Language, literature, and culture, that is what Masterlanguage is all about. The courses are taught in your target language, helping you to increase your proficiency even further.
Masterlanguage features courses in German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, and Classical Languages (Greek & Latin).
Curious? Click here for the course catalogue.
Registration
Masterlanguage courses take place in the second half of the first semester (November-January), and the first half of the second semester (February-April). Lectures are always scheduled on Fridays.
For the academic year 2025-2026 the following enrollment periods apply:
Semester 1
12 June 2025 until 22 September 2025
Semester 2
27 October 2025 up until 12 January 2026
Click here to read more about registration procedures.
What is Masterlanguage?
Are you looking for inspiring courses in and about your favourite language? Do you love examining language and culture from a variety of perspectives? Would you like to follow courses given by experts at different universities? If so, Masterlanguage is the programme for you.
Masterlanguage is a nationally organised course programme for master’s students in language and literature studies. If you are earning your master’s at one of the participating universities, you can take a Masterlanguage course as an elective.
What does Masterlanguage offer?
Masterlanguage makes nation-wide expertise broadly available, thereby offering the highest quality of academic education to language and literature students throughout the Netherlands.
What sets apart Masterlanguage education is its interdisciplinary orientation, which brings together linguistics, literature studies, cultural studies, and didactics. Furthermore, Masterlanguage offers courses focused on education itself, which highlight and elucidate the function of language education in a broad and contemporary societal context.
Masterlanguage features courses in German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Latin, and Greek. With exception of the classical languages, classes are taught in the target language, helping you to increase your proficiency even further.
The advantages of Masterlanguage
- An additional opportunity to deepen and broaden your master’s.
- Courses feature an interdisciplinary orientation, bringing together linguistics, literature studies, cultural studies, communication and didactics.
- Courses on offer that focus on education itself and its societal impact, in which you concern yourself with the future of language education.
- You will be taking classes with motivated students from other universities, making Masterlanguage an excellent opportunity to enrich your professional network.
- Additional deepening and broadening activities, such as cultural excursions in the Netherlands and abroad, research seminars, and guest lectures by international experts and professionals.
Want to know more?
Inspired? Read more about the courses on offer here. Want to know more about the practical aspects of the Masterlanguage programme? Read more about how Masterlanguage works here.
Where and when?
Masterlanguage education takes place at one of the participating universities. That could be your home university, but sometimes you will have to travel to a different city. Fortunately, in the Netherlands, no city is ever really far away! If you are not in possession of a student travel product, you can get reimbursed for your travel expenses.
Masterlanguage courses always take place on Fridays; that way, classes are easy to schedule for everyone involved.
Want to know more about the practical aspects of Masterlanguage? Read more here.