The Bachelor’s degree programme in Romance Languages and Literatures : General totals 180 credits spread over three years (3 x 60 credits). It includes a major subject worth 150 credits and a minor one worth 30 credits (2 x 15 credits spread over the 2^nd and 3^rd years).

There are three parts to the major subject in the Bachelor’s degree programme :

(1) general training in different areas of the humanities (historical criticism, arts and civilisations, comparative study of European literature, methodology and practice of academic discourse, ancient and modern languages, philosophy, language studies, religious studies);


(2) an introduction to French and Romance languages and literatures (literary history, literary theory, detailed comprehension of texts [Old and Middle French; novels, French poetry and theatre], Belgian Francophone literature, French grammar, French linguistics [synchronic and diachronic], Romance linguistics, general and comparative literature);


(3) practical communication training (oral and written) in a Romance language (Spanish or Italian).

The first year of the Bachelor’s degree opens with a semester which mainly includes general training courses common to all the Bachelor’s degree programmes in the Faculty. This general training common to history, history of art, literature and academic discourse provides a foundation of knowledge and enables students to change direction at the end of the first semester should they so wish.

From the second semester of the first year, subject specific courses form the main part of the training.  


From the second year, students continue their major subject whilst having the opportunity to widen their intellectual and professional horizons by choosing a minor subject for 30 credits, which may be taken in another subject at the Faculty or in another Faculty at the University subject to any prerequisites required by the authorities who manage these programmes.