German Language and Literature,
Department
Fakultät Geistes- und Erziehungswissenschaften at the TU Braunschweig
Institut für Germanistik
- Bienroder Weg 80
- 38106 Braunschweig
- Phone: +49 531 391-8636




Degree courses with details
Teacher qualification
Teacher qualification students | 1,300 | |
Teacher qualification programmes | teacher qualification (B.Ed./M.Ed.) | |
Teacher qualification centre | ||
Teacher Qualification Monitor (in German) | Link |
Further information provided by the department
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Special features regarding teachingThe research- and practice-oriented teaching, which encompasses all areas of German studies, features digital and innovative components, some of which were developed within as part of sponsored innovation projects (e.g. mediaeval learning app with city tour). The additional study programme DaF/DaZ adds to the spectrum of topics, as do numerous guest lectures, e.g. as part of the poetics lectureship with gender profile and the public-oriented lecture series. This is supplemented by regular excursions, creative writing classes and public project presentations.
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Special features regarding the international orientationThe institute is involved in several Erasmus partnerships, including with universities in Ankara, Bari, České Budějovice, Krakow, Naples, Stockholm and Turku, as well as a closer partnership with Nizhny Novgorod. The scientific staff maintains close links with German-speaking countries and with German studies institutes in many countries of the world. In German linguistics in particular, the department participates in the English-language scientific discourse with scientific partnerships (partners are in Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, the USA and Slovakia, among others).
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Exchange universities for stay abroadsÅbo Akademi, Turku, Finnland; Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italien; Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale, Neapel Italien; Technische Universität Graz, Österreich; Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Krakau, Polen; Stockholms universitet, Stockholm, Schweden; Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Budweis, Tschechien; Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara, Türkei; Trakya Üniversitesi, Edirne, Türkei
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Special features regarding the equipmentThe seminar rooms on the humanities campus, which are also used by German studies, are all equipped with WiFi, projectors and document cameras. The campus also has a central computer pool and, at faculty level, learning workshops with a wide range of technical equipment. The institute also has two Smart Boards. The university library offers access to various electronic resources as well as subject-specific databases (author database, BDSL). The institute has a license for game-based learning (Action Bound).
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Special features regarding research activitiesProjects funded by third parties ("Mehr-Sprache" (Langlotz) as part of the teacher training quality campaign, "Vom Gehen im Karst" (Röhnert) of the VW foundation, book project "Kinderlosigkeit" (Toepfer) as the Opus-Magnum-Förderung scheme of the VW found
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Other special featuresResearch and teaching partnerships with other subjects of the faculty (including English Studies, Educational Science and History), with subjects from other faculties of the TU Braunschweig as part of the Master's degree "Culture of the Technical-Scientific World" and in the context of the central research fields of the TU Braunschweig (mobility, city of the future), with the language centre of the TU Braunschweig (DaF/DaZ study programme), the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig as well as with non-university research institutions (e.g. Georg Eckert Institute, Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel, Raabe House)
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Further information on research activitieshttps://www.tu-braunschweig.de/germanistik/forschung




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