Both internal sub-departments of the Department of Romance Studies provide teaching of linguistic, literary theory and didactic disciplines in the major/minor type Bachelor degree programme and the Master's degree graduate programme of French and Spanish Language Teaching for Secondary Schools with additional basics of translation studies and applied language studies for business and tourism.

The three-year Bachelor degree programmes of French for Business and Spanish for Business prepare experts for companies and institutions involved with French or Spanish speaking countries, as well as experts in the field of tourism. The Bachelor degree programmes include another foreign language selected by the students.

In September 2007, new degree programmes were approved: French Language and Literature (Master's degree graduate programme) and Spanish Language and Literature (Master's degree graduate programme).

The Department of Romance Studies provides teaching of language courses for the whole University of Ostrava: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin.