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Prerequisites for registration: (1) The Minor "Digital Humanities" covering 30 ECTS-Credits can be selected by regular degree students of bachelor¿s programmes at the University of Innsbruck if the respective curriculum provides for the opportunity to pass a Minor. (2) The Minor may be passed providing the availability of places.

Learning Outcome: (1) Graduates of the Minor Digital Humanities have acquired the theoretical basic knowledge of computer-based applications and information technology procedures in the humanities and cultural studies.
(2) Graduates have advanced knowledge of the most common methods in Digital Humanities as well as their fields of application and can put them into practice.
(3) Graduates are able to recognise the opportunities and challenges associated with digitisation, to explain and contrast them. They are able to analyse problems about the impact of the digital transformation of society as well as the humanities and cultural studies, to recognise relevant contextual factors and to critically assess them.

Prerequisites for registration: The Minor Communicative Skills for the Profession covering 30 ECTS-Credits may be selected by regular degree students of bachelor's programmes at the University of Innsbruck if the respective curriculum provides the possibility to pass a Minor.

Learning Outcome: Graduates of the Minor Communicative Skills for the Profession can plan written and oral communication processes in a goal-oriented manner, carry them out appropriately and evaluate them critically as well as classify, analyse and assess writing products and rhetorical genres. They possess the competence to critically analyse oral and written communication, especially from professional practice and the media, with regard to the argumentative, stylistic and multimodal techniques observed in each case. They can assess the respective special characteristics and requirements of oral and written communication and take them into account appropriately in their own communication behaviour.

Prerequisites for registration: (1) The Minor Methods of Empirical Language Data Analysis covering 30 ECTS-Credits may be selected by regular degree students of bachelor's programmes at the University of Innsbruck, if the respective curriculum provides the possibility to pass a Minor. (2) The individual modules and courses of the Minor Methods of Empirical Language Data Analysis may be studied, provided the availability of places. (3) Students of the Bachelor's Programme German Philology may not select the Minor Methods of Empirical Language Data Analysis.

Learning Outcome: (1) Graduates of the Minor Methods of Empirical Language Data Analysis are familiar with a broad spectrum of methods for the collection, processing and evaluation of language date (including methods of text analysis, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, especially variation linguistics, qualitative and quantitative methods, digital methods). They are able to apply different methods and tools for the analysis of language data, to assess the suitability of methods for specific questions and types of language data (spoken and written language data, multimedia/multimodal data, historical language data) and to use the acquired knowledge for questions from their own disciplines.
(2) Graduates of the Minor "Methods of Empirical Language Data Analysis" are able to reflect on the specific (e.g. medial) characteristics of different types of linguistic data, to apply different methods and tools of linguistic data analysis to questions and problems in the profession and science, to critically deal with the social relevance of linguistic data and the methods of their analysis.

Prerequisites for registration: The minor Language - Space - Society covering 30 ECTS-Credits may be selected by regular degree students of bachelor's programmes at the University of Innsbruck, if the respective curriculum provides the possibility to pass a minor. The individual modules and courses of the Minor Language - Space - Society may be studied, providing the availability of places.

Learning Outcome: Graduates of the Minor Language - Space - Society know the basic theories and methods of sociolinguistics, human geography, European ethnology, history or sociology. They understand language as a social phenomenon and can recognise, reflect and analyse processes of social transformation in the context of their socio-spatial anchoring. They know about the importance of social and regional spaces for the development of social relations and cultural conflicts. They are able to describe and critically question the mutual relationship between language, space and society on the basis of scientific methods and theories. They can relate the knowledge they have acquired to their own field of study and thus expand their ability to reflect on social processes.