Erasmus+

Students interested in going abroad should retain the 15 ECTS Alternative Extensions (Alternative Erweiterungen) open, as these are the easiest to replace.

Courses should be selected from the second and third years of the host university’s programme. Especially in English-speaking countries, modules tend to be bigger than in Vienna (courses may have 7.5, 10 or at times even 15 ECTS). Course splitting for recognition is often done, provided the content allows it. Usually, half of the ECTS will go to a mandatory course, the rest to Alternative Extensions. Sometimes two mandatory courses can be credited, e.g. a big course covering both literary and cultural studies content.

Courses that can usually be recognised: 

• LIU 2
• PS Linguistics 2
• History of English
• Culture, Society and the Media
• Critical Media Analysis
• Critical Readings in Literature 
• PS Literary/Cultural studies
• Alternative Extensions

Courses that can sometimes be recognised, though equivalents are harder to be found:

• EPCO
• PPOCS 2
• ISL 2
• Literature Survey 1/2
• Introduction to Cultural Theories

Courses that cannot be taken abroad:

• STEOP
• ILSS 1/2
• LIU 1
• PPOCS 1
• PS Linguitics 1
• BA Seminar courses

Our Erasmus+ agreements are with English and Linguistics Departments, but not with Teacher Education colleges. For this reason, usually only literature, cultural studies and linguistics courses (plus electives) can be replaced by comparable modules abroad.

For Teacher Education students going abroad, the recognized ECTS from all areas of their studies will be accepted by the International Office: both subjects and education/pedagogy. Theoretically, this is good news; in practice, things depend on whether students can find and be admitted to suitable modules in their second subject and in pedagogy/education. THEREFORE: B.Ed. students wishing to do Erasmus: SAVE YOUR 10 ECTS Electives! 

In the UK and in Ireland, modules tend to be bigger than in Vienna (modules have 7.5, 10 or even 15 ECTS), which will limit the number of modules you will be able to select and makes recognition more difficult. Big modules will usually be split between a mandatory course and Electives. 

Courses that can usually be recognised: 

• Critical Media Analysis
• Critical Readings in Literature 
• PS Linguistics
• PS Literary/Cultural studies
• one of the VK courses (where you do not write your BEd paper)
• all electives

Courses/modules that can sometimes be recognised, though equivalents are harder to be found:

• EPCO
• UF EN 04

Courses/modules that cannot be taken abroad:

• STEOP
• ILSS 1/2
• LIU 1
• PPOCS 1

• the entire didactics area: UF EN 05, UF EN 11, UF EN 07

• one of the two VK courses (Where you write your BEd paper)

It is recommended that you go abroad during your Bachelor's if English is your long subject, and during the MEd, if it is your short subject, since you'll need courses from Block II to be able to get enough ECTS. 

Our Erasmus+ agreements are with English and Linguistics Departments, but not with Teacher Education colleges. For this reason, usually only literature, cultural studies and linguistics courses can be replaced by comparable modules abroad.

For Teacher Education students going abroad, the recognized ECTS from all areas of their studies will be accepted by the International Office: both subjects and education/pedagogy. Theoretically, this is good news; in practice, things depend on whether students can find and be admitted to suitable modules in their second subject and in pedagogy/education.

In the UK and in Ireland, modules tend to be bigger than in Vienna (modules have 7.5, 10 or even 15 ECTS), which will limit the number of modules you will be able to select and makes recognition more difficult. 

Modules / courses that can usually be done abroad: 

• EN 03
• PS Linguistics
• PS Literary and Cultural studies
• UE Genre and Multimodal Communication
• one of the two KUs from module EN12

None of our UK and Ireland Erasmus+ programmes offer access to graduate programmes (in these countries MA level courses are only accessible to fee-paying students). 
However, SPL Anglistik does accept and recognize higher-level undergraduate courses for our MA courses. 

UK / Irland: courses should be chosen preferably from Year Two and Year Three 

Continental Europe: only MA level courses should be selected

In general, "Introduction to ..."-courses should never be taken by MA students, unless they deal with a special and advanced topic which is relevant to your personal focus (e.g. your MA thesis). 

As with other programmes, courses can most easily be credited for “option” modules, such as Module 3 (Electives) and Module 5 (Extension) in the Master curriculum. However, one of the seminars of Module 4 can also be replaced. Modules 1, 2 and 6 should be completed in Vienna. 

None of our UK and Ireland Erasmus+ programmes offer access to graduate programmes (in these countries MA level courses are only accessible to fee-paying students). However, SPL Anglistik does accept and recognize higher-level undergraduate courses for our MA courses. 

UK / Irland: courses must  be chosen from Year Two and Year Three 

Continental Europe: only MA level courses should be selected

In general, "Introduction to ..."-courses should never be taken by MA students, unless they deal with a special and advanced topic which is relevant to your personal focus, or your MA thesis - e.g. Introduction to 20^th Century Philosophy if your thesis topics deals with literature and philosophy. 

As with other programmes, courses can most easily be credited for “option” modules, like Module 3 (both Literary and Cultural Studies topics need to be covered) and Module 5.  One of the seminars of Module 4 can also be replaced. Modules 1, 2 and 6 should be completed in Vienna. 

Fitting an exchange semester into the M.Ed. UF English is difficult. The Modules UF MA EN 02, UF MA EN 05 and the thesis cannot be recognized. This is also true for the two advanced Language Competence classes, UE Mediation and Genre Analysis for English Teachers (MAGNET) and UE Advanced Speaking Skills for English Teachers (ASSET) (3 and 2 ECTS, respectively). 

Courses that can typically be easily replaced:

• VO or AR Literatures (in English) (alternatively: VO or AR Cultural Studies)
• VO Communication, Code and Culture (has to be a linguistics class!!) or AR Advanced course in Linguistics

Sometimes courses equilvalent to the following courses can also be found:

•  VK Specific Issues in Language Learning and Teaching (a didactics-oriented class)
• Applied Research Seminar (can have a topic in linguistics, literature or cultural studies, but has to include a research focus)

Fitting an exchange semester into the M.Ed. UF English is very difficult, and only really feasible if you still have Block II open (i.e. you've chosen English as your short subject during your BEd studies). 

The only courses that can be recognised are:

• Text, Genre and Discourse in Language Teaching
• Genre and Multimodal Communicaltion
• One of the KUs from EN 02
• EN 04

We recommend doing an exchange semester at a continental European university, since they are more likely to offer classes dealing with educational linguistics / didactics of English