Language Center CLIC

Learning foreign languages at CLIC

Learn new languages or deepen your existing knowledge - this opportunity is offered by the Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication (CLIC) at RWU. Whether you want to use your language skills professionally or privately, a new language opens new doors.

CLIC offers a wide range of courses in foreign languages and intercultural competence for

• Students
• University Staff
• Guest Students
• Students of the University of Education (PH) in Weingarten.

With teachers from all over the world, language courses from Turkish to English, from Italian to Japanese are offered at various language levels. In addition to language courses, CLIC is also a testing center for international language certificates and placement tests.

You will find the current course offerings on LSF. Click here for the provisional timetable for the winter term 2023/2024.

Discover the world of languages at RWU!

The language courses offered at RWU Ravensburg-Weingarten University include:

• Professional English as a compulsory subject
• Language courses in English and other languages as electives
• German as a foreign language for international students
• Seminars on Intercultural Communication as an elective subject

The language program is not only available to RWU students, but also to students enrolled at the University of Education Weingarten (PH Weingarten) as well as to external guest students.

The language instructors teaching at the university are almost exclusively native speakers. If the language is spoken in different countries of the world, as, in particular, is the case with English and Spanish, CLIC seeks a broad variety of the countries of origin. For instance, our English teachers come from Great Britain, Ireland, the United States, Canada, and Australia, and our Spanish teachers are of Spanish and Latin American origin. In this way, you will get in touch with the different accents and dialects during.

Click here for the provisional timetable for the winter term 2023/2024.

What is a guest STUDENT?

Even if you are not enrolled as a regular student at our university, you are welcome to participate in our language courses. To do so, you have to apply for a guest student status. Guest students are persons at a university who attend courses without being officially enrolled as students. For that reason, a guest student fee is paid, which allows participation in seminars and courses, but also access to libraries. Registration as a guest student is valid for one semester.

If a language course is fully booked with regular students, we are afraid the application as a guest student cannot be considered.

How much is the guest student fee?

The amount you have to pay depends on the number of teaching units / semester hours (SWS) you wish to attend. A teaching unit is 45 minutes.

Up to 4 teaching units per week: EUR 180,00
 5 to 8 teaching units per week: EUR 340.00

How do I apply??

In the Student Administration Office download area you can download the application for enrollment as a guest student. For further information please contact CLIC.

If your application for enrollment as a guest student has been approved, you will receive a notification of charges (invoice) and a guest student ID card valid for one semester sent out by the Student Administration Office. You will receive more detailed information on the selected course (coursebook, directions, building and room details) by e-mail from CLIC in due time before the course begins. If you pass the exam required for the course (usually a written exam at the end of the semester or a portfolio exam), you will receive a certificate of attendance at the end of the semester, which will be sent to you by mail.

Registration for a language course

You register on LSF for the language courses. To do so, you need a valid university user account, which you will receive when you enroll at the university. You can also deregister from a language course via LSF.

For all language courses, general enrollment periods are defined on LSF during which you can register for the courses. Belated registration is possible only in coordination with the Language Center.

To ensure that the desired elective language course takes place, please register for the course in good time. In order for a course to take place, the minimum number of registrations is 10.

Registering for an exam

You will find all CLIC elective exams in the folder WAHLFÄCHER under your Prüfungsanmeldungen GRUNDSTUDIUM. For further information, please see FAQ Prüfungen und Abschlussarbeiten.

Are you looking for the English equivalent of a German term concerning university life and education?

The RWU Glossary German-English (Excel file) will help you. It is regularly updated and expanded by CLIC. Suggestions, modifications and amendments are welcome any time. Please get in touch with Dolores Müller .

Translations

The Landeskoordinationsstelle für Übersetzungsangelegenheiten im Hochschulwesen Baden-Württemberg offers translation assistance in the following areas:

• Advice on all aspects of English translation, terminology, websites, web relaunch and linguistic internationalization
• Translation of cross-university documents that are relevant to several universities and may be made available for use in data-adjusted form in the portal of the Landeskoordinationsstelle
• Development and provision of as well as comprehensive consulting on the topic of university terminology

The services offered by the Landeskkordinationsstelle are currently free of charge and are aimed at all state universities and universities of applied sciences in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Contact

For all kinds of German-English and English-German fee-based translations as well as for fee-based proofreading/editing of English texts, feel free to get in touch with our English teachers Luke Boardman or Sophie Zinke .