The list of courses corresponds to the competence levels given in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR / GER) of the Council of Europe.
The courses names start with a letter stating the level of GER to be reached in the course. Some levels are sub-divided: A 1.1 is a course leading to level A 1.1. The last digit states the number of semester periods per week.
This course is suited for all students/PhD students/post-docs, who wish to improve their general language skills. During the lessons, all language skills (understanding when reading, understanding when listening, written and oral communication) are trained and enhanced.
The language course conveys competencies on level A 1.1 of GER and has a duration of 4 hours per week per semester.
Textbook: Menschen A 1.1 (publisher: Hueber)
This course is suited for all students/PhD students/post-docs, who wish to improve their general language skills. During the lessons, all language skills (understanding when reading, understanding when listening, written and oral communication) are trained and enhanced.
The language course conveys competencies on level A 1.2 of GER and has a duration of 4 hours per week per semester.
Please take our placement test to participate in this course.
Language prerequisites: Successful competion of A1.1
Obligatory: KIT Studienkolleg-certificate or an online-placement
Textbook: Menschen A 1.2 (publisher: Hueber)
This course is suited for all students/PhD students/post-docs, who wish to improve their general language skills. The language course conveys competencies on level A 1 of GER, depending on the previous knowledge of the participants, and has a duration of 8 hours per week per semester.
During the lessons, all language skills (understanding when reading, understanding when listening, written and oral communication) are trained and enhanced.
Textbook: Menschen A 1 (publisher: Hueber)
This course is suited for all students/PhD students/post-docs, who wish to improve their general language skills. The language course conveys competencies on level A 2.1 of GER, depending on the previous knowledge of the participants, and has a duration of 4 hours per week per semester.
During the lessons, all language skills (understanding when reading, understanding when listening, written and oral communication) are trained and enhanced.
Language prerequisites
Successful competion of A 1
Obligatory: KIT Studienkolleg-certificate or online-placement
Textbook: Menschen A 2.1 (publisher: Hueber)
This course is suited for all students/PhD students/post-docs, who wish to improve their general language skills. The language course conveys competencies on level A 2.2 of GER, depending on the previous knowledge of the participants, and has a duration of 4 hours per week per semester.
During the lessons, all language skills (understanding when reading, understanding when listening, written and oral communication) are trained and enhanced.
Language prerequisites
Successful competion of A 2.1
Obligatory: KIT Studienkolleg-certificate or an online-placement
Textbook: Menschen A 2.2 (publisher: Hueber)
This course is suited for all students/PhD students/post-docs, who wish to improve their general language skills. The language course conveys competencies on level A 2 of GER, depending on the previous knowledge of the participants, and has a duration of 8 hours per week per semester.
During the lessons, all language skills (understanding when reading, understanding when listening, written and oral communication) are trained and enhanced.
Language prerequisites
Successful competion of A 1
Obligatory: KIT Studienkolleg-certificate or an online-placement
Textbook: Menschen A 2 (publisher: Hueber)
This course is suited for all students/PhD students/post-docs, who wish to improve their general language skills. The language course has a duration of 8 hours per week per semester and conveys competencies on level B 1 of GER depending on the previous knowledge of the participants.
During the lessons, all language skills (understanding when reading, understanding when listening, written and oral communication) are trained and enhanced.
Language prerequisites
Successful competion of A 2
Obligatory: KIT Studienkolleg-certificate or an online-placement
Textbook: Mittelpunkt B 1+
This course is suited for all students/PhD students/post-docs, who wish to improve their general language skills. The language course has a duration of 4 hours per week per semester and conveys competencies on level B 1.1 of GER depending on the previous knowledge of the participants.
During the lessons, all language skills (understanding when reading, understanding when listening, written and oral communication) are trained and enhanced.
Language prerequisites
Successful competion of A 2
Obligatory: KIT Studienkolleg-certificate or an online-placement
Textbook: Menschen B 1.1 (publisher: Hueber)
This course is suited for all students/PhD students/post-docs, who wish to improve their general language skills. The language course has a duration of 4 hours per week per semester and conveys competencies on level B 1.2 of GER depending on the previous knowledge of the participants.
During the lessons, all language skills (understanding when reading, understanding when listening, written and oral communication) are trained and enhanced.
Language prerequisites
Successful competion of B 1.1
Obligatory: KIT Studienkolleg-certificate or an online-placement
Textbook: Aspekte B 1+
This course is suited for all students/PhD students/post-docs, who wish to improve their general language skills. The language course has a duration of 8 hours per week per semester and conveys competencies on level B 1 of GER depending on the previous knowledge of the participants.
During the lessons, all language skills (understanding when reading, understanding when listening, written and oral communication) are trained and enhanced.
Language prerequisites
Successful competion of A 2
Obligatory: KIT Studienkolleg-certificate or an online-placement
Textbook: Menschen B1 (publisher: Hueber)
This course is suited for all students/PhD students/post-docs, who wish to improve their general language skills. The language course has a duration of 8 hours per week per semester and conveys competencies on level B 1 of GER depending on the previous knowledge of the participants.
During the lessons, all language skills (understanding when reading, understanding when listening, written and oral communication) are trained and enhanced.
Language prerequisites
Successful competion of A 2
Obligatory: KIT Studienkolleg-certificate or an online-placement
Textbook: Menschen B1 (publisher: Hueber)
This course is suited for all students/PhD students/post-docs, who wish to improve their general language skills. The language course has a duration of 4 hours per week per semester and conveys competencies on level B 2.1 of GER depending on the previous knowledge of the participants.
During the lessons, all language skills (understanding when reading, understanding when listening, written and oral communication) are trained and enhanced.
Language prerequisites: B 1
Obligatory: KIT Studienkolleg-certificate or an online-placement
Textbook: Mittelpunkt neu B2 (publisher: Klett)
This course is suited for all students/PhD students/post-docs, who wish to improve their general language skills. The language course has a duration of 4 hours per week per semester and conveys competencies on level B 2.2 of GER depending on the previous knowledge of the participants.
During the lessons, all language skills (understanding when reading, understanding when listening, written and oral communication) are trained and enhanced.
This course is not a preparation course for German proficiency tests (such as the DSH, TestDaf, etc.). However, participants can take the DSH at the end of the summer semester.
Language prerequisites: B1
Obligatory: KIT Studienkolleg-certificate or an online-placement
Textbook: Mittelpunkt neu B2.2 (publisher: Klett)
This course is suited for all students/PhD students/post-docs, who wish to improve their general language skills. The language course has a duration of 8 hours per week per semester and conveys competencies on level B 2 of GER depending on the previous knowledge of the participants.
During the lessons, all language skills (understanding when reading, understanding when listening, written and oral communication) are trained and enhanced.
This course is not a preparation course for German proficiency tests (such as the DSH, TestDaf, etc.). However, participants can take the DSH at the end of the summer semester.
Language prerequisites: B 1
Obligatory: KIT Studienkolleg-certificate or an online-placement
Textbook: Mittelpunkt neu B2.2 (publisher: Klett)
This course does not take place in the winter term 2014/15.
This course is suited for all students/PhD students/post-docs, who wish to improve their general language skills. The language course has a duration of 8 hours per week per semester and conveys competencies on level B 2 of GER depending on the previous knowledge of the participants.
During the lessons, all language skills (understanding when reading, understanding when listening, written and oral communication) are trained and enhanced.
This course is not a preparation course for German proficiency tests (such as the DSH, TestDaf, etc.). However, participants can take the DSH at the end of the summer semester.
Language prerequisites: B 1
Obligatory: KIT Studienkolleg-certificate or an online-placement
This course is suited for all students/PhD students/post-docs, who wish to improve their general language skills. The language course has a duration of 4 hours per week per semester and conveys competencies on level C1.2 of GER depending on the previous knowledge of the participants.
Language prerequisites
DSH-2, TestDaF 4x4 or B2 (as determined by the onDaF test)
Textbook: Erkundungen C1 (publisher: Schubert)
This course is suited for all students/PhD students/post-docs, who wish to improve their general language skills. The language course has a duration of 4 hours per week per semester and conveys competencies on level C 1.2 of GER depending on the previous knowledge of the participants.
Language prerequisites
DSH-2, TestDaF 4x4 or B 2 (as determined by the onDaF test)
Textbook: Erkundungen C1 (publisher: Schubert)
This course is suited for all students/PhD students/post-docs, who wish to improve their general language skills. The language course has a duration of 4 hours per week per semester and conveys competencies on level C 1.2 of GER depending on the previous knowledge of the participants.
Language prerequisites
DSH-2, TestDaF 4x4 or B 2 (as determined by the onDaF test)
Textbook: Erkundungen C1 kompakt (publisher: Schubert)
This course will improve your skills in the production of scientific articles.
The course focusses on practice. You can feel free to bring your own texts to the course to work on it in a group or alone. We will analyse texts written by the participants together and try to improve them linguistic. At the same time we will talk about characteristics of the german scientific language:
Moreover we will practise with different strategies of writing (e.g. definitions, deductive reasoning, building hypothesisses) and the formal structure of an article.
This course does not prepare for a language exam (DSH, TestDaF etc.)!
B 2 (DSH-2 or TestDaF 4x4 or onDaF-classification)
This course does not take place in sumer term.
Terms, conditions and registration
This course teaches foreign language students, PhD-students and PostDocs to present scientific content in an universitary environment.
We will present the basic rules of a good talk (structure of content, linguistic mode of expression, body language) and presentations with or without support of media (overhead transparencies, powerpoint). Moreover we will work out intercultural differences and save time to practise the presented content. Additionally we will do exercises in elocution.
The focus will be on implementing the learnings. Every participant will have te possibility to give a talk.
This course does not prepare for a language exam (DSH, TestDaF etc.)!
B 2 (DSH-2 or TestDaF 4x4 or onDaF-classification)
This course does not take place in sumer term.
Terms, conditions and registration
This course is suited for everyone studiying or working scientifically at KIT, who wants to improve their scientific german.
We will talk about and practise in grammatical phenomens with syntactic context in the field of scientific german.
C 1 (DSH-2 or TestDaF 4x4)
This course does not take place in sumer term.
Terms, conditions and registration
German as foreign language for stutents in a MINT-subject / technical language MINT / technical german in MINT-subjects
This course is suited for foreign-language-students in a MINT-subject, who want to train and improve their decision-making and responsibility in (technical) german. Therefore several strategies for the skill requirements (understanding of written and spoken text, written and spoken expression) are teached and trained, which are neccessary to understand articles related to the study or to describe an experimental set-up.
B 2 (DSH-2 or TestDaF 4x4 or onDaF-classification)
Textbook: Fearns/Buhlmann: Technisches Deutsch für Ausbildung und Beruf, Verlag Europa-Lehrmittel, 2013. ISBN: 978-3-8085-7309-9
Mi 14.00 – 15.30 Uhr (Gebäude 50.20: 101)
Do 15.00 - 16.30 Uhr (Gebäude 50.20: 101)
Terms, conditions and registration
Only for students of KITDeFi
The course prepares for the DSH-exam in four semester periods per week
The different types of exam-exercises for writing, understanding when reading, understanding when listening and scientific structure of language (grammar) are presented and trained.
Terms, conditions and registration
