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Dive into the vast heritage of the productions of the human mind in search of meaning and value. Explore the past, perceive art across the centuries, decode ancient and modern languages, and take a fresh look at the captivating world of cinema.Through works, languages, documents and currents of thought, journey through the cultural, contextual and temporal diversity of humanity's great questions.Your curiosity is the only limit. Welcome to the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at UNamur!

A course rooted in the history of philosophy, designed to provide an understanding of major contemporary issues: ecology, the commons, digital technology, cinema, non-European thought...

Teachers and researchers at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters contribute to developing the cultural dynamism of the Cité. Through cultural activities, publications and training courses, but also through interventions on request, their work is regularly embedded in the economic and social context of civil society.

Discover how the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters works: its organization, departments, administration and much more.

In the Western tradition, philosophy represents a radical effort to understand reality. Philosophy casts an astonished, questioning gaze on the world around it and on mankind. The philosopher rejects the easy "obvious" and asks why things are the way they are. Rather than a discipline juxtaposed with others, philosophy as a critical approach thus constitutes an attitude and a spirit that apply in all registers, particularly intellectual, of human activity.

History explores the human past in all its complexity: populations, economies, political techniques, religions, ideologies, arts... It borrows from the human sciences the questions and methods that enable us to grasp correlations, detect genesis, in a word, understand the human adventure. History also looks to the future! To prepare for the future, you act today on the basis of your knowledge of the past!

Sharing a passion and crossing borders Because nothing beats authentic contact and practice, the Dutch Unit pulls out all the stops to immerse its students in a Dutch-speaking linguistic and cultural bath! In addition to the interactive courses, and the small-group exercises that closely accompany them, the Unit team integrates many immersion teaching projects into its teaching, including didactic trips, E-tandem exchanges with Dutch students, meetings with authors and directors, films, plays or opera, and many others to.. discover, taste and fully savor the language, culture and literature. To give you an initial idea of course content, take a look at the first-year course descriptions... Mastery of the Dutch language (1st and 2nd quarters) Dutch Linguistics (1st and 2nd quarters) History of Dutch Literature and Civilization (1st quadrennium) Analysis of Dutch-language literary texts I (2nd quadrimester) Erasmus Research Activities

Linguistics Research in Dutch linguistics revolves around a common theme: languages and multilingualism in the Belgian community context and is broken down into several topics: the context and outcomes of bilingual education (CLIL or immersion) cf. ARC project "Assessing CLIL: linguistic, congnitive and socio-educational factors" (Laurence Mettewie and Luk Van Mensel); the impact on language acquisition of socio-affective factors (attitudes, motivation, emotions) and contact situations in the school environment (Laurence Mettewieand Ilias Vierendeels) ; the multilingual needs of Brussels companies and the resulting costs (Laurence Mettewie and Luk Van Mensel); language dynamics within multilingual families (Luk Van Mensel); the language landscape as revealing the relationships between linguistic communities (Laurence Mettewie and Luk Van Mensel) ; the discourse around multilingualism and language policies in Belgium (Ilias Vierendeels); teacher support in differentiating modern language courses (Laurence Mettewie and Caroline Depuis). Read more Literature The Dutch Unit's literary research focuses on the period 1860-1940. Preferred topics are: Early feminism in novels, letters and diaries (Elisabeth Leijnse and Myriam Carlier); The theory of biography (Elisabeth Leijnse); Maurice Maeterlinck: a biography written in Dutch is in preparation (Elisabeth Leijnse) ; The biography of Dutch feminists Cécile and Elsa de Jong van Beek en Donk, the book Cécile en Elsa, strijdbare freules (Amsterdam 2015) has been awarded in the Netherlands the Biografieprijs 2016 and Libris Geschiedenis Prijs 2016 (Elisabeth Leijnse) ;Jewish literature in the Netherlands; birth of anti-Semitism in France and the Netherlands (Elisabeth Leijnse). Dissertation/doctorate in Dutch literature or linguistics Students who, after their course at UNamur, would like to prepare a dissertation or doctoral thesis around one of the themes mentioned above and with Elisabeth Leijnse and/or Laurence Mettewie as (co-)promoter are asked to get in touch with them by e-mail.For further information about research in the fields of languages and humanities, and more generally at UNamur, visit the research institute NaLTT. UNamur research portal Teaching Erasmus Activities Research at the University of Namur Research All the information you need about research (institutes, themes, projects, publications, services for researchers, etc.). ADRE The Research Administration (ADRE) is at the disposal of researchers and partners in terms of funding, sound management and valorization of research projects. Services for researchers Learn more about all the services reserved for researchers at the University of Namur, from Masters to qualified researchers.

Discover, taste, savor the Dutch language, culture and literature through our didactic activities and trips.