General presentation of the programme

Foundation studies (1st year) (60 credits) 
 
First quadrimester : 
Common general courses in the Faculty of Arts : Historical Foundations of Western Civilisation (5 credits), Arts and Civilisations (5 credits), Introduction to the Principal Works in European Literature I (5 credits), Practice in French at university level (5 credits), Modern Languages (5 credits) Ancient Languages (5 credits).
 
Second quadrimester : 
General courses : Introduction to Philosophy (4.5 credits), Introduction to Language Science (3.5 credits). 
Introduction to the discipline (minimum 22 credits) : the student will select two languages (11 credits per language) from the 7 following languages : English, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, French, Arabic. 
For each of the Germanic languages, the following course content will be covered : aural/oral skills, writing skills and basic grammar of the language, the history of ideas and literature. 
In the case of Spanish and Italian, the programme focuses on oral and written language skills. 
In the case of French, the programme approaches literature from a three-fold point of view: methodology, history and explication of authors. 
In the case of Arabic, the programme focuses on the language in its diverse forms (classic, modern and dialectal) and is complemented by an introduction to History and to the Arab-Moslem Civilisation. Arabic may only be taken in combination with one of the three following languages : French, English or Spanish. 
 

Specific courses (2nd and 3rd year) (90 credits) 
 
General courses (14 credits) : Theory of Literature, General Linguistics, Critical Analysis of Information, Anthropology and Psychology, Logic and Reasoning in Human Sciences. 
Specialisation courses (76 credits) : Modern Language 1(19 credits in the 2nd year and 19 credits in the 3rd year) and Modern Language 2 (19 credits in the 2nd year and 19 credits in the 3rd year).