The specialization and elective courses on offer provide numerous opportunities to make students increasingly “responsible for their own training”, while at the same time enabling them to make progressive career choices.
The different fields of study in the programme (Linguistics and literature in the three Germanic languages) provide a coherent set of courses.
As for interdisciplinary, the student can include in his programme courses from other disciplines (optional). In the end, the student's choice (geared towards the programme's interdisciplinary courses) will hold sway.
A second strong point is the variety of teaching strategies (including e-learning) : the use of multimedia for courses in foreign languages, the use of the possibilities offered by Icampus, and the balance between more 'lecture-based teaching and one-to-one student guidance.
Also noteworthy are the different learning situation: individual and group work, seminars and tutorials for the dissertation.