Wide range of courses in all subject areas: Complete and Differentiated Historical and Descriptive Linguistics, Modern and Old German Literature (including Medieval, Baroque, Media and Cultural Studies). Own platforms: Modern German literature e-learning for the introduction to modern German literary studies, "Active Middle High German", "Diachronic German" and "Blended Learning Course in Linguistic History" (online learning modules for historical linguistics); collegial coaching in teaching (ZQ) (Centre for Quality Assurance and Development); Research- and project-oriented courses

In-depth historical and systematic education, stronger research orientation, development of independent projects, student-centred perspective (compulsory elective subjects). In the new Master's model, the major subject can be expanded with three options. Students decide whether they want to further deepen their subject-specific knowledge through a research-oriented focus (Profile 1), pursue interdisciplinary studies by choosing a complementary subject (Profile 2) or focus on a professional orientation or personal interests and acquire corresponding additional qualifications (Profile 3).

Research cooperation/exchange for students & staff; Coordination/management of the EU-funded ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership "Textual & Literary Cultures in Medieval Europe" (TALC_eu); European Network "Reading Violence" (Mainz/Sassari/Coimbra/Valencia); Bi- and tri-national course Mainz-Dijon-Bologna; Middlebury College Mainz; German Studies Institute Partnerships (DAAD) with Uzbekistan & Bydgoszcz; Cooperation agreements: Univ. de São Paulo (Brazil), Chongqing Univ. (China), Univ. Ust. Kamenogorsk (Kazakhstan), Hacettepe Univ. Ankara (Turkey); Univ. of Zadar (Croatia); University of Helsinki

Workplace for literary film practice (own editing, production, reviewing facilities, extensive film and media archive, supervised service facility for acquisition of media practice skills); "Centre text-oriented media" (TeM), in the research and teaching fields of transmediality, digital networks and media criticism; digital research and edition platform at the F. Schlegel workstation (KFSA); Mainz database of first names, surnames and place names; Mainz Corpus of Early New High German.

German Research Foundation (DFG) projects: "Gender-related practices in personal references"; Collaborative Research Centre "Human Differentiation"; Academic project "Digital surname dictionary of Germany (DFD)"; Didactic lesson planning (Toepfer Foundation); Research units: F. Wedekind; F. and D. Schlegel; Middle High German dictionary; Ilse Aichinger handbook; Magazine "literature for readers"; (Historical-critical) Editions: C.Brentano, F.Schlegel, F.Swedekind, A.Seghers, Correspondence: Early Romance, F. Wedekind, Suhrkamp-Zuckmayer; Mini Research Training Group "The Aesthetic Inventions of Ecology ca. 1800".

Literary Studies and Linguistics are represented in full with both an historical and systematic focus in research and teaching; Large range of subjects, also for minor/additional subjects; Work focus on DaF/DaZ; Possibility of integrated studies at the universities of Mainz, Dijon, Bologna. JGU participates in the diversity audit "Creating Diversity" of The Donors' Association for the Promotion of Science and Humanities in Germany. The university also promotes supportive measures which acknowledge the social background of its students and thereby compensate for existing disadvantages.