MA English Studies

Culture and Literature employs two of the most prominent approaches in the humanities: the history of ideas and discourse analysis.

Courses in Cultural Studies focus on cultural history, popular culture, and processes of cultural and medial translation.

Courses in Literary Studies cover a wide range of English literatures from the Renaissance to the present, closely examining literary texts as well as their relations to other discourses such as philosophy and religion.

A Wild Card module provides the opportunity to do an internship in order to get work experience in a related area (optional). Students have to organise internships by themselves.

the idiomatic element of language: construction grammar, valency theory, research on collocation and idiomaticity

corpus linguistics

first and second language acquisition and research on learner language

the English language: history and variation

foreign language teaching: lexicography, grammar, contrastive linguistics, speech perception and production, literacy development, bilingualism and bilingual education

comprise advanced language classes to further develop students' skills in the English language as well as their academic skills

encourage students to choose modules from a range of related subjects (including North American Studies, Book Studies, Romance languages and others)

offer opportunities for studying abroad at other European universities

are taught entirely in English

the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Dialects and Language Variation

the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Lexicography, Valency and Collocation

the Interdisciplinary Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture

the Center for Literature and Natural Science Studies, ELINAS

the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Gender, Difference and Diversity