Targets

• to have an excellent knowledge of (different variants of) the language studied and to be duly capable of applying said knowledge in a variety of different operational con-texts;
• to be duly capable of contributing to the linguistic debate on language as a communication form and the historical aspects thereof;
• to be duly capable of contributing to the literary debate on the literary traditions of the language regions studied;
• to be duly capable of comprehending and critically evalua-ting phenomena and processes of a historical, cultural and social-political nature;
• to have a due command of active and critical literary sci-ence and language theory methods of analysis methods of analysis and to be duly capable of putting these into prac-tice;
• to have an in-depth knowledge of the history and culture of the language regions studied, as well as being able to apply said;
• to be duly capable of critically treating a topic from the study programme by way of a thesis whilst using the rele-vant scientific sources in doing so.