Admission Requirements
General Information
Application & Admission
The specialized Master’s program in Literary Studies does not link to a specific program but is open to students with a Bachelor’s degree in literature or related fields: German Literature and Linguistics, English Literature and Linguistics, French Literature and Linguistics, Ibero-Romance Literatures and Linguistics, Indian Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Italian Literature and Linguistics, Latin and Greek Philology, Communication and Media Studies, Art History, Modern Greek Literature and Linguistics, Musicology, Nordic Linguistics and Literature, Oriental Studies, East Asian Studies, Philosophy, Romansh Literature and Linguistics, Religious Studies, Slavonic Literature and Linguistics, Social and Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Theater, Dance and Film Studies, Theology, Comparative Literature or Central Asian Cultural Studies.
Admission to the specialized Master’s program in Literary Studies requires at least 21 ECTS credits in the field of literary studies at undergraduate level. Applicants without the required number of ECTS credits in the field of literary studies or with a Bachelor’s degree in another field of study are given additional requirements (“Auflagen”).
Further requirements are:
- a motivation letter
- an independently written paper in German or English
- very good knowledge of English or German on academic level (listening, reading, speaking), including academic writing skills in English.
At the request of the Head of the Program:
- other evidence of qualifications relevant to the study program (e.g., seminar papers translated into English)
- an oral admission interview.
The decision on admission to the study program rests with the Head of the Program.