With our courses, we follow the principle of research-based teaching and learning at the University of Oldenburg(basic paper) as well as the teaching excellence concept of School III. This includes the development of courses from current project contexts of the teaching staff, a fundamentally research-based approach to the subject matter as well as the consideration of current research results in the design and implementation of the teaching programme.

As part of research-based and research-oriented teaching, students participate in the research process and actively help to shape it. This includes thinking about relevant questions, developing the state of research and critically reflecting on individual research contributions on a specific subject, carrying out method-guided investigations as well as evaluating, interpreting, contextualising and presenting the results of the research.

In the literary studies seminar, for example, students work on the state of research on Low German theatre from 1900 to 1945 and identify relevant questions on this topic on this basis. In the linguistics seminar, students practise analysis skills in order to localise regional varieties of contemporary Low German with reference to dialectal characteristics at various linguistic levels in the Low German language area. And in the literature didactics seminar, the focus is on jointly answering the question of how literary skills can be taught to pupils in the classroom using the young adult book "Ebbe un Hehn" by Birgit Lemmermann.