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German Language and Literature, Department

Fakultät für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

Fakultät für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften
Institut für Germanistik
Kaiserstraße 12, Geb. 20.30
D-76131 Karlsruhe
Telephone: +49 721 608-2151
https://www.kit.edu

Karlsruher Inst. f. Technologie KIT
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Basic information

Teaching staff at the department

9

Total number of students at the department

380

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

60

Teaching in core subjects

  • German as a foreign language: 0%
  • Ancient German Literature: 31.8%
  • Modern Literature: 62.4%
  • Linguistics: 0%
  • Historic Linguistics: 5.8%
  • Other fields: 0%

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

9/14 points

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching

Cultural-studies-based specialisation in ‘Literature and Knowledge’; Synergies with other degree courses.; Annually variable key topic areas (2021/22 NdL: ‘Salvation/Saviour’, Medieval Studies: ‘Perception and constructions of the Orient’; ‘Time and the narration of history’); created for the M.A. Master classes on the theme of the year, renowned intern. Scientific foundation,; Teaching head with Polish colloquium of KWU Bydgoszcz, Springschool ‘A medial view of the German-Polish culture of remembrance’ April 2022; ‘Karlsruhe Medieval Colloquium’, annual inter-univ. advanced seminars (6 locations); Research-based. classes alongside projects; regular guest lect.

Special features regarding the international orientation

Academic links with Beijing, Ontario (Kingston, CA), Bergamo, Bologna, Urbino (I), Klagenfurt, Cadiz (E), Ùstí nad Labem (Cz), Lille (F), Sousse / La Manouba Tunis (Tunisia), Cameroon; EPICUR participations

Special features regarding research activities

Specialisation in literature and knowledge; 2 DFG projects in medieval studies (‘Encyclopaedic Storytelling’, Edition ‘Barlaam and Josaphat’; Prof. Herweg); The Uncertain Knowledge of Literature: Director of the eponymous SNF-ProDoc () Prof. Bergengruen (KIT) with Prof. von Arburg (Lausanne, Prof. Schnyder (Neuenburg); DFG project specialisation programme "Aesthetic proper times. Time and representation in a polychronic modernity.’ Term: 2017-2020 (Prof. Bergengruen); HEIKA project on AI in cooperation with Prof. Kleinke (Heidelberg) and workshops on the subject of AI with Tongji University Shanghai, admitted Nov. 2021 (Prof. Böhn)

Other special features

The MA course can also be started in the summer semester

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Last Update 2022: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education
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