
Specifically, the programmes cover the following domains of interest:
- Varieties of the French language; literatures and cultures of the French-speaking countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and America
- Languages, literatures and cultures of the Anglophone countries: English, Anglo-American and Postcolonial cultures
- Slavic languages, literatures and cultures
- Languages, literatures and cultures of the Spanish-speaking countries: Spanish and Hispano-american
- Varieties of the German language; German and Mitteleuropean cultures; German and Austrian literatures
- Chinese language, literature, culture, and society.
The Department covers the three levels of academic training. The three bachelor’s degree and two master’s degree programmes are highly qualified and directly oriented to the world of work: