Bringing together lecturers in history, literature and sociology — all of whom played a key role in the creation of the Experimental University Centre of Vincennes in 1969 —in a single faculty reflects their shared goals to:

• create a space in which to reflect freely on these separate disciplines, which were formerly ‘prisoners’ of their own academic tradition in France;
• contribute, by opening up a broader perspective on the contemporary world, to new theories in the field;
• reflect more deeply on modern teaching and learning methods and ways to transmit knowledge in a radically changing academic and social environment.

The Faculty of Texts and Societies mainly holds classes in Building B and comprises the following departments:

• Department of Gender Studies
• Department of English Literature
• Department of History
• Department of French and Francophone Literature
• Department of General and Comparative Literature
• Department of Political Science
• Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Courses on offer

• Licence Histoire (Bachelor’s in History)
• Double licence Histoire - anglais (Double Bachelor’s in History & English)
• Double licence Histoire - science politique (Double Bachelor’s in History & Political Science)
• Licence Lettres (Bachelor’s in Literature)
• Licence Science politique (Bachelor’s in Political Science)
• Licence Sociologie (Bachelor’s in Sociology)

• Master Archives (Master’s in Archives)
• Master Création littéraire (Master’s in Creative Writing)
• Master Etudes sur le genre (Master’s in Gender Studies)
• Master Histoire (Master’s in History)
  • Master Passé présent: les méthodes critiques de l’Histoire (Master’s in The Past and Present: Critical Methods in History)
• Master Lettres (Master’s in Literature)
  • Master Mondes littéraires (Master’s in Literary Worlds)
  • Master Création critique (Master’s in Critical Writing)
• Master Science politique (Master’s in Political Science)
  • Master Diversités et discriminations (Master’s in Diversity and Discrimination)
  • Master Politique transnationale et mondialisation (Master’s in Transnational Politics and Globalisation)
  • Master Cultures et politiques: mots, images et théorie (Master’s in Cultural and Political Realities: Language, Image and Theory)
• Master Sciences sociales (Master’s in Social Sciences)
  • Master Anthropologie de la mondialisation (Master’s in Anthropology and Globalisation)
  • Master Mondes urbains et inégalités (Master’s in Urban Environments and Inequalities)