Study Romance studies (Sub-discipline LLC, Bachelor) ✔ TU Dresden

Degree program in which this course can be chosen

Please see the corresponding degree program for more detailed information and application modalities:

Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies (Bachelor)

Admission requirements

If you would like to study French or Italian as part of your degree program in Romance Studies, please read the information of the faculty on the specific language requirements.

Notes on the application process

For applications for joint degree programs where at least one subject has restricted admission requirements, the application deadline for restricted admission degree programs applies.

General information for the course

The Institute of Romance Studies at TU Dresden represents, both historically and systematically, a broad spectrum of linguistics, literature and cultural studies in French and Italian. Studying Romance Studies as well as teacher training provides students with the skills for an academic approach to analytical, hermeneutic and interdisciplinary topics, with digital methods also playing an important role. Furthermore, a large network and contact to international experts, institutions and research alliances create a sound framework for individual content, methodical and professional specialization.

Study contents

With their command of the French or Italian language as the basis, students in the sub-discipline of Romance Studies acquire an overview of the French or Italian language as well as the Francophone or Italophone cultures and literature based on academic methods during the course of their studies. In addition, they consolidate and expand their linguistic skills at a university level.

Students acquire broad, fundamental knowledge and specialize in one of the following fields:
— Linguistics
— Literature and Cultural Studies

Students learn to analyze, reflect on, explain and teach characteristics, mechanisms and structures specific to language, text, culture and society.
By the time the students submit their Bachelor’s theses, they must provide evidence of having stayed in a French or Italian-speaking country for a least five weeks.

Modules:

1st year
Students acquire an overview of essential aspects of linguistics, literature and cultural studies in three foundation modules and systematically develop their language skills in the language module.
— Foundation Module Linguistics – Romance Studies
— Foundation Module Literary Studies
— Foundation Module Cultural Studies
— Language Practice 1

2nd year
In the advanced modules, students expand their knowledge in the two study areas of linguistics and literary and cultural studies. In addition, language skills and language awareness are systematically consolidated in the language module.
— Advanced Module Linguistics
— Advanced Module Literary and Cultural Studies
— Language Practice 2

3rd year
Students choose a specialization in the area of linguistics, or literary and cultural studies. In the complementary module, students attend courses from the other two areas. In the Language Practice module, students work on optimizing their oral and written fluency in their chosen language.
— Specialization module
— Complementary module
— Language practice 3

Students must also write a Bachelor’s thesis if Romance Studies is their first sub-discipline. They have a period of eight weeks for this. The topic of the thesis is usually based on a subject from the specialization module.
View the module descriptions

Study documents

The official announcements of TU Dresden include all published regulations . Please use the search bar to find the document you need: Official proclamation

The regulations are also available on each institution’s website.