MA Germanistik: Textkulturen (Kombi, 45/75 LP) at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Germanistik: Textkulturen (45/75 LP) is a master combination subject based on a cultural-studies understanding of text that goes far beyond literature, covering the full spectrum of pragmatic text types from the beginnings of German-language writing.

Faculty: Philosophische Fakultät II – Philologien, Kommunikations- und Musikwissenschaften  |  Department: Germanistisches Institut  |  Duration: 4 semesters (2 years)  |  Study mode: full-time; German-taught; combination (Kombi) subject  |  Intake: Wintersemester  |  Location: Halle (Saale), Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

What you will study

Modules include thinking texts, text and world, making texts, TextLAB, a research colloquium on text cultures and the final module. Two part-programmes of 45 CP are studied equally at first; the master thesis is written in one of them.

Career pathways

With electronic tools for structuring and translating content into formats, skills in differentiating and critically reflecting on text types are useful in many fields.

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