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"]