University of Lausanne Faculty of Arts
The Master of Arts and the Master of Arts with specialization
Ecublens, Switzerland
MA
DURATION
LANGUAGES
French
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Feb 2027
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Master of Arts (MA) at the Faculty of Letters, University of Lausanne teaches methods and knowledge to understand contemporary realities and intellectual output from the past. It spans historical sciences, theoretical human sciences, languages and literature, and promotes interdisciplinary literary study. Graduates develop autonomy, responsibility, organization, critical thinking, analysis and synthesis, argumentation, and strong written and oral expression.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work in education, research, cultural institutions, publishing, communications, public service, diplomacy and heritage management. Employers value analysis, writing, project management and communication. Key careers: education, research, cultural sector, publishing, communications, public policy, heritage and nonprofit leadership.
The Master of Arts allows you to acquire knowledge and methods useful for understanding contemporary realities and apprehending the intellectual wealth produced by human beings over time.
It offers a wide range of disciplines, ranging from historical sciences to theoretical approaches in human sciences, including languages and literature. It thus offers you the opportunity to practice the interdisciplinarity specific to literature studies.
At the end of this course, you will have acquired many useful assets in the world of work: autonomy, sense of responsibility and organization, critical thinking, aptitude for analysis, synthesis and transmission of complex information, ability to argue, mastery of written and oral expression, versatility.
