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Important Information for Students

This page lists important announcements concerning study and examination regulations in English linguistics, as well as links to further information and services provided by JLU for its students.

If you have any questions concerning your course of study in the field of English linguistics, please get in touch with your respective study advisor.

Resits and compensatory exams


If you are in a modularized course of study and have failed one of your courses, please consider these notes (in German) on resits and compensatory exams in English linguistics.

  • This applies to: B.A. students, M.A. students, students in modularized TEFL courses

Credit in advanced modules


From summer semester 2012, B.A. students in advanced modules will have to choose the seminar they want to have credit for at the beginning of the semester. Please note these regulations (in German).

  • This applies to: B.A. students who began an advanced module (Vertiefungsmodul) in the summer semester 2012 or later

Registration for final exams / theses


For your final examinations and your final theses in linguistics you need to register directly with the respective examiner.

A list of the potential examiners and information on how to register can be found here.

  • This applies to: BA, MA and Staatsexamen candidates

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Theses for the BA ICB/Anglophone Studies degree course


The examiners in English Linguistics are only able to supervise a limited number of theses per year each. For BA theses, the limit is 25 per year and examiner. A list of possible examiners can be found here. Please refer to your respective study plan and module description for more information on when to write your BA thesis.

You need to download the relevant documents for registration from the website of the Akademisches Prüfungsamt Geisteswissenschaften.