Intercultural Workshops

Intercultural competence is the ability to interact successfully with people from other cultures. This ability can be learned in many different ways: The focus is always on personal encounters, on interest in other cultures.

Intercultural workshops and offers

Are you eager to enhance your intercultural communication skills to better connect with Chinese students and colleagues? In this workshop you will:

gain a comprehensive understanding of the Chinese educational landscape within the context of its contemporary society,
acquire practical tippa to enhance your communication and support for Chinese students,
expand your linguistic horizons with a few essential Chinese words.

This workshop will discuss the Chinese educational system with its specific cultural, social and political background, as well as the historical and current situation of Chinese students studying abroad, especially in the context of Germany. We will also discuss and analyze the lived experiences of Chinese students at TU Braunschweig, with the aim to help lecturers and administrators to better understand Chinese students´ needs and improve the efficiency of the intercultural communication, in order to help create a common space for mutual learning and enrichment on campus.

Participants will receive a workshop completion certificate.

Dates: Wednesday 13.11.2024 and Thursday 14.11.2024

Time: 9:30-12:00

Location: Room 329, Bültenweg 74, 38106 Braunschweig

Language: The workshop will be held in English, but participants are also welcome to speak German.

Please register here

For any inquiries, please contact Dr. Lili Jiang: l.jiang(at)tu-braunschweig.de

In this workshop you can deepen and expand your intercultural skills in the context of China.

The two-day intercultural training is aimed at anyone interested in learning more about culture and life in China. The workshop focuses on the basics of intercultural communication and sensitises participants to different intercultural situations while looking at examples from the Chinese cultural area.

The workshop takes place on:

08 November 2024, 09:30 – 17:00 (Part 1) in room BW 74.326
15 November 2024, 09:30 – 17:00 (Part 2) in room BW 74.326

Registration for the workshop is possible from 01.10. – 27.10.2024 via Aura.

Register here
Language: German/English

Cover image for the event calendar for the Ciné-club francophone.

In the winter semester 2024/2025, the Language Centre of TU Braunschweig, in cooperation with Antenne Métropole (Hannover) and the Institut français Paris, shows four selected films in the original French version with German or English subtitles as part of the Ciné-club francophone.

The Ciné-club francophone is suitable for all levels (A1-C2) and open and free of charge to all interested parties (including non-students).

Overview of the screening dates and films:
The films will be shown on Wednesdays at 20:15 in room BW 74.329.

23 October 2024: "Les goûts et les couleurs" (2022, 1h 50min)
13 November 2024: "Revoir Paris" (2022, 1h 45min)
04 December 2024: "La page blanche" (2022, 1h 39min)
22 January 2025: "Grand Paris" (2022, 1h 20)

You have the opportunity to improve your listening comprehension and deepen your vocabulary in an informal way, to experience the French language in its diversity (accents, language level, slangs) and to gain an insight into French society.

Registration is required and takes place in AURA under "Intercultural/Workshops and Events".

Click here for detailed information on the cinema programme.

For further inquiries regarding the Ciné-club francophone, please contact Ingrid Laval-Speier i.laval-speier@tu-braunschweig.de.

Language courses with an intercultural focus

Course title	Language area	Level	Date	Course teacher	Course number
English for Managing Projects	English	B2, C1	Thu, 13:15 - 14:45	Sajit Padmanabhan	WS24-en-b2c1-36-01
English for Managing Projects	English	B2, C1	Thu, 15:00 - 16:30	Sajit Padmanabhan	WS24-en-b2c1-36-02
Negotiating in English	English	C1, C2	Tue, 16:45-18:15	Andrew Davis	WS24-en-c1c2-24-01
Communication Essentials for Leaders and Teams	English	C1, C2	Fri, 09:45 - 13:00 (on 7 dates)	Linda Block	WS24-en-c1c2-41-01
Compréhension et production orales	French	B2, C1	Mon, 09:45 - 11:15	Ingrid Laval-Speier	WS24-fr-b2c1-22-01

Registration & Learning Platform

Registration for the foreign language courses in the winter semester 2024/2025 begins on 30 September and 01 October. Click here to find the schedule for the booking start of the language courses.
Information about the courses and times will be available in Aura from 16 September 2024.
For English, French, Italian and Spanish courses, it is necessary to take a placement test.
You must register in our course booking system "Aura" before you can register for our language courses.
To the registration
After registering and taking the placement test, click on "Book" in the course overview. Then complete the registration form on your PC.
Please note: Participants who are not enrolled at TU Braunschweig or HBK Braunschweig are required to pay for the courses. Please note the lead time for the required SEPA mandate before registering. Further information can be found on this page under " Fees".
You can book a maximum of three language courses per semester at the Language Centre and only two of them in one language.

Our course conditions

The language courses are free of charge for students. For all others, the fees are listed in the fee schedule.

SEPA registration procedure

A SEPA mandate will be sent to you with the course registration. Please print out the mandate, sign it and return it to the accounting department or the office of the Language Centre within 5 days. The mandate will be registered at the Language Centre within 7 days and you will receive an e-mail informing you of the execution date of the debit. Once the debit has been made, the registration is successfully completed.

Validity period of the SEPA Mandate

Your SEPA mandate at the Language Centre never loses its validity. This means that you do not have to fill in a mandate for every other course booking you make during this period. The costs will then be automatically debited from your account. However, if at any time your bank details change, please report this immediately to the accounting department or the office.

Offer costs

You can find out about the costs in the fee schedule.

Fee schedule of the Language Center (PDF, 409 KB)

If you are absent without excuse during the first week of the course, your registration for the course will become invalid and you will be excluded from further participation in the course. You can email the teacher if you cannot attend the first session so that you are not removed from the list of participants.
A successful course attendance can only be certified if you attend the course regularly. "Regularly" means a maximum of 25 % of absence. It does not matter whether the days absent are due to illness or other reasons.
In order to meet the minimum attendance requirements, you must not exceed three days of absence (6 SWS for a course with 2 SWS per week) or six days of absence (12 SWS for a course with 4 SWS per week).
These rules also apply to the online courses.

Before taking a course at the Language Centre, please clarify for yourself whether the credits earned at the Language Centre will be accepted in your subject area.
The credits awarded for individual courses are calculated according to the amount of work involved and not according to the participant's course level or grade. For a two-hour language course (2SWS), after the hours of attendance and the successful completion of the exam, you will receive 2 credits; for a four-hour course (4SWS) you will receive 4 credits.
Due to the integrated tandem programme, one receives one ECTS more in the Arabic courses than in the usual 4 SWS courses.
The examination board for the respective subject is responsible for the recognition of academic achievements acquired at other universities. This is where the credit transfer examination takes place. Please contact the managing director of your faculty. The Language Centre can, on request, provide advice on the examination of equivalences and issue a recommendation.

Every semester, some of our courses are taught online. This is accompanied by some special regulations regarding the running of the courses, which apply to all courses at the Language Centre in addition to the existing regulations (Fee Regulations, Examination Regulations):

Just as in face-to-face teaching, attendance is compulsory. Please attend at least 75% of the teaching organized in video conferences.
Please arrange for a room where you can work online without being disturbed.
The use of a microphone and camera is indispensable for the communication-oriented language teaching practiced at the Language Centre. Please ensure that you have the necessary technical equipment and test it in good time before the start of the course.
In case of transmission problems, it may be useful to switch off an open VPN connection and close programs with connections to other servers.
For languages with other alphabets, please make sure that you set your keyboard accordingly or use keyboard stickers.
You are not allowed to make audio or video recordings of the synchronous courses. Furthermore, no camera may be used for review during written course final exams.
Experience has shown that digital language teaching requires an additional time commitment compared to presence-based language teaching. Please plan for this before taking a course at the Language Centre.
In online teaching, higher demands are placed on your autonomous learning skills. Please participate actively and in a concentrated manner in the classroom

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Contact

Head of the Language Centre

Prof. Dr. Andreas Hettiger

☎ +49 531 391 5085
a.hettiger(at)tu-braunschweig.de

Technical support

If you have technical problems with course registration or Moodle access, please send an e-mail to our technical team:

ih-technik(at)tu-braunschweig.de

Office hours

Consultation hours are currently held by appointment.

Intercultural Workshops