The study programme comprises

1. an undergraduate degree in German Linguistics, Modern German Literature and German Medieval Studies (= German literature and language from the beginnings to the early modern period). This part of the programme meets the national and international standards in the subject German Studies and allows for the further study of a Master's programme.
2. a study component "interdisciplinary foundation", in which either a history or a philosophy module is taken, as well as a lecture series on current key topics of society, which is jointly supported by several subjects of the Faculty of Human Sciences.
3. the study of a profile specialisation for subject-specific consolidation and professionally relevant expansion of German studies qualifications. For this purpose, students choose one of the following five profiles from the second semester onwards:
   
   

• A) Media (with study components from the subjects of media education, philosophy and computer science),
• B) Cultural Studies (with business studies components),
• C) German-English Studies (with English and comparative studies components),
• D) Language and Computer Science (with study components in Computer Science) and
• E) German as a Foreign Language / German as a Second Language.

The interdisciplinary orientation of the programme across the boundaries of the humanities takes into account the fact that knowledge and competences from other subjects are also increasingly in demand in the typical occupational fields of graduates of German studies.

The Magdeburg degree programme "German Studies with an Interdisciplinary Profile" enables students to find focal points of study at an early stage and to train competences that are particularly useful in certain professional fields:

• in the media (newspaper, radio, TV, digital media),
• in culture-related branches of the IT economy,
• in public and private cultural institutions, in publishing houses, libraries, literary houses, theatres, museums,
• in internationally active companies and organisations, in international authorities such as the EU, in institutions of national and international research funding, etc.,
• in institutions and companies dealing with the construction, application and evaluation of literature and language databases, lexicography as well as with questions of digitisation in general,
• in the teaching of German as a foreign language and German as a second language in public and private educational institutions,
• in literary and cultural mediation abroad, e.g. as a DAAD Lektor or as a staff member at a Goethe-Institut.

Prospective students must have a very good command of the German language, because the spoken and written language in a German Studies degree programme is not only a medium of communication, but also the object of study with its structures, its current and historical developments. For the profile specialisation C "German-English Studies", a good knowledge of English is also required. Interested students should also be willing and interested to read a great deal and intensively, to engage not only with contemporary literature and the language of today, but equally with texts of past centuries, to understand their language, to analyse how they function, to classify them historically, to interpret them and to communicate their analyses and interpretations orally and in writing. Finally, special interests are helpful for the interdisciplinary study components, some of which relate to neighbouring media such as film, radio and computers, others to economic aspects.

Der Studiengang „Germanistik mit interdisziplinärem Profil“ ist ein Vollzeitstudiengang. Charakteristisch ist indessen, dass nur etwa ein Viertel der Studienzeit als Präsenzzeit in Lehrveranstaltungen (meist Vorlesungen, Seminaren und Übungen) absolviert wird, der größere Teil aber als Selbststudium allein und in Arbeitsgruppen durch Vor- und Nachbereitung der Lehrveranstaltungen, durch Erledigung von Übungsaufgaben, Verfassen von studienbezogenen Texten, Arbeit an Projekten und durch eigenständige Lektüre.

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