Abstract
The Bologna reform initiated some reforms in the Czech German studies. Generally speaking, the reforms aimed at creating a unified European educational space with comparable standards, at supporting the mobility of students, and at creating more practically oriented programs that would improve the position of the graduates in the labour market.
Main topics: - current situation of the curricular reform of the German studies and of German as a foreign language (contents, standards, quality of education etc.) - changes of the interest in German studies and/versus in concrete profession (German as a foreign language - further education of teachers, business German, German for lawyers, translation etc.) - development of new methods in German linguistics, literary science and didactics - their application to teaching