Bachelor in Licence - Lettres

The Licence - Lettres (Literature) at the Université de Perpignan Via Domitia in Perpignan, France is a three-year bachelor's-level programme taught in French. The Lettres degree is one of the foundational humanities programmes in the French university system. It involves close reading, historical contextualisation, and theoretical interpretation of written texts from antiquity to the present, with the French literary tradition at its centre. Students study French literary history from medieval to contemporary periods, textual analysis and commentary, rhetoric, linguistics, and comparative literature. Latin, ancient Greek, or another classical or modern literary language may also feature. The programme builds rigorous skills in written argumentation and critical essay writing — competencies valued across many professional contexts beyond literature itself. Perpignan's rich Mediterranean cultural heritage, at the crossroads of French, Catalan, and Iberian traditions, gives the study of literary and cultural history a distinctive local dimension. Graduates find careers in secondary and higher education, publishing, journalism, cultural policy, archival work, and communication. The Licence Lettres also feeds postgraduate programmes in literature, linguistics, book studies, and competitive teacher preparation examinations. The programme starts in September, lasts 3 years, and carries yearly tuition of 178 EUR. Students who pursue the agrégation or CAPES de Lettres, the competitive teaching examinations, often begin that preparation during or immediately after their Licence Lettres.