German Linguistics: Theory and Practice Mainz University

Study Type

graduate

Admission semester

Summer and Winter Semester

Focus

Grammar, Graphematics/Orthography, Pragmatics, First and Second Language Acquisition, History of Language and Language Change, Sociolinguistics, Empirical Methods, Integration of theory and practice

Target group

Students who are interested and keen to work together with fellow students and teachers in an open and committed teaching and research environment on exciting questions from a wide variety of areas of linguistics, to develop individual questions and to implement them independently in a theoretically and methodically sound manner; Students who are interested in the German language itself, in the acquisition and change of language, in linguistic diversity and in language as the most important medium of communication.

Admission modus

Without admission restriction

Admission requirements (Link)

Admission requirements

The degree programme requires a Bachelor's academic degree or a comparable academic degree with at least 72 credit points in German Studies or General and Comparative Linguistics. If less than 72 but at least 40 points are available, the missing credits can be made up in the first year of study.

Main language

German