German Courses
The programme ‘German as Foreign Language’ gives international students the opportunity to acquire or to deepen their German skills and to expand their technical vocabulary through a semester course. Students without prior knowledge of German are directly enrolled in the course Deutsch als Fremdsprache A1.1. Students who have learned German before need to take a placement test in order to be assigned to a suitable group according to their language level. ECTS can be acquired after successful course completion. Requirements for passing the course involve regular attendance and obtaining passing grades in all required assignments and tests.
Weekly semester courses
The German semester courses cover the CEFR Levels A1 to C1 over 13 weeks from October to January (winter semester) and March to June (summer semester). The classes take place once a week. Weekday and time schedule depend on the respective language level.
The German courses are part of the university language course cooperation program Verbund für Sprachenangelegenheiten (VESPA). The HdM cooperates with VESPA to offer all levels of German. Members of VESPA are: Hochschule für Technik (HFT), Akademie der Bildenden Künste (ABK) and Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (HMDK) in Stuttgart.
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