Bachelor's: Additional courses can be taken if language skills are inadequate at the beginning; Courses can be freely chosen in the advanced modules. Master: Range of courses on lecturer research topics which give students insight into academic work and the opportunity to participate if possible. Bachelor's and Master's courses: Introductory courses on application-related topics (Translation, Communication, etc.).

Bachelor's and Master's courses: Agreements with 65 Erasmus partner universities; Block seminars given by professors from the universities with which the university has Erasmus contracts are integrated into the range of courses. Internationally staffed lecture series and guest lectures by assistant professors from abroad are included in course planning. The students have the opportunity to actively participate in international conferences that are organised in Potsdam. International third-party-funded doctoral funding (including through the DFH), POINTS - Potsdam International Network for TransArea Studies.

There are projectors and computers in all classrooms. Other video and audio equipment is also available at any time. Students have Internet access via WiFi in all university rooms. 360-degree and VR technology, high-resolution 360-degree cameras for creating teaching videos

Theoretical problems of the history of linguistics; LangAge/language in old age, construction grammar, regional languages, the cloud in the literature of the 19th century; Novels by French and German writers around 1800; First edition of an exchange of letters from Valéry; Dante and the visual arts. Alexander von Humboldt; TransArea Studies: Poetics of Movement; Relationship between regionality and processes of accelerated globalisation; Mobile cultures, metaphor research, graphic novels and comics, sub- and youth culture, urban spaces.

The Institute of Romance Studies works in teaching research and international cooperation on the basis of an overall understanding of Romance languages in the interest of linking francophone, italophone and hispanophone philology in global dimensions.