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Join us at BU Romance Studies!

Boston University is a global leader in higher education and provides students with exciting, quality opportunities across all spectra of academic interests and degree programs. This breadth of high caliber offerings both within Romance Studies and in related departments and centers across the university, as well as the language and cultural resources of the greater Boston community, makes BU an ideal place to immerse yourself in the study of language, literatures, and cultures.

In the Romance Studies Department, we offer world-class degree programs in French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. At the undergraduate level, we provide a minor in all four languages, and a major in French, Italian and Spanish. At the graduate level, we support both master’s and doctoral programs in French and Spanish.

Our department boasts expertise not only in the traditional field of the literatures of European countries such as Spain and France, but also in studies of the literatures, film, and cultures of the broader Romance language world, including Francophone Africa, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and more. We look forward to welcoming you to our department!

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