Master in German Philology

German Linguistics, Modern German Literature and German Studies Medieval Studies form the three sections of the Department of German Philology at the University of Basel. Against the background of the cultural-scientific reorientation of the humanities, the historical-philological competence with the development of current and innovative impulses - for example the postcolonial studies, the discourse analysis, the cognitive and sociolinguistics or the communication theory - becomes one of a variety of objects and objects Connected theory spectrum. The focus is on situating texts and other manifestations of language in the cultural process, the different linguistic, pictorial or acoustic media in their respective contexts, as well as the interrelationships between literatures.