B.A. African Literary and Cultural Studies - General Information

Please use only your official University email address when communicating with the lecturers, when joining the mailing lists and when sending important announcements (e.g., the provision of digital resources such as text scans, information about examination deadlines, event information etc).

Your registration for a course within African Literary and Cultural Studies obliges you to comply with the following ground rules:

Compulsory attendance in the course:
Lecturers must be notified of any absences before the session. If you miss more than two sessions, you will not receive your grade for this course.

Preparation for the sessions:
Each session requires knowing the texts. If participants are not prepared for the session, this will be counted as an absence. You may also be excluded from the session.

Deadlines for term papers:
As a rule, there is a submission deadline for term papers set at the end of the respective semester for all courses in African Literary and Cultural Studies

We wish to expressly impress upon our students that plagiarism in relation to academic work (i.e., term papers, presentations, etc.) is a serious offence. The discovery of such cases can have far-reaching consequences, up to and including deregistration. This also applies if a submitted work is only recognised as plagiarism in hindsight.

Plagiarism indicates inadequate engagement with the topic nor the acquisition of academic skills, which also includes developing the ability to express yourself in writing.  The relationship of trust with your lecturers will be severely affected.

In order to highlight the importance of independent work, each academic work submitted to the faculty must contain the following declaration, signed by the student: