Curriculum

The Bachelor of Education English consists of five core areas of study:

•  Literary Studies
•  Cultural Studies
•  Linguistics
•  Academic English

and

•  Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Our B.Ed. students are trained in the main disciplines of the subject English.

Literary and Cultural Studies, Linguistics and Academic English are the individual areas of study in the subject-specific part of the programme. Academic English focuses on advancing students’ language skills of spoken and written English. Graduates of our programme usually attain a C1, partly even a C2, level of proficiency in the English language according to the Common European Framework for Languages (CEFR). Linguistics deals with language as a system (phonetics/ phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics), language as a means of communication (pragmatics, socio- and psycholinguistics, language acquisition) and the historical development of English. In Literary and Cultural Studies, students learn to explore and analyze literary and cultural texts (including modern media such as photography or film and digital media) from Great Britain, North America and the postcolonial Anglophone regions within their specific socio-historical contexts.

Our B.Ed. students are prepared for the challenges of teaching English as a foreign language.

Our programme connects subject-specific knowledge with the demands of the classroom. The field of Teaching English as a Foreign Language as the teaching-related part of the programme presents and applies theories, models and concepts of teaching language, literature and media as well as empirical research in the field of education. The Bachelor curriculum in Teaching English as a Foreign Language encourages students to reflect upon the practical consequences of their theoretical knowledge in preparation for their obligatory school internship (Schulpraxissemester) in the Master of Education.

From the winter term 2020/21 onwards, Bachelor of Education students may obtain credits from the Master of Education in their final semesters of the B.Ed. to organize their studies – especially in the trasition period between the B.Ed. and the M.Ed. – in a more flexible way.

In the Master of Education, students may also pursue studies in a third subject (Erweiterungsfach). English may only be studied as a major. The corresponding module handbook, which is designed as a special version of the handbook for the Master of Education English, offers an overview of all the modules for the third subject English (M.Ed. Erweiterungsfach Englisch Hauptfachumfang). Students in the Bachelor of Education from the third semester onwards may earn credits that will then count towards the Master of Education in their third subject (Vorleistungen Erweiterungsfach).

The University's special website on the third subject in the Bachelor and Master of Education and the info page on the third subject of the Tübingen School of Education provide comprehensive general information on the third subject within the Bachelor/ Master of Education programme structure and the process of enrolment or application. They also offer guidance and advice for students interested in the third subject in the Bachelor/ Master of Education programme in their special office hours for students in a teaching degree.

The Tübingen School of Education offers so-called Infoblätter on all relevant issues regarding the B.Ed. study program including the option to study an Erweiterungsfach.