Wide range of courses in all subject areas: Complete and Differentiated Historical and Descriptive Linguistics, Modern and Old German Literature (including Medieval, Baroque, Media and Cultural Studies). Own platforms: Modern German Literature (NDL) E-Learning by way of introduction to Modern German Literature, ‘Active Middle High German’, ‘Diachronic German’ and ‘Blended Learning Course in Language History’ (online modules on Historical Linguistics); collegial coaching in teaching (ZQ) (Centre for Quality Assurance and Development); Research- and project-oriented course offers

Research cooperation/exchange for students & staff. Coordination/leadership of the EU-funded ERASMUS + Strategic Partnership "Textual & Literary Cultures in Medieval Europe" (TALC_eu); European Network "Reading Violence" (Mainz/Sassari/Coimbra/Valencia); bi- and tri-national course Mainz-Dijon-Bologna; Middlebury College Mainz; German Studies. Institute partnerships (DAAD) with Uzbekistan & Bydgoszcz; cooperation agreements: Univ. de São Paulo (Brazil), Chongqing Univ. (China), Univ. Ust. Kamenogorsk (Kazakhstan), Hacettepe Univ. Ankara (Turkey); Univ. of Zadar (Croatia); Univ. Helsinki

Workplace for literary film practice (own editing, production, reviewing facilities, extensive film and media archive, supervised service facility for acquisition of media practice skills); "Centre text-oriented media" (TeM), in the research and teaching fields of transmediality, digital networks and media criticism; digital research and editions platform at the F. Schlegel office (KFSA); Mainz database of first names, surnames and place names; Mainz corpus of Early New High German.

DFG Projects: ‘W headings in German’, ‘Gender-related practices in personal references’, ‘Edition of the correspondence of Frank Wedekind as an online full-text database’; Editions: ‘Expressivity in German’, ‘Independence of Sentences’; Middle High German dictionary; census manuscripts; FSP media convergence; TeM (Text-oriented Media); SFB ‘Human Differentiation’; Research position F. Wedekind; F. and D. Schlegel; (Historical-critical) Editions: C. Brentano, F. Schlegel, G. Büchner, H. Mann, A. Seghers; Academic proj. ‘Digital Surname Dictionary of Germany (DFD)’; IGL; Grammar in schools

Literary Studies and Linguistics are represented in full with both an historical and systematic focus in research and teaching; Large range of subjects, also for minor/additional subjects; DaF/DaZ focus; the possibility of an integrated course at Universität Mainz and the Universities of Dijon and Bologna. JGU participates in the diversity audit "Creating Diversity" of The Donors' Association for the Promotion of Science and Humanities in Germany. The university also promotes supportive measures which acknowledge the social background of its students and thereby compensate for existing disadvantages.