Geisteswissenschaftliche Sektion at the Uni Konstanz

Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft

Uni Konstanz

Universitätsstraße 10
78457 Konstanz
Phone: +49 7531 88-2421

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Basic information

Teaching staff in core subjects

Teaching staff at the department	15
Total number of students	210 *
Number of master degree students	20

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

9/14 points

Results of study

Graduations in appropriate time, undergraduate degrees	79.6 %
Graduations in appropriate time, master's	<10 graduades/year in at least one of the years surveyed; source: department survey

International orientation

International orientation, bachelor's	5/9 points
International orientation, master's	5/9 points
Outgoing students	14.0 %

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

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Degree courses with details

Teacher qualification

Teacher qualification students	520
Teacher qualification programmes	teacher qualification (B.Ed./M.Ed.)
Teacher qualification centre	Link
Teacher Qualification Monitor (in German)	Link

Degree courses without details

Further degree courses of the department

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching
High level of student participation in teaching primarily thanks to use of seminars; High level of interdisciplinarity thanks to regular courses with teachers from other philologies as well as Aesthetics and Media Sciences. High focus on methods at all levels. The linguistic laboratories are an essential component of teaching in the department and thus contribute significantly to student training.
Special features regarding the international orientation
Joint student mobility programme of the literature and linguistics departments. Own Erasmus coordination and internationalisation coordination office. The departments pursue a coordinated internationalisation strategy with the aim of developing student and lecturer mobility quantitatively and qualitatively.
Exchange universities for stay abroads
University of Essex, GB; University of Warwick, GB; University of Sussex, GB; Royal Holloway College London, GB; St. Mary's College, GB; University College Cork, Irland; Universidad de Cádiz, Spanien; University of Technology, Sydney, Australien; University of Guelph, Kanada
Special features regarding the equipment
The Department of Linguistics has modern, well-equipped laboratories for experimental linguistics in which corpus and computer linguistic studies, language production and language perception experiments and psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic studies can be carried out. The laboratories are an essential component of teaching in the department and thus contribute significantly to student training.
Special features regarding research activities
Integration of German Literature in excellence cluster 16 "Cultural Foundations of Integration"; in the field of Linguistics, the study of all basic theoretical areas of Linguistic Theory is combined with quantitative research in Experimental Linguistics
Other special features
The department of Linguistics has modern, well-equipped laboratories for experimental linguistics where corpus and computer linguistics studies, speech production and speech perception experiments, as well as psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic studies can be pursued.
Further information on research activities
https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/forschung/