International Master in Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism (M.A.)
Mainz, Germany
DURATION
4 Semesters
LANGUAGES
German
PACE
Full time
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STUDY FORMAT
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Introduction
The International Master in Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism degree program deals with the subject of the academic and social aspects of European multilingualism at the local, national and EU-wide level. It combines the components language and society.
Its purpose is to train a new generation of sociolinguists with an academic and practical understanding of the parallel usage of various languages in Europe and expertise in social dynamics and the cultural, political and socio-economic effects of multi-lingualism in Europe. To achieve this objective, the program concentrates on providing a new understanding of multilingualism, with a special focus on European multilingualism as exemplified in the cases of the Nordic and Baltic countries. At the core of the program is the varied and dynamic European language landscape with its increasing number of multilingual citizens.
Students will expand their language skills in common international languages (e.g. English and German) and in less common languages (e.g. Lithuanian and Estonian) and will discover their own multilingualism through the internationality of the program.
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Curriculum
The research-based and -oriented "International Master in Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism" is an international degree program with a joint degree from the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas/Lithuania and the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. The universities in Stockholm/Sweden and Tartu/Estonia take part in the study program as associated partners. During the four-semester course, students visit three different universities; the first semester is taught in Kaunas, the second in Mainz, the third either in Stockholm or Tartu and the fourth semester is spent at the university where the supervisor of the MA thesis is based.
The course is divided into 10 consecutive modules, which are taught in English at the participating universities:
- Multilingual Baltic-Sea Europe I: Language-sociological perspectives
- Language and Communication Skills I
- Methods of Sociolinguistics I
- Multilingual Baltic-Sea Europe II: Sociolinguistic perspectives
- Language and Communication Skills II
- Usage-based Linguistics
- Multilingual Baltic-Sea Europe: Language Contacts
- Language and Communication Skills III
- Historical and Cultural Background
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