The modules offered for foreign language experience are designed to promote the acquisition (or the expansion) of spoken and written skills in modern European and non-European languages.

For more information, please visit: Foreign Languages

Person in charge: Nadia Fischer/ Stefan Rahn

The qualification objectives of this skill is to gain insights into the historical development of knowledge and science as a part of social subsystem. Moreover, students should also be able to identify the process of emergence and development of educational and academic disciplines.

Further information please visit: Research Orientation

Person in charge: Prof. Dr. Rainer Watermann (für Modul „Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft“) und Dillwyn Thier (für Modul „Understanding University“)

The qualification objectives of this skill is to generate and acquire knowledge in all dimensions and approaches in terms of sustainability. Later on, those skills could be easily applied in areas including sustainability management as well as communications, which serve as perfect orientations for the professional practice in the working environment.

For further information, please visit : Sustainable Development

Person in Charge: Nora Große

This qualification objective focusses on the planning and realization of TV- and online formats. and will give students a theoretical and methodological introduction to mass media and their different forms. Additionally students will learn about the organization-specific and operative foundations of integrated media practices and production. The planning, implementation and realization of online and TV-formats and posts for diverse media projects will be covered within interdisciplinary project teams.

Person in charge: agmar Boeck-Siebenhaar

The goal of this Skill Category is the confident use of EDP-supported media, such as electronic publication and presentation as well as computerized project management and the internet. This Skill Category contains the professional use and presentation, information literacy, various operating systems and programming.

For more information, please visit: Information and Media Skills

Person in charge: Dr. Jasmin Touati

The Margherita von Brentano Center for Gender Studies (formerly known as the Center for the Promotion of Women's and Gender Studies) offers the following GPS modules: Gender and Diversity: Central Social Categories of the 21st Century, Gender, Diversity and Gender Mainstreaming and Diversity Management.

For more information, please visit: Gender and Diversity Skills

Person in charge: Heike Pantelmann

The goal of this Skill Category is the conveyance of economic and structural coherences of markets and organizations, which can improve the development of individual strategies for solving problems in a professional environment. This Skill Category offers students the helpful basic knowledge in law and economics to start work at corporations, other institutions and /or as freelance workers. The Category is divided into the areas of Business Economics and Business Formation/Entrepreneurship.

For more information, please visit: Organization and Management

Persons in charge: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Gersch sowie Alexa Danelski (Vertretung)

The modules in this Skill Category pertain to presentation and moderation/facilitation, conversation and negotiation techniques, as well as optimizing personal work processes.

For more information, please visit: Communication Skills

Persons in charge: Christiane Dorenburg and Christiane Berwid-Kawell

The Additional Qualifications are regulated by the GPS Programme and Examination Regulations of the various departments. Information on the individual courses is offered in the course catalog.

For more information, please visit: (Subject-Related) Additional Qualifications

Persons in charge: GPS Officers at the department and the Office of Academic Affairs at the Department of History and Cultural Studies

Important Note:

It is possible for students of the Department of Histroy and Cultural Studies to book modules for the Skill Category '(Subject-Related) Additional Qualifications' at the following departments:

Department of Political and Social Sciences

Department of Philosophy and Humanities

However, these modules cannot be booked through Campus Management and must be processed in written form by the Office of Academic Affairs of the Department of History and Cultural Studies as well as the offering department's Office of Academic Affairs or Examination Office. Please remember to obtain a certificate after completing your chosen course and present it to your GPS Officer in order to collect credit points.

If yor are interested in applying for modules of the Skill Category 'Additional Qualifications' in departments other than those aformentioned, you will need permission from the Officer of your core subject.