Program Level:
Masters
Location:
V. Putvinskio str.
LT-44248,
Lithuania
Program Size:
Medium
Financial Support:
Some scholarships are offered by Lithuanian, German, Swedish, or Estonian government programmes that provide financial support to cover study, mobility, and living expenses. SoMu students will have an opportunity to apply for Erasmus mobility grants both in Kaunas and in Mainz.
Description:
Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism (or SoMu) is an international joint-degree Master study program. It is co-organized by Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania), Johannes-Gutenberg University (Mainz, Germany), Stockholm University (Sweden), and the University of Tartu (Estonia).
/L/The program familiarizes students with the general key theories and methods of sociolinguistics as well as offers a new and wider perspective and understanding of multilingualism.
/L/Studying abroad is compulsory, and students have to spend equally long study periods in three universities in three different countries. Thus multilingualism is not only studied theoretically; it is also experienced practically as the students acquire competencies in two international languages and at least two lesser-used and taught languages. The first semester is taught in Kaunas, the second in Mainz, for the third semester students choose between Stockholm and Tartu, and the fourth semester students stay at the university of their M.A. Thesis main supervisor.
Application Deadline:
June, 2022
Program Contact:
Dr.
Jurgita
Vaičenonienė
Contact Email:
[email protected]