3-Week Course | Compact Language Courses are offered in March and September of each academic year to support incoming students. However, if places are available, full-time students and staff members of the Weimar universities can also enrol in the courses.
Course Duration and Times | Teaching Formats
The courses last three weeks and comprise a total of approximately 60 hours. In-person teaching takes place from 9 am to 12:30 pm, with some courses continuing from 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm In addition, compulsory assignments and self-study opportunities are provided via the university's learning platform Moodle.
All courses conclude with an examination. This exam includes a listening comprehension and reading comprehension task; written communication skills are tested and assessed. The A1 and A2 exams also include grammar tasks. Oral communication skills are graded, based on classroom performance.
Credit Points
4 CP are awarded to students who attend classes regularly and pass the final exam.
Enrolment
Enrolment instructions can be found below.
All students wishing to register for a German course at the Sprachenzentrum: Centre for Language and Culture must first register on https://studip.uni-weimar.de.
Instructions on how to use the platform can be found here in a printable PDF format.
Any students wishing to attend a German course at the Sprachenzentrum: Centre for Language and Culture need to take an online placement test if it is their first course at the Sprachenzentrum: Centre for Language and Culture and if they already have some knowledge of German (e.g. completed A 1.1). Instructions for the online placement test can be downloaded here in PDF format.
The following steps need to be taken (before enrolment and the beginning of the course):
1. Register for the placement test at StudIP.
2. Take the test and send your score to E-Test-DaF[at]uni-weimar.de on time. If you have already received your certificate(s), please also send a copy of your most recent certificate to this mail address.
3. We will register your current level (based on the score in the placement test and/or certificates) on StudIP. Please note: You can only enrol in courses higher than A 1.1 if your current level has been assessed.
Students who have already successfully completed a German course at the Sprachenzentrum: Centre for Language and Culture do not need to do a placement test nor submit a certificate.
Enrolment periods for incoming students can be found here.
After receiving the results of the placement test, incoming students are automatically enrolled in the course that corresponds to their level.
If you have not taken a German course before, please e-mail us at e-test-daf[at]uni-weimar.de. We will then enrol you directly in the DaF A 1.1 course.
Students from Weimar can enrol once the lecture period has ended or after having received their exam results if places are still available. You can find the enrolment periods here.
If you have not taken a German course before, please enrol directly in DaF A 1.1 on StudIP during the enrolment period.
For incoming exchange students, the Compact Language Course (held in March and September) is free of charge. All other students have to pay the course fee AND send a copy of the payment slip in time before the course starts.
The fees are 60 € for students, 80 € for staff members, and 300 € for guests. The fees should be transferred to the following account:
Recipient: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar/Sprachenzentrum
Credit Institution: HELABA
BIC: HELADEFF820
IBAN: DE39 8205 0000 3004 4442 73
Reference (Verwendungszweck): CLCL + <Last name, first name> + "Kursgebühr" for <Language, Course level, Group>
Please make sure to fill out the payment reference fully so that we can allocate your payment correctly.
Be sure to send a copy of the payment slip to sprachenzentrum[at]uni-weimar.de once you have transfered the course fee.
Please note that once paid, course fees can only be refunded in exceptional cases. Therefore, we urge you not to transfer the course fees until you are sure that you can or really want to attend the selected course. Only through your payment is the enrolment complete and your course place secure.
All courses have their own course room on the Moodle learning platform where teaching and exercise materials are provided. The link to the video conference if the course cannot take place face-to-face can also be found in the respective course's Moodle room.
Registration in your Moodle course room is done by the Sprachenzentrum: Centre for Language and Culture, provided you have enrolled in a course via StudIP, transferred the course fee, AND sent a copy of the payment slip on time.
Please test your access to the course room on the weekend before the course begins by logging on once.
The following teaching materials are used in our courses. Please make sure that you have purchased either the print version or the e-book by the beginning of a course.
| Level | Title |
|---|---|
| A 1.1 | Panorama A 1.1 (Cornelsen-Verlag) |
| A 1.2 | Panorama A 1.2 (Cornelsen-Verlag) |
| A 2.1 | Panorama A 2.1 (Cornelsen-Verlag) |
| A 2.2 | Panorama A 2.2 (Cornelsen-Verlag) |
| B 1.1 | Panorama B 1.1 (Cornelsen-Verlag) |
| B 1.2 | Panorama B 1.2 (Cornelsen-Verlag) |
| B 1 + | Information about the material will be given in class |
| B 2 | Information about the material will be given in class |
| C 1 | Information about the material will be given in class |
| Prerequisites | dates |
|---|---|
| Incoming Exchange Students: register for placement test on StudIP | as part of your application process |
| Take the placement test and send the results to e-test-daf (new incoming exchange students will be enrolled by teaching staff) | 28.07.-24.08.2025 |
| Other participants: Enrol/pay course fee/send payment slip | 28.08 - 03.09.2025 |
| Test access to Moodle/course room | 08-09.09 2025 |
The intensive German course in September will take place from 08.- 26.09.2025.
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