Histoire générale
- Master
- Humanities
French Language and Literature
- Master
- Humanities
The Master's degree in French at the University of Geneva is a unique training program which, based on a study of literature, enables students to envisage a wide range of career paths. From Rabelais to Rimbaud, Molière to Proust, Ramuz, Duras, Césaire and Ernaux, the courses cover more than five centuries of literary creation in French, Europe and the world. The study of these works, both precise and open-ended, mobilizes numerous analytical tools, enabling students to develop their expressive and argumentative skills, opening the way to a wide range of careers: teaching, of course, from primary to higher education, but also communication, cultural professions, publishing, journalism... This is because the study of literature engages an understanding of the facts of history and culture that is resolutely open to today's world: its diversity, the fractures that run through it, the challenges that lie ahead. The Master's program culminates in the writing of a dissertation, which represents both an accomplishment and an opening to research. Two interdisciplinary orientations are offered at the end of the course: literature and aesthetics, literature and knowledge. Interested students can complete the Master's program with a specialization in either History and Epistemology of Criticism or Dramaturgy and Theatre History.
Programme length
1.5 years (3 semesters)
Language of instruction
French
Except for disciplines involving modern languages (Spanish, Italian, English and German), where courses are offered in the relevant language.