• German

Courses are held in German.

International students from non-EU and non-EEA countries with a foreign university entrance qualification will be required to pay a tuition fee of 1,500 EUR per semester at all institutions of higher education in Baden-Württemberg.

Students from EU and EEA member states as well as international students with a German university entrance qualification are exempt from these tuition fees.

The four-semester Master's programme in German as a Foreign Language / German as a Second Language examines questions concerning the acquisition and teaching of German as a foreign and second language with an emphasis on the close interaction between theory and practice. The programme's focus is on linguistics, language acquisition and language teaching issues.

The objective of this Master’s programme is to enable students to professionally engage in the field of language teaching.

The students can choose between two different profiles:

• In the German as a Foreign Language profile, the focus is on questions of language acquisition and language teaching for adult learners. The emphasis of this profile is on the teaching of German language and culture in various teaching and learning contexts in Germany and abroad. In this area, the programme instructs students to plan and observe classroom activities in a scientifically reflected manner.
• In the German as a Second Language profile, the discussion is primarily conducted with a view to multilingual children within the German education system (language programmes and language proficiency assessments in the elementary and primary sector).