ATTENTION: Changed study regulations will come into force in the summer semester 2025. The specialization in German as a foreign and second language will be discontinued without replacement.

If you have any questions in this regard, please contact the course coordinator Florian Ostertag (florian.ostertag@tu-darmstadt.de) or the course coordinator Prof. Dr. Nina Janich (nina.janich@tu-darmstadt.de)

The Master's degree course in Applied Linguistics is a research-oriented and consecutive two-year course. You can, for example, follow this Master's program with the Darmstadt Joint Bachelor's program if you have studied German Studies there. However, you are also very welcome if you come from another university or from related (linguistically oriented) bachelor's/teaching degree courses.

The course places the text as the object of analysis at the center of applied linguistics, which deals with communicative challenges in everyday professional life. This includes, in particular, communication with the public in various professional contexts (such as the press and media, politics and administration, business and science). The course therefore teaches theoretical approaches and methodological skills from text and writing studies as well as discourse and variety linguistic insights into the textual worlds of various social fields of activity. In addition to the fundamentally research-oriented focus of the course, various modules focus specifically on practical experience and testing.

In the first part, the course of studies is aimed at in-depth competences in the research areas of writing research, Variational Linguistics, and Textual and Discourse Linguistics. However, what is special about the Master's course of Linguistics is the subsequent elective required subject areas which it is possible to acquire further in-depth knowledge in two different sub-areas. You can choose between the thematic focus