African Languages and Cultures

["The Master's programme in African Languages and Cultures is a two-year research-oriented programme with a strong connection to applied issues focusing on theories and methods in linguistics of African languages, language in African cultures and Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies. Graduates with an MA in African Languages and Cultures are well prepared for a position in research, education and consulting. By extending language skills in Swahili, Hausa or Amharic, or learning a further African language you will also extend your comprehension in areas from local "doing things with words" to traditional knowledge and philological methods. The study programme enables you to develop your own capacity of working with primary sources of language data, oral and written history, literatures, cultural and religious texts in their relevant context. The language of instruction and examination is English.The study programme envisages an obligatory thematic specialisation in one of the following study profiles:(1) Applied African Linguistics: Language Education and Language Planning(2) Linguistic Analysis and Language Documentation(3) Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies(4) Language in Culture"]