International Students

At the Faculty of Biology international exchange students can attend lectures, seminars and practical laboratory courses.

In the course directory you can find a list of courses taught in English: “Campusportal” (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)

Please note! The level of courses that are taught in English are for Bachelor students in their 3rd year and for Master students. Courses that are suitable for Bachelor students in their 1st or 2nd year are taught in German and you need German language skills at least at the level B2.

If you need help finding a suitable course or if you have any questions, please contact the program coordinator (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster): elisabeth.brunner@biologie.uni-r.de

General information for exchange students you can find on the Homepage of the International Office of the Universtity here! (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)

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Lectures (2 SWS* = 3 CP) last for a whole semester (term). At the end of the lecture a written or oral test must be passed.

If you want to take the test, please inform the lecturer ahead of the test that you are an exchange student, as special regulations may apply for visiting students.

If you pass the test, you earn 3 credit points (CP). Please ask the lecturer to issue a certificate of the passed test.

In seminars (2 CP) students prepare and give an oral presentation on a specific topic. The topic for which you will have to give a talk you will arrange with the instructor of the seminar. For the oral presentation you earn 2 credit points (CP).

Practical lab courses can be attended throughout the whole year and are usually offered for three weeks or longer. 

Just contact the person in charge of the lab course, ask for the possibility of participating in the course and arrange the date and duration.

For one-week practical course you earn 2 credit points (CP), for two weeks 4 CP, and so on. To earn the CP, a report must be written.

If you visit an accompanying seminar, in which you prepare and give an oral presentation, you earn two CP for the presentation.

*Semesterwochenstunden (SWS) = contact hours in class per week in a semester.

Leistungspunkte (LP) = Credit points (CP); one credit point is equivalent to 30 working hours of the student which includes contact hours in class plus hours spent on homework.