University Continuing Education Programme
German as a Foreign Language / German as a Second Language Basic Programme - currently under revision!
German as a foreign or second language is taught in very different contexts. As a teacher, you will benefit in particular from a practice-orientated and at the same time scientifically sound education when dealing with the highly complex requirements. In the university degree programme, you will acquire the knowledge and skills to promote learner-centred, autonomous, life-long language learning and to stimulate pluricultural learning processes.
The curriculum for the training programme for academic experts is currently being revised.
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Degree
Graduation certificate
Duration/ECTS-Credits
part-time
The curriculum is currently under revision
Study Code
tba
Start
WS 2025/26 (planned with the new curriculum)
Language
German
Cost
tba
Curriculum (Valid until 30.09.2025)
The right programme for me?
Qualification profile
Graduates gain professional and social competences in the areas of:
- Methodology and didactics of foreign and second language teaching
- Language acquisition
- German linguistics
- Psychology of learning
- Foreignness and migration
- Literary didactics
- Interculturality
- Presentation and moderation techniques
Target group
(Future) teachers of German as a Foreign and Second Language.
Requirements
- graduates of a philological university study programme
- graduates of a Bachelor’s teacher training programme in the subject of German or another living language
- applicants, who are qualified for entering a university and who have proof of at least five years of experience in teaching German as a Foreign Language and/or German as a Second Language amounting to a total of at least 450 hours.
Participation in the university continuing education courses requires the admission as a non-degree student
Contact
Samrawit Araya
Division for continuing education
Karl-Schönherr-Straße 3
6020 Innsbruck
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Monika Dannerer
Department of German Studies
Dr. Ulrike Aenne Charlotte Arras
Tobias Sebastian Bertel, M.A.
Mag. Brigitte Fuchs
Mag. Julia Königs, BEd
Mag. Mag. Dr. Johann Georg Lughofer
Mag. Jens Nicklas, MA
Mag. Anna Passler
Dott.ssa mag. Kerstin Pramstaller. LLM
Mag. Dr. Gabriele Emma Ribis, BEd
Mag. Paul Rusch
Dr. Annegret Schmidjell
Dr. habil. Cordula Schwarze
Mag. Mag. Verena Sperk
Mag. Dr. Margareta Anna Strasser
Dr. Nadja Thoma
Mag. Denis Weger, MA
Dates
tba
Location
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 52
6020 Innsbruck
Admission Requirements
Persons meeting the following prerequisites can be admitted to the programme:
- graduates of a philological university study programme home or abroad,
- graduates of a Bachelor’s teacher training programme in the subject of German or another living language at a teacher training college, teacher training academy or university home or abroad,
- students, who have passed at least the first diploma exam of a philological study programme home or abroad and can proof having successfully passed courses corresponding to at least 60 ECTS-Credits in the fields of linguistics and/or foreign language didactics and other subject-specific courses of the second part of the studies corresponding to at least 60 ECTS-Credits,
- applicants, who are qualified for entering a university and who have proof of at least five years of experience in teaching German as a Foreign Language and/or German as a Second Language amounting to a total of at least 450 hours (corresponding to 600 teaching units of 45 minutes each or 540 units of 50 minutes each).
- In justified cases, people can be admitted who have the required skills due to their professional work, experience and achievements. This is particularly the case for people who can demonstrate at least ten years of relevant professional experience, also including managerial work.
Generally all applicants must have basic knowledge in the fields of the German linguistics and modern German literature.
Persons, the mother tongue of whom is not German, must proof knowledge of the German language. This proof can be: completion of a study programme in German Philology at an approved post-secondary educational institution, completion of a philological study programme at an approved post-secondary educational institution of the German-speaking area,a school leaving certificate from a school with German as language of tuition, internationally approved certificates of at least C1-level of the Common European Reference Frame (CERF).
Modules
- Methodic-Didactic Fundamentals
- Compulsory Module: Linguistic Fundamentals
- Methodic-Didactic Skills I
- Cultural Skills
- German as a Second Language and Multilingualism
- Methodic-Didactic Skills II
Final Thesis
- Each participant of the continuing education programme must hand in a written paper amounting to 7.5 ECTS-Credits.
- The final thesis must be written on a theme covered in modules 1 – 6 and is supervised and evaluated by the lecturer of the respective course.
- Participants are entitled to suggest a supervisor from the available course lecturers to the course director in writing. The course director confirms the suggestion within a month of the receipt of the announcement if the suggested course lecturer can take on the supervision.
Enrolment
Registration is currently possible.
General Information for the Registration for Continuing Education Programmes
Participation in the university continuing education courses requires the admission as a non-degree student.