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Learning Outcome: Students are able to present fundamental areas, methods and fields of application of German literary science and linguistics.

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Learning Outcome: Students are able to give an overview of the subject and its fields. They are able to analyse linguistic units by methods used in central fields of German linguistics.

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Learning Outcome: Students can name the different fields of literary studies, present different approaches in literary studies and methods of literary text analysis. They are able to explain basic terminology used in literary studies; Students are able to deal with literary texts in a methodological and critical way and are able to critically evaluate literary texts.

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Learning Outcome: Students are able to recognise, scientifically describe and critically assess linguistic structures, describe theoretical fundamentals and research methods in the field of written communication and to use this knowledge for analysing and assessing specific texts. Students are able to describe the functions and the style of written language and to critically discuss the standards of writing and text type conventions.

Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 3

Learning Outcome: Students are able to explain and assess literary theories and theoretical-methodological paradigms of literary science. They are able to grasp the historicity as well as the simultaneousness and the continuous differentiation of conceptualisations of literary theory and methodology and to critically assess the systematics of literary studies. They are able to describe hermeneutic and semiotic processes and to present and substantiate theoretical-methodological approaches for analysing literary texts.

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Learning Outcome: Insight into central issues, themes and methodological concepts of cultural studies.

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Learning Outcome: Students are able to present and describe the fundamentals of second language acquisition, interrelations between language and cognition, language and society and with this also linguistic variation and variability (social, medial, local, temporal). Phenomena related to society and individual phenomena in relation to language varieties and multilingualism can be discussed in a problem-oriented way. Students are able to present theoretical fundamentals and research methods in the field of oral communication and to analyse and classify specific communicative genres in the field of spoken language. Moreover they are able to outline the differences between written and spoken language and discuss standardisation in the field or oral communication.

Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory modules 3, 7

Learning Outcome: Students are able to name interrelations of literary and cultural history with the example of representative authors, works and genres. They are able to describe the processes of canonisation. They can outline the interactions developments in society, literature and cultural history (e.g. gender-specific developments) and are able to independently analyse and interpret literary texts based on scientific standards.

Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 3

Learning Outcome: Students are able to recognise and assess central themes of disseminating literature (evaluation strategies, production and formation of brands).

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Learning Outcome: Students are able to independently deal with a theme from the field of German linguistics in a scientific way. They are able to discuss basic questions of the interrelations between language, media and communication and to apply basic methods of linguistic media and communication analysis.

Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of the compulsory modules 3, 7

Learning Outcome: Students are able to name interrelations of literary and cultural history with the example of representative authors, works and genres, especially from the 18th to the middle of the 19th century. They are able to describe the processes of canonisation and reception. They can outline the interactions developments in society, literature and cultural history (e.g. gender-specific developments) and are able to independently analyse and interpret literary texts based on scientific standards.

Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 6

Learning Outcome: Students can explain important aspects of the development of the history of the language; They are able to name and analyse phenomena of historic grammar with the example of texts.

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Learning Outcome: Students area able to describe central issues of culture an identity from a culturally based perspective, outline and critically assess important theories and concepts of cultural actions, especially in dealing with the perception of "the own" and "the foreign" and they can name the varied aspects of culture-specific communication.

Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of the compulsory modules 2, 6

Learning Outcome: Ability to review and critically reflect on the state of research of a selected topic; competence to use this knowledge for a specific linguistic question; adeptness in analysing texts and utterance from different linguistic perspectives; ability to write a conclusive seminar paper corresponding to scientific norms on the results gained.

Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 14

Learning Outcome: Students are able to outline interrelations with literary history and cultural history of older literary epochs; They are able to apply the required means of literary science and to analyse texts.

Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of the compulsory modules 10, 13

Learning Outcome: Ability to review and critically reflect on the state of research relating to a selected topic; competence to apply this knowledge to actual questions of literary science; adeptness in analysing texts and utterances from different perspectives of literary science; ability to present the results conclusively and corresponding to scientific norms within the scope of a seminar paper

Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of the compulsory modules 10, 13

Learning Outcome: Students have a wide-ranging knowledge of literary history. They are able to formulate different approaches to interpretation, to assess literary texts in a differentiated and analytically founded way, not only with regards to developments in literary history with the example of authors and works, but also in relation to developments in contemporary literary life.

Prerequisites for registration: For a Bachelor's Thesis in Contemporary Linguistics: successful completion of compulsory module 16 For a Bachelor's Thesis in Modern German Literary Science: successful completion of compulsory module 18 For a Bachelor's Thesis in Medieval German Literary Science or Medieval Linguistics: successful completion of compulsory module 17

Learning Outcome: Students are able to apply the theoretical and methodological instruments of German Philology for specific problems.

Prerequisites for registration: the prerequisites of the respective curricula do apply

Learning Outcome: Expansion of the study programme and acquiring of additional qualifications.