Obligation to declare seminar paper (good academic practice)

Each seminar paper must be accompanied by a declaration by the student that he/she has written the paper independently and only with the sources indicated. This declaration must be signed by the student. Without this declaration, seminar papers will not be accepted!

Compulsory attendance

Active participation by students is constitutive for participation in the modules or individual components of the modules. Active participation may include Regular attendance and participation in courses, preparation and follow-up of teaching material (e.g. protocols, assignments, preparation/reading of texts) as well as, depending on the type of course, the assumption of papers, short and impulse papers, presentations, short presentations or similar. The applicable criteria for active participation are determined at the beginning of the courses belonging to the module in consultation with the students. The lecturers decide on the fulfilment of the criteria for active participation, if necessary in consultation with the module coordinators.

At its meeting on 31 May 2010, the institute council of German Studies decided that the lecturers would post or link the conditions for active participation for each course in Stud.IP within the first two weeks after the course begins.

Master modules

Please note: ger771/ger800/ger805 is only offered in the winter semester!

Master's modules "Linguistics" and "Literary Studies": They must be completed within one year. This means you have the following options:

1. You start a Master's module in the winter semester and complete it in the following summer semester.
2. You start a Master's module in the summer semester and complete it in the following winter semester.
3. You study the entire Master's module in the winter semester.
4. You study the entire Master's module in the summer semester.

You can find out which Master's modules you must have studied in order to be able to register for the Master's thesis and how many CPs you must have studied in total for registration in the examination regulations according to which you are studying. Please refer to both the general section (total number of credit points) and the subject-specific German Studies annex if you wish to write your thesis in German Studies.

Since winter semester 14/15, enrolment in the M.Ed. GH and M.Ed. R degree programmes is no longer possible. Instead, the Master of Education Grundschule and Master of Education Real- und Hauptschule degree programmes have been introduced. The duration of the programme is now 4 semesters. Current information can be found here and here.

The examination regulations can be found here.

The following information is aimed at students of the Master of Education GH who have not completed their BA in German Studies in Oldenburg and who have been enrolled with the requirement to complete the BA advanced module AM 4 (Linguistic-Literary Socialisation).

If you have already completed an advanced module in the subject didactics of German totalling at least 6 credit points with a marked examination in the course of your BA degree, you do not have to complete the entire AM 4 module, but only the course on first reading/first writing, in which you do not have to take an examination. The reason for this is that the Oldenburg BA examination regulations (subject-specific appendix for German Studies) do not require that the AM 4 examination be taken as part of the seminar on first reading/first writing; rather, this can also be done in the other subject-specific didactic course of the module. For reasons of equal treatment, an examination in the area of first reading/first writing can therefore not be required of BA graduates from abroad.

The module coordinator will recognise the subject didactics module you have already completed as adequate for AM 4, provided that you provide separate proof of participation in the course on first reading/first writing after the end of the lecture period. The lecturers of the first reading/first writing course will check your active participation in order to issue the certificate. This is not to be understood as a preliminary examination performance, but as special proof for module recognition. Students who are not prepared to have their active participation in the course checked will make up the entire AM 4 including the examination.