Schematic outline
The two-year programme (120 EC) is taught on a full-time basis and starts once a year, around 1 September. In the programme overview below, the courses marked in bold are only open to and compulsory for all students of the research master.
| Year 1, Fall semester | Credits (EC) |
| Foundations of Language and Communication | 6 |
| Corpus and Experimental Methods | 6 |
| Research Orientation | 3 |
| Two specialization courses | 12 |
| Skills/methods course | 3 |
| Total | 30 |
| Year 1, Spring semester | |
| Lab Rotation I | 6 |
| Term Paper | 6 |
| Two specialization courses | 12 |
| Skills/methods course(s) | 6 |
| Total | 30 |
| Year 2, Fall semester | |
| Lab Rotation II | 9 |
| Grant Proposal Writing | 6 |
| Valorization A | 3 |
| Master's Thesis | 3 |
| One specialization course | 6 |
| Skills/methods course | 3 |
| Total | 30 |
| Year 2, Spring semester | |
| Master Thesis (cont.) | 27 |
| Valorization B | 3 |
| Total | 30 |