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Basic information

Teaching staff at the department

34

Total number of students at the department

680

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

90

Teaching in core subjects

  • German as a foreign language: 5.9%
  • Ancient German Literature: 20.6%
  • Modern Literature: 45.6%
  • Linguistics: 0%
  • Historic Linguistics: 27.9%
  • Other fields: 0%

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

9/14 points

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support
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Courses offered
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Exam organisation
Digital teaching elements
Teaching foreign language skills
Research orientation
Rooms
Library
IT-infrastructure
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

52

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching

Wide range of courses in the departments of German Linguistics, Modern German Literature and German Medieval Studies; Teachers are qualified in university teaching through internal continuing education courses; commendation of teaching staff with university teaching prizes for teaching concepts; very well-equipped reference library with over 150,000 media items; group rehearsal room, tutorials for introductory sessions; The teaching is supplemented by external practicals, guest lectures and partnerships with houses of literary, theatres and other literary institutions

Special features regarding the international orientation

Numerous ERASMUS partnerships; very good international connections of teaching staff to other European and non-European research institutions (German Linguistics: e.g. Sweden, Finland; the Netherlands; Italy; Switzerland; Luxembourg; Literary Studies: e.g. United Kingdom, Switzerland, France, Italy, Russia, India, China).

Special features regarding the equipment

PC workstations in the library, practical rooms with multimedia equipment, linguistics lab for digital processing of audio and video data.

Special features regarding research activities

Numerous third-party-funded projects in the form of individual projects on Linguistic Variation, Language and Cognition, Literature of the Late 18th Century and Classical Modern Literature; Participation in Collaborative Research Centres "948: Heroes, Heroizations, Heroisms" and "1015: Vacancy. Concepts, rooms, figures" and linguistic and literary research graduate college; Alexander von Humboldt institute partnership with St. Petersburg to "Turgenev's European networks"

Other special features

Creative writing offers; Variety of student theatre groups (e.g. ‘Laut + Lyrik’) to practice creative-performative techniques in the transmission of literature

Further information on research activities

Website of the Student Council

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Last Update 2022: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education
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