Foreign Languages and Literature

Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures

General Information and Academic Programme.

The philosophy of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures is based on the imperative need to produce educated citizens capable of communicating effectively in French, German and Russian and thus making it possible for Nigeria to participate fully, without any linguistic inhibition, in international peace and understanding, trade and world politics. Though imparting skills in speaking, reading, and writing, translating and interpreting these foreign languages, and through the knowledge of the respective cultures and literatures of these languages, the Department has it as its philosophy to prepare a generation of Nigerians who can feel free and adequate to move in the rest of the world, to work anywhere in the world, and reinforce Nigeria’s belief in the brotherhood of nations.
The Department of Languages and Literatures offers programmes leading to the following two degree options:

B.A. Honours in French, German or Russian;
B.A. Combined Honours in French and German,
B.A. Combined Arts in French/English and German English.

The Department also offers courses for B.A. Combined Honours degree involving, French, German or Russian on the one hand, and courses from other Departments of the University on the other hand, and for Education students whose major teaching subject if French. Finally, the Department provides elementary, intermediate, and advanced French, German and Russian courses (service courses) for students in other Departments of the University who need the foreign languages as electives or required ancillary courses.

The duration of all the Department’s degree programme is four years for candidates who gain admission by JAMB entrance examination and three years for those who secure direct entry: but French-German, French-Russian and German-Russian Combinations are fouryear programmes for all categories of admitted candidates.

The third year of the fouryear programme, or second year of the threeyear programme, can be done partly or entirely in foreign countries where the relevant major languages are indigenous media of communication.

Arts