"Full Romance Studies" programme including Francophone and Latin American Studies;; Optional language courses in Italian, Portuguese and Romanian; A full range of courses offered as BA minor subject including Portuguese; Possible option Romanian. Research-oriented teaching; Advanced didactics; Extensive range of courses in the respective foreign languages given by a high proportion of native language of native-speaking teachers.; Interdisciplinary orientation and emphasis on interculturality in the MA degree course. Degree courses Fully accredited binational degree courses (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon) from BA to PhD.

Binational degree courses of the DFH with option for trinational extension (Sherbrooke), possible in French from the BA/BEd to doctorate with co-supervision and double degree. Well-established partnerships (Erasmus/FORTHEM), including with universities in France, Italy, Spain, in the French-speaking Switzerland, Portugal and Romania and in Canada, Colombia and Brazil. Support for international scholarship holders (DAAD/Erasmus). International research cooperation and networking; International lecture activities as well as assessment activities by teachers; Collaboration in committees at an international level.

Media-based teaching and learning, use of e-learning platforms and e-examinations, sufficient range of computer workstations in libraries and PC pools. Special research databases of the university library's French focus. Support for the introduction of new digital formats.

Literature and Culture of the Early Modern Era; of the 19th centuries; Comedy of the Enlightenment, contemporary literature; Marcel Proust; Colonialism/post-colonialism; Non-European Literature; Francophone Studies; Interculturality; Literary Anthropology; Culture of Remembrance; Gender linguistics; Media Linguistics; Political linguistics; Onomastics; Language standardisation; Multilingualism; L3 acquisition; German Research Foundation (DFG) project (2022–25) on the phonology of Bulgarian Jewish Spanish; Migration Research; Language teaching and learning research, multilingualism didactics; Text/media literacy; Ladin in the Dolomites

Specialised library for research on France; Expansion in 2013 in cooperation with the university library/"Funding Excellent Research Libraries" (German Research Foundation (DFG)) in the field of Francophonie and intercultural research; Interdisciplinary research platform "Forum Intercultural France and Francophonie Studies"; Establishment of the Centre for French and Francophonie Studies (2019); Forum for Italian Studies; Cooperation with cultural institutes (Institut Français, Mainz; Instituto Cervantes, Frankfurt; Camões Institute, Berlin, Istituto Italiano di Cultura; Institute of Romanian Language, Bucharest).