Bachelor's degree of French, Italian or Spanish as Teaching Subject
The Bachelor's programme in Secondary School Teaching with a focus on French, Italian or Spanish provides a solid foundation to enable you for a career as a language teacher at high schools. It must be combined with a second subject, which may also be a second Romance language. The BA teacher training programme lasts four years (eight semesters) and comprises a total of 240 ECTS credits (100 ECTS credits per subject + 40 ECTS credits in educational science). This is followed by a two-year master's degree programme in French, Italian or Spanish as Teaching Subject. The curriculum comprises language proficiency (37.5 ECTS), linguistics (15 ECTS), literary studies (15 ECTS), regional and cultural studies (5 ECTS) and scientific foundations (2.5 ECTS). In addition, the Faculty of Teacher Education teaches the necessary subject-specific didactic, educational science and practical pedagogical skills. In the teacher training programme a bachelor's thesis must be written in each subject. In Romance Studies, the latter is written in the respective foreign language.
Curriculum 2015 of the BA in French, Italian or Spanish as Teaching Subject.
Programme grid of the BA in French, Italian or Spanish as Teaching Subject
Study guide for the BA in French, Italian or Spanish as Teacher Subject
Recommended courses for BA French, Italian or Spanish as Teaching Subject
The reading lists marked with NEW! are mandatory for all students who began studying French, Italian or Spanish in the summer term 2022. Those who were in their second or higher semester in the summer term 2022 can choose between the old and new reading lists until the summer semester 2025. After that, the old list will no longer be part of the exam.
FrenchLiterature Studies NEW!
Italian Literature Studies NEW!
Spanish Literature Studies NEW!
If you are studying to become a teacher, you will also attend a series of classes organized by the Faculty of Teacher Education in addition to the Romance language courses and those of your other teaching subject, respectively:
- general education courses that offered by the ILS (Institute for Teacher Education and School Research).The first of these classes are already relevant in the first semester and are even part of the Introduction and Orientation Phase for Students (StEOP), so it is essential that you attend them in the first term – make sure to enroll on time on the online course catalogue!
- subject-specific courses offered by the IFD (Institute for Specialised Didactics) which are more specific and are connected to your Romance language subject and also to DiS (Didactics of languages) / IMoF (Innsbruck model of foreign language didactics). The relevant courses don’t need to be attended in the first semester, but you can enroll from the second semester onwards.
Read more on the pedagogical training at the ILS.
Read more on IMoF (Innsbruck Model of Foreign Language Didactics)
Information on how to write BA theses
Criteria for BA theses
Proof of completion of the bachelor thesis in accourdance with the curriculum
Cover page for bachelor's theses
Affidavit for the bachelor thesis