Programme structure

The full-time study programme lasts three semesters. The part-time study programme lasts four or six semesters.

Detailed information on the part-time models can be found in the information sheets for the four profiles:

• Information sheet on Strategic Communication Management study models (in German)
• Information sheet on Multilingual Communication Management study models (in German)
• Information sheet on Linguistic Diversity Management study models (in German)
• Information sheet on Conference Interpreting study models (in German)

The Master’s degree programme consists of academically oriented core modules and one of four practice-based profiles: Strategic Communication Management, Multilingual Communication Management, Linguistic Diversity Management or Conference Interpreting.

In the core modules, you acquire the academic foundations and methods for engaging with language(s), cultures, language technologies and communication in a reflective manner. In the optional modules, you deal with the following topics:

Language, Thinking, Action module:

• Language and organisation
• Language, subject and identity
• Language and international business  

Transdisciplinary Project Design module:

• Tech literacy
• Accessible communication  
• Creative content creation

Research Project Design module:

• Data collection: user-centred design methods, survey and questionnaires, interviews and focus groups, corpus construction
• Data analysis: statistics (quantitative data analysis), coding (qualitative data analysis), corpus analysis  

Leadership & Change Management module:

• Strategic marketing
• Professional ethics  
• Intercultural mediation

Master’s thesis:

For your Master’s thesis, you choose a current topic from the world of practice, develop research-based solutions and, in doing so, shape your own individual competence profile.