Permanent courses for six Romance languages and literature, sometimes more (e.g. Sardinian, Catalan, Occitan); Numerous parallel lectures for virtually no overlap and a broad selection of specialised lectures for students (as dictated by personal interest); Strongly research-oriented teaching, wide variety of theories and methods; Interdisciplinary options through cross-listing between related subjects (e.g. Comparative Literature/Romance Studies); at faculty level: Writing Centre for the Promotion of Academic Writing Practice.

Very wide range of partner universities, particularly in Europe as well as in North and South America. Recognition of coursework abroad possible. Guidance centres and work placement portals for work placements abroad. Support for student research projects abroad (e.g. for final theses).

Media laboratory for Phonetics and Phonology and some research-supported courses in the field of Digital Humanities; Computer workstations in the institute library; Film screenings for film seminars; General: Lecture halls with audiovisual technical equipment, online learning platforms in all sections, system fro the electronic administration of documents and examinations; File depositories for the individual courses.

Massive acquisition of third-party funding in different formats and involvement of students through research-related teaching. Key content areas: fashion theory, images of the civil war, gender theory, Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age, Latin American studies, Flaubert research, "Romance literature studies online", intermediality, media history, language variation, grammaticalisation and language transformation, language history, Old Occitan dictionary, Multilingualism of the Alpine region, cognitive and perceptive linguistics, media linguistics, digital humanities.