MA Empirical and Applied Linguistics at University of Münster

The Master of Arts Empirical and Applied Linguistics trains students in empirical and usage-based linguistic research. Students choose a language-specific specialisation and write the master thesis in that field.

Faculty: Faculty 09 Philology (Fachbereich 09)  |  Department: Faculty of Philology, Linguistics  |  Duration: 2 years (4 semesters, 120 ECTS)  |  Intake: Winter semester only  |  Study mode: full-time; German-taught  |  Location: Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

What you will study

Compulsory modules: Methods of Linguistics, Usage-based Language Description, Language Theories, Concepts and Models, a practice module and the master module. One specialisation module (General, English, German, Indo-European, Dutch, Romance with French, Italian or Spanish, or Slavic linguistics) and two elective profile modules from typology and language comparison, historical linguistics, linguistic variation, language in interaction, language and culture, multilingualism and language acquisition, language and media.

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