Universität Düsseldorf: Plan your stay

Please read the information on our website carefully - here you will find answers to almost all of your questions.
Be sure to read the FAQ as well!
Submit your Learning Agreement by the deadline so we can check and approve it. For information about the deadline and possible course selection, please see below.
Later you will have to register for the approved courses - you will receive an email as soon as this is possible.

Important:
At the Department of Romance Studies, we are only responsible for academic matters: Learning Agreement, Transcript of Records, etc.
The International Office is responsible for administrative, non-academic matters: enrollment, housing, HHU-Card, etc.

Winter term: July 30th
Summer term: January 30th

PS: We recommend that you let us check and sign the document before you send it to your coordinators at your home university, to be sure that you don't have to make any unnecessary changes.

Submit your Learning Agreement by or through the OLA-Portal, so we can review and confirm your course selection. Please note:
You must take at least 2 courses from the Department of Romance Studies per semester.
In addition, you can take other courses, but only from the areas listed below - please note the additional information.

FROM THE "PHILOSOPHISCHE FAKULTÄT" (FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES):

Institut für Romanistik (Romance Studies)	As many courses as you want - but at least 2 courses per semester (mandatory)
Institut für Germanistik (German Studies)	Up to 4 courses per semester
Institut für Angliskt (English Studies)	Up to 2 courses per semester Important: English language certificate B2 (BA-Students) or C1 (MA-Students) required. Please send the certificate along with the Learning Agreement to S. López.
Institut für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften (Media and Cultural Studies)	As many courses as you want
Profilbildung (Fachübergreifender Wahlpflichtbereich) (Interdisciplinary Compulsive Electives)	As many courses as you want

FROM THE "STUDIERENDENAKADEMIE" (STUDENT ACADEMY)

Deutsch als Fremdsprache (German as a foreign language)	As many courses as you want (placement test required)
Fremdsprachen (Other language courses)	As many courses as you want (placement test required)
Studium Universale (General Studies Centre)	As many courses as you want Here you can find courses from other faculties (Business Administration, Law and many more)
In the Student Academy you will also find many other courses!

List with courses + ECTS of the Insitute für Romance Studies:

Bachelor Romanistik [Document updated on 10.01.2023]
Master Romanistik + Master Italienisch [Document updated on 10.01.2023]

We do not have information about ECTS at other Departments. If you do not find any information in the course description, please contact the lecturers by email and ask them.

Important: Some courses do not offer exams. Read more about this in the FAQ section "What does...mean?"

Advice: You can leave the ECTS field of the Learning Agreement “Before the mobility” empty, and then later change that in the section "During the mobility".

You will find the course offer in the university’s course catalogue. Please use the German version, the English version is not always up to date.

In the video on the right, you can see how our course catalogue works.

Please note:

In the winter semester, the structure will be slightly changed. In this document you will find the most important changes
The course offerings are different every semester, so you have to wait until the new course catalog is published:

> Courses of the winter semester will be published around July
> Courses of the summer semester will be published around December.

You still have questions about the course catalogue? Then please have a look at our FAQ.

Registration will open shortly before the semester starts:

Winter term: approx. at the beginning of September
Summer term: approx. at the beginning of March

It is very important that you register on time for the courses approved in your Learning Agreement as some of them might have a limited capacity. In order to register, you need your Student ID. In the video on the right, you can see how the registration works.

If you have not yet received your Student ID or have some other questions about the registration, please check our FAQ.

Registering for the German and English language courses for Erasmus students is only possible after taking the mandatory placement test. Please find more information about this test in our FAQ.