MA Allgemeine und Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft at University of Würzburg

Master of Arts in General and Applied Linguistics that bundles linguistics across Würzburg's philologies: German, English, Romance and comparative linguistics and Slavic studies. Students deepen single-language research interests and compare linguistic structures across languages. It can be studied as a single-subject (120 ECTS) or two-subject (45 ECTS) master.

Department: Neuphilologisches Institut/Slavistik (programme office); cross-institute programme  |  Duration: 4 semesters; 120 ECTS (single-subject) or 45 ECTS (two-subject)  |  Intake: Winter and summer semester  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Würzburg, Bayern, Germany

What you will study

Compulsory part (50 ECTS) with a language course in a non-standard average European language, structural language description and linguistic research practice; compulsory elective part (40 ECTS) in General Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and interdisciplinary aspects of language, including an internship module; 30 ECTS Master's thesis in semester 4. Focus areas include corpus linguistics, discourse linguistics, sociolinguistics and variation, contrastive linguistics, multilingualism and language contact, language norms and language change.

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