Starting Linguistics

Freshman orientation

There will be a Freshman orientation for MA students on 

Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 13.00 – 14.00 o'clock by Professor Gregory Kobele.
Venue: Room H1 5.15, GWZ, Beethovenstraße 15

 

Please contact Gregory Kobele in case you can attend the freshman orientation only via Zoom.

Module recommendations for first semester students

Master

We recommend the advanced modules Morphology (04-046-2010), Segmental Phonology (04-046-2013) and Grammatical Perspectives on Cognition (04-046-2026). Alternatively, you could enrol for a module from a different department (e.g., English studies, German studies). However, you have to check whether you would be admitted to the module (in terms of required qualifications and teaching capacities). In addition, you have to apply for taking that module by submitting this Antrag to the chair of the exams committee (Prof. Heck). 

If you are interested in taking the special module Research internship (04-046-2034), you should do so in a higher semester.

Getting advice

• General questions concerning the MA Linguistics: Jun.-Prof. Paula Fenger (Course advising)
• Questions concerning the modules: module commissioners (see below)
• General questions concerning student life in our institute: Student representative committee ("Fachschaftsrat", FSR)

Module commissioners

• Morphology: Prof. Gereon Müller
• Segmental Phonology: Prof. Jochen Trommer
• Grammatical Perspectives on Cognition: Prof. Gregory Kobele, Ph.D.

Module registration

When you register for a module, you are also automatically registered for the module examination. In order to register for modules of our MA Linguistics, you have to choose TOOL. You are automatically admitted to the modules of our MA Linguistics. After the registration data are migrated on 4 April 2025 to AlmaWeb. It is possible to deregister from a module and the associated module examination no later than four weeks before the end of the lecture period, either by independently deregistering (in AlmaWeb).

Timetable

• Module registration via TOOL:
  Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 12pm till Monday, 31 March 2025, 5pm.
• Deregistration via Almaweb: 4 April 2025 till 4 weeks before the end of the lecture period 

Start of the teaching period

Classes will start on 7 April 2025 and will end on 12 July 2025.

Communication with faculty and staff

When you enrol, you will be given login information for your student email account. Please use this email address for all electronic communications with teachers and staff. It is highly recommended that you change the email settings of webmail or your email client such that your full name will be given as sender information.