Program Overview

Introduction to the Master's Program

The Master's degree program in Classical and Modern Literary Studies is a unique field of study that offers interdisciplinary lectures, seminars, and practice classes. The program illustrates the major trends of Hebrew-Jewish, Greek-Latin, as well as modern literary and cultural developments.

Facts and Formalities

• Degree: Master of Arts
• Type of program: Consecutive
• Start of program: Winter and summer semester
• Standard period of study: 4 semesters
• Language(s) of instruction: German and the teaching languages of the special/supplementary field
• Fees and contributions: 161.10 € / Semester
• Application procedure: Consecutive master’s programs with access restriction
• Application deadlines: Information about deadlines can be obtained after you have put together a degree program.
• Part-time option: Yes
• May be studied as a minor subject: Yes

Course Content

The Master's degree program in Classical and Modern Literary Studies deals with the theoretical and methodological reflection of literary connections between Greek and Roman antiquity, Christian-Jewish culture, and the great national literatures of Europe. The aim is for students to have an overview of the major lines of Hebrew-Jewish, Greek-Latin, and modern literature and culture development and the ability to confidently present and analyze them. Students acquire the specific skills of a classical-philological as well as of a modern philological education and can productively combine and apply them.

Course Structure

The Master's program Classical and Modern Literary Studies requires a total of 120 credits, 90 of which are gained in subject-specific courses in the major subject and 30 are allocated to the Master's thesis. The program can also be studied as a minor subject with 20 credits in combination with a different major.

Major

The major comprises the following areas:

• Basic module Classical and Modern Literary Studies
  • Development of literatures I
    • Antiquity
    • Middle Ages / Early Modern Era
    • Modernity
  • Development of literatures II
    • Theory of literature and culture
    • Poetics / Aesthetics
    • Intertextuality / Intermediality
• Elective module
• Master’s thesis

Minor

The minor comprises the following areas:

• Basic module Classical and Modern Literary Studies
  • Development of literatures I
    • Antiquity
    • Middle Ages / Early Modern Era
    • Modernity