The entire range of Romance Studies courses with degree courses in French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish; Language courses for other Romance languages; ‘Third teaching subject’ certificate (Fr., It., Sp.); Interdisciplinary links with Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Gender Research, Comparative Literature, General Linguistics; Intensive language training in the BA degree courses; Individual focus in linguistics, literature and regional studies; Professorial representation of specialised didactics in French and Spanish. Certificate in ‘Professional and literary translation’.

Extensive range of Erasmus partner universities; Double degree with the Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour; Cooperation with the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny (Abidjan-Cocody), Ivory Coast; Cooperation with Universidad Asutral de Chile (Valdivia); High degree of teaching in the foreign language.

Computer workstations for students in the library; Learning Resources Centre (photocopying, scanning, printing); Modern, well-equipped language classrooms; e-Campus (electronic course catalogue UniVZ, Flexnow examination administration, StudIP teaching platform); Extensive range of specialist databases in the State and University Library of Lower Saxony.

Literary gender studies; "Göttingen Dante Forum"; ‘Cátedra José de Almada Negreiros’; Qualitative empirical foreign language research; Multilingualism and multiculturalism; Publication of Romance bibliography and journal for Romance philology; Ongoing projects with third-party funding: A list of medical-botanical synonyms in Hebrew script from Central Italy (15th century), quantification in Old Italian (DFG GEPRIS)

Offer by the Philosophy Department for start-up consulting

Interdisciplinary Master´s degree programme in "Cultures and Languages of the Mediterranean" in cooperation with 13 other institutions of the philosophy faculty; Expertise and knowledge exchange on the Mediterranean region that is unique in Germany. Offer of a certificate in ‘Professional and literary translation’ for French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.