Freshmen’s CL Curriculum: The Benefits of Redundancy

In the course of the European Bologna accord on higher education, German universities have been reorganizing their traditional ”Magister” and ”Diplom” studies into modularized bachelor’s and master’s programs. This revision provides a chance to update the programs. In this paper we introduce the curriculum of a first semester B.A. program in Computational Linguistics which was taught for the first time last semester. In addition, we analyze the syllabi of four mandatory courses of the first semester to identify overlapping content which led to redundancies. We suggest for future semesters to reorganize the schedules in a way that students encounter recurring topics iteratively in a constructive way.