Faculty of Arts

THE FACULTE OF ARTS, founded in 1837, is one of the largest schools at the University of Lausanne, with over 2,000 students of more than 80 different nationalities.

It offers a vast range of traditional disciplines, including philosophy, history, modern and classical languages, archaeology and history of art. It also teaches other subjects, reflecting the enlargement of human knowledge, such as the history and aesthetics of cinema, information technology for human sciences, linguistics, history and religious sciences. With over 4,560 possible combinations available at Master’s level, the Faculty of Arts offers teaching aimed at making the wealth of past intellectual output meaningful and grasping the issues of contemporary realities.

A study of the arts is inherently multi- and interdisciplinary, offering you the opportunity to develop numerous skills, such as independence, a sense of responsibility and organisation, the ability to summarise and convey complex information, proficiency in written and oral communications, and versatility.

Faculty Website in French: www.unil.ch/lettres

THE SCHOOL OF FRENCH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE is affiliated to the Faculty of Arts. IIt offers complete degree courses or “satellite” courses of French focusing on the French Language and French and more generally Francophone Culture. Every year, over 1000 students from more than 70 countries participate in the various courses at different levels.

To improve French, it is also possible at the School of French as a Foreign Language to take just a few "satellite" courses in order to integrate other studies in one of the faculties of the UNIL.

Complete degree programmes provide extensive training in French as a Foreign Language (FFL) in its linguistic and cultural dimensions, as well as the theoretical knowledge of literature, linguistics and teaching methodologies necessary to achieve proficiency in this field.

School Website in French: www.unil.ch/fle