Lectures

Lectures at the university last 90 minutes (in the German system, this counts as two "hours"). Most of the courses will be held by full-time staff, but we also have a large number of visiting lecturers who come in from commerce and industry.

Courses are structured more like seminars in which student participation is encouraged and even expected. It is not uncommon for courses to be given in blocks, for example instead of two hours each week a course may take place every two weeks for four hours, or even less frequently in blocks of two or three days at a time.

Please click here for the lecture timetable (at present the site is only available in German).

As in all German academic institutions, relations between academic staff and students are rather formal and distant. If you need to consult a member of staff, you will be expected to keep to his or her official "consultation hour" (Sprechstunde). Academic staff will generally expect you to address them by their title and not by their first name.