Romance Languages and Literatures
Bachelor of Arts (Minor subject)

Important! Please be aware that all our study programmes require good previous language skills in one Romance language (level B1 for the Bachelor degree's programme, Level C1 for the Master's degree programmes). In addition, we strongly recommend a near native speaker proficiency of German.

Multilingual communication – French, Spanish

Building bridges with languages – in order to achieve this goal you need a sound language training. Language knowledge and skills that students develop in the courses of the department of Romance Studies in Gelsenkirchen will increase their individual range of communication to a considerable extent: more than 800 milion people all over the planet speak French oder Spanish as their first or second language. In the Bachelor’s program Romance Studies the students acquire in-depth knowledge, skills, and expertise in one of the Romance languages and cultures (Spanish, French) offered.

The degree programmes in Romance studies prepare for careers in the following areas:

• Multilingual information-, knowledge- and cultural management
• New Media (digital media technology, communication technology)
• Journalism and publishing
• European and international organizations, enterprises and educational institutions
• Composing texts in foreign languages, international public relations agencies
• Culturally specific education and training for enterprises, the „new language industries“ (e.g. web portals, development of digitial dictionaries and encyclopaedias, creation of educational software)
• Foreign language teaching at schools or in adult education
• Adademic research and teaching