Philosophische Fakultät at the Uni Kiel

Romanisches Seminar

Uni Kiel

Leibnizstraße 10
24118 Kiel
Phone: +49 431 880-1629

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Basic information

Teaching in core subjects

Teaching staff at the department	16
Total number of students	710
Number of master degree students	20

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

9/14 points

Research

Doctorates per professor

0.2

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support	2.2
Support in studies	2.5
Courses offered	2.9
Study organisation	1.9
Exams	1.9
Digital teaching elements	2.8
Teaching foreign language skills
Research orientation
Rooms	2.9
Library	2.5
IT-infrastructure	2.9
Overall study situation	2.4

Degree courses with details

Teacher qualification

Teacher qualification students	470
Teacher qualification programmes
Teacher qualification centre	Link
Teacher Qualification Monitor (in German)	Link

Degree courses without details

Further degree courses of the department

none

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About studying Romance Studies in Germany

About the subject

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching
Two aspects: The Romance Languages are the subject of interdisciplinary lectures on Romance Philology and further exercises; The diversity of the Romance languages is reflected in the range of secondary languages offered at Kiel: In addition to French and Italian, Spanish and Portuguese (both European and Latin American), Romanian, Catalan and Galician are also taught. Fundamental is a historical-philological and cultural-scientific orientation of Romance Studies in Kiel.
Special features regarding the international orientation
Romance studies at Kiel offers a variety of courses in the foreign language and maintains close ties to the cultural institutes located in Kiel (Centre Culturel français, Deutsch-Französische Gesellschaft, Deutsch-Ibero-Amerikanische Gesellschaft, Società Dante Alighieri). In addition, the Romance department has numerous scientific contacts and exchange relationships with ERAMUS+ partner universities in France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Latin America.
Special features regarding the equipment
WiFi in the library and on campus, smartboard and whiteboard in the classrooms, E-Learning via learning platforms (OPENOLAT), Adobe-connect to supplement classroom instruction, streaming camera.
Special features regarding research activities
Linguistics: Culture of multilingualism in Romania; Language contact and migration; Language Policy; Formation and discussion of linguistic norms (project: ‘Ent-Fesselung der Sprache’). Literary studies: Renaissance in its European context; French Classics; The history of French theatre, the French and Italian modern novel; Lyrics of the Modern Age; The literary descriptions of the Way of St. James and European city concepts in literature are additional research interests;
Other special features
A preliminary course is offered to first-year students before the start of the semester, which aims to make the transition from school to university easier, as well as an open online course to facilitate orientation for prospective and first-year students
Further information on research activities
https://www.romanistik.uni-kiel.de/de/forschung
Information on access restrictions
https://www.studservice.uni-kiel.de/sta/studienqualifikationssatzung.pdf