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Degree Courses

The Gießen English Department offers various degree courses with English as a major or a minor subject. Our courses have now been fully modularised: if you are starting your studies, you will opt either for one of our new Bachelor degree courses with the possibility to apply for a Master's afterwards, or for the Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL - Lehramt) study course. It is no longer possible to enroll in our old Bachelor and Master degree courses.

New Degree Courses

New Degree Courses

Bachelor

  • BA Intercultural Communication and Business (ICB)

    In our BA program Intercultural Communication and Business, students can combine a focus on Anglophone business communication with courses in a second business language while also studying business administration and commercial law. An internship or work on an independent business-related project is built into the study program. Click here for more information.

  • BA Anglophone Studies (AS)
    Our Bachelor Degree program in Anglophone Studies gives students the key to the world by allowing them to study the full range of related fields, including Linguistics, Anglophone Literary, Cultural, and Media Studies as well as Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Click here for more information.

Master

  • MA Intercultural Communication and Business (ICB)

    In the Master’s degree program Intercultural Communication and Business, students intensify their focus on Anglophone business communication and take courses in a second business language while also studying business administration and commercial law. Alternatively, students can do an internship or a praxis-oriented project instead rather than focusing on a second language. Click here for more information.

  • MA Anglophone Studies (AS)
    Our MA Degree in Anglophone Studies gives students the opportunity to dive deeper into subjects related to Anglophone Cultures, Literature, and Media, to English Linguistics, as well as to Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Please have a look at our flyer for the MAS or click here for more information.

 

If you are interested in the new degree courses, feel free to register for updates through the Info-Service.

New Double Degree

New Double Degree Programme

International Cooperation within the MA programme „Intercultural Communication and Business“

Benefit from an exciting new double degree programme

  • German-French degree programme with two national degrees of the same value
  • Intercultural experience gained during a stay abroad
  • Work experience gained during internship in France

Universities involved in the programme:

  • Justus-Liebig-Universität (JLU) Giessen, Germany
  • Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 (UPVM3), France

Academic degrees:

  • Master of Arts (M. A.) – from the Justus-Liebig-Universität (JLU) Giessen, Germany
  • Master „mention langues étrangères appliquées, parcours négociation de projets internationaux“ – from the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 (UPVM3), France

Please read our flyer for further information on this exciting double degree programme!

If you are interested in the DD-programme, please contact and .

Bachelor

Bachelor

Bachelor (with English Studies as a major or a minor subject):

 

Students can no longer enroll in the following degree courses:

Study and Examination Regulations

Our Department offers a BA in "English Language, Literature and Culture" (ELLC),  a BA in "Modern Languages and Language Teaching" (NFF) and the popular BA in "Modern Languages, Cultures and Business Studies" (MFKW).

All relevant regulations on JLU's "MUG": "Studienverlaufspläne", module description and general regulations - updated regularly.

Special regulations for Linguistics.

Special regulations: Bachelor Thesis

For information on how to register for your thesis and the respective deadlines, please consult the webpage of the akad. Prüfungsamts Geisteswissenschaften and check out their Prüfungsordnung. 

 

Master

Master

Students can no longer enroll in the following Master's degree courses:

Master (with English Studies as a major, a minor, or "Studienelement"):

  • MA Modern Languages and Linguistics (MLL)
  • MA Neuere Fremdsprachen und Fremdsprachendidaktik (NFF)
  • MA Moderne Fremdsprachen, Kulturen und Wirtschaft (MFKW)
  • MA Sprache - Literatur - Kultur (SLK)

English Studies for MA, as a major, a minor, or "Studienelement":

  • MA Anglophone Literary, Cultural and Media Studies (ALCMS)
  • MA English Linguistics (ELI)
Study and Examination Regulations - Master

All relevant regulations on JLU's "MUG": "Studienverlaufspläne", module description and general regulations - updated regularly.

 

TEFL

Teaching Degree Programmes

Teaching English as a Foreign Language

This link will take you to the Teaching Degree Programmes section.

Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)

There are several ways to study TEFL at Giessen. In the modularised study course you study either L1 (Lehramt an Grundschulen), L2 (Lehramt an Haupt- und Realschulen), L3 (Lehramt an Gymnasien) or L5 (Lehramt an Förderschulen).

All relevant regulations are on JLU's "MUG": "Studienverlaufspläne", module description and general regulations for modularised L1, L2, L3 and L5 - updated regularly.

The following list contains some direct links to your relevant TEFL course of study: