Study plan
For further information, please contact Prof. Dr. Schierholz. The examination regulations can be found here (in German).
Curriculum EMLex (last updated: May 2019)
| Module name | Title and description of the class | ECTS | 1st semester
(ECTS) |
2nd semester
(ECTS) |
3rd semester
(ECTS) |
4th semester
(ECTS) |
Examination methods |
| basic module B1 | course: basics of lexicography | 10 | 10 | written assignments | |||
| basic module B2 (home module) | A lexicographically-oriented seminar and/or course (4 hours per week) (English or German philology) | 10 | 10 | final examination or presentation (paper) and/or assignment | |||
| basic module B3 (soft skills, language courses, computer science courses) | B3a: language course English
B3b: language course German B3c: computer science as minor field of study |
5-10 | 5-10 | depending on selected course | |||
| advanced module A1 | advanced seminar: metalexicography | 5 | 5 | final examination or presentation (paper) plus a brief assignment or longer assignment | |||
| advanced module A2 | advanced seminar: history of lexicography | 5 | 5 | final examination or presentation (paper) plus a brief assignment or longer assignment | |||
| advanced module A3 | advanced seminar: modeling and representing data in digital lexicography | 5 | 5 | final examination or presentation (paper) plus a brief assignment or longer assignment | |||
| advanced module A4 | advanced seminar: research into dictionary use |
5 | 5 | final examination or presentation (paper) plus a brief assignment or longer assignment | |||
| advanced module A5 | advanced seminar: special field lexicography and terminology | 5 | 5 | final examination or presentation (paper) plus a brief assignment or longer assignment | |||
| advanced module A6 | advanced seminar: computational lexicography | 5 | 5 | final examination or presentation (paper) plus a brief assignment or longer assignment | |||
| advanced module A7 | advanced seminar: dictionaries and translation | 5 | 5 | final examination or presentation (paper) plus a brief assignment or longer assignment | |||
| advanced module A8 | advanced seminar: lexicography and lexicology | 5 | 5 | final examination or presentation (paper) plus a brief assignment or longer assignment | |||
| advanced module A9 | advanced seminar: dictionary planning and production | 5 | 5 | final examination or presentation (paper) plus a brief assignment or longer assignment | |||
| advanced module A10 | advanced seminar: learner lexicography | 5 | 5 | final examination or presentation (paper) plus a brief assignment or longer assignment | |||
| in-depth module V1 | colloquium with lectures: selected topics regarding dictionaries, lexicography and lexicographical research | 10 | 10 | Writing a review (1/3) plus oral examination (30 min.) (2/3) about the topic of the class | |||
| in-depth module V2 (home module) | lexicographically-oriented advanced seminars: (4 hours per week) (English or German philology) | 10 | 10 | Written examination or oral report plus short term paper or a longer term paper | |||
| in-depth module V3 | internship | 10 | 10 | Internship certificate and a detailed internship report (this module is not graded) | |||
| master thesis | 30 | 30 | |||||
| 25- | -35 | 30 | 30 | ||||
| Total number of points: | 120 | ||||||