OLD Bachelor's Program Teacher Training: English

General Information

For general information about the bachelor’s program Teacher Training: English, please click here. You can find the relevant parts of the curriculum here . Jump to page 90 to see all the courses you need to take in the subject English.

Course Registration

You must register via LFU:online within the desgignated registration period:

• Winter term: September 1 to 21
• Summer term: February 1 to 21

Please note:

• When signing up, please make sure that you have completed any required prerequisites courses. You can find information on prerequisites in the same place where you access the course details and register.
• Course acceptance is not on a first-come, first-served basis. Places are allocated only after the registration period has ended, at which point lecturers determine acceptance.

Equivalent Courses

Starting with the Winter Semester 2026/27, only a small number of courses from the old curriculum will continue to be offered. In most cases, teaching will be based on the new curriculum.

For technical reasons, the old curriculum will remain available as a separate curriculum section in the course catalogue. You can therefore still access the old curriculum and view the courses listed under it. However, many course titles have changed as part of the curriculum revision. In some cases, a course listed under the old curriculum corresponds directly to a course in the new curriculum and differs only in title. In other cases, a course may appear under its former title and course type in the catalogue while actually being taught as the equivalent course in the new curriculum.

Exam Registration and Dates for Lectures (VO)

These lectures are from the old curriculum and will not be offered in future semesters. Instead of the VO Introduction to American Literary Studies, you need to take the VO American Cultural Studies. The VO American Literature and Culture will still appear in the course catalogue but will actually be the SE Spezialisierung in Amerikastudien (see the explanation under "Equivalent Courses" above).

Bachelor's Thesis

To complete the bachelor’s program, you need to submit one bachelor’s thesis in each teaching subject and/or specialization. This means that, if one of your subjects is English, you need to write one bachelor’s thesis in English. This thesis is written as part of a course but nonetheless in addition to all the other course work. The course instructor is also your thesis supervisor.

You can choose to write your bachelor’s thesis in one the following courses:

• PS American Literature
• PS Critical Area Studies: American Cultures
• PS Cultural Studies: American Cultures
• PS British and/or Postcolonial Literature
• PS Critical Area Studies: British and Anglophone Cultures
• PS Cultural Studies: British and Anglophone Cultures
• PS The Acquisition of English in a Multilingual Context
• PS Systemic and/or Applied English Linguistics
• PS Learning/Teaching Languages
• SE Learning/Teaching Languages
• VU Introduction to Testing and Assessing in Teaching Foreign Languages
• UE Language-Specific Course for Testing and Assessing English
• VU Selected Aspects for Advanced Study of the Introduction to Testing and Assessing in Foreign Language Teaching

Please note: It is important to ask the course instructors whether they can supervise your thesis. You can do this via email before the semester starts or during the first course session.

A bachelor's thesis is 20 to 27 pages (double-spaced, from "Introduction" to "Conclusion") in length and is equivalent to 5 ECTS-credits. Theses must be written in English and include the "Declaration of Academic Integrity" ("Eidesstattliche Erklärung)." 

If your thesis supervisor is a member of the Department of American Studies, they will assess your thesis according to the "Assessment Criteria for Bachelor's Theses (Department of American Studies)." Make sure to send the completed form "Proof of bachelor's thesis" ("Nachweis über die Bachelorarbeit") along with your thesis, which your thesis supervisor will submit to the "Prüfungsreferat."

The thesis has to have a cover page that includes the following information: student name, student registration number, name of the course instructor, course title, semester of course attendance, and date of submission.

For information regarding citation style, formatting, submission deadlines, and the like, contact your thesis supervisor and follow their instructions precisely. 

If your supervisor assesses your thesis as insufficient (5 – Nicht Genügend), you must again enroll in a suitable course (see above) and write and submit a new thesis.