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.
In the summer semester 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 April 2025: "L’adieu à la nuit" (2018, 1h 43min) with English or French subtitles
21 May 2025: "Rouge" (2020, 1h 28min) with English subtitles
18 June 2025: "De Gaulle" (2019, 1h 48min) with English or French subtitles
16 July 2025: "Les 2 Alfred" (2020, 1h 32min) with English subtitles
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 for the foreign language courses in the winter semester 2025/26 begins on 15 September (09:00). Registration will be open until 26 October (23:59), or until all available places have been filled. The registration period for TU Braunschweig employees and external persons is open from 22 September (09:00) to 29 September (23:59).
For employees of TU Braunschweig and external persons, the course offerings are subject to fees. Further information on payment can be found on this page under “Costs”. Note: For employees who book their language course through the central staff development programme, the courses are free of charge.
External persons must request a guest account for Stud.IP by 10 September in order to be able to book courses. Click here to register.
The language courses are free of charge for students. For all others, the fees are listed in the fee schedule.
The course fees must be paid within one week of registration. Payment of the course fee is only possible by bank transfer, cash payment and partial payments are not possible.
Offer costs
You can find out about the costs in the fee schedule.
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).
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
