The department has its own Study Centre with individual supervision. Developed writing coaching (Internet portal: "Bremen Writing Coach", "The Academic Writer's Workbench") as well as measures of the BMBF initiative "Bildung in Sprache und Schrift" (Education in written and spoken language) support the learning process. A close link between research and teaching is achieved early on via research-based learning projects. The curriculum is developed in study committees with equal representation of students.

The faculty has an Erasmus Coordination Office which organises stays abroad for incoming and outgoing students. The international Master's degree programme "International Romance Studies" attracts international students and academics to the department.

The department offers its own CIP pool and learning rooms, some with additional PC workstations. Modern media technology is either located in the classrooms themselves or is available for mobile use via a media centre.

The department's research focuses in particular on interdisciplinary research, including "Postcolonial Literary/Cultural/Language Studies" [literary studies, cultural studies and linguistics] – "Subject-related Educational Processes in Transformation" [subject-related didactics] – "Blue Humanities" [literary studies and cultural studies], "Text Production/Writing Research" [applied linguistics, subject-specific didactics] and "Linguistic Education" [subject-specific didactics]. The joint research project "Worlds of Contradiction" contextualises the humanities across disciplines.

Department 10 is one of the departments of the university with the greatest diversity of students. The teaching staff are committed to the university's NKK (Sustainability, Climate Justice, Climate Neutrality) mission statement.