International

1. The student must be nominated by their home institution.
2. Upon nomination the student will receive an invitation to apply by e-mail.
3. The student must fill and submit follow documents to Cornelia Lorenz:
   • Application Form,
   • Registration Form for foreign guest students and Application for the uniCard (with photo),
   • Online Learning Agreement (Please write the Departmental Coordinator at your faculty here at HoMe as responsible person in your Learning Agreement.)
   • Transcript of records,
   • Copy of the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC).
4. Exchange students will receive their result of admission within 4 – 6 weeks after the deadline.

For the winter term: May 31
For the summer term: November 30

Courses for exchange students are carried out in English and we expect that you have sufficient fluency in English in order to cope with your courses from the start.
If you want to take part courses in German language you are required to have a minimum of Level B1.

The Studentenwerk offers special guest rooms for international students located directly on the university campus (please check our Tips). The rent for a single room per month is approx. € 300, the deposit is € 340.

Please fill in the application form for the dormitory and send by e-mail to Cornelia Lorenz.

 

Skills: Get to know relevant components and systems, their electrical behaviour and rules for their application

Course Content:

•     Solar Cells and Modules
•     Converter Systems
•     Wind Power Systems
•     Biomass Systems
•     Fuel Cell Systems
•     Electric Storage Systems
•     Operation of Decentralized Fed Electric Grids

Requirements: Basics of Electrical Engineering, Electric Power Systems
Type of Exams: Oral exam
Credits: 2
Teaching Hours per Week: 2 SWS
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jörg Scheffler

Skills: VHDL and FPGA programming
Course Content: VHDL, design and simulation and programming
Requirements: Digital circuit design, understand programmable logic
Type of Exams: Documentation (app. 20 - 25 pages) and 20 min lecture
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Steffen Becker

Skills:

• Foundations of the physical chemistry of polymers and their characterization methods
• Overview of analytical techniques for polymers
• Learning to perform basic polymer analyses using different techniques
• Writing of scientific reports

The students should be able to apply and evaluate the basic principles of polymer characterization method.

Course Content (Lecture):

• Statistical treatment of analytical data
• Special chromatographic techniques for the investigation of polymers and polymer additives
• Principles and instrumental parameters in molecule spectroscopy (IR- and Raman spectroscopy)
• Thermal analytical methods for the characterization of chemical and physical properties of polymers
• Basic principles of analytical chemistry
• Chemical equation, Stoichiometry

Course Content (Lab course):

• Extraction of additives and analysis of extracts and residual. monomers by GC/MS
• Elastomer characterization by TMA
• Qualitative analysis of polymers and copolymers by FTIR spectroscopy (MIR or NIR)
• Mn of polymers by vapour pressure osmometry or membrane osmometry

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Written exam
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Dr. Günter Reinhold

Skills: The students will get enhanced knowledge in the field of modern digital mobile communications. After the course they are able to:

• Describe the tasks and background of the current digital mobile communication standards,
• Name the main network elements and their function and
• Denote the fundamental principles, algorithms and protocols of these standards.

Course Content:

• Introduction in mobile communication concepts
• GSM system for mobile communication
• 3rd generation system - UMTS
• Efficient packet data transfer with HSPA
• LTE as a 4th generation system

Requirements: Basics in communications systems, Principles of computer networks
Type of Exams: Oral examination (30 minutes)
Credits: 2.5
Teaching Hours per Week: 2
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jens Mückenheim

Skills:

• Basic theoretical and advanced experimental methodic knowledge of piezoelectric transducers
• Development, setup and characterization of ultrasound transducers for typical applications
• Basic knowledge of measurement and simulation of mechanical and electrical properties of piezoelectric sensors and actuators

Course Content:

• Fundamentals of piezoelectricity, piezoelectric materials, design and modelling of (ultra-)sound transducers, simulation and measurement of (ultra-)sound fields, piezoelectric actuators
• Seminar: current sensor developments
• Practical course: construction of an ultrasound transducer incl. design, setup characterization and application test

Requirements: Physics I, Physics II (Sensor Technology recommended)
Type of Exams: Oral examination, written protocol/seminar paper
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Klaus-V. Jenderka

Skills:

• Acquiring perspectives for the work as a polymer scientist or polymer engineer
• Acquiring a basic knowledge about testing polymer materials
• Practical skills for mechanical and physical testing of polymer materials

Course Content (Lecture):

• Basics of melt flow
• Extrusion
• Injection molding
• Spinning, foaming
• Elastomer processing
• Processing tires
• Blown film extrusion
• Recycling of polymer materials

Course Content (Polymer Processing Lab):

• Extrusion
• Injection molding
• Elastomer processing
• Blown film extrusion

Requirements: Basic knowledge about polymer materials
Type of Exams:

• Completion of lab course protocols
• Written exam

Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. M. Feldmann

Skills:

• Acquiring perspectives for the work as a polymer scientist or polymer engineer
• Acquiring a basic knowledge about testing polymer materials
• Practical skills for mechanical and physical testing of polymer materials

Course Content (Lecture):

• Elastic, visco-elastic and plastic deformation behaviour of polymer materials and phenomenological models, quasi-static test methods of polymer materials (tensile, compression, bending), hardness measurement and test methods, charpy impact test

Instrumented impact tests as methods for toughness characterisations of polymer materials, Fracture mechanic concepts for polymer materials

Course Content (Polymer Testing Lab):

• Content item: characterisation of elastic properties, tensile test, bend test, ball indentation test, Charpy impact test, drop weight test, tensile impact test

Requirements: Knowledge about polymer materials
Type of Exams:

• Completion of lab course protocols
• Written exam

Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Beate Langer

Skills: Students will acquire basics concerning chemistry for engineers. After the course the students will:

• have a basic understanding about atomic model, chemical bonds, chemical processes,
• have an overview about inorganic, organic, physical and analytical chemistry,
• understand basics about chemical structure formula.

Course Content:
Basics: structure of matter, periodic table of the elements

Basics of: inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, analytical chemistry, techniques in a chemical laboratory

Requirements: none

Type of Exam: written examination (120 min)

Credits: 5

Teaching Hours per Week: 4

Lecturer: Prof. Dr.  Valentin Cepus

Skills: After taking this class, students should be able to:

• Interpret logical and mathematical symbols,
• Apply scalar products and cross products in geometry,
• Solve linear systems of equations and find eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices,
• Calculate limits of functions,
• Be able to differentiate elementary functions,
• Use derivatives in optimization problems,
• Give Taylor series to given functions,
• Use Riemann sums to find the area under a curve,
• Recognize the connection between derivatives and integrals (Fundamental Theorem of Calculus),
• Apply simple methods of integration (integration by parts,substitution, partial fractions),
• Find extremal points of functions of several variables.

Course Content:

• Logic and Symbols,
• Basics of linear algebra (e.g. vectors, matrices, scalar products, vector products),
• Systems of linear equations,
• Eigenvalues, eigenvectors,
• Limits and continuity,
• Rules of differentiation,
• Optimization using differentiation,
• Riemannian sums,
• Area under curves,
• Fundamental Theorem of Calculus,
• Methods of integration (integration by parts, substitution, partial fractions),
• Multidimensional functions,
• Extremal points of functions of several variables

Requirements: none

Type of Exam: written examination (120 min)

Credits: 5

Teaching Hours per Week: 4

Lecturer: Dr. Benjamin Wacker

Skills:

Course Content:

Requirements: none

Type of Exam:

Credits: 5

Teaching Hours per Week: 4

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Klaus V. Jenderka

Skills:

Course Content:

Requirements: none

Type of Exam:

Credits: 5

Teaching Hours per Week: 4

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Beate Langer

Skills:

Course Content:

Requirements: none

Type of Exam:

Credits: 5

Teaching Hours per Week: 4

Lecturer: Ulrich Borchert

Skills:

• Classification of the engineering materials concerning their structure and chemical composition
• Recognition and abstraction of the coherences between structure and properties of metals
• Knowledge and applicability of the coherences shown in the iron-carbon diagram
• Execution of basic test in the field of engineering material
• Handling with scientific literature during self-study

Course Content:

• Classification of engineering materials
• States of solid objects
• Ideal crystals
• Real crystals
• Classy state and state of super cooled melt
• Alloy formation
• Fe-C-alloys and the iron-carbon diagram
• Material testing
• Fundamental lab courses concerning materials engineering

Requirements: none

Type of Exam: written examination (90 min)

Credits: 5

Teaching Hours per Week: 4

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Beate Langer

Skills:

Course Content:

Requirements: none

Type of Exam:

Credits: 5

Teaching Hours per Week: 4

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jonas Fischer

Skills:

• The students can handle the basics of thermodynamics.
• The students are able to balance energies and losses caused by energy transfer processes.
• The students are able to apply the laws of thermodynamics to simple processes of energy conversion/ heat transfer and study basic engineering via analytical solving of equations
• by creating simple spreadsheets using the start value - Goal Seek
• by using diagrams in combination with reference books.

Course Content:

• modeling, systems, status and process variables
• thermal equation of state , internal energy and enthalpy of the ideal
• conservation of energy, heat, work
• reversible and irreversible processes, entropy, exergy
• transfer of heat by conduction, radiation and convection
• complex transfer of heat, heat transition , thermal resistance
• energy conversion , internal combustion and heat engines , steam - power - process, heat pumps with compressors
• thermodynamics of heating and cooling / air-conditioning / humid air

Requirements: none

Type of Exam: written examination (90 min)

Credits: 5

Teaching Hours per Week: 4

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Bendix

Skills:

Course Content:

Requirements: none

Type of Exam:

Credits: 5

Teaching Hours per Week: 4

Lecturer: N.N.

Skills: Students develop a basic understanding of current aspects or technologies from the computer-science fields covered by the seminar. They gain basic competences in performing independent research on a given topic and in summarizing and classifying information. They further improve their skills in presenting and discussing their findings and results

Course Content:

• Summarizing and reporting on a chosen topic from the fields of computer networks and programming technology
• Reading and understanding provided and/or self-discovered material (e.g., technical articles, scientific papers)
• Work on a project that is related to the topic
• Discussions on the seminar topics
• Presentation skills

Requirements: foundations in computer networks and reliable programming skills (e.g., advanced programming course). Students may choose between English or German for project work, material/input, presentation and documentation
Type of Exams: oral presentation with group discussion and software prototype
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Sven Karol

Skills: Based on practical and relevant case studies students know and understand:

• the theoretical foundations and fields of application of decision theory as well as basic communication techniques that occur in practice.
• current and future challenges in this context.

           Students will acquire the skills

• to deal critically with basic knowledge and to deepen this knowledge independently;
• to communicate purposefully with others and achieve results together.

Course Content:

• Theoretical foundations of decision theory and communication theory
• Basic elements of a decision model
• Decision under certainty and uncertainty
• Cognitive load in decision-making/ decisions under stress
• Target Costing
• Cost-utility analysis
• Preference matrix
• Analytical Hierarchy Process
• Decision Tress / Expected Value
• Roll Back Approach
• Basics of communication and information
• Body Language
• 4 facets of a message
• How to give and receive feedback
• Structure and Organization of information in companies

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Oral Presentation
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Dr Dirk Förster-Trallo

Skills: Students gain an overview about the development of the globalization with related institutions, common market entry strategies of firms and marketing activities for doing business in other countries.

They learn to understand the drivers of offering products and services in other cultural areas to B2C customers. In the lecture, students will individually examine market entry strategies and doing business of case study companies. They present their research results in the course for discussion. Thus, they learn to define own research topics and examine relevant issues in international business and management.

Course Content:

Globalization and international institutions

• Brief history of globalization
• From GATT to World Trade Organizations
• European Union, Nafta and ASEAN

Market selection and market entry strategies

• Export Management
• Foreign direct investments (FDI)
• Joint Ventures

National Cultures and cultural intelligence
Products and pricing in international markets
Communication in international markets
Sales policy in international markets
Student's presentations

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Oral presentation and seminar thesis
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Doreen Pick

Skills:

• Basic insight into the concepts
• Tasks and methods of Financial Management
• Acquire the methodological skills: to realize financial goals, to make decision, to make processes and to control
• Gain an understanding of the function of Financial Management in organizations and
• Understand the relations with external market participants
• Planning- and controlling techniques and cost management
• Students know and understand:
  • Foundations of International Financial Management
  • The foreign exchange market, exchange rate determination and currency derivatives
  • Foreign exchange exposure and management
  • World financial markets and institutions
  • Financial management of the multinational Firm
  • Managing currency risk
  • Financing international operations
  • International management of working capital

Course Content:

• Foundations of International Financial Management
  • International monetary system and balance of payment
  • Corporate governance around the world
  • Evolution and behavioral definition of multinational corporations
  • Global competition
• Foreign Exchange Market, Exposure and Management
  • Exchange Rate Determination
  • Currency and Derivatives Markets
  • Management of Transaction, Economic and Translation Exposure
• World Financial Markets and Institutions
  • International Banking, Money- , Bond- and Equity Markets
  • Interest Rate, Currency Swaps and Int. Portfolio Investment
• Financial Management of the Multinational Firm
  • Foreign Direct Investment and Cross-Border Acquisitions
  • International Capital Structure, Capital Budgeting, Multinational Cash Management
  • International Trade Finance, Tax Environment and Transfer Pricing
• Managing Currency Risk
  • Translation and Transaction Exposure
  • Economic Exposure
• Financing International Operations
  • International and Domestic Capital Markets
  • International Financial Markets
  • International Cost of Capital
• International Management of Working Capital
  • International Trade Management
  • Financial Management for the Global Enterprise

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Written examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Sven Petersen, Michael Rode

Skills: The students

• can conduct a literature research
• can choose adequate research methods
• can use adequate research methods
• can present their findings on an international conference
• can document their findings in a publishable form

Course Content:

• Theoretical introduction into Mobility especially E-mobility
• Theoretical Introduction into "scientific writing" and "how to make a survey"
• Literature research
• Research for the Case Studies on e-mobility in Merseburg
• Gathering ideas for the improvement of mobility in Merseburg
• Group work
• Workshops, Excursions in and out of Germany

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Seminar paper and presentation
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: irregular; mostly groupwork/self-study
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Dirk Sackmann, Ms. Lößer

Skills: Students develop an understanding of the basic concepts of imperative programming languages and can apply them to create their own programs. After completing this course, students will be able to write smaller programs on their own. They can structure and organize source code, and reuse existing programs from libraries. Further, students are able to use compilers and development environments effectively.

Note: German course! Students may choose between English or German for lecture slides and lab exercises.

Course Content:

• Programming paradigms and abstraction
• Control structures
• Data types
• Functions and recursion
• Memory management
• Basic input and output
• Compiler and development environments
• Labs in the C programming language

Requirements: Solid ability to use a computer, high affinity for IT-related topics, sound motivation and eagerness to learn programming
Type of Exams: Written or oral examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Sven Karol

Skills: Students achieve the ability to conduct data science projects. They learn how to identify and solve underlying problems in typical data science tasks. They get familiar with visual data science tool and use it to solve data science challenges. Students present their results to other participants of the course which increases their presentation and social skills

Course Content:

• Data science process
• Data preparation
• Feature engineering
• Model selection
• Hyperparameter tuning
• Result evaluation
• Data visualization
• Introduction into Visual Data Science Tool

Requirements: none
Type of Exams: Oral presentation and seminar thesis
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Christian Schmeißer

Skills:

Students gain an overview about strategic marketing and the marketing mix of companies. The fundamentals of marketing will be examined with a case study about a real marketing strategy of a company. Different questions will be discussed in the sessions. Similar to the case study, students will do research for their own case study of a company's marketing mix. They present their research results in the course for discussion in front of the course participants. Thus, they learn to define their own research topics, learn to transfer theoretical approaches to practice and they deepen their social and presentation skills. They further practice to write a seminar thesis as part of your course work and thus prepare for the bachelor thesis.

Course Content:

• Introduction
  • Markets and definition of marketing
  • What is a relevant market
  • Market segmentation
• Marketing Strategy
  • Methods for analysing a company‘s situation
  • Market goals
  • Marketing strategy
• Elements of the Marketing mix
  • Product policy
  • Price policy
  • Communication policy
  • Sales and sales management
• Case studies of the students

Requirements: Knowledge of basics of marketing is suggested but not necessary
Type of Exams: Oral presentation and written seminar thesis
Credits: 2.5
Teaching Hours per Week: 2
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Doreen Pick

Skills:

• Knowledge about the field of activities and design options in Supply Chain Management
• Application methods in inventory positioning and lot sizing in the deterministic case and cases of demand uncertainty
• Application of tools and methods in designing supply networks
• Awareness of the requirements of global logistics
• Application of methods in risk management
• Certain methods in risk management in supply networks
• Finding the right pricing strategy for goods facing a changing customer demand in segmented markets

Course Content:

• Inventory management: enhanced static economic lot sizing, newsvendor model, inventory holding policies, dynamic economic lot sizing, risk pooling
• Network planning: locations, capacities, service level
• Supply contracts: make-to-stock and make-to-order decisions, information asymmetry
• Global logistics: risks and chances, risk management
• Smart pricing

Requirements: Basic logistics knowledge on lot sizing and order policies
Type of Exams: Written examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Dirk Sackmann, Ms. Lößer

Skills: You will be able to explain the scope, origins and significance of the management accounting function. Furthermore, you will be able to design an appropriate planning, control and information supply system.

Course Content:

• Review cost accounting
• Marginal accounting
• Bottleneck calculation + deviation analyses
• Anglo-american Costing Systems
• Income statement
• Planning, budgeting + forecasting
• KPIs
• Business consulting

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Written examination
Credits: 2,5
Teaching Hours per Week: 2
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Thomas Rachfall

Skills: In the course, the aspect of "participation in cultural life" in the context of disabilities will be addressed. Barriers are to be identified both in the field of reception of art and in its production. In addition, the museum component will be addressed (presentation and inclusion-oriented art mediation). The art historical terms "Art Brut" and "Outsider Art" will be critically reflected.
The course combines theory (e.g. assistance concepts, empowerment, cultural participation) with practice: In the field of artistic practice, genres will be tested that are particularly suitable for heterogeneous groups.
Type of Exams: Project work
Requirements: Active participation
Credits: 2.5
Teaching Hours per Week: 2; every second tuesday 3:15 – 6:30 p.m.
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Frederik Poppe

Skills/Course content: “How can I help you to get rid of me?” “How could you worsen your situation?” Although rather unusual at a first glance, these questions are an integral part of the standard repertoire of questions used when applying methods, theories, and mindsets of systemic social work. It is a solution and resource-oriented approach, which is of great importance to social work. It is based on a constructivist view of the world as well an understanding that people have “eigensinn” (ownership of their own perspectives), i.e. they are autonomous. In addition to unusual questions, many other tools of systemic social work will be used in this seminar. By taking part in exercises in small groups, participants will get the opportunity to become familiar with the systemic social work approach and explore its effectiveness and benefits. Throughout the four-day course, active participation is the prerequisite for obtaining credits.
Credits: 2.5
Block seminar: 26th, and 27th of May 2023 and 2nd and 3rd of June 2023 – 9:15 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Johannes Herwig-Lempp

Skills/Course content: From the international theatre scene groups with young actresses and actors with a difficult social background are continually emerging. Their chosen topics reflect their own experiences; they do theatre about life and show how they survive through the means of theatre. In doing so they have long crossed the border between social work and artistic production.
In this lesson students learn about different projects from all over the world, the reflect the aesthetic and social dimension and try out practical methods between theatre work and foreign language acquisition.
Type of Exam: Project work
Requirements: Active participation
Credits: 2.5
Teaching Hours per Week: every second Wednesday, 1:30 – 4:45 p.m.
Lecturer: Skadi Konietzka

Skills/Course content: This course serves as a basic approach towards feminist concepts in different contexts. We will talk about the history of feminism as well as contemporary movements. Students are encouraged to explore the different meanings of feminism for their respective field (social work or culture and media education). All genders are encouraged to visit this course!
As an introduction please watch Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies Ted talk on Feminism: youtu.be/hg3umXU_qWc
Type of Exam: Project work
Requirements: Active participation
Credits: 2.5
Teaching Hours per Week: 2; every Wednesday 9:15 – 10:45 a.m. OR 11:00 a.m.  – 12:30 p.m.
Lecturer: Esther Stahl

Skills/Course content: Gender roles are being reproduced by our own behaviour and the behaviour we witness around us as well as in the media. Since online streaming services become ever more important in the socialisation of teenagers and young adults, their role in conveying gender roles or gender fluidity is relevant.
In this seminar we will learn how to dissect different aspects of gender roles by watching different series on the streaming service Netflix.
In order to participate in this seminar you will need access to the streaming service Netflix (maybe you can share the costs with someone else).
Type of Exam: Project work
Requirements: Active participation
Credits: 2.5
Teaching Hours per Week: 2; Wednesday 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. OR Thursday 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Lecturer: Esther Stahl

Skills: Finding ways to understand families and their dynamics, creating solutions with families
Course content: Within the course we will have a look at the following questions:

• How can we talk with children? How can we talk with parents?
• How can we find good hypotheses and good questions? What is a “good question”?
• Which dynamics can we find in families and how to deal with it?
• How can we support families in challenging situations?

Requirements: Active participation
Credits: 2.5
Type of Exam: Project work
Block seminar
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Annika Falkner

Skills: Cf. description of this module
Course content: In this course, we will take a scholarly look at contemporary video games, focusing on the gaming industry, possible applications in media pedagogy, and ideologies of popular games. For this purpose, we will read English-language academic texts and discuss theoretical approaches.
Requirements: The course will be held in English.
Credits: 2.5
Type of Exam: Oral presentation and written paper
Teaching hours per week: Tuesday 3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Stephan Meise

Skills:  In this seminar we learn more about the method and the concept of learning stories, their origin from New Zealand and their possible uses for professional pedagogical action. Students examine the essential My Stories components and evaluate the potential of each component, focusing on the teacher-learner identities while incorporating multiple perspectives. The process of self-reflection would be a very creative one and every student will find a different way to present.
Type of Exams: project work
Requirements: active participation
Credits: 2.5
Teaching Hours per Week: 2, Thursday 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Lecturer: Sandra Frisch

Skills:

• Being able to communicate successfully in an English-speaking environment
• Being able to keep up a conversation on a fairly wide range of general, job-related and familiar subject-specific topics
• Using standard structures of written and oral communication appropriately
• Understanding relevant written and spoken information on common business topics

Course Content:

• Social English: e. g. introductions and greetings; presenting yourself in a professional way
• Getting to know the company; describing job activities; making arrangements; writing e-mails
• Brands/Advertising
• Money/Finance
• Business Travel
• Globalization
• Basic structures (verb tenses, conditional clauses, passive)

Requirements: General English skills at level B2 or equivalent
Type of Exams: Written examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 6
Lecturer: t.b.a.

Skills:

• You will develop your abilities in reading, writing, listening and speaking in an academic context
• You will learn about academic culture and study methods in an English-speaking environment
• You will focus on grammar and vocabulary that is of particular importance in academic written and spoken communication
• You will acquire skills enabling you to participate in lectures, tutorials, workshops and conferences

Course Content: The course includes a variety of topics, e.g.

• Academic Orientation
• Choices and Implications
• Risks and Hazards
• Language and Communication
• Difference and Diversity
• Work and Equality

Requirements: General English skills at Upper-Intermediate Level
Type of Exams: 4 tests
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Deborah Le Guillou / Uwe Schiffke / Gesine Kögler

Skills:

• Reading comprehension of German texts, correspondence, comments and interviews at elementary level to basic/general level about specific topics
• Listening comprehension at elementary level
• Speaking skills
• Presenting in German

Course Content:

• Introductions
• Meeting people
• My profession/occupation
• Small talk
• Summarizing
• Reading techniques
• Presentations, grammar and vocabulary exercises for students, dialogues and video units
• Listening

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Written examination, oral examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Oda Brauer

Skills:

• Reading comprehension of German texts, presentations, lectures, comments und interviews at intermediate to upper-intermediate levels of interdisciplinary and subject related topics
• Conversation in a professional setting; explaining and understanding different phenomena
• Presentations and negotiations in German

Course Content:

• Methods for presenting scientific investigations and research in: hypothesis, providing a structure, methods for quoting, summarizing
• Methods for reading texts at upper-intermediate level, presentations, grammar and vocabulary exercises for students, dialogues, video units and listening exercises

Requirements: Basic knowledge of German at level B1
Type of Exams: Written examination, oral examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Svetlana Telepneva

Skills:

• Teaching of intercultural competence and applied geography knowledge
• Conversation in a professional setting: explaining and understanding cultural phenomena, intercultural differences and gained awareness/cognition
• Presentations and negotiations in German
• Summarizing an issue
• Discussing

Course Content:
Methods for presenting and interchange sociologic and sociolinguistic knowledge/awareness ‘Study Visit in Germany’: for instance the personal intercultural experience of

• Stereotypes
• Expectations before arriving
• Comparisons/contrasts, self-perception vs. public perception, opinion about foreigners
• Experience exchange
• Applied geography, politics, economy, culture, education system, music, language etc.

Getting to know German traditions/rules/customs: guideline to the business world, studying, everyday life, dealing with public authorities and private persons.

Requirements: German at level B1, English at level B1
Type of Exams: Written report in German or English / 6 pages without pictures
Credits: 2,5
Teaching Hours per Week: 2
Lecturer: Svetlana Telepneva / Uwe Schiffke

Skills:

• Reading comprehension of texts, correspondence, comments and interviews at elementary to basic/general and subject-specific topics
• Listening comprehension at elementary basic level
• Speaking skills
• Presenting in Spanish

Course Content:

• Introductions
• Meeting people
• My profession/occupation
• Small talk
• Summarizing
• Reading techniques
• Presentations, grammar and vocabulary exercises for students, dialogues and video units
• Listening

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Written examination, oral examination
Credits: 2
Teaching Hours per Week: 2
Lecturer: Oda Brauer

Skills:

• Being able to communicate successfully in an English-speaking environment
• Being able to discuss a wide range of general, job-related and familiar subject-specific topics
• Being able to explain technical phenomena and specific processes
• Understanding relevant written and spoken information (instructions, reports, interviews, presentations, lectures)

Course Content:

• Technical Functions and Applications
• Describing Technical Processes
• Engineering Design
• Energy Engineering
• Automation/Robotics
• New Developments in Science & Technology
• Explaining Tests & Experiments
• Recycling/Waste Management
• Complex Linguistic Structures
• Applying for a job/internship

Requirements: English skills at Common European Framework (CEF) Level B2 (or equivalent)
Type of Exams: Written and oral examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Uwe Schiffke

Skills:

• Reading comprehension of foreign-language texts, presentations, lectures, comments und interviews at intermediate to upper-intermediate levels of interdisciplinary and subject related topics
• Conversation in a professional setting; explaining and understanding technical phenomena
• Presentations and negotiations in the foreign language

Course Content: Methods for presenting scientific investigations and research in: hypothesis, providing a structure, methods for quoting, summarizing. Methods for reading technical texts at upper-intermediate level presentations, grammar and vocabulary exercises for students, dialogues, video units and listening exercises.

Requirements: Basic knowledge of German at level B1
Type of Exams: Written or oral examination
Credits: 5 (may vary depending on which course of study)
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Svetlana Telepneva

Students coming from Europe (normally) do not need a visa for a study stay in Germany.
Students from non-EU countries do need a visa for the purpose of studying (student visa). We advise you to contact the German Embassy or Consulate.
Information on visa regulations can be found here.

Yes. Students wishing to study in Germany must have health insurance coverage.

Students from Europe can use their European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) as a proof of health insurance cover. Students from non-EU countries need a statutory health insurance for their visa but also for the matriculation at Merseburg University of Applied Sciences.

At Merseburg University of Applied Sciences you do not pay any tuition fees!

The Studentenwerk charges a semester fee of circa EUR 260 per semester. It supports student meals, students cultural projects, social services and renovation projects. A semester ticket is also included. More information can be found here.

A single room on the campus costs EUR 300 per month + one-time charge of EUR 340 deposit.

The health insurance costs circa EUR 110 per month.

Up-to-date travel information can be found here.

If you are arriving at Leipzig/Halle Airport, take the S-Bahn (City Train) or the Regionalexpress to Halle/Saale. The IC or ICE is much more expensive. Make sure you retain your train ticket from Leipzig as it includes your bus fare from Merseburg station to the campus!

Here you will find our cooperation partners.

Local Residents' Registration Office

Within the first week after your arrival, you need to register at the local authorities (even for a temporary stay). The proof of residence registration is needed to open a bank account. You will need your passport and visa (if necessary) and your rental contract.
Each student receives EUR 75 from the city of Merseburg if they agree that their permanent address is in Merseburg. So, apply straight away for this bonus when you go to the local residents' registration office.

Foreigners' Registration Office

Students from non-EU countries planning to stay in Merseburg for over three months, must register at the foreigners' registration office. You will need your passport and visa (if necessary), two biometric passport photos, the proof of residence registration, your matriculation certificate and proof of health insurance.

If you have any trouble filling in the registration forms, our buddies will help you and, if necessary, take you along to all the offices.

In Germany there is a deposit system for most cans, plastic and glass bottles. Deposits range from 8 cents to 25 cents, so it is advisable to return these bottles and cans to the supermarkets.

Recommendations for Outdoorworks events, such as:

• Excursions,
• Hikes,
• Swimming

More information about studying in Germany.

Do you have problems with your studies, study programme or internship here in Merseburg that you cannot solve on your own? Are you dissatisfied with the work of the International Office and would like to share your criticism with us? Together we are looking for solutions to your problem.

In order to improve our work, we encourage our students (both incoming and outgoing) as well as the academic and non-academic members of staff at Merseburg University of Applied Sciences to inform the International Office of any complaints, dissatisfaction or deficits that arise before, during and/or after a stay abroad.

Please note: Only the Coordinator of Complaints and Feedback will deal with your issues and submissions. Personal conversations, telephone calls and data are strictly confidential. Data will only be passed on to a third party with your written consent.

You can contact the Complaints and Feedback Coordinator personally - either by phone or by e-mail. But you can also arrange a personal appointment with her at the university. You may submit your complaints in English and German.

Above all, please support our work by also sending us positive feedback or by making suggestions, e.g. What do you like about the International Office? What can we improve in the future?

Please contact the Coordinator of Complaints and Feedback at the International Office of Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, Catharina Schulten, to share your concerns.