ECTS Credit Points (for Exchange Students)
The following information is only relevant to EXCHANGE STUDENTS.
• Exchange students will be awarded 3 ECTS Credit Points if if they regularly attend and successfully complete* a language course of 2 teaching hours per week (2 SWS).
• Exchange students will be awarded 6 Credit Points if they regularly attend and successfully complete* a language course of 4 teaching hours per week (4 SWS).
• For two (German: three) regularly attended and successfully completed* language courses of 8 teaching hours per week (8 SWS) in the Academic Communication programme (Wissenschaftskommunikation), exchange students will be awarded 12 Credit Points.
* "Successfully complete" means you must pass a test or another type of formal evaluation during the course.
Students who would like to receive proof of ECTS points should please contact:
Bernd Schünow - International Office: Audimax Building, Room 208
Contact person for exchange students at the Language Centre (for questions concerning language courses):
Barbara Rodríguez - Lektorat Deutsch, AB 023.
Important note:
ECTS credit points for language courses are not visible in the viaCampus portal. Please send your transcript of grades/transcript of records out of viaCampus (without ECTS) to Bernd Schünow. You will then receive a special Transcript of Records for exchange students with ECTS credits for your home university.
Qualifications to the above rules
• On the Language Proficiency for Higher Education Programme (Hochschulspezifische Fremdsprachenausbildung) (5 Modules: A1, A2, B1, B2.1 and B2.2) a maximum of 4 SWS per Module and language can be used for ECTS points. This corresponds to the number of hours need to complete one of these levels.
• On the Academic Communication Programme (Wissenschaftskommunikation), UNIcert® III level (C1), the maximum is 8 SWS, being 4 SWS for each of the two Modules (Oral Academic Communication and Written Academic Communication) in each language language. This corresponds to the number of hours needed to complete the Academic Communication programme, UNIcert® III level.
• On the Academic Communication Programme (Wissenschaftskommunikation), UNIcert® IV level (German) (C2), the maximum is one Compulsory Module of Academic Communication, total 4 SWS, and two Elective Modules ("Wahlmodule") of 2 SWS each. This is a maximum total of 8 SWS. This corresponds to the number of hours needed to complete the Academic Communication programme, UNIcert® IV level (German).