List of Requirements
| No Specialization | ||||
| Courses | Hours | Credit Points | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Core Courses | |||
| 1st Core Course | Foundations of Language Science and Technology | 4lec 2ex | 9 | must be graded |
| 2nd Core Course | Core course in any area | 2lec 2ex | 6 | must be graded |
| 3rd Core Course | Core course in any area | 2lec 2ex | 6 | must be graded |
| 4th Core Course | Core course in any area | 2lec 2ex | 6 | must be graded |
| Total | 27 | |||
| 2 | Additional Courses with ≥48 CP, consisting of | |||
| a | Courses from any area of Language Science and Technology | ≥33 | ≥38 CP of the courses in 2 must be graded; thus you can determine a total of ≤10 CP from these courses to count as ungraded. | |
| b | Courses from Computer Science and/or Cognitive Psychology - a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 15 CP | 8-15 | ||
| c | Courses in 2a+b must include a seminar (presentation and paper) | 7 | must be graded | |
| d | In one of the courses in 2a-c (preferably in a seminar) one oral exam has to be taken | |||
| Total | ≥48 | |||
| 3 | Master Seminar | 12 | ungraded; must result in a thesis prospectus; 3rd semester | |
| 4 | Colloquium | 3 | oral presentation of main points of M.Sc. thesis; must be graded | |
| 5 | Master's Thesis | 30 | 4th semester | |
| Total | ≥120 | |||
Sample Study Schedule
This schedule serves only as an example. Your own schedule may deviate from this except for the obligatory core course(s), providing the requirements of your specialization are satisfied and depending on the availability of courses.| Semester | Core Courses | Core Courses | Specialization Courses (non-core courses) (min. 9 Pts.) |
Additional Courses (core courses or other; 8-15 Pts. from Computer Science and/or Cognitive Psychology) |
points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1 (Winter) |
Foundations of Language Science and Technology (CL) 9 Pts. |
Computational Psycholinguistics (CP) 6 Pts. |
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence 9 Pts. Speech Technology (SS&T) 6 Pts. |
30 Pts. | |
|
2 (Summer) |
Experimental Methods (CP) 6 Pts. |
Digital Signal Processing (SS&T) 3 Pts. Seminar 7 Pts. |
Seminar: Language Technology and Cognitive Systems (CP) 7 Pts. Course in Cognitive Psychology 6 Pts. |
29 Pts. | |
|
3 (Winter) |
Master Seminar 12 Pts. |
Speech Science (SS&T) 6 Pts. |
Seminar: Human Speech Processing (CP) 7 Pts. |
Bilingual Processing (CP) 3 Pts. |
28 Pts. |
|
4 (Winter) |
Master's Thesis 30 Pts. |
Colloquium 3 Pts. |
33 Pts. | ||
Legend
| Courses | lec | Lecture |
| ex | Excercise | |
| Areas | L | Linguistics |
| CL | Computational Linguistics | |
| CP | Computational Psycholinguistics | |
| LT | Language Technology | |
| SS&T | Speech Science & Technology |