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German Language and Literature, Department

Philosophische Fakultät

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover

Philosophische Fakultät
Deutsches Seminar
Königsworther Platz 1
D-30167 Hannover
Telephone: +49 511 762-19593
https://www.uni-hannover.de
Uni Hannover
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Basic information

Teaching staff at the department

9

Total number of students at the department

1,980

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

130

Teaching in core subjects

  • German as a foreign language: 0%
  • Ancient German Literature: 0%
  • Modern Literature: 44.4%
  • Linguistics: 0%
  • Historic Linguistics: 44.4%
  • Other fields: 11.1%

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

10/14 points

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

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Teaching foreign language skills

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Return rate of the questionnaires

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching

Subject and interdisciplinary diversity; student-friendly environment with a heavy research focus, combining basic research with application-oriented research. Offers in ‘Critical’ Media Literacy and for the investigation of questions of current social relevance (e.g. gender, racism, educational justice), as well as contemporary literary life.

Special features regarding the international orientation

Range of international collaborations; at least one visiting academic per semester in the German department; numerous guest lectures and research collaborations.

Special features regarding research activities

Successful acquisition of third-party funding projects, e.g. ‘Variance and grammaticalisation of verbal scene constructions’ (DFG), ‘Gender-sensitive language in theory and practice’ (MWK) or ‘Strategy-oriented spelling’ (RESO); ‘Doing Memory on Right-Wing Violence’ (Volkswagen Foundation); Research focuses: Empirical professional research and media literacy, literary anthropology and edition philology, Austrian and Swiss literature as well as modern literature, contemporary literature, censorship and anti-Semitism research; new education and research funding: ‘Connotatively generated gender stereotypes’

Further information on research activities

Information on access restrictions

Website of the Student Council

online-application

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